Sledge Hammer — Attraction in Vaughan

The park's one-of-a-kind HUSS Giant Jumper, the only one that was ever made. Frequent visitors to Canada's Wonderland know two things about this ride: it's a ton of fun, and it's frequently down. Your chances of riding it on any given visit are about 50/50, but if you see it in operation, do be sure to get in line.

It's probably the most mesmerizing ride in the park, people walking by often stop and stare.

For families, this is one of the most extreme flat rides in the park, warm your kids up with other flat rides, like Klockwerks or Wilde Nightmares. The ride operator will at least give you 3 seconds warning when the ride enters its two phases, jump up, and drop down.

One enjoyable aspect of the ride is its communal nature, the 8 seats all face each other in pairs of 2, allowing you to see your friends, family or stranger's reactions.

Fair warning: the ride is perfectly safe, with a flawless safety record, but it's a maintenance nightmare and on rare occasions will fault and enter its fail safe position - hanging up in the air. If so, you'll be temporarily stuck up there for 10 minutes or so. But don't let that deter you, it's one of the best rides...

This ride is not as extreme as I was expecting, but it is pure fun and worth riding for its uniqueness alone. Only one of these HUSS Jump2 attractions was ever created, and it is certainly a strange-looking ride. The jumps are expectedly the best part; the drops aren't nearly as thrilling as I was expecting them to be. I didn't even find it that dizzying because your individual claw spins in the opposite direction of the main tower, so you sort of glide across the ride, rather than just outright spin. I would recommend...

Sledge Hammer is a literal one of a kind thrill ride. With mild spinning around your seat and more spinning around the tower itself, this would be pretty whatever if it weren't for the very aggressive rising and falling during the ride. It's odd with you curving outwards instead of going straight up and down and happens with you facing different directions due to the spinning. Unfortunately you don't get much of a view due to facing inward, and it's a little uncomfortable, but this is still an extreme, do-not-miss ride...