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Your First Disney Ride
Posted: Nov Thu 29, 2007 8:32 pm
by Esmeralda
What was the first Disney ride you ever rode?
Mine was Spaceship Earth when I was eight years old. It's still one of my absolute favorite rides. I hope the new updates live up to expectations just as it did the very first time!
By the way, thanks to acp for the idea for this topic!
Posted: Nov Thu 29, 2007 9:43 pm
by Cheshire Cat
I think it was Dumbo or Small World. I'll have to check with my parents. They always tease me about how when we first got onto Main Street, they asked me "What do you think?" and a four year old me said, "Where are all the rides?"
Posted: Nov Thu 29, 2007 10:08 pm
by casrin
Gosh, I don't remember my very first ever ride. I was 2!
The one that stands out the most from the trip when I was 9 (my brother's Make a Wish trip, incidentally) was riding Journey Into Imagination. And riding Spaceship Earth.
Posted: Nov Thu 29, 2007 10:11 pm
by disneylandmom
I don't remeber my very first ride as it was so many years ago. The rides I remeber the most from that first trip are Pirates of the carribean and Peter Pan. Oh yes and Haunted mansion other than that my first trip is a blurry memory.
Posted: Nov Fri 30, 2007 7:45 am
by AKLRULZ
I was 7 years old and it was Alice in Wonderland at Disneyland (although I campaigned for Matterhorn!).
Posted: Nov Fri 30, 2007 9:52 am
by csquare77
Gosh I started going when I was like 2 years old, but if I would probably say Mr. Toads Wild Ride.
Edit: Or the monorail

Posted: Nov Fri 30, 2007 2:47 pm
by spaulo
No way can I remember. My first trip to Disneyland was in utero, and I was taken again around 3 years old. It was probably something like Dumbo or the Railroad, or a streetcar, or the carousel... like, it definitely wasn't Space Mountain (I was too little) or Winnie the Pooh (didn't exist)
Posted: Nov Fri 30, 2007 3:25 pm
by foldmama
Well, I don't know if this counts, but it was a Small World at the 1965 Worlds Fair in New York! I was 10 and I remember it in detail. I also remember COP and I have been in love with Disney since then!
Eileen
Posted: Nov Fri 30, 2007 8:26 pm
by js3901
I think my first ride was Pirates, but I can't remember (I was about 2). I'll ask my mother if she recalls...
Posted: Dec Sat 01, 2007 8:43 am
by Joe90
Thanks for this question Esmeralda you have made me feel old and senile
I can't remember.
It was a sugar powered, adrenalin filled, eyes wide as dinner plates day.
I remember doing just about every ride but can't remember the order. Best guess would be Jungle Cruise or the Speedway. I've asked everyone I was with that day, nobody remembers

Posted: Dec Sat 01, 2007 9:50 am
by jbvenn
Wow, this is going back into ancient history! My first trip to WDW was when it was just Magic Kingdom. As I was a thrill-seeking teen, I'm guessing that my first ride was Space Mountain, but I also remember PotC, Jungle Cruise, Small World, 20,000 Leagues, Tom Sawyer's Island and the Speedway. I shopped Main Street and bought a stuffed Eeyore and a silver Mickey charm for my charm bracelet, my first WDW souvenirs. That was a great day.
Posted: Dec Sat 01, 2007 10:47 pm
by DisBeamer
Hmm. Like spaulo, my first trip was technically before my mother even knew she was pregnant. She wasn't (and isn't) one for rides that whip you around, though, and my brother was pretty small then too so it was probably something gentle. I should ask her if she remembers (but I suspect she'll give me the 'are you kidding me?' look

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My first trip I was 3 ... don't remember much about that, but again my actual first ride was probably Dumbo or Small World. I do remember a few of my first-time rides, though - first time I went on Big Thunder, and the first time I actually made it through the queue into the Haunted Mansion, but I was a bit older then.
Posted: Dec Sun 02, 2007 7:58 pm
by Bullwinkle
Carousel of progress...64(?) World's Fair. I'm dating myself
Posted: Dec Sun 02, 2007 9:35 pm
by boilerbabe
Wow, I don't remember, I was 3! I do remember riding Dumbo and Snow White's ride really scared me!
Posted: Dec Sun 02, 2007 11:02 pm
by DisBeamer
boilerbabe wrote:Wow, I don't remember, I was 3! I do remember riding Dumbo and Snow White's ride really scared me!
Poor old school scary Snow White. I have a vivid memory of my mom asking me if I "was going to be scared when I saw her?", and pointing at the witch on the sign when I was around that age. That was before they made the ride friendlier.
