KI-ORIG-EMP Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 My first roller coaster was the Shooting Star at Coney Island! I rode it on the very last weekend at Coney Island in 1971 before they opened Kings Island. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomTheater Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Double Loop at Geauga Lake. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammbone Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 My first was Montagness Russes at Old Indiana. The first major coaster for me was Shockwave, SFGAm. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieseltech20 Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Wabash Cannonball at Opryland was my first. 1986 was the year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammbone Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Wabash Cannonball was actually stored at Old Indiana for a while. Six Flags owned it and had planned on reopening the park from what I heard. I heard they sold the land for a nature preserve. Not sure where the coasters went, I believe they had 5 or 6 stored there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ki lover Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 The Raven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieseltech20 Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Wabash Cannonball was actually stored at Old Indiana for a while. Six Flags owned it and had planned on reopening the park from what I heard. I heard they sold the land for a nature preserve. Not sure where the coasters went, I believe they had 5 or 6 stored there. Sadly, most of the coasters stored there were scrapped. I read somewhere that a car from Wabash Cannonball was seen in a park in Europe. I was devastated to find out Opryland had been closed....to build a mall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdawg1998 Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Actually, now that I go back to it, my first coaster may have actually been The Barnstormer at Magic Kingdom (I used to have annual passes to Florida...when I was like 4). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamondbill Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 My first roller coaster was the Shooting Star at Coney Island! I rode it on the very last weekend at Coney Island in 1971 before they opened Kings Island. I'm glad to see someone around my age on here. my first was the Teddy Bear at Coney Island. My family lived in Louisville at the time and we didn't make it there in '70 or '71 so I never got to ride the Shooting Star. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterfanatic83 Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Mine was Adventure Express 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spitfire Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Mine was technically the Great Pumpkin coaster (I think it was the Scooby Zoom back then?) and my first non-kiddie coaster was Adventure Express. But I always count my first "big" coaster as the King Cobra, because that's when I started to really get over my fear of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIfan1980 Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 I beleive that mine was Space Mountain at Disney World. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick00 Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 I think mine was Iron Dragon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongliveKingsCobra Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Although adult roller coaster it'd be The Beast! First train of Fathers Day that's when I fell in love with her (or is it him?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIBOB Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Taxi Jam (was that what it was called?) It was my first ride. It still looks like a fun little ride! ...don't judge. Edit: Or was it Les Taxis? Both names pop out in my mind for some reason... As Goodyellowkorn pointed out, the ride started off as Scooby Zoom, before being renamed Top Cat's Taxi Jam, then Fairly Odd Coaster, and now the Great Pumpkin Coaster. I'm not %100 sure, but I think that Les Taxis may have been the Rivertown side of the 'tiques. *Sometimes it does look like a fun little ride; the only coaster that could easily fit in my backyard! I believe that it was never the Fairly Odd Coaster, that was the name for the original Scooby Doo coaster, aka The Beastie. Wasn't it Little Bill's Giggle Coaster? yes Well, this is embarrassing.... It's like my family, I've got so many siblings that we are often mixed up with each other in names. How could I not forget those faces on the front of the former Beastie's trains? Yea....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSalsa Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Hoosier Hurricane, Indiana Beach, Summer 1999. Rode it 3 times with my father. Loved it. I had probably been on small roller coasters at carnivals and such prior to that, but Hoosier Hurricane was my first full-scale coaster at a "decent" sized amusement park. Then, 1 year later (August 2000), we went to Kings Island, and I was scared to death at just at the mere sight of gigantic rides such as Drop Tower and Son of Beast. Then, not knowing what airtime was, I was scared a bit by The Beastie, and then Blue Racer scared the daylights out of me. I guess my ride on Hooiser Hurricane must not have had airtime...it would be 9 more years before I returned to Kings Island, rode Beast...and became a coaster nut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinserman11 Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Beastie was my first coaster when I was 3 or 4 probably around 1985 or 1986, Racer was my first adult coaster in 1988! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiamondBuckeye Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 My first coaster was the Screechin' Eagle at Americana.I rode it the first year that I was tall enough to get on and I can remember being so scared that I was trembling! I've been hooked ever since. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda134 Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 My first was Flying Ace, then my friend convinced me that Flight Deck was "Just a tiny bit bigger." rode it and I've been hooked ever since. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
16gwoods Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Flight deck.My mom made me get on and i hated it. But something must be wrong with me because then i got right on The Beast ten minutes later. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepsi Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 My dad took me on The Beastie when I was around 5 or 6 and my mom was furious about it! She yelled at him about it because she thought it was "too scary" for a little girl, but I loved it! And I still love coasters to this day. I'm glad my dad didn't give up and kept taking me on coasters throughout the years. (My mom and my older brother unfortunately hated roller coasters.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuxedoman52 Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 The Racer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamondbill Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 My first coaster was the Screechin' Eagle at Americana.I rode it the first year that I was tall enough to get on and I can remember being so scared that I was trembling! I've been hooked ever since. This was my first adult coaster, it was called the Space Rocket or something similar to that. It had the old buzz bars that actually weren't locked in the station they were locked by an arm on the back of each car that got flipped by a worn out piece of plywood as it rolled out. Needless to say they didn't always lock and the one in my car didn't, and my buddy was quick to show me that the bar wasn't locked. I was scared to death but he was loud enough about it that the OP stopped the lift and came up and locked it. Those were the days like Jeff Foxworthy says "when the kids weren't too good to fly out the windshield with rest of the family". 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rc1111 Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Phantom's Revenge at Kennywood when I was 7. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rc1111 Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Double Loop at Geauga Lake. That was my first upside down coaster (sorry for double posting) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCrypt Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Little Bill's Giggle Coaster! By the way, it had several names. It opened as Scooby Zoom, then was changed to Top Cat's Taxi Jam, then chang'd again for Nickelodeon as Little Bill's Giggle Coaster, and it is now currenty The Great Pumpkin Coaster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudecoasterman Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Mindbender at SFOG was my first, but the roller coaster that I credit for getting me to the point that I thought I could do anything was Son of Beast. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterRoller Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 My first roller coaster was the little purple coaster in kiddie land. The day I got to 48 inches I rode Vortex and have loved roller coasters ever since!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Phantom's Revenge at Kennywood when I was 7. I suddenly feel very ancient. Terp, who rode Steel Phantom on its opening day, and was middle aged even then.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Gold Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 my first coaster was the Teddy Bear at Coney followed by the Shooting Star at Lunken Airport Playland and the Shooting Star at Coney Island Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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