Hey KICers, I hope this is the place to post something like this and if not I am sure I will be told about it.... either way I found this video on one of the websites I always visit and it shows a kid on his first coaster. I figured you all would enjoy watching it as we have all been there. The wonderment of the first hill, the fear of the first drop, the excitement of the turns and then when the brakes hit we all want to ride again.

Please watch and enjoy, I am not the owner of the video and again do not know the people in the video but either way its a good memory spark. Enjoy and feel free to share your first roller coaster moments.

That looks like a big ride as your first roller coaster. My first roller coaster The Beastie.

yeah i think mine was The Beastie also......... but it felt great to get to ride the real beast......

Yea thats the same thing I was thinking.

From the looks of it that looks like Mamba at WOF.

I am almost certain that it is....then again I thought Silver Bullet here was Patriot recently or vice versa...so....

It is because Mamba has a louder lift than Steel force at Dorney.

Does Little Bill's count as a first coaster? If not, Backlot Stunt Coaster.

Does Little Bill's count as a first coaster? If not, Backlot Stunt Coaster.

Half of my counts on coasters are Kiddie coasters. Of course.

My first was the Kiddie Coaster at Lesourdesville Lake. Anyone know what this coaster was called?

It's Mamba, I'd recognize that noise anywhere.

Amazingly, for an extended family member of mine, Mamba was also his first coaster! I didn't know that until we got off!

Two thoughts that crossed my mind:

- Poor kid ... he had to wait until he was that old and over 48" to ride a roller coaster!

- Lucky kid ... wouldn't it be kind of cool to be able to say that your first coaster was over 200'

The first coaster that I ever considered a "big" coaster was Gwazi at Busch Gardens: Tampa. But my first roller coaster ever was Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney's Magic Kingdom.

My first coaster was a kiddie coaster similar to Little Bill's Giggle Coaster at a park north of Cincinnati called Pee Wee Valley. (It is now a trailer park. ) My first grown up coaster was Shooting Star at Coney.

Not a specific response to Justin or Markr (its just that your posts made me think about it). I find it interesting and amusing to see what people of different generations define as a big, major, adult coasters versus junior, kiddie, family coasters. There is also a coaster battle that references Flight Deck and Racer as "family thrill coasters".

I guess its the difference between growing up today and growing up when Racer was one of the two major coasters at KI and when big new coasters like King Cobra and Top Gun were introduced. More data to prove I'm old.

Not a specific response to Justin or Markr (its just that your posts made me think about it). I find it interesting and amusing to see what people of different generations define as a big, major, adult coasters versus junior, kiddie, family coasters. There is also a coaster battle that references Flight Deck and Racer as "family thrill coasters".

I guess its the difference between growing up today and growing up when Racer was one of the two major coasters at KI and when big new coasters like King Cobra and Top Gun were introduced. More data to prove I'm old.

You make an interesting point.

I have always been an outspoken critic against forcing kids on rides before they are ready for them. Part of the problem with the supercoasters is that it seems kids are pushed onto them before they try some of the smaller, tamer coasters. In the video I see that the kid's first coaster is Mamba, a 200 ft hypercoaster similar to Magnum. I think you should start kids out with the more moderately sized grown-up coasters like Racer and Blue Streak ( Yes, call me old-fashioned but I still consider them grown-up coasters as opposed to kiddie rides. ) and move up in the totem pole.

Racer and Blue Streak are most definitely grown up rides that are also very family friendly. I adore wood coasters anyway, but those two are nice hidden gems.

My first coaster was also the kiddie coaster at Lesourdesville Lake (then Americana). I also rode Big Thunder Mountain Railroad around the same age, but I think it was after the one at Americana. Strangely, my then 5-year-old brain didn't calculate that either of those were coasters. Beastie terrified me until I was 10 years old and finally got peer pressured into riding it, and I suddenly realized that I loved coasters. Haven't looked back since! Went on to forwards Racer later that year, and my first 'big' ride was Flight of Fear in it's opening year!