My fun question of the week... Week #2

[SpaceMtnFan]

It's time for my fun question of the week for week 2....Here is this weeks question

How old were you when you rode your first Roller Coaster and what was the name of the coaster and the Theme park?

I rode my first Coaster in 1977 called the Racer at Kings Island near Cincinnati. My Mother talked me into riding the Coaster I was :scared1::scared1: to death and was crying and screaming the whole ride. In 1981 My fear of the Coaster was broken when I came to Walt Disney World and rode Space Mountain I was nervous about riding Space Mountain because it was my first dark Coaster ride Now I love riding Roller Coasters.:thumbsup2

[disneyholic family]

maybe around 9 or 10 years old?

Edgewater Park in Detroit....(hasn't existed for years)...

i don't think the coaster had a name....that was back in the days when rides were just rides....

the coaster was a traditional woodie.....with super super great air time...

i rode it 11 times in a row and was sick for about an hour afterwards!!...(ah youth)..

oh wow - i'm coming back to edit this - i just found the coaster on youtube!
i see the park went out of business in 1981...i probably rode it in about 1965 or so...
here's the coaster (called the 'big beast" apparently):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_2jU3eyjiY

that is so cool that places that no longer exist can be found on youtube...

[wdwfreeksince88]

My first coaster was actually space mountain at wdw. It was in 1988 and I was 9 years old at the time. I was scared:scared1: to death pitched a fit and all in front of a huge crowd of people. I actually loved:love: it but didn't want my parents to know so I sulked the rest of the day. lol

[jeanigor]

I think I was around 6 or 7. It was at the now defunct Bob-Lo Island Amusement Park. Looking at pictures from the web, I can only imagine it was Sky Streek. It was a blistering day, and being a kid, hadn't had much to drink. I rode it and hurled all over the place as soon as I left the exit queue. The boat ride back to Detroit wasn't much fun. I didn't ride a roller coaster again until WDW, about 8 years later. Now I can't get enough of them. Any one want to go to Cedar Point???:goodvibes

[BriarRosie]

I remember riding what was originally called Willard's Whizzer at Marriott's Great America (Gurnee, IL) circa 1976 or so. I was deathly afraid of the coaster because I felt like I was going to fall out of it. It was similar to the Matterhorn and you get the idea. The park later became a Six Flags and added a ton of coasters since then.

My family convinced me a year later, 1977, during our trip to WDW, to ride Space Mountain with my older brother and sister. I was 7 years old and still deathly afraid. I rode it with complete terror.

I didn't get over my fear until I was 13 or so. I went to Six Flags with my sister and some kids of my parents' friends, and I finally managed to get over my fear AND ride my first upside-down loop on a coaster. I've been ok with coasters ever since.

And Todd, I have been to Cedar Point, but it was 1998. I thought the park was awesome. :goodvibes

[tinkbutt]

I have no Idea lets just say I've been going to disney world since 86.... and i was born in 85 so I bet it was at disney as soon as I was tall enough.

[disneyholic family]

I think I was around 6 or 7. It was at the now defunct Bob-Lo Island Amusement Park. Looking at pictures from the web, I can only imagine it was Sky Streek. It was a blistering day, and being a kid, hadn't had much to drink. I rode it and hurled all over the place as soon as I left the exit queue. The boat ride back to Detroit wasn't much fun. I didn't ride a roller coaster again until WDW, about 8 years later. Now I can't get enough of them. Any one want to go to Cedar Point???:goodvibes

boblo was great, but didn't have much in the way of coasters when i was little.....
but just getting there on the boat and riding the dodgem cars was a perfect day for me...

here's a youtube of Boblo - remember this commercial? (i do)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NFxX8YjAGg

and a kind of related commercial that REALLY takes me back (i guess before your time?)...
it seems like it's supposed to be on the way to boblo, though it's not on one of the big boats...but maybe it's on the little boats that sailed from the canadian side of the river....we used to go from there when we took our kids in 1985...i forgot the name of the city - amherstberg?)...
anyway, here's the commercial....i remember this one well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqyDj7RX6Y

[sshaw10060]

My first roller coaster was BTMRR. It has just opened and I was barely tall enough to ride. My 72 year old grandmother road with me. The line was 2 hours long and extended out past where Splash Mountain now site.

