How I became an enthusiast - (Late) 2000 subscriber special

Sorry it's late. Thanks for 2500 subs

Big thanks to these channels for the footage:

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ElToroRyan
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SeaWorld Orlando, Aquatica & Discovery Cove
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Cedar Point

Song in this video:
Hydrocity Zone Act 1 - Sonic Mania OST

[tismejaytee]

I love how you're basically the Odd1sOut of the coaster community

[matthewwagner]

When you're off in the land of famous coaster youtubers, remember me.

[bigt]

i read the quote that sounded something like "learn about what you are scared of, " so i started researching coasters and then became addicted from research alone. I started in the pandemic, and haven't had the chance to go anywhere because everything around me is closed, but just like you even Big Thunder Mountain freaks me out. I really don't know how it's gonna go once i get a chance to ride coasters again.

[coasterfan]

This summer, for some reason during quarantine, I found a few coaster channels like yours and became obsessed. I had only been on rides like thunderation at Silver Dollar City and BTM at Magic Kingdom. Finally, I got up the nerve to ride Time Traveler at SDC. I was sitting next to my dad, and when we went over the first drop, I exploded. I was whooping with joy for the entire ride! After that ride, I haven't looked back since. Thank you so much for turning me into the enthusiast I am today Coatoons.

[owenmueller]

5 years ago I also missed dueling dragons and I’m mad at myself

[ColinHuth]

That’s basically the exact experience my girlfriend had! Even grew up near Magic Mountain, went on school trips, was too scared... until at age 23 I worked her up to Lightning Rod, and it blew her mind so hard she got obsessed.

Always fascinating to see how childhood experiences shape the path to being an enthusiast... mine was the opposite, I was *crazy* tall as a kid and qualified for coasters so early, I was too young to be properly scared.

Parents tell me there was never a ride 7-year-old-Colin wouldn’t go on, but I’ll be darned if I remember half of them.

[Nitrolord]

Friendly reminder to you, once again, that you are probably one of the most underrated coaster channels in existence. Thanks for all the content :)

[RMCconstructor]

well now one of the best enthusiasts EVER personally my favorite 😃

[patrickomeara]

Always liked coasters as a kid but couldn’t work up the nerve for inversions. Went on Rock n roller coaster on my 13th birthday and became obsessed

[aztrosistfan]

Back in (I think it was 2018) it was towards the end of the season at Six Flags NE and my dad and my younger sister decided to go on superman, fast forward after the ride I tell my dad that Ill do it and boy was it amazing. It was my first major coaster ive been on.

[wilson]

Like you, I was also scared of roller coasters my entire life, I had never been on a real one (only space mtn (Disney Orlando) and Dahlonega mine train (SFOG)). In my freshman year of high school, I was in the marching band. Since this was directly after COVID, we didn’t do much but over spring break we were supposed to go to Disney and go marching down Main Street (not-so-fun fact: our parade got rained out). Since I wouldn’t be with my family on this trip, I wanted to go crazy. I drank my first monster energy, made my own decisions, and went on my first roller coaster (technically, there were other firsts, but first inverting coaster) which was Rock n Roller Coaster. When we got in line for it, I didn’t know it went upside down, but once I found out, it was too late. I somehow got the first row and had an absolute blast. I rode it again that day but I just couldn’t forget that coaster (fun fact: that ride also got me into Aerosmith). When I got home, I learned all about Rock n Roller Coaster which quickly spread to roller coasters in general. This Sunday, I’m going back to Six Flags Over Georgia and riding all the rides I missed out on as a kid. Then, I will no longer be the roller coaster enthusiast who has never ridden any roller coasters.

[JamesonThomas]

You are super lucky to grow so fast! I have been trying for over a year now, and... not the same result haha.

I think what makes your channel so different is the sarcastic, not so serious approach, and the cartoons, which is why people are responding well to it. We are all excited to see where your channel goes!

[PoseidonEntertainment]

That's impressive for a few months. I enjoy your content, so I'm looking forward to more.

[coasterstar]

I remember being a little kid and being terefied (so origenal :)) by coasters. Then I wen't on a schooltrip to Bellewearde and promisd my teacher I would ride the boomerang. I did that and then I was oppsesed from the first minute. I was 8 back then. And congrats on the 2, 6k subs already!

[benjamingoldman]

i live in charlotte, so i’ve been going to carowinds since i was 5. the only rides i was brave enough to ride were hurler, richochet, and woodstock express. then, my friends convinced me to ride the fury and it was INCREDIBLE. a few months after that, i went and rode copperhead strike and the intimidator. still haven’t gotten around to afterburn or nighthawk yet, but that’s how i started loving roller coasters, and when i started watching your videos, i became an enthusiast

[nonamespore]

Congrats on 2.6K subs man! You're doing great!

