Fearbreaking Rollercoaster

My first coaster was Galaxi at Indiana Beach and I hated it lol. I think I was around 4-5 years old at the time(unsure exactly). After that it took me a few years to get on a coaster again, since I hated it.

Around the age of 7 or 8 my cousin got me on the Demon at SFGAm. I went to chicken out, but he pulled the lapbar down on me and off I went. I've loved going to amusement parks ever since :).

------------------
Good day....I said Good day!
Dave
http://www.SFGAmWorld.com

Windjammer Surf Racers @ Knott's.

My parents started me on coasters as soon as I was old and/or tall enough to ride. My first two where when I was three years old: a kiddie coaster at the defunct Wagon Wheel Park in Oxnard, Ca, and Matterhorn at Disneyland. I've been hooked ever since.

Love of coasters must run in my family's blood...everyone still rides, even my 66 yr old Dad!

mOOSH

------------------
2004 Wood Coaster Calendar now available. Order before Oct 5th and save. See S&D Greetings for details.

Well, my first coaster was Steamin Demon @ the Great Escape, but I wasn't really scared for that. My second was Wildcat at Lake Compounce and then Thunderbolt at SFNE.

Then there's a big gap. Going from about 75 feet as my tallest coaster to Superman: Ride of Steel. I waited like 2 and a half hours for my first ride. My friend had to go to the bathroom 10 minutes into the line, but I told him if we left we wouldn't want to go back on. We waited that whole time, rode it, and it instantly became a favorite. I was really scared to go on it. But now I'm rarely scared whether it's something new or SROS all over again. It was definitely a fearbreaker.

------------------
Superman: Ride of Steel at Six Flags New England- The #1 Coaster on the Planet for Years in a Row!!!

Magnum XL-200, though I will admit sitting in MF's seat for the first time involved a little bit of fear.

------------------
CP 2K3: 19
"What are you, a dentist? Or a hippie? Or some kind of hippie dentist?" -strong bad

Vortex at PCW... I cried and screamed the whole way up the lift hill, but after the first drop I was laughing with joy. That was the coaster that got me hooked.

Def. SROS at DL.

------------------
http://coasterplace.web1000.com

Well my first "big" coaster was Vortex at PCW also, my first ride on it I was about ready to hop right off the train because I couldn't close the restraint and the ride-op was joking around saying that my aunt should just put her arm across me and it would hold me in, I was so scared.

My first looping coaster was Sky Rider at PCW (Togo stand-up), I was petrified to go on anything upside down but my g/f at the time wanted to go on it and of course I couldn't look like a wimp so I went on it with her. Loved it so much I went right back on, then I got a headache from all the headbanging and I was pretty much out of commision for the rest of the day.

Until this summer all I've had for a coaster fix were the rides at PCW, but then my dreams came true and I got to go to Cedar Point. I had so many firsts those 2 days, but none of the rides really scared me, I was just so excited about getting to ride them all.

5 years ago I didn't really like coasters at all, and up until 3 years ago I wouldn't ride anything that went upside down. Now I'm obsessed with coasters, and anything that today's parks can throw at me I am more than ready and willing to ride. Yes, even Mean Streak. ;)

------------------
The Coaster Kid

Roller coasters are more than just rides, they're a reason for living

Even though my parents both rode roller coasters, I was scared to death them, no thanks, I'm sure, to the fact that they took me on the Blue Streak at Conneaut at the age of 3. I screamed and cried the entire ride. It wasn't until I was 10 when we took a trip out to CA to visit family and my cousin got me on Corkscrew at KBF. Ever since then, I've been ridin' to my hearts content.

The Amercian Eagle, front seat, eight years old, before the trims were anything to talk about. That was when I knew I had to ride every coaster I could. I was still scared, though, the first time on my next few coasters. But iding those same coasters year after year seemed to dull my fear, so that by the time I rode Mean Streak, I felt no fear at all on my first ride.

I still got a twinge of fear on some rides, though. I'd like to see someone not be nervous their first time on TTD!

------------------
I hear America screaming...

I wont be scared........

