The Dragon Coaster first opened on July 20, 1929 at Playland, which was built a year earlier. The 80-foot wooden coaster was designed by Frank Darling, who was hired by the Westchester Parks ...

A Lithuanian man once came up with the idea of an “Euthanasia Coaster,” the purpose of which was to take the lives of its riders. Designer Julijonas Urbonas even drew up the plans for the fatal theme ...

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Urbonas' design is best described as a thought experiment or conceptual art project. The Euthanasia Coaster does not exist in the real world, nor was it meant to. A viral post on Reddit and Twitter ...