Originally Posted By gaston lives I was just thinking about this, and thought I'd share it. I remember the first time I rode Tower of Terror, and when we went into teh library adn watched the pre-show. I watched it, and at the end, when the lights went off, I was ready for the drop! I had seen the advertisements showing people standing up while they were dropping, and I thought that the floor would just go right hten and there! When the door opened up, it took a minute for my heart to get back where it should be, and I walked through the line to the service elevators. Man, that queue is spooky! Still one of teh most authentic looking queues around! Any good stories out there?
Originally Posted By MrToadWildRider I had the same experience as you with the whole misleading advertisement. I have to admit I passed this ride up the first year it was open because I thought it was like that and I was like "How is that safe? Do you just hold on??" and when I did go on I was trying to grab onto the furniture in the library. I also remember being very nervous getting onto Mission:Space. There were people having hard times coming out of the ride and like sitting/laying down on the benches ready to pass out and then I saw the barf bags IN the ride and I was like "What the Heck did I get myself into" - but then after the take off sequence I was disappointed by the ride :-\
Originally Posted By Fe Maiden Around 1980-81 we went down with neighbors of ours and their son. We were 8 or 9 at the time and our parents wanted to go see the Country Bears and my friend and I had no interest in wasting time in that show. We probably thought we were too cool. But they made us go anyway, I can remember both of us sulking in the lobby. In fact we didn't even sit with our parents during the show. As it turns out we loved the show, but not wanting our parents to see that we were having fun we really tried holding in the laughter. I can remember wiping the tears from my eyes. As we walked out my dad came up to us and said he wasn't sure which was funnier the Country Bears or watching us trying not laugh.
Originally Posted By gaston lives Too cool to show your parents they were right? Oh boy, have I been there, too!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Too cool to show your parents they were right? Oh boy, have I been there, too!< Part of the teenagers code if I remember right
Originally Posted By trailsend I went through a period of time where I wasn't getting on anything with my family and one day I thought, this has got to stop. I don't care how afraid I am, I am going to ride these rides. So, I'll always remember my first time on Splash Mountain. I was a complete nervous wreck. I barely opened my eyes and every single turn I tearfully asked my son, "Is this it???" And all those little slides, I knew each time this was it and I was doomed. When you finally reach that place and all the characters are yelling "Don't go there!" then up that long, long, long mountain you go ~ well I almost lost it. Then you stop briefly right before you go down, down, down, down, down ~ my stomach thought we were never going to land! So I set out from then on, my goal would be to try to get a picture coming down with my eyes open. It took a few years, but I finally arrived. Now, I ride everything!!!
Originally Posted By basas Exact same thing with the ToT...thought any second that window would open and the library would drop.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn I remember the first time I rode Pirates of the Caribbean. I was between two and three. I clearly remember being: Outside At night In the water There were pirates It was warm. Very surreal
Originally Posted By beamerdog I was in the first car in the front seat strapped into my sister-in-law's lap (when they still did that) on Space Mountain. Neither one of us are big on thrill rides. As we went up the first incline and she asked if we were launched yet. Then the ride started and I was so scared that I couldn't even scream. She thought that I had passed out and had a death grip on my sides. Later that night I noticed that I had black and blue finger prints on my waist. I liked the ride but not enough to go on it again. They made me stow my glasses in my purse under my seat, so all I remember is that it was really dark and I couldn't see a thing.
Originally Posted By mickey_ring I went on Space Mountain for the first time ever in 1991 or 1992. I was 10 in Feb. 1976 when I saw it and thought no way! Didn't get back to WDW until '84. Epcot was a bigger interest to me for the next few years until I went with my bride-to-be.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN No ride on WDW will ever duplicate the feeling that went thru my head in June 1972 when I spotted Cinderella Castle from the Monorails as we departed the TTC on my first visit ever to the MK. It damaged my mind so badly that I was never the same person again. Years of therapy and electroshock didn't help. So here I am... all of the time.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom <<when I spotted Cinderella Castle>> Its not Cinderella's Castle. Its Prince Charming's Castle.
Originally Posted By MinnieSummer Oh yeah. Seeing the castle for the first time in '72 definitely gave me chills. Actually I felt the same way the first time I saw it trimmed i gold. As for ToT -- my daughter loves the ride, hates the pre-show. I have to keep my hands over her eyes and she sings to herself so she can't hear anything but once we're let out of that room she's good to go.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>Its not Cinderella's Castle. Its Prince Charming's Castle.<< It is Cinderella's now since the canniving witch married him during "Cinderellabrassive".
Originally Posted By Jim_n_Ruth It damaged my mind so badly that I was never the same person again. Years of therapy and electroshock didn't help. So here I am... all of the time. Can you send me the address and phone number?
Originally Posted By TDLFAN You don't want them, really. Electroshock treatment will make you be very condecending and rude towards others.
Originally Posted By danyoung My first trip on DL's Haunted Mansion back in '69 was pretty spooky. There were rumors floating around that Disney had to change the speed of the drop in the stretching room. Supposedly it used to drop down really quickly, and some lady died of a heart attack. Of course that's all bunk, but I didn't know it at the time. I didn't like roller coasters back then, or anything with a drop in it, and I was sure I was gonna hurl from the violence of the stretch room!!!
Originally Posted By Blue Ridge Marie I went to WDW December 1971 for my honeymoon. I remember getting misty eyed when on Peter Pan's Flight for the first time! And speaking of those restrooms (on another thread) - silly young thing that I was - had my photo taken in front of the Princess room!
