How to get nervous person onto a coaster?

You know who could get ANYONE on any ride? It's Rideman, he could give someone a brief description of the ride and explain excatly what's going on... Heck who do you think got that claustrophobic guy into the small cube on those Nintendo Cube commercials?? :)
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It's conflict that shows who a person really is!

*** This post was edited by The "outsider" on 2/3/2002. ***

I find that if I talk about coasters long enough, nervous riders tend to fall asleep. At that point I pick them up, carry them through the line, and strap them in. Somewhere in the middle of the lift-hill, I try to wake them up. If they do sleep through the whole ride (only happens on Boomerangs), then I rinse and repeat.

*** This post was edited by Carsten on 2/4/2002. ***

You guys are going to shoot me for this one, literally.

     So, I was with my 8 year old 45" tall sister, at SFWoA, My Brother went over to the waterpark with his friend that he had brought along, and that left my sister and I. She *loved* the CP&LE Rail Road at CP, and that day, the lines were nothing for anything, everyone was a walk on, including X-Flight. So, I told my sister I wanted to go on The Villain, and when I asked her if she would like to, she said no. I then said alright, well to get there we need to take the train over to the coaster and she could wait by the exit ramp. Well, That "train ride" turned out to be a year 2000 red and black Gerstlauer Train, and she fell for it until we started the Climb, in which she IMMEDIATELY Started Screaming... I thought this was the funniest sh*t in the world. In the meantime we were ascending the 120 ft lift hill, and when we were at the top (front row of course) she started crying. At the top of the first turn around, the tears had turned into Laughter, and she loved it, hopefully next year she will be 54" and can ride all the big people rides =o) So, when you want to get your parents on the big guys, take them on a train ride! =o) ::wink::

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rcthemepark36 said:
Yeah, my dad always complains that the coasters will "beat him up." He always complains the day after we go to Worlds of Fun, that his back hurts from riding Timberwolf.

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When will CF get the clue that the seat backs on the Timber Wolf are a bad thing. Those things are has hard as rocks.

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That's not roughness that intensity

Has any scared person EVER ridden a coaster and not loved it?  Even the people I have convince to ride who have gotten sick STILL admitted that it was great fun. 

Anyway, my personal best is that I convinced my scared friend onto the front row of Raptor when he had never ridden even a steel coaster, let alone a looping one.  The train pulled into the station and I thought he was going to barf on me or punch me, but he just looked at me and said, "KICK ASS!"  I'm not even sure what that meant, but oh well, he liked it. :)

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You can't spell "dishonorable" without "honorable."

   Yeah I've convinced several scared guests to ride Raging Bull, and they've come back in worse shape than when they left. I felt kinda bad for convincing them to ride, but at least they know for sure now.......I've also had to lie to parents and tell them their kid was too short, because they were deathly afraid. I'd NEVER convince a child to ride if they didn't want to, they have plenty of time to ride later in life, and that would be quite a mental scar if they really didn't like it

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My theory worked on my sister. Imagine Deja Vu being your first coaster. My sister can now call it her first. For reasons I completely understand, this ride scared the crap out of her and I tried and tried to convice her. Finally I decided to drop it, but I gave her a suggestion. I told her to just sit and watch the ride cycle, over and over. And watch the reactions of people exiting the ride. When she figured out exactly what the ride did and watched young kids giving each other the high five, her fear somehow became a challenge to the point where she couldn't leave the park without *enduring* this ride. She rode it, it terrified her, she kicked my butt, it's her favorite ride. ;)
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Have you ever considered that maybe it's not the park that's the problem, but YOU?

That's a great idea DWeaver! When a person sees for themselved that people come off the ride hootin' and hollerin' ad screaming for joy, it gives them a sense of security that it will be safe and FUN! I remember when I rode my first looping coaster in 1997, Mind Eraser at SFNE, I was freaking out in line, so my friend let me sip a iced lemonade and watch it cycle 5 or 6 times. After seeing people come off saying how cool it was, I was convinced I had to try it.

most people will go on the coaster with you because you are an enthusiast. they feel comfortable because they think you know what your talking about. believe me i've gotten many people on by getting them to trust you. i would not ever force a person on as i have in the past and that was their first and only coaster ride. that was 30 years ago.

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virginiareelfan, you are right. My co-worker (who sits across from me and has to look at coaster posters all day), went to KW this summer.  She said she wasn't going to ride PR, but she thought, "Dennis rides these all the time," and so she did it. 
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You can't spell "dishonorable" without "honorable."

Trick them just like what was mentioned in a lot of previous posts. Once they get halfway through the quene chances are they won't turn back. ;)