Coaster Kids

Of course I'm scared to ask, but what is the list of criteria that needs to be met to become COASTER QUEEN? I'm not sure my niece and nephew are ready to have a CQ parading them around the parks!

edit:veered my post "on topic" *** Edited 4/27/2004 11:13:22 PM UTC by Zingo!***

Tina, you wanna field that one?

Evil twin?!? Hehehe! Coaster queens "rule the tracks"! Actually my daughter named us all--me, my husband is coaster king, son -coaster prince and she started us our with her self proclaimed title-coasterprincess.

It looks like I made a mistake in the count-I didn't add kiddie only rides. I'd assume from some of your kids ages those have been counted too. OOPS! They didn't have many of them-only when we'd stumble across one. Once we started taking them to big parks they didn't want to ride them anyway. All of theirs are "family" and up.

They will easily reach 100+ this year. We only went to SFGAm and MIA last year due to family illness. We are going to try to squish 2 years of trips into one. Cedar alone will get them close! :)

A coaster kids TV show would be great-we should at least try to contact the park's local news when all of our kids get their 100th! Maybe notify the park??

BTW--I'm sure I'll see some of my new coaster friends at SFGAm Saturday!!

My daughter qualifies as one of the Kiddie Corps. She's 10, and has been riding coasters since she was three. Not counting the kiddie and junior coasters like Taxi Jam, Woodstock Express and Li'l Phantom, her first real coaster was Kennywood's Jack Rabbit. She's been on all the top 25 woodies except Shivering Timbers and we have that scheduled next month. Her favorites are Kennywood's Racers, The Beast, CP's Mean Streak, HW's Legend and IB's Hoosier Hurricane. But she still loves the Jackrabbit's double dip.

What's interesting is she keeps inviting her friends to come with us. They don't like coasters, are afraid of them, get sick on them, or aren't allowed on them. So it's obvious the average 10 year old is not into coasters. Especially 10 year old girls.

She also likes books on coasters and films or tv shows on coasters.

My daughter and her friend that we always bring with are both 12 and have about 130 each. We would be tied but I've got some defunct ones. HA HA! :)

Last summer we added about 50 in the 11 days of our Coaster Con trip. They were pretty beat by the end. They both are not just coaster enthusiasts though, as much as park enthusiasts. They like to spend a whole day at the small parks just going from ride to ride and eating. As a matter of fact, after 10 days of small and medium sized parks, they were bored at CP on the last day because of the lines so we left early.

Trekker, I thought that too, but almost all the girls in Taylor's class this year love coasters.

Frank, who is proud to have a Jr. rider! :)

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Mamoosh said:
Frankly, Tina, pretty much anyone named Jim is a coaster queen ;)

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Hey now....

Funny thing though, there was a point in my life where all the "queens" I considered friends were name Mike or, as Moosh point out, Jim.

I hope to transform my 6 y/o nephue into a coaster lover this summer. It would be nice to have a kid to go to parks with me. I have taken him to DelGrosso's a few times, but I am thinking that it's just about time for a bigger park.

I took a 12 y/o family friend to HersheyPark a few years ago (I wrote a TR about it, but tonight I am way to lazy to search for it and link it here). It was his first big theme park; he was intrigued by all of the crazy coasters and water rides. The poor kid had never even seen a log flume before. It was one of the best times I ever had at any park, because of witnessing his excitment. It reminded me of a time when amusement parks were new to me.

These kids who have been to so many parks and rode so many coasters are very privileged. Some kids families can't even afford one park per summer. Some adults can barely afford one park per summer (raises hand).

My cousins have their own page, which is a simpler version of mine. Generated from a database! It seems to be down at the moment but off memory they have about 80 coasters apiece.
-R

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Mamoosh said:
Tina, you wanna field that one?

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You are on your own there Mooshy, I haven't a clue. ;-)

-Tina

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coasterqueenTRN said:
The attack of the Queens! woohoo!

Oh, there's Invy Jim.........:-D

-Tina

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Wow - I go away for the weekend and come back to another outing ;)

Oh, and Moosh - Whatebuh..!:)

-Jim (refraining from mentioning M:TR and downtime in the one sentence...)

*** Edited 4/28/2004 9:44:01 AM UTC by Invy***

Jim, you should be more worried about I:UE and IT'S downtime, especially after it's opening marathon weekend.... ;-)

Welcome back bud! :-D

-Tina

LOL! I tell you - there was no downtime on I:UE! In fact, let's just say it hit capacity for the first time in years :)

It's good to be back mate!

Jim

Is that with our without the trims and extra lubing? ;-)

-Tina

Heh - the trims were off for the first season in years mate ;)

However, I would say that the biggest factor was the new restraints being used!

Jim:)

We stopped trying to take the kids friends too. We had been taking them on the season pass "bring a friend for free days". My kids weren't happy to find out they didn't like the coasters or weren't tall enough. Thats why we went ahead to SFKK for the passes and early rides this year. One thing that is sooooo funny--we live in Illinois, my daughter's best friend's grandmother lives very close to MIA. BUT SHE IS TOO SHORT FOR STEEL! We have worked it out that we take her to MIA, and leave her with grandma for a visit. That way her mom only has to drive 1 time.

I forgot about all the woodies that small kids can ride. I like them, but don't really travel for them--exception--ST at MIA) so it is all making sense now! Tall kids do make a huge difference! My daughter is 5'4" at 12 years old! (OK-OK, that's not realy a big deal--I'm 6' and hubby is 6'1"--again it's in the genetics!) I have family members who were too tall for Deja Vu.. :(