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The Rattlesnake

Roller coaster
Minimum height to ride: 55 inches

About The Rattlesnake

Promoted by the park as the ride that bites back, this wild mouse coaster certainly claims the prize for most painful ride! Themed as a Mexican mine working, guests queue past snoozing animatronic Mexicans complete with sombrero and poncho, then down below the ride. This allows you to get very close to the ride and can scare some people as a car comes racing down towards their heads! Regular visitors will become increasingly annoyed by the babblings of a certain animatronic with its legs waving from a barrel, complaining that "it smells" and that he "shouldn't have eaten that burrito". Much amusement can also be had from the one sitting on a barell and, depending on your mind, releasing liquid from the barell onto the queue, or... err... urinating. But anyway, onto the ride! This is a fairly typical wild mouse coaster full of those unbanked turns and sharp drops. Being Chessington, the low capacity ensures a ridiculous queue time!

An on-ride photo is available, and tends to be one of the more embarassing ones you'l see.

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