mustinjourney
DIS Veteran
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- May 8, 2016
if you do ride SDD -- have an adult get in first. the first turn and drop is banked to the left and can be quite intimidating if you look down and to your left.
Ugh, I'm struggling with this. We are spending a Monday-Friday in Disney World in late February. In all of the FP craziness yesterday for MFSR, I ended up dropping my Friday SDD in exchange for that. Then, this morning, I managed to grab another SDD for first thing on Monday morning! That's not how I wanted things to work out at all.
My five year old really thinks he wants to ride SDD, but his ride reference is a toddler coaster at a carnival, and for height, a ferris wheel, which he loved. At the same time, he's scared of the second floor railings at our mall, so his fears are very unpredictable. I definitely didn't want SDD to be his first ride, but I also didn't want to bypass the opportunity to get a FP.
I absolutely won't force him to go on it if he decides he doesn't want to, but I'm worried he will want to, and it will scare him and ruin our entire week. But SDD and MFSR (and RoTR, wish me luck) are what he's most excited about for the entire trip. I should be thrilled to have FPs for both, but I'm definitely worried.
It depends on the kid, but what's your experiences with SDD?
That's amazing! Three times in one day with no wait!Mine was 3. Barely tall enough. Loved every minute of it. Probably my best "pixie dust" story:
I nabbed a fastpass one week before our trip,SDD was only open about a month. It was for 7:20 PM. We got there early to explore the park amd wanted to get him a first rollercoaster ride pin. The CM was super excited, amd asked us what time we were riding. When I told her it was for that night, she gave us a free fastpassto do it right then! We were so excited!
The story gets better, we told the CM at the ride it was his first coaster, he measured him and told him to have fun and come back after to let us know how we did. My son loved it, when we went back to the CM we told him it was a blast, gave my son a high five and asked: "Wanna go on it again?" So we did! Wait time was 3 hours. We rode it twice in 10 mins and then again that night. We cant wait to go back in September!
Our trip is complete, so I thought I'd come back and update everyone on what we did.
We got to HS very early to get a RotR boarding group. We got the very first one!! So, plans reset again, lol. We went to sign my son up for Jedi training at rope drop, then we had an early FP for Alien Swirling Saucers, so we did that first and he loved it. That's not exactly a judgement of how he'll handle bigger rides, but he really loves Star Wars, so we went over to RotR. He was totally fine with it! So we went on Slinky next -- loved it! We didn't do any coasters bigger than that, but we did SDMT and Millennium Falcon and Flight of Passage, and he did well with all of it.
What was he afraid of? Jungle Cruise, hahaha. He claims he saw a spider in a cave, so he said that's the only ride he won't do ever again. What wouldn't he go on? Soarin', because he didn't like the jumping whale when we watched it on YouTube. Even though he was okay with Flight of Passage... but I didn't push it. He didn't want to, so my husband and I took turns on that one.
Totally just depends on the kid and what they're into. My kid is much more afraid of animals and automated flushing toilets than Disney rides, lol.
We got to ride SDD a second time at night last night, and that was awesome. When we got off he said, "That was so amazing!" He was shouting from the top of the rollercoaster that he could see Galaxy's Edge. Great memories.