How did you become an enthusiest

3 Easy steps at age 11:

1.) Got dragged on Beast on final opearting day '92, liked it

2.) Read several coaster books over the winter, loved em.

3.) Rode Magnum summer '93, became obsessed.

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Holiday World, it's impossible not to have a good time

My story starts in 1999,

I had rode coasters(little ones) and loved studying them.

For along time i was afraid of coasters until,

I rode Thunder Express(Big Bad John)at Dollywood,then i rode Blazing Fury(DW),then the big one came in 1999 when Dollywood built the Tennessee Tornado(The best looper ive been on)-I was hooked-from that point it was RCT,books,shows,and thinking about joining ACE.My only stand up coaster is Chang(SFKK)my only inverted coaster is T2(SFKK),that's my story,Anyway:

Does anyone know of any other great coaster sites(other than CBuzz and ThemeParkInsider.)?

Thanks for any help

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For another great site you should check out the Roller Coaster Database.....www.rcdb.com

For me it was pretty simple. I've always been a speed freak and an adrenaline junky, then when I was nine my dad took me on the Magnum (I was a short kid) for my first big coaster and I've been hooked ever since.

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AkA somewhatchewy
-Who loves Indiana Beach because people there think 15 minutes is a long line...LoL

After riding the anaconda at PKD i became hooked. The day after i rode it i went straight to the library to read books about coasters.

The Way I started as a coaster Enthusiast was when i traveled thru the Birth Canal and saw a bright light and Screemed, Weeeee! Ok thats one thought but i think it was when I was really little and i rode Roaring or Rolling thunder at SFGAm. I was hooked and I was only 2 or 3

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Hmm, 2003 at SFGAm look it's a Bird It's A plane It's S**** M**

I hated coasters till I was 12. Went on the California Aventure screamin one. Then I went on every ride at PGA. Now i go on every coaster i cant get. Also, what is B&M?

I got hooked when I rode Raptor in 94

B&M is a coaster compay. They make a lot of the steel coasters that are in parks today. ie. Hulk, Medusa, Alpengeist..so on.

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Does this thing go faaaaaast!

since the age of seven I've had this fascination with roller coasters. My first coaster ride was at the former Fantasy Farm Amusement Park. But after challenging the Screechin Eagle at Americana. My first trip to KI twenty years ago sealed my love and was terrifying all at the same time. I remember climbing all those stairs to be hurled off a platform on what is now the defunct "Screamin" Demon and flipping head over heels across the lake and then backwards I nearly pissed in my pants. To this day I couldn't understand why Amazon Falls couldn't have fit over into Rivertown somewhere. But oh well! Back then there wasn't much to KI as far as the rides the park has now, heck the racer actually raced and there was no backwards train. But my final ride of the day is what hooked me. The Beast (R). I thought my head was going to be chopped off when I went down into that first tunnel. Growing up in Cincinnati, I ate, slept, dreamed and drew out KI so many times in my mind it was unbelieveable. My classmates hated me in art class. Every year I would have park maps mailed to me and specs on the latest rides for the upcoming season. Later in life came CP, SFWOA (formerly GL), SFOG, SFMM, KBF and so on. I remember studying Rand McNally road maps pin pointing every amusement park in the country. One of these summers I'm going to take my cross country world tour. I even attempted architectorture as a college major for the sole purpose of building roller coasters, but that major did last long. I spent countless hours at the library and remember first reading about ACE in a newspaper article and writing them a letter seeking membership. My mom never gave me the money to do it. That was then! Coasting is my life. Been hooked ever since...