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Your Pre-enthusiast Days

Before coming a enthusiast, I had only been to Flambards, and Brean Leisure park.

I became an enthusiast after reading about Oblivion on the internet, I saw this site, lurked for years, went to Alton, Drayton, Disneyland Paris, and a few more, then became a member of CF back in 2007.

I don't really know my CC, and I couldn't really care less, I just ride coasters for what they are. FUN!
 
I know what my count was exactly... 19... according to coaster-count.com its now 119.

I'd say I got really into it in 2006 when I started mixing with this rabble from CF. So its took three years to add 100 coasters which in an enthusiasts world is pretty meek, but considering it had took me 20 years to get 19 I'd say that was pretty impressive.

I really really envy non-enthusiasts in parks, when they walk through the gates and hearing their shouts of excitement with complete ignorance to the background of the park and the names of rides e.t.c.... love it. Jealous.

Before I joined CF I'd visited Blackpool and Flamingo Land and Port Aventura!

I'm glad I got enthusiastic about parks as I wouldn't have ever discovered a lot of parks I've done with CF, but I can't help feel I'd have enjoyed discovering them more if I'd encountered them through my general day-to-day life.
 
Well I only joined here recently (last week in fact) after lurking for some time. I've always been into Coasters but haven't really been on that many, having only been to Alton towers, Camelot, Gullivers Warrington and BPB. Only this past weekend did I go to Chessington and Thorpe (with free return, so hopefully repeating the double header in September), with a trip to Oakwood planned for next week. Hopefully we'll make it to FL and LMV some weekend in September fund permitting.

My Coaster count is currently pretty low at about 23. I joined this site to hopefully chat about new and old coasters with like minded people, but am still pretty apprehensious.
 
I used to go to Blackpool once a year and had been to Alton Towers once when I had been little. It all changed when I went on a ride with an inversion (Corkscrew, Flamingoland) and then went to Alton Towers again. I think it was from there that it all started.
 
Pretty much sod all before I joined here. In fact, i'd been scared of coasters for most of my life before I joined CF, and it was reading about them and stuff on here that convinced me. Pre-CF, i'd done Alton, Gullivers Warrington, Camelot & Disneyland Paris. It was DLP that really got me over my fear of coasters, and boosted my count to, erm, 3 lol. A couple of trips to Alton later, and I kept braving my fear. Only when I found this place did I really start getting interested, so CF made me an enthusiast, for sure.
 
I've been into them since I was eight.. Looking up statistics of coasters and whatnot, but that's about it. I've been going to parks yearly since I was six though, so I guess that sparked interest even though I didn't go on much.
 
I actually used to be super scared of coasters till I was about, 10 or 11. That's when I went to CP. That's how I started to get into them. Then I went to Kings Island and started to go to KD more often, since I lived only about 30 minutes from there.

^Oh and welcome back! :)
 
I've always kind of liked roller coasters, always liked to ride them and even bought RCT right when it came out (and I was young then). But I never knew much about them and never went out of the way to go to parks for the most part. I went to Six Flags New England some time right around when SROS opened, for an event to get a Celebi on my Pokemon Crystal game (for future reference I can get one within about five minutes now with a Gameshark. Waste of gas going JUST for that...) and I remember looking at the Mind Eraser and thinking I'd never go on that. Then I decided I liked some of the rides. So I returned and rode Superman. I was pretty much hooked from then on and I guess it just got worse from there. I flew all the way to Ohio this past week to go to Cedar Point. I'd hazard a guess that making a plane flight to go ride a few hunks of steel is probably something an enthusiