What was your First Launch Coaster?

[RollingCoasting]

What were your first launch coasters? Mine was Vertical Velocity @ SFGAm

Edited January 13, 2015 by larrygator

[DoinItForTheFame]

Mr. Freeze at SFOT.

[VF15]

Steel Venom at Valleyfair.

[rolercstrluvr]

Greezed Lightning at California's Great America.

[firewalk13]

Superman: Ultimate Escape @ Geauga Lake

 

Not so much a fan of the holding brake....

[Woodie Warrior]

Mr. Freeze at SFSTL. One of my favorite coasters of all time.

[boldikus]

Kingda Ka

[DLex]

Batman & Robin: The Chiller (with the old ROCK HARD OTSRs)

[thrillseeker4552]

Montezooma's Revenge. A good one, too.

[mudvayneimn]

FOF at KI; old restraints.

[ian1808]

Steel Venom - Valleyfair

[mike541x]

Rock N' Roller Coaster, 1999, also my first looping coaster.

[cal1br3tto]

California Screamin'. At the time, it was terrifying.

[Ed Farmer]

Viper (formally Tidal Wave) at SFOG. Hulk at IOA came next.

[ZeroGravity55]

Maverick! Not bad for my first launched coaster.

 

Edit: Actually, I just remembered I rode Top Thrill Dragster before Maverick, so that was my first launched coaster.

Edited September 20, 2014 by ZeroGravity55

[gerstlaueringvar]

SkyCar, scared the cr@p out of me!

[mousch]

Thunderlooper at Alton Towers

[MFJorts]

Either Wicked Twister or TTD, not sure which one was first. It's been probably 15 years now, the ol' memory ain't what it used to be.

 

E: These rides weren't open 15 years ago. Now that I'm posting with a clear head, it was more like 10 years ago.

 

I am remembering better that my first was Poltergeist at SFFT, in 2001. I also rode Aerosmith Rock 'n Roller Coaster at Disney before the CP rides, in 2002... Serves me right to post late and drunk

Edited September 21, 2014 by MFJorts

[dannemon]

Incredible Hulk at IoA, also my first looping coaster! Think it was back in 2000.

[rcjp]

^My first launched coaster was also my first looping one: space mountain mission 2 Disneyland Paris.

[jackandylan123]

Rita at Alton Towers, gets a lot of undeserved hate

[tarheel1231]

Verbolten. It's also the only launch I've been on.

[flaffstar99]

Blue fire mega coaster. Good one :3

[Projektion]

Irn Bru Revolution at PBB.

[fraroc]

Possessed at Dorney Park...the year it was called Voodoo. Prior to that, I was so scared of launched coasters, I had no problem with coasters like Steel Force, Hydra, and Talon....But it was something about being launched without warning that got to me. Even to this day, I still get some butterflies in my stomach when I ride coasters like Flight of Fear and Volcano-The Blast Coaster....despite those being some of my favorite rides in KD behind I305.

 

After riding Voodoo/Possessed, I knew that all kinds of coasters were nothing to fear...And when I eventually rode on Storm Runner, that became one of my favorite rides in Hershey...