How Old Are You & What Was Your 1st Coaster?

[BarryH]

I think I was 14 or 15 and I rode the Scorpion. When I was in high school, I was in the Latin Club. Every year on our way to an annual competition, we'd stop by Busch Gardens before arriving at the school sponsoring the competition. I remember BG had 2 roller coasters then -- the Python and the Scorpion. The Sandstorm and the Phoenix was there too. Boy have times changed!

[BuschSchoe]

I was about 7 years old when I rode my first coaster, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at the Magic Kingdom.

[HowieP]

I was 9 and my first coaster was Jr. Gemini at Cedar Point. The very next year I rode my first looping coaster, which was Corkscrew at Deer Park Funland, which is known today as Michigan's Adventure.

[revilolee]

My first coaster was Taxi Jam (aka Hey Arnold's) at Carowinds. I think I was around 8 years old...memories .

[rollin_n_coastin]

Ghostercoaster at Canada's Wonderland for me. My dad forced me on that one.

[HEADCHEEZ]

Dragon Wagon at Blackbeards Cave. On 8/16/1998, My 4th Birthday. YAY!

OMG! Just as I was typing this, I had a flashback to the day I rode it! The ride went around 2 out of 3 times before the Ride Op stopped the ride due to 2 teenagers in the front hitting the tree in the helix. They then got ejected from the park. It was fun to watch.

[TheCoasterCritic]

I'm 29 and my first coaster is a bit of a mystery. It was either Toboggan (with its ahead of its time vertical lift!) at Trimper's at Ocean City, MD or Scooby Doo Coaster at Kings Dominion. And I do know that I was 8 when I rode Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World but I have no clue which of these rides came first.

 

I'll go with Toboggan b/c it's the coolest of the three:

[Anfronee]

I am almost 100% possitive it was when i was 8 on the Ladybug at Citypark(wonderland park?) in New Orleans. I think i rode that thing 20 times that day.

[Mattcontrol3]

my first coaster was the vampire ride at chessington world of adventures when i was 7-8

[SFjunkie2010]

I believe that my first coaster was when I was eight. It was Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at the Magic Kingdom. I still remember the noise that first lift makes to this day!

[TheHulk]

My first coaster was space mountain in orlando when I was about 7 or 8.

[Xizor_Racer]

I was 10 or 11 and it was the Racer at KI!! Rode it like seven times in a row....hooked ever since.

[mwm1444]

I'm 17 - I reckon my first coaster was The Dragon, at Legoland Windsor. My first liftchain coaster was probably Air, at Alton Towers.

[Skittlebrau]

My first coaster was Shooting Star (John Allen out-and-back) at the now-closed Lakeside Park in Salem, VA. I was about 6, and was slightly below the height limit, but I put up such a fuss that the ride op let me ride, as long as my mom went with me. Big mistake.

 

The car only had a buzz-bar (I don't remember if it even had a seat belt), and my mom kept her hand on my shoulders because I kept coming so far off the seat on the drops. I was terrified and had nightmares for years where I flew out of the car, landed on the track with the train barreling down on me, and always woke up just before impact.

 

It was another 6 years before I'd have the courage to go on my next coaster (Whizzer at Marriot's Great America in Gurnee).

[Rousfv]

Im 16 years, and my first coaster was The Dog Fart Coaster @ Bon Bon Land, 12 years ago. It also was my sekund, third, fourth...30th

[Shaun]

I am 26, and my first coaster was Space Mountain at DL.

[Kevin Long]

My first coaster, although some or most of you will deny it is a true coaster, was - Fire in the Hole @SDC - to an 7 year old it is a coaster.

 

If you want a real coaster mine was The Screaming Eagle SFMM.

 

I am old

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[monsterfan99]

My first coaster was The Python at Busch Gardens Tampa/Africa. I was 6 years old and remember the Waffle Cone ice cream stand by the ride was amazing. Went there every time we hit Busch Gardens after that until it was torn down.

[the ghost]

I'm almost 7 months old, my first coaster was a few weeks ago in Japan!

 

Probably the only member under 13 who actually has parental consent to be here. BTW I did not know she had a profile.

 

The I'm almost tied in credits with someone who cant read(but apparently can type) Ghost

[Thelegendarymatthew]

1st coaster - Taxi Jam, 1997

1st big coaster - Volcano:TBC, 2000

[the ghost]

^

OMG U went on Volcano when you were 5 . I went to SFMM when I was six and went on every other coaster I was tall enough for besides superman. And Volcanoes more intense than superman, all superman has is speed.

 

I'm impressed as that is an epic first big coaster, and Im guessing the only reason you waited is you were not tall enough.

[Thelegendarymatthew]

^Sorry meant to put 2001. I was 6 at the time, and it was my birthday. (I love the date of my B-Day)

[the ghost]

^

Still pretty crazy

[mertz19]

I'm 14 And my first coaster was Journey To Atlantis at Sea World orlando (I dont know if that counts but I think it does) Back when I was 7.

[krosscoasters]

I'm 13, and I think my first coaster was High Speed Thrill Coaster at Knoebels.