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I have a major fear of heights, so much so that I got weak in the knees looking at the Magnum. My first visit to Cedar Point was for Physics Day in high school. Unfortunately, we were assigned the Magnum. I let the rest of my group ride it. I sat on a bench and did the number crunching with their data. I was fully planning on not riding a single coaster when I was there, but I gave in and rode a few and liked them. I've also been to Cedar Point two other times (Physics Day #2 senior year and Whirlpool Day when I worked there).Flipper wrote:I had a fear of heights...still do a tiny bit. Any way...when my wife and I were first dating in...1990..we hit Cedar Point with a bunch of her friends. First thing we do is get in line for the Magnum. I want no part of that thing...but I didn't want to look like a pussy in front of my girlfriend and her dumbass friends, so...I get on it. I'm looking straaight down at my feet as we make that loooooong climb....she's aware of my phobia and is laughing her ass off. I look up in time to see Canada before we take that terrifying first drop.
It was awesome....rode every coaster in the park after that. The fricking magnum cured me....
I've ridden the Blue Streak, Cedar Creek Mine Ride, Disaster Transport, Iron Dragon, Snake River Falls, and Thunder Canyon, as well as the Cedar Downs Racing Carrousel, the Giant Wheel, the Space Spiral, and the Sky Ride. I realize those last four are not thrilling rides at all, but they are fun nonetheless. I enjoy the 4 coasters I listed, and the two water rides are fun as heck as well, although if I had to do it again I would probably never ride Snake River Falls (that scared the crap out of me). My favorite ride out of all of those is definitely the Mine Ride because it feels as though there's a purpose to the ride other than going up a big hill just to fall back down that hill.
Perhaps it makes me a chicken considering the rides I've been on and the ones I refuse to get on (nothing upside-down or "too" high), but I just can't get over that fear of mine.