So I guess I should state how I (kind of?) became an enthusiast myself (even though I don't really like to call myself one. Maybe half-enthusiast?). When I was young, back in the 2000s (decade), I was scared of coasters. I really could only ride kiddie and family coasters, and wouldn't even go on all of them. I was scared of going upside-down, and I was scared of moments in tunnels (since I stupidly assumed the coaster could throw me upside-down while I wasn't looking). I did wind up going on Big Thunder and Space Mountain at Disney World, but other than that all I rode were conventional kiddie coasters. My first ever coaster would've been Little Dipper at Kiddieland (now at SFGAm), and then a couple at Disney, and then I did manage to ride the wooden coasters in the Wisconsin Dells, aside from Hades which I was too scared to go on, in I think 2005. But this took me multiple days; the first day we went to the parks I was too scared (and also got sick) but I realized I had missed out and actually cancelled my plan to do one of the other attractions in the Wisconsin Dells (which my mom and sister went to do, it was an upside-down white house or something) to go back to Mt Olympus with my dad. Also got Avalanche in during the trip; the ad on TV made me want to ride that one, and despite my parents hating it I remember really enjoying it as a kid.

But it still wasn't enough to convince me. Whenever I'd go to Six Flags Great America I'd only ride Whizzer at most; I recall one time almost getting on Viper but deciding not to ride it because Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 had a roller coaster named Viper in it (the one at Magic Mountain), and I thought that this Viper would be the exact same. My younger sister did ride it though. It also didn't help that it was night-time and I couldn't see all too much. At a trip to Kings Island around 2010 (Son of Beast was SBNO, I distinctly remember that), I was too scared to go on anything.

And then my family stopped going to amusement parks.

I went to high school in the first half of the 2010s, and I distinctly remember sometime during Junior year thinking to myself "you know, if I was offered the opportunity to ride a roller coaster again I'd go on it." But that opportunity never came. Health issues with my sister and mom just prevented amusement park trips all together.

I get out of high school, and in 2016 Planet Coaster comes out. I buy it, because I loved RCT2 and 3 as a kid, and initially suck at it and put it down for a little bit. In 2017 I pick it up again, after finding some YouTube channels which show PoVs of created rides, and finally set out to build a realistic coaster. But then I have the realization that the number of major coasters I've ridden is low and basically limited to a few at Disney and some woodies in the Wisconsin Dells. So I decided to go to Six Flags Great America with my dad that year, with the goal to ride all the coasters bigger than a kiddie or small family coaster. And I did. I started on that coaster I was too chicken to ride all those years ago, Viper, and worked my way up gradually, getting American Eagle done, then going on Demon to go upside-down on a coaster, then Batman, then Goliath, and I was already hooked. Research into coasters had already started at this point. We went to Florida that year to both ride coasters and view rocket launches, and succeeded at both. The trip was timed perfectly so that we'd get Dragon's Challenge in before it closed. I really enjoyed the coasters at both Seaworld and BGT, coming away with Montu as my favorite ride of the trip. Research at this point was being done for Planet Coaster, and more trips were being planned. 2018 had us go to Six Flags America to ride Apocalypse before it would either close or become a floorless (we didn't know at the time), because Iron Wolf had been one of my Dad's favorites and I wanted to give him a last chance to ride it like we had done with Dragon's Challenge the year before, and threw in BGW and King's Dominion because I knew they would be better parks than SFA, and 2019 had us visit Dollywood and Carowinds. Then everything shut down to ruin 2020.

So yeah, that's my story I guess. A video game got me into coasters.

[AlexLikesToons]

My story is very similar to yours.

Terrified for years, missed out on Dueling Dragons and Big Bad Wolf, tried a coaster one day on a whim, did my own research, became an addict, now go out of my way to ride new coasters, and I do theme park video essays.

Always had an appreciation for theme parks, but really fell in love and became a full enthusiast about 3 years ago.

[spaceofnaspace]

Six Flags Great Adventure is only 1 hour from my house, so my parents got me season passes for the 2021 season. That day I somehow got myself on Batman after being terrified of coasters for years. Later that day I went to Nitro and Ka. It was awesome.

[kylebetz]

What got me into coasters was riding steel vengeance. Really just totally shocked me how easily it destroyed every other rollercoaster in the park

[williwildmaus]

It was Taron, i was scared af, screamed my brains out on this machine from hell and became addicted.