Back in my sport-fisher deckhand days, I spent almost an hour of a multi-day offshore voyage on a boat with a broken turbo flange and a stuck throttle in heavy seas, doing motions not unlike Captain Cranky's rocky/spinny/rolly thing. Granted, sitting in the sunshine next to my three year old son at LegoLand didn't elicit quite the same level of bone-chilling, pants-crapping, terrifying fear that mechanical failure at sea in the middle of the night during a full gale does... but you know, same basic physics...
Which is to say, this is a decent little "gateway" rollercoaster for the youngest squabs on your pirate ship. It doesn't go as fast, as high, or or cray-cray as other pirate-ship rides might (or marooned vessels at sea, for that matter), but it does what it is supposed to do. My kids and I shared the same lap bar, which means they swished around a little more than I did. My hips don't lie, I guess.
Considering the rides don't get too much "scarier" than this at LegoLand, you'll probably enjoy this ride more watching newbies' and kids' reactions than you will for your own-self.
Of course, if you're really a glutton for heart palpitations, try cutting the diesel lines below decks of a 50' sport fisher doing sea-donuts in the dark, 130 miles south-southwest of San Diego. Yeah, that's a different review. read more