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Primeval Whirl reviews

Theme Park Insider readers offer their ratings and reviews for Primeval Whirl, a roller coaster in Dinoland USA at Disney's Animal Kingdom. (The minimum height to ride is 48 inches.)

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Posted: March 22, 2008

A mouse coaster, with spinning cars.

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57 votes, so far

a fun little coaster, great for a family, and the carny style theming does add a lot to the atmosphere - travis traymoore

A very dizzy ride, but a mild coaster. It spins for most of the ride. A good ride, but not my favorite in the Animal Kingdom. - Matthew Harackiewicz

I think it is a fun and that as a six year old at that time it was better than everest - Manny Rodriguez

The reason Walt Disney entered (in some respects, created) this industry in the first place was because he hated things like this. Represents the Eisner era perfectly. - Man-Eating Sharks

Nothing great. It's like something you'd get on in a funfair. Hurts my back too and is not up to Disney's standards. 4/10 - D H

The thing that really annoys me is that they make a humongo deal that DCA has a wild mouse coaster that is "worse than Disney standards," but this is pretty much the same and nobody makes a big deal about this. - Reggie Templeton

This ride was average, had two good dips, but the rest was just filler it seemed. I like the idea, I'm not a basher of this part of the Animal Kingdom like most, but the experience was just alright. - Nick Dakuginow

I found this ride to be very rough and I did not like it at all. I will never ride it again. It might be fine for kids but if you have any kind of back problems, either take some Advil or stay away. It's not worth the pain. I ride rides that are somewhat rough all the time and I don't have a problem. This ride is the worst. - Laura Daspit

A fun little roller coaster, but it will make you VERY dizzy if you end up spinning a lot! - Tommy Rowbal

My home park has a ride just like this but i rode this one first and this has better theming - Bob Miller

A spinning coaster that moves slowly and spins randomly so you never know (or care, really) how it is gonna go. When your car does full spins, it is almost fun, however the jerky half turns are back/neck breaking. Ride restrictions (48" tall) seem way too high. The younger kids will be the one's who would like PW best, but most of them are not tall enough to ride. But honestly, this coaster is 100% skip-able and not worth even a five minute wait. Furthermore, the whole Chester and Hester Dino-Rama area is completely out of place in an otherwise beautiful theme park. I would love for Disney to dump this midway-themed area and add some new Disney-caliber attractions. - James Rao

Probably not worth a very long wait, this ride looked like nothing but was such a fun jerky spinning ride, I couldn't stop giggling all the way round. - Emily G

This ride is so slow loading even if the queue seems short. And after that, it isn't very special! - Mark Moore

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