Who was your hero growing up?

[Louise]

I'm not talking great people who've cured diseases, battled persecution, etc etc, more like rock stars and sports stars who you just desperately wanted to be/be with...

 

Mine was Freddie Mercury. He died when I was five and I sat next to my crying mum and watched Queen videos all day and from that day on was OBSESSED!!

[Erik Johnson]

Conan the Barbarian....well I loved Arnold movies (still do). But Conan was very cool.

[Louise]

I'm really not sure what's worse, Arnie being allowed to "act" or Arnie being allowed to be a governor...

[Erik Johnson]

heh heh heh......Probably both. Ever seen Hercules in New York? Now that's fine acting.

[Louise]

Actually, I really can't criticise you for that cos I kinda have a fondness for Van Damme and he ain't much better! Just love Timecop though!!

[Jose Eber]

I loooooved watching the Superman movies on ABC as a kid.

 

"Kneel before Zod!"

[AllisonY2K]

would I be too goth in saying Morticia Addams?

(from the TV show, not the movies)

[Chrissie]

When I was little it was prob Mickey Mouse or the entire Sesame Street Cast...Lol

 

When I was a little Older it was The Spice Girls - Baby Spice in particular

[CoasterFanatic]

My childhood heros:

 

Hulk Hogan (Say your prayers and eat your vitamins)

Mr. Wizard

Mister Rogers

[FlyingScooter]

My heros:

Chuck Yeager, Alan Sheppard, Craig Breedlove, Evel Kneivel.

 

I guess i had a 'speed' fixation even then.

[Sir Clinksalot]

My childhood heros:

 

Hulk Hogan (Say your prayers and eat your vitamins)

Mr. Wizard

Mister Rogers

 

I knew I liked you Ted. I think I would have to use the same three. Oh, Mario and Luigi too!!!

[Wes]

George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Bret "The Hitman" Hart. me=dumb

[Coaster Palooza]

My heroes growing up were:

 

Jack Lambert

Terry Bradshaw

Doug Harvey (Major League Umpire, not talk show), I did get to meet him, stay at his place, and play golf with him

 

Heroes getting older:

 

Ted Barrett (Major League Umpire)

 

Pat Tillman (I knew him from when he was 10. You couldn't grow up in our Valley and not know each other. He was a great young man and a true hero.)

[viking86]

Ron Toomer. He was the only coasterdesigner I knew about, and Arrow Dynamics were building the biggest and best coasters back then. Things have changed *slightly* now.

 

Yngve "still hasnt ridden an Arrow coaster" Oestbye

[smells_like_team_disney]

Superman, all the way. In fact, I still have my old VHS recorded copy.

[benzo41190]

Alf

 

as a real person goes, i would say the older kid on Barney.

[Gregory DG]

Mine would probably be Admiral/Captain Kirk. I was 10 in 1980, so I grew up watching him in the Star Trek movies. I didn't live with my dad, so Kirk became my role-model. I watched Wrath of Khan all the time.

[Erik Johnson]

KHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sfmmFREAK]

i never had a hero.

[Mind Eraser]

Ron Jeremy

 

 

-kip-

[Stitch]

My hero has always been and always will be Jackie Chan.

[BelizeIt]

Well I grew up in the eighty's in the San Francisco area, so for me my Hero would be Joe Montana.

 

Sure he had a pair of chicken legs and not much upper body development, but man could be play a great game of Football!

 

To me he's the Greatest Quarterback of all time, ( From my perspective anyhow, being born in 1971 and watching football from 1980 on..)

 

He lead on the field and off the field. He's a clean cut dedicated family man, who has done a lot of good. It doesn't get much better!

[Louise]

^^^ Ron Jeremy?! He's your hero for the facial hair right?!?! Ugh.

[FlyingScooter]

^LOL.

 

here's a few more hero's: Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson, Greg Guiffria (sp?), and Punky Meadows.

[moinab]

Jim Henson