My Fearbreaking coaster and the first one on my count was the Mindbender at SFoG. The first time I tried to ride Millennium Force it scared me so bad I couldn't ride. 3 years after that "un-pleasantness" on Millennium Force I had another chance to break my fear of the force and did I ever.

Shortly after my first ride on Millennium Force I rode TTD and I know I was on a good coaster high, cause I wasn't nervous at all.

------------------
Coaster Count: 110

Mine would have to be Raging Bull at SFGAm. I used to be really scared of any coaster but just this past year after almost 4 years my cousins forced me on it. Needless to say I now love coasters.

Magnum XL-200, i was 7 years old, scared to death of it, my dad forced me on it. I've been obsessed with coasters since. :)

------------------
"Let's ride!" ~ Nicholas Cage from Gone in 60 Seconds

MF. I remember literaly losing my breath on the first hill. Plus It was the only ride I hesitated to raise my hands on during my CP trip. Course, I'd say TTD, but it was closed when I went...

Whoops. I thought this was the scariest rides topic. It must have switched me when I logged in...

------------------
There needs to be a better word for weird...http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail54.html
*** This post was edited by Reon 9/21/2003 10:23:07 PM ***

Steel Phantom, without a doubt. Nothing bothered me after that...maybe MF a LITTLE...but not much...

------------------
The Millenium Force ride Ops: Squishing you where it counts since 2000.
Track Record: 62 coasters at 17 parks.

Mine was Big Dipper at Geauga Lake, now Six Flags: Worlds of Adventure. I was deathly afraid of that ride then I rode it and had fun and that is how my love of rollercoasters began.

------------------
Race for the Sky
Top Thrill Dragster
Cedar Point 2003

two part answer. first was goliath because that was my first coaster. 2nd X because it is the only roller coaster that spins. once you go on X everything else feels like a kiddy ride.

------------------
X- the coaster designed to break all the rules

hey matt scott!!!!are you talking about the one at six flags magic mountain. because that's a tram and now you have confused me.

------------------
X- the coaster designed to break all the rules

Ready for a novel?

My very first trip to Kings Dominion, my homepark, was in 1978. I was 5. My parents, thinking it was too scary for me, wouldn't let me ride the log flume. After much begging, they let me ride, and my mom and I got in line while my dad watched my two older brothers. I was scared, in fact, and I covered my eyes the entire decent down both drops. I still loved it, and rode it several times in a row, covering my eyes each time.

Then came the Scooby-Doo. My oldest brother rode it first with my dad, and I wanted to ride it, too. We took several consecutive laps, and I would've ridden it 100 more times if my parents could take it. It wasn't until the following year that I'd get up the nerve to ride a larger coaster--the Rebel Yell.

After many laps on RY in '79, I still had another fear to conquer--going upside down. Later that same year, we visited Hersheypark, and I took my first ride on Sooperdooperlooper. This took a temendous amount of nerve, for some reason. The thought of going upside down absolutely terrified me, but after my first ride it was my favorite coaster, and remained so for several years afterward.

Still, I had another fear to overcome. The next year, during our now annual visit to Kings Dominion, I took the better part of the day to work up the nerve to ride King Kobra (the first Schwarzkopf shuttle loop). At age 7, I still couldn't grasp the concept that fear is all in the mind. I knew that these rides wouldn't kill me, but for some reason I was still afraid of new experiences on coasters. I was fine with going upside-down now, but this time I was apprehensive about traveling backwards. My dad and I finally took a ride on the Kobra in the afternoon, and afterwards I wondered to myself what I had been so afraid of. I think that was a defining moment in my life--I had pretty much made up in my mind then and there that I could now ride anything. However, I got sick shortly after that first ride, but not because of the ride itself. I think it was because my stomach had been tied in knots all morning from the anticipation.

I've still been nervous before my first rides on certain coasters--like Flight of Fear (my first LIM launch), Magnum (first 200-footer), and Millennium Force (first 300-footer)--but never afraid to ride as I was during my first three years of coaster-riding.

------------------
-Mike Buscema

'No matter how skilled the designer is, every time we push the envelope we learn new things about coaster design.' --Dana Morgan
------------------