[jeanigor]

There's a youtube of Boblo - remember this commercial? (i do)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NFxX8YjAGg

and a kind of related commercial that REALLY takes me back (i guess before your time?)...
it seems like it's supposed to be on the way to boblo, though it's not on one of the big boats...but maybe it's on the little boats that sailed from the canadian side of the river....we used to go from there when we took our kids in 1985...i forgot the name of the city - amherstberg?)...
anyway, here's the commercial....i remember this one well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqyDj7RX6Y

I remember the Boblo commercial. But the Faygo one was a bit before my time.

Recently a company refurbished the Boblo boats and now does lunch/dinner cruises during the summer. Haven't done it, but would like to. Just don't seem to find myself saying: "Let's go to downtown Detroit." on a whim very often.

[*NikkiBell*]

Believe it or not, my very first coaster wasn't until I was in eighth or ninth grade. It was at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey.

Before that though, I did go on simulator rides at WDW like Body Wars. I screamed my head off. ROFL

[Illini Disney Guy]

My first coaster was space mountain at WDW. I could have only be 8 or 9. We did my only trip to WDW when I was a kid until I went on a band trip when I as in highschool. I now love coasters and we have been to Ceder Point, Great America and a few others just to ride coasters. It all started at WDW

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[wdwscout]

I'm not sure I remember.
I think it was one of the huge wooden roller coasters in Hershey Park when I was about 13- so 1968-ish? I seem to remember going there on a Girl Scout trip or something.

I know my first WDW roller coaster was when I was 25. It was Space Mountain -on college Spring Break in 1981! We rode it and BTMRR over and over and over! :cool2:

[DWGal210]

I really have never liked roller coasters :scared1: but my first ride was when I was 19 or 20, I can't remember exactly. It was at Universal, the one where there are 2 people in each side and they kind of wind around each other - something to do with dragons?! Anyway, I rode it because the boy I liked at the time wanted me to ride with him and I made a choice between him and riding a roller coaster which made me sick to my stomach!:sick: So I rode it and it was OK, scared the whole time.

I will ride Everest and RnR a time or two, but they're still not my favorite rides. :scared1: I'm more of a Teacups person. :goodvibes

[corky441]

I am not a roller coaster fan :scared1:

But the first time I DID ride one was in 1968 - I was 16. THe coaster was called the "Comet" and it was up in Crystal Beach-Ontario, Canada.
the coaster was an old style wooden one - it sat right on the shore of Lake Erie. This was a devil of a ride....

[WLfan]

My first roller coaster was Space Mountain in Disneyland. As crazy as it sounds to me now, I was only 4! Having a 2 1/2 year old now, I don't think I would ever let her on Space Mt at 4!

[FairyGodmotherJen]

Another Racer fan here! I think I first rode it with my dad at King's Island when I was about 6. I love coasters, but now don't get to ride as often with the little guys (rider swaps are great, but they take time!). I can't do the wooden ones anymore with my neck, though, which pretty much counts out the theme park (other than Disney) that we've been to the past few years - Holiday World and Splashin' Safari down in Santa Claus, IN.

[two-foxes]

Little Dipper at Memphis Kiddie Park in Cleveland at some point in the late '70s. "...Putting smiles on the faces of children in the Greater Cleveland area since 1952." I am pretty sure that coaster hasn't been renovated since then!

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b9d935b3127ccec7c88d8a65ca00000040O08AYt3LJi5aNw e3nwc/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D550/ry%3D400/

[SpaceMtnFan]

Another Racer fan here! I think I first rode it with my dad at King's Island when I was about 6. I love coasters, but now don't get to ride as often with the little guys (rider swaps are great, but they take time!). I can't do the wooden ones anymore with my neck, though, which pretty much counts out the theme park (other than Disney) that we've been to the past few years - Holiday World and Splashin' Safari down in Santa Claus, IN.
Wow I love the Racer now because one car goes Backwards. 1 Year before my 1981 WDW Trip I went back to Kings Island to ride the Beast and thats when I tested my nerves I even rode the beast at night (And with Fog around the Track) you can't see the track and that coaster feels like you are going to be taken so far away from the park.

[disneym2m]

My first roller coaster was June 16, 1989. I was 16. And it was a doozy.

The Loch Ness Monster at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg. That first drop was ridiculous. My friend Heather talked me and my father into riding it. My father did not look so good after the ride. I was fine until the next day and I had the worst insulin reaction ever.

