Your First Rollercoaster

My first "credit" was Journey to Atlantis at Sea World Orlando while my first coaster was the Rock N' Roller Coaster at Disney/MGM, both in May of 2002. Now here it is almost two years and 200 hundred coasters later and there is no end in sight.

First coaster-Yankee Cannonball (I was 3 and it was the year before they put a height limit on the ride the following year I could not ride it)

First looping coaster-Canobie Corkscrew

First "real" looping coaster-Lockness Monster

First Invert-SFGAm's B:TR

First Suspended-Big Bad Wolf

First Hyper-Raging Bull

First Giga-MF

First Launched-Outer Limits Flight of Fear PKI

First Stand-up-Iron Wolf

First Flyer-X-Flight

My first coaster was Montagnes Russes at Old Indiana. Maybe that's why I'm such a big fan of the Schwarzkopf Wildcat's.

My first coaster was Montagnes Russes at Old Indiana. I used to love that ride. Maybe that's why I'm such a big fan of the Schwarzkopf Wildcats.

Is the initiation to coaster riding comparable to that which has been frequently described: An abduction subject who falls 'in love' with the abductor?
Is it that coasters are so enjoyable because they do to us whatever they want and we can't get out but have to live through it - giving us no other chance of survival but to identify and love the thing that makes us depend on it?
Or is it just the joy of experimenting with terror, testing the limits between joy and pain?

ACE coaster classic-Little Dipper @ kiddieland.

Not counting the mice coasters I had ridden, my first "real" coaster was Coaster: Thrill Ride at Puyallup. 1935 Miller ACE coaster classic. 55ft drop. Sounds lame. It ain't.

Here's mine, in chronological order:

First coaster - Kiddie Coaster, Wagon Wheel Park, 1968 at age 3 [Oxnard, CA]

First "adult" coaster - Materhorn, Disneyland [also at age three, 1968]

First wood - Belmont Park Giant Dipper, 1971 [w/original P&C trains!]

First coaster w/inversions: Corkscrew, Knotts [1975]

First Indoor coaster: Space Mountain, 1977

First launched/First shuttle: Montezooma's Revenege, Knotts [1978]

First Stand-Up: King Cobra, PKI [1983]

First Suspended: Ninja, SFMM [1988]

First 'Rang: Boomerang, Knotts [1990]

First Inverted: Batman The Ride, SFGAm [1992]

First over 200: Magnum, 1992

First over 400: Superman The Escape, 1997

First Flyer: Stealth [2000]

First over 300: Millie [2000]

First Floorless: Medusa, SFWM [2000]

my first ever (besides the little one at the local fair) was the Matterhorn at Disneyland when I was about 5 years old...rode it with my mom!

first looping coaster was Boomerang at Knott's Berry Farm when I was 7...rode it with my mom as well!

First one I remember was the Cedar Creek Mine Ride.

Where is SFWM? Is it home to M:TR? No, that one is a portable carny ride, isn't it? :) *** Edited 1/21/2004 12:58:55 AM UTC by boblogone***

It's a toss up between the Whizzer(SFGAm) and Rolling Thnder(SFGAm). I'm pretty sure it was the Whizzer.

Mine was the Big Dipper at Chippewa Lake in ohio. I think I was 5 yrs old. That was along time ago....too bad that coaster is a SBNO

CP's Blue Streak, 1973 or '74.

American Eagle at SFGAm back in the late 80's. I was kinda' scared of these things way back when!

first coaster-trailblazer

first woodie- wildcat/lightning racer/comet (cant remember wich i rode 1st

first coaster -w/inversions medusa (gadv)

first steel coaster-medusa (gadv)

first floorless-medusa (gadv)

first hyper-nitro

first togo-viper

first launching-robin the chiller

first inverted-batman the ride (gadv)

first dark coaster-skull mountain

first flying-superman ultimate flight (gadv)

first vekoma-sidewinder (regret that one)

first arrow- runaway mine train

first intamin-skull mountain

first B&M- medusa (gadv)

Whizzer at SFGAm.

Great American Scream Machine (SFGadv) in 1997 or 1998.

Florida Hurricane at Boardwalk & Baseball

I think my first coaster was some wild mouse coaster at busch gardens, but the first big coaster i went on was the Comet at Hershey Park, and the first steel was the SuperDooperLooper also at hershey.

Revolution at SFMM! The ride the GRP team set the record on, on the Discovery Channel special ;) *** Edited 1/26/2004 6:34:21 AM UTC by SamAntix***