Rides for a 3.5 year old

[mrsmoore]

We just booked our trip to Disneyland for February 2009. DD will be 3.5, we are going during her mid-winter break (she will be at a preschool-8thgrade school). We are trying to talk about it now and got our planning DVD last night and started watching it. DH is afraid she won't like any rides and the week will be a bust. We are there Sunday-Thursday, with a 5 day hopper and planning to stay around Anaheim entire time.

I was kind of planning Sunday evening to catch any weekend only night stuff, and allow time to just walk around and let DD see it and take it all in first. Any other thoughts on how to introduce it so she will enjoy the rides. She will be tall enough for the Matterhorn, but is pretty short and anything else with height restrictions we will probably use parent swap.

Would love any thoughts!!

 

[DahliaRW]

My son (who is 3 1/2 now) loves to watch videos of the rides on you tube. We've been doing it mostly for the dark rides so he won't be scared of them. We also talk a lot about how it's all pretend.

He's a daredevil, though, and very little scares him. Fortunately he's over 40" so he can go on most of the faster rides (he loves roller coasters in particular! So I think Matterhorn, BTMRR, Space Mountain, etc will be fun for him).

 

[NicksMommy]

What we did for my son was head straight for fantasy land to get him used to the idea of riding and what we were doing type of thing... (he was only 1 at the time) he loved riding!

Last year he was 2 and didn't like the dark rides so much like peter pan's ride This year though he will be 3 and can't stop talking about going on the rides as well as roller coasters!(which he has never been on) So I think it just depends on how you approach riding on your child. I’m pretty sure if you put her on a roller coaster first and she hates it you will have a hard time getting her on anything else.

Also in toon town they a few more thrilling rides than FL for little ones…

We have a rule my son has to ride once if he doesn’t like it than he doesn’t have to ride again. (Depending on the height requirements of course)