Ah roller coaster memories.....:laughing:

[robind]

My first roller coaster was June 16, 1989. I was 16. And it was a doozy.

The Loch Ness Monster at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg. That first drop was ridiculous. My friend Heather talked me and my father into riding it. My father did not look so good after the ride. I was fine until the next day and I had the worst insulin reaction ever.

Ah roller coaster memories.....:laughing:

Love the Loch Ness Monster - that was my brother's first coaster and also my cousin's son's first as well.

My first was long before that, I was probably about 8 or 9 - the shooting star at Lakeside in Roanoke VA. It was a wooden coaster, good drop, no loops, no batwings, just a good old fashoned coaster.

[disprincessatheart]

I was still in preschool when I started out on the Lady Bug at Darien Lake in NY. My mom tells me I would get in line, ride, get off and run right back to the entrance. I'm sure I didn't have to wait long, if at all, for the next ride. I can't imagine anyone doing this now, but back in the early 80's she said they'd actually leave me there alone and go do another ride, and come back for me and I'd still be there riding and getting back in line. :rotfl:
Here's the link to what this ride currently looks like http://www.coastergallery.com/SF/SFDL03.html When I was a kid it was red and black

the first real coaster I did was also at Darien Lake a few summers later (I was probably 8 or 9?) the Viper :scared1: I was very scared but wanted to keep up with my older sister.

[bellaminnie]

I don't remember the first roller coaster i went on probably the racer at kennywood park in pgh. I do remember the first time i went on a coaster upside down though it was in the 8th grade on the laser loop at kennywood because i knew they would be closing it soon. after i rode it, i just didn't see why i was so scared to go upside down on a coaster, it was nothing.

[jodiey]

I don't remember the exact age I was, but maybe around 12 and it was the screamin' demon at the Great Escape in Lake George NY

[georgemoe]

Oh man. Very first "real" coaster has to be the Flyer Comet at Whalom Park in Lunenburg, Ma. An old woodie or whatever the coaster fans call them. Early teens in the early 70's. A lot of people would not ride it it wobbled so much. I'm not up on it's history but believe it burned down in varying degrees a few times.

http://www.angelfire.com/nh/whalom/images/bbcomet1.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/324168745_e3cddbdd94.jpg?v=0

[aspen37]

My first real coaster was Corkscrew at Knott's Berry Farms. It was in 1975 and I was six. My sister was 2 years older than me but I was alot taller than her. I was tall enough to ride but she wasn't. I felt bad but still rode it without her.


http://i537.photobucket.com/albums/ff338/annatinsman/kbf_corkscrew.jpg

[Ragrobyn]

It was August 1972 and I was 6. It was the Matterhorn in Disneyland. It is still my favorite - Tommorrowland side at night :goodvibes

[disneyholic family]

I think I was around 6 or 7. It was at the now defunct Bob-Lo Island Amusement Park. Looking at pictures from the web, I can only imagine it was Sky Streek. It was a blistering day, and being a kid, hadn't had much to drink. I rode it and hurled all over the place as soon as I left the exit queue. The boat ride back to Detroit wasn't much fun. I didn't ride a roller coaster again until WDW, about 8 years later. Now I can't get enough of them. Any one want to go to Cedar Point???:goodvibes


i found this map of boblo - i remember the sky streak.....

http://www.bobloisland.net/images/boblo1987map.jpg

it wasn't bad....had a bit of air time...nothing like the coaster at edgewater, but not bad...

i never rode the sky streak as a kid, only much later when we went with the kids a few times in 1989---we went 3 times....the first time from detroit (that was one scary boat ride....the clue should have been the guards were wearing brass knuckles :eek::eek:)
and 2 more times from the canadian side...

DH and i were talking about it....how it probably couldn't have existed now anyway....
how would they have managed it with all the border crossing security (don't you need an ID now to cross the tunnel/bridge?)...
so how would they have managed people going to boblo from both detroit and windsor?

we sure used to live in a lot more innocent times...

[jpeka65844]

Mine was the Timber Wolf at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City. I was probably 13 or 14: 1988 or 1989. I hated it. I remember begging to be let off on the first incline. To top it off, I was in the last car and got whipped around a lot.

I didn't ride another roller coaster until Space Mountain in 2005. For a time, I was only about inside roller coasters. I don't like seeing what comes next. The anticipation was a little much.

But eventually, I was able to ride Everest at AK and CA Screamin' at DLR.

I still don't think I have it in me to try a "REAL" roller coaster like The Boomerang, Superman, or Manta. Only time will tell....I AM becoming braver in my old age.

[Bornteach]

My first was at Nantasket Beach on the board walk in the seventies. At the time it boasted it was the world's largest wooden coaster. I do not remember if it had a name LOL!

I know I was scared to death!

[evildiva]

This is a second hand story since I was too young to remember but apparently my first roller coaster was the Scooby Doo at Kings Dominion in VA. That ill-fated ride occurred sometime around 1984. According to my mother we were strapped in a climbing the first hill when I got out from under the lap bar and decided to get off the ride because I changed my mind. I did not ride another coast again until 1997 when I rode Space Mountain in Disney World. BTW that was my third time at Disney. I was so scarred from the Scooby Doo that I missed out on SM and BTMRR on my first two visits. :headache:

[aGoofyMom]

I think I was around 6 or 7. It was at the now defunct Bob-Lo Island Amusement Park. Looking at pictures from the web, I can only imagine it was Sky Streek. It was a blistering day, and being a kid, hadn't had much to drink. I rode it and hurled all over the place as soon as I left the exit queue. The boat ride back to Detroit wasn't much fun. I didn't ride a roller coaster again until WDW, about 8 years later. Now I can't get enough of them. Any one want to go to Cedar Point???:goodvibes

boblo was great, but didn't have much in the way of coasters when i was little.....
but just getting there on the boat and riding the dodgem cars was a perfect day for me...

here's a youtube of Boblo - remember this commercial? (i do)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NFxX8YjAGg

and a kind of related commercial that REALLY takes me back (i guess before your time?)...
it seems like it's supposed to be on the way to boblo, though it's not on one of the big boats...but maybe it's on the little boats that sailed from the canadian side of the river....we used to go from there when we took our kids in 1985...i forgot the name of the city - amherstberg?)...
anyway, here's the commercial....i remember this one well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqyDj7RX6Y

i found this map of boblo - i remember the sky streak.....

http://www.bobloisland.net/images/boblo1987map.jpg

it wasn't bad....had a bit of air time...nothing like the coaster at edgewater, but not bad...

i never rode the sky streak as a kid, only much later when we went with the kids a few times in 1989---we went 3 times....the first time from detroit (that was one scary boat ride....the clue should have been the guards were wearing brass knuckles :eek::eek:)
and 2 more times from the canadian side...

DH and i were talking about it....how it probably couldn't have existed now anyway....
how would they have managed it with all the border crossing security (don't you need an ID now to cross the tunnel/bridge?)...
so how would they have managed people going to boblo from both detroit and windsor?

we sure used to live in a lot more innocent times...

The Sky Streak was my first coaster too...it may not have had much air time, but that was ok for me since the lap bar is purely decoration with me. :scared1:

The boats left from Amherstburg, just south of Windsor. I went a few times, learning how to hold myself in. I think I was about 12 or 13. We left Windsor in 84 so after that it was the odd trip to Canada's Wonderland.
I am still not that fond of roller coasters. I can handle the ones at WDW but for the really big - I need to have shoulder harness, and even then....:scared:

[epcotimagineer]

trailblazer at hershey park. i was 6 and before they fixed it, i couldn't stand the height points. i never touched a rollercoaster UNTIL... i went to disney for my first time in may '06 and i was 14, i was forced to go on Big Thunder and i LOVED IT. it turns out that hovering over the ground is much more reassuring than dangling thirty feet off the ground. i have now conquered all thrill rides and rollercoasters at disney!!! THANK YOU BIG THUNDA'!!! :D

[tolemommy]

I was born & raised in northern CA, my father was a big Disney fan. He would take us to Disneyland a couple times a year. The first time I rode a rollercoaster was at Disneyland & I was maybe 5 or 6 years old. We waited in line and road the Matterhorn, I'm going to consider it a rollercoaster. I loved it, I was hooked, and I've been happily riding them ever since.

[ms*mountaineer]

My first coaster was Space Mountain in WDW - whatever year that was in the 70's that it opened. (I can still picture the sign that said Your Wait Time from this spot is 2 1/2 hrs)