I know how you feel about Pipeer and the rides. Before we went Jonnie was terrified of practically every ride but diden't want to be left out of any ride eigther. 
I handled it kinda similar to how you plan to. I took him on the smaller rides first (Goofys Barnstormer, Peter Pan, etc) and really played up how good he was doing on those things. I also reminded him it was just pretend. We talked alot about movie magic. I reminded him of special effects in movies he loves that coulden't be real and then reminded him that Disney makes alot of those movies and the rides are the same type of thing, pretend. I also downplayed the scary parts of rides and played up the parts I know he would love (i.e. Brehr rabbit and music in splash,lights in space mountain, etc.) He called me on it a few times "You diden't say that hill would be so big" but by then he had ridden it, had fun, and had decided it wasen't so bad and I was able to point out if he could ride that the next thing shoulden't be so scary. Of course he was so intrigued by the Yeti in EE that he rode that the second day so every time he would get scared after that I'd tell him if he could ride EE he could ride anything and if he diden't like it we'd move on to something else. By the end of the trip he had ridden almost every roller coaster, some multiple times and had had a blast, but if he had decided he diden't want to ride any of them then like you said, there was plenty of other things to do and he would have still had the time of his life. I'm sure it work out fine once you get there but I know what you mean about not wanting her to be disapointed later. That was my main concern with Jonnie too.
As for the bag. Ugh I understand that too. I somehow got confused about my luggage allowance and figured out that I diden't have any free (I thought I had one pp) the morning we left
. The frugal side of me woulden't allow me to pay for the whole eight pieces of luggage I packed so I repacked that morning and still had to shift things at the airport. At least you figured it out now and it sounds like you have a pretty good idea for how to shift things. Sounds like you've got things under control. You only have a few more day and your going to have so much fun!
I handled it kinda similar to how you plan to. I took him on the smaller rides first (Goofys Barnstormer, Peter Pan, etc) and really played up how good he was doing on those things. I also reminded him it was just pretend. We talked alot about movie magic. I reminded him of special effects in movies he loves that coulden't be real and then reminded him that Disney makes alot of those movies and the rides are the same type of thing, pretend. I also downplayed the scary parts of rides and played up the parts I know he would love (i.e. Brehr rabbit and music in splash,lights in space mountain, etc.) He called me on it a few times "You diden't say that hill would be so big" but by then he had ridden it, had fun, and had decided it wasen't so bad and I was able to point out if he could ride that the next thing shoulden't be so scary. Of course he was so intrigued by the Yeti in EE that he rode that the second day so every time he would get scared after that I'd tell him if he could ride EE he could ride anything and if he diden't like it we'd move on to something else. By the end of the trip he had ridden almost every roller coaster, some multiple times and had had a blast, but if he had decided he diden't want to ride any of them then like you said, there was plenty of other things to do and he would have still had the time of his life. I'm sure it work out fine once you get there but I know what you mean about not wanting her to be disapointed later. That was my main concern with Jonnie too. As for the bag. Ugh I understand that too. I somehow got confused about my luggage allowance and figured out that I diden't have any free (I thought I had one pp) the morning we left
. The frugal side of me woulden't allow me to pay for the whole eight pieces of luggage I packed so I repacked that morning and still had to shift things at the airport. At least you figured it out now and it sounds like you have a pretty good idea for how to shift things. Sounds like you've got things under control. You only have a few more day and your going to have so much fun!
I think she'll be fine once we get going, I just don't know, and we won't until we're there. The pretend thing is a good idea, we'll have to talk about that, it might help. The only ride she has said she doesn't want to ride is POTC..not sure why, but I'm not going to push it.
: As for the luggage..thinking her backpack is being put into mine to be her carry-on, and then I'll carry a large boat and tote with shoes, etc in it in addition to my purse to try to get some weight out of my duffel bag. Going to be jimmying around a lot of things today to see what works best!
Thanks, Liesa..we're excited too! 
I know I would be... LOL
