Your First B&M Coaster?

[Uriel Galindo]

Mine was le Vampire at La Ronde. I was terrified looking at the drop and the loop at my left.

[Jerry Fleming]

My first B&M is THE first B&M: Iron Wolf. My brother and I were there when it opened. Awesome ride then! Did not age well.

[IrishCasual]

X-Flight at Great America last summer.

[DrachenfireOP]

BTR at six flags great adventure!

[LeoBruz199]

Raptor at Gardaland!

[Duff]

Raptor, in 1996. Back then, I had no expectations of what a "B&M coaster" should be. There was no precedent. All I knew was it was a gigantic, futuristic-looking coaster and it was wildly popular with super long lines. I don't think I even knew who designed it.

[kickflipbacktail]

Talon at Dorney Park in PA.

This was also the first full size roller coaster I had ever ridden in my life.

Love at first flight haha.

 

[thrillseeker4552]

I created a thread exactly like this a long time ago... not sure where it is buried now. It was probably merged.

 

To answer the question, my first was Silver Bullet at Knott's.

[coasterbill]

Great Bear in 1999

[TheCoasterKid211]

I created a thread exactly like this a long time ago... not sure where it is buried now. It was probably merged.

Sorry about that! Didn't want to copy anyone...

[snapfordakids]

BTR at SFOT in 99

[BintamiM]

Montu... and it was my first big coaster. I loved it and started my fascination over coasters. I was 9 or 10 when I rode it.

[coastered]

My very first B&M rollercoaster ever, was Vortex at Paramount's Great America back in 2002

[B&MBoy1982]

Talon at Dorney Park in PA.

This was also the first full size roller coaster I had ever ridden in my life.

Love at first flight haha.

 

 

 

This is one of my favorite B&M's. Such a great ride.

[Condor]

SFMM's Batman: The Ride in 1997. But it was my rides on Riddler's Revenge when it opened the following year that started my sick, twisted mutation into a coaster enthusiast.

[theredskull84]

Iron Wolf at SFGAm. It was fun in its early years, but turned into an ear-attacking death machine towards the end. However, you can't help but marvel at what B&M was able to come up with as newcomers to the scene. Two years later they built Batman at SFGAm, and that is still one of the most intense rides I've ever been on.

[DorneyKid14]

Talon has one of the best layouts, imo. All the elements just flow into each other perfectly.

 

Let me get back when I figure out my first b&m.

[mudvayneimn]

Batman the Ride at Six Flags St Louis.....so intense, I wanted to poop my pants as I boarded the train. Pretty sure I was somewhere between 7-9 at the time, it was the first roller coaster I ever rode.

[KnightBag95]

First B&M was the summer of 2006 on a family trip to BGW. Alpengeist was the first for me and actually my third coaster ever. I was terrified and excited going up the lift haha.

[Schrecken]

My first was Alpengeist, as that was really the only B&M in the Baltimore/DC/VA area at the time. As for my second, I want to say it was Great Bear (which opened about a year later), but being that it opened only a month before I moved to California, I rather doubt I had time to go and ride it as I was busy with moving preparations. So, that would make my second B&M Batman TR at SFMM, and then probably Riddler's Revenge after that. Then I moved onto Northern CA where I rode Vortex at CGA (which I found surprisingly head-bang-y, especially since I had heard of how super-smooth B&Ms usually are).

 

Funny thing is it took me a real long time to ever get to ride a plain old sit-down B&M, having had two stand-ups and two suspended B&Ms under my belt. I didn't accomplish that until I moved back east and rode Apollo's Chariot in 02' or 03'.

[Sensesfailed]

Batman: The Ride at Great Adventure. Actually, this was also my first ever coaster with inversions that I ever went on as well.

[Rill'o'beily]

Nemesis Inferno at thorpe park

[Generational]

Batman: The Dark Knight at SFNE in 2003 or 2004

 

This ride and S:RoS instilled my love for coasters at a young age.

[MrSum1_55]

Silver Bullet, in '06 or '07. By now, I have ridden most of the inverts in the US, so Bullet feels weak by comparison today. However, at the time of my first ride, the largest coaster I had ever ridden was California Screamin. So, my first ride on a B&M was pretty much the greatest experience of my life. This was the coaster that converted me to being a young enthusiast. I would honestly rather relive that moment than my first ride on El Toro.

[esuvnyx]

Top Gun. The helix over the water as the finale is still one of the most intense coaster endings. It felt like it was pulling my face off.