We all love Great Adventure with a passion. Why else would we be here right? Since we all began visiting the park during different time periods, I thought it would be interesting to see which Roller Coaster, past and present, we can remember being the first one we rode at the park. I tried to list any Coasters that would have been the big ones at their peak, without creating a mile long poll.
My first Roller Coaster at the park was the Great American Scream Machine. I had visited the park in its opening year but did not build up the courage to go on it until 1992. Ever since I have been a Roller Coaster lover.
What was the first Roller Coaster you remember riding at Great Adventure?
Started by JetsDevs4Lyf, Dec 31 2007 11:14 AM
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Posted 31 December 2007 - 11:14 AM
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Posted 31 December 2007 - 11:51 AM
Lil' Thunder was my first coaster ride at GA. Maybe 1981?
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Posted 31 December 2007 - 12:21 PM
My first roller coaster ride at Great Adventure was the Runaway Train in the summer of 1974. I was 7 years old and the ride seemed really huge. "That roller coaster at Great Adventure that ends with a trip over water" lived up to all the hype.
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Posted 31 December 2007 - 12:22 PM
It was Runaway Mine Train for me, and I remember being terrified. I got over that quickly, and rode Lightnin' loops about a week later 
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Posted 31 December 2007 - 01:15 PM
My first roller coaster ride at Great Adventure was Road Runner Railway in 1999. It was also my very first coaster.
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Posted 31 December 2007 - 03:47 PM
Good ol' Runaway train was the first one I was able to get on at the park. It was really exciting from what I can remember, but I was always afraid of it derailing into the water.
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Posted 31 December 2007 - 06:59 PM
To be honest I can't remember. It was either skull mountain or runaway mine train. I voted skull mountain but Im not positive.
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Posted 31 December 2007 - 09:51 PM
Mine was Batman: TR in 2004.
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Posted 01 January 2008 - 11:14 AM
Runaway Mine Train in 1999
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Posted 01 January 2008 - 12:34 PM
I forget... It was Runaway Mine Train, Skull Mountain, or Rolling Thunder. The one that really got me in to coasters, however, was Superman: Ultimate Flight. I was really scared, but I had to go on it... I'm so glad I did.
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Posted 01 January 2008 - 10:18 PM
I see the Runaway Mine Train seems to be some common stomping group for many people here. Believe it or not I actually was too afraid of it (the water and just a roller coaster in general) that I could not even go on that my first time at the park. It actually took my first ride on the GASM for me to realize nothing could be worse than that and open up my coaster experiences.
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Posted 02 January 2008 - 07:36 PM
To you too 
Scream Machine hurts (you're like a bobble head between those restraints), but still gives a great ride for less wait.
Scream Machine hurts (you're like a bobble head between those restraints), but still gives a great ride for less wait.
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Posted 02 January 2008 - 08:20 PM
Oh it most definately hurts, but at this point I consider it a park classic right up there with Rolling Thunder so I can't help but love it.
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Posted 03 January 2008 - 12:55 AM
Hi! My first roller coaster ride at the park was Runaway Mine Train.
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Posted 07 January 2008 - 11:57 AM
Looks like the Runaway Mine Train was the runaway favorite for first time coaster riders.
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Posted 27 February 2008 - 10:08 PM
Runaway Train was the first...but Batman:The Ride was my first BIG roller coaster ride (Scream machine didnt come until much later and as we were going up for the firrst drop my dad gave me a heart attack telling me that the ride didnt make such loud noises the last time he was on it) 
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I couldve beaten him...HAHA
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Posted 27 February 2008 - 10:21 PM
^ He just wanted to make the ride more memorable! It worked!
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Posted 27 February 2008 - 10:23 PM
I love doing that. Things like, "Hey wasn't that bolt a little tighter last time we rode" or "wow something just fell off the track." What can I say I get some enjoyment out of the momentary worried looks you can cause especially when you are already strapped in the ride and being lifted for the first drop lol.
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Posted 27 February 2008 - 10:45 PM
Back in the mid 90's I went to Disneyland Paris and the ride ops at the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril roller coaster were also messing with riders heads. Whenever there was a carload of ladies, the ops would start screaming like there was something wrong as soon as the trrain started rolling out of the station. Of course they wouldn't stop it and the passengers were in panic mode as they headed for the lift wondering what they were all yelling and pointing at.
As a former ride-op, I believe this was referred to as horseplay and I am not condoning it here. (Although it was pretty funny to watch! )
As a former ride-op, I believe this was referred to as horseplay and I am not condoning it here. (Although it was pretty funny to watch!
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Posted 29 February 2008 - 05:15 PM
QUOTE(JetsDevs4Lyf @ Feb 27 2008, 10:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I love doing that. Things like, "Hey wasn't that bolt a little tighter last time we rode" or "wow something just fell off the track." What can I say I get some enjoyment out of the momentary worried looks you can cause especially when you are already strapped in the ride and being lifted for the first drop lol.
you would! =P pain in the butt...
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