oneandonlytara
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Mar 26, 2012
Hey everyone!
I'm in the very early stages of planning a trip to the World in 2015 after having gone this past September with a group of friends. I used to go every so often when I was younger, but had not been in close to 12 years.
As such, I've never gotten the chance to go to Animal Kingdom as it opened after I'd last been with family and unfortunately, my vote to visit the park on one of our days was quickly vetoed and we went to Epcot instead. I've been assured that since we're planning on visiting all four major parks this time that we'll hit up AK one day.
Here's the thing- I LOVE rollercoasters. I have no issues with any of them at Disney except for Space Mountain because of the bucket seats and the T-bar restraint. Transferring doesn't pose much of an issue because there are friends around to help, but I can only brace myself with my right leg and arm and feel more comfortable having someone beside me while riding things like RnRC so that they can grab hold of my left arm. Now, to me EE seems much like BTMRR only faster, with more dips and the backwards portion. I can handle that one fine too, but since EE only has the lapbar, am I gonna feel like I'm gonna fall out mid ride? It should be noted that I definitely slid down in the seat last time I rode BTMRR. Not enough to leave me panicked, because my best friend was beside me and had her arm around me for support, but it was enough that during the loading process before our second go round, I needed to be boosted back.
I'd really like to ride EE, but are all my hopes dashed?
I'm in the very early stages of planning a trip to the World in 2015 after having gone this past September with a group of friends. I used to go every so often when I was younger, but had not been in close to 12 years.
As such, I've never gotten the chance to go to Animal Kingdom as it opened after I'd last been with family and unfortunately, my vote to visit the park on one of our days was quickly vetoed and we went to Epcot instead. I've been assured that since we're planning on visiting all four major parks this time that we'll hit up AK one day.
Here's the thing- I LOVE rollercoasters. I have no issues with any of them at Disney except for Space Mountain because of the bucket seats and the T-bar restraint. Transferring doesn't pose much of an issue because there are friends around to help, but I can only brace myself with my right leg and arm and feel more comfortable having someone beside me while riding things like RnRC so that they can grab hold of my left arm. Now, to me EE seems much like BTMRR only faster, with more dips and the backwards portion. I can handle that one fine too, but since EE only has the lapbar, am I gonna feel like I'm gonna fall out mid ride? It should be noted that I definitely slid down in the seat last time I rode BTMRR. Not enough to leave me panicked, because my best friend was beside me and had her arm around me for support, but it was enough that during the loading process before our second go round, I needed to be boosted back.
I'd really like to ride EE, but are all my hopes dashed?
. I always make sure someone is to my left whenever possible. During our last trip, while riding BTMRR my friend was actually to my right because she lifted me in first and then sat herself, but it worked out ok except for when I started to kind of slide. Her cousin was actually going to squeeze in beside me on my left for our second go round (they let us ride twice) to add support, but there wasn't enough time and it would have been a tight squeeze with three to a bench, lol. As it was, my friend felt like she was going to fly out of the ride and was holding onto me like it was her job.
