My 4yo dd is millimeters shy of 46" and we measured her for Indy, in flat shoes which added 1/4 inch. The CM said "Well, it should be harder for her to move underneath it." So there is also a friction test!
I wonder if that was the same CM who measured my righteously tall enough son for Star Tours and pushed down on his shoulder while remeasuring him, causing him to slouch down and not hit the stick. All I gotta say is...well it's not nice.
But at least you got the re-ride thing. Those are neat.
I wonder if the CMs ever look at the shoes though?
What is odd to me with the measurement is it is based on standing - when most rides with height requirements are seated, the real measurement would be when they are sitting. Everyone is built different - you can put two kids that are the exact same height standing on a bench beside each other and one could be noticeably taller.
They CAN look at shoe height.
It's odd to me, too! Yay for someone else thinking about that!
My stepmom and I are the same height from waist to top of the head. When standing, however, she's 5'11" and I'm 5'3".
OP, being that close, you are going to want to list one headliner for her each morning, and do that FIRST. Do not do anything else. Make sure she gets lots of rest and has lots and lots of water. Every day we shrink a bit due to gravity and losing water from the intervertebral discs. Rest (and not being upright) and hydration helps plump them back up. When you're that close, you want to make sure the child is getting those things. (reduces the tantrums, too) Go straight each morning to the one height-restricted thing she wants to ride, and hope for the best.
Make sure she stands straight and tall. Make sure she knows she WANTS to hit that stick. If she hits the stick with the top of her head, sure it's going to hurt, but it also means she'll be riding.
And if she slouches or shies away from the stick because she doesn't want to hurt and doesn't really get that she wants to touch that stick, well, ultimately she just might not have been ready for that big ride, and you can try again the next day (or next trip). That's the conclusion we came to after the above-mentioned Star Tours CM experience. If he wasn't ready to stand straight and tall, and was easily pushed down and didn't realize he wanted to hit the stick, he just wasn't ready for the ride. He didn't want to try it again on the same trip, though. He had been cleared by the first CM at the first height stick, and it was just too sad to have that happen at the second stick.
It was all good on the next trip.
