POTC too scary for 2 year old?

[missfigment]

We are definitely hitting up Fanatsyland and a few rides in Tomorrowland....but I was wondering about POTC. Do you think it would be too scary for a 2 yr old?

 

[Sabina67]

When walking down the queue it always reminds of walking underground to a dungeon of sorts. My only concern would be how your 2 year old does with the dark...It is it darker than most rides. It is a nice boat ride though and there is singing throughout.

 

[sharethemagic]

The skeletons always freaked my daughter out. I covered her eyes more than once!

 

[aanderson5]

DS at 2, no problem. DS at 3 forget about it. Imagination kicked in and no way he would go on POTC (or Snow White, or Buzz, or HM, or TTBAB, or.....)

 

[Tara922c]

I took my dd on every single ride in Mk that she could ride when she had just turned 2, including POTC and Haunted Mansion, and she was fine. Being said, my dd is fearless, and cried when I wouldn't rent her some horror movie from the redbox the other day. My biggest fear when we go this year is she will cry because she is too short to ride the big rides. You know your dd best, does she scare easily? how is she in the dark? If you think she will be scared, then she probably will be, and you shouldn't take her.

 

[marie1203]

I will say to be on the save side don't do it. The first time I rod POTC I was 4 and I remember clearly how scare I was I cried the whole ride.

 

[deerhart]

one tip we found helpful (as my kids are still at the age that they say things are scary even when they aren't scared) was to bring a small pen flashlight, something that light up, or glow sticks for the dark rides like Pirates, Dinosaurs, and Haunted Mansion. Even if the child doesn't ride, the wait is still dark and it can distract them.

 

[smidgy]

this is a dark ride, and the story line will be "over the little ones head". it depends on how scared of the dark he?she is

 

[Princess Sleepy]

My DD2 did fine last year with POTC and HM. It wasn't a favorite ride, but she was not scared. Her favorites were Buzz and Barnstormer. My DD5, on the other hand, was scared of both HM and POTC, but loved BTMRR.

 

[jenrose66]

I think it might be. They have this image that you go thru of the squid face right at the beginning. My son wasn't feeling that when we took him at 14 months.

 

[jenseib]

DS at 2, no problem. DS at 3 forget about it. Imagination kicked in and no way he would go on POTC (or Snow White, or Buzz, or HM, or TTBAB, or.....)

Thats kind of how it was for us. At 2 she went on anything without thought. When she was 3, she was very leary, but went on it. At 4 she said she didn;t want to go on it becuase it was a "stupid ride". LOL! But I told her she rode it in the past, and had no problems, so we rode it. She had no problems again ,but was a bit more clingy on it this time.
She also totally refused Haunted Mansion this year, and I didn't make her go on that one, even though she rode it before and was fine with it. My DD hasn't had any problems with dark rides, jsut with things she may think might be scary in her mind.

 

[caroline1851]

This was my dd2's favorite ride. She was almost 3 though, so that might make a difference. She was terrified of Snow White-still talks about it and she's 4.5 now.

 

[TangaroaTiki]

My daughter was traumatized by the scene where one of the pirates is trying to give the scared cats a drink from his bottle she cried for at least an hour about 'the poor kitty cats'

Funny what they notice

 

[Millermom0606]

MY then 18 mo old DS and 2.5 yr old DD LOVED POTC...... they were actually mad b/c we couldn't find pirate stuff to fit them in the giftshop LOL.... but then they've seen all the movies, and they are some of their fav. movies to watch too...... like PPs said..... its kinda up to the kiddo

 

[scrapbookjulie]

I was worried about taking dd on that when she was 2, but it's Grandpa's favorite ride, so we went anyway. Fortunately, she fell asleep in my arms in the line and slept the whole ride, canons and all!

When she was 3, we went again. I just told her in advance everything that I could think of that she'd be seeing so there weren't any scary surprises. With the canons shots, we made a game trying to find where they'd land in the water next. I told her all the pirates were friendly, so she thought of them as silly rather than mean. It worked out fine. (And she gets scared pretty easily on the dark rides. She's 7 now, and still is scared of Snow White!)

Julie

 

[GiGi30]

My 2 year old LOVED it! We were there in Nov and literally rode it 30 times. We are heading back at the end of next month and it's all he is talking about! The only thing that took me off guard was the drop in the dark, so I just made sure to hold him tight! I'm nervous like that, though!

 

[RitaFaye94]

one tip we found helpful (as my kids are still at the age that they say things are scary even when they aren't scared) was to bring a small pen flashlight, something that light up, or glow sticks for the dark rides like Pirates, Dinosaurs, and Haunted Mansion. Even if the child doesn't ride, the wait is still dark and it can distract them.

ITA - the flashlight helped in several rides. My DS was 2 1/2 for our trip last year and LOVED Captain Jack (I'm more of a Will Turner girl myself ) so he was singing Yo Ho through half the ride.

 

[Mommy2LittleVols]

When we were there last Sept, it was one of DS2's favorite rides! (His other favorite was HM!)

 

[triplejen]

I guess it depends on the child? And also on the way you ease them into it?

We took DS a week before he turned two. The first thing we did, the first day we were there, was take both boys (my older one was nearly 6) on POTC twice, followed by Haunted Mansion twice.

I don't know what I could have been thinking. The 2YO was so completely traumatized by the experience that for the whole rest of the trip he didn't want to go on a single other ride. He was even terrified during the Pooh ride (waiting for the ghosts & skeletons, I suppose). We logged plenty of hours in the Country Bears Jamboree that week.

The following summer we returned. Now DS was nearly 3. He still remembered the bad experience from the previous year, and was hesitant to go on rides again. We did get him on a few, and he ended up loving Small World, Dumbo and the like. But still, he remembered feeling so frightened the year before.

We'll be going again this summer. He'll be nearly 4. He has now started saying that this year, he wants to go back on POTC and other, similar rides. It's been a long time coming!

I could have spared him (and myself) a lot of grief if I'd just considered how he would react before taking him on the stupid rides in the first place! Seriously, if I hadn't made those the first rides we did, or if we hadn't done them over and over, I'm sure he would have been fine. I just didn't think it through very well.

Sorry - I'm sure this is no real help to you . . .

 

[mousejunkie98]

My son was 2 the first time we took him on POTC, and he loved it (and still does). Now at 3 he refuses to go on the Haunted Mansion or Snow White but POTC is at the top of his list. Even the little hills you go down, he eats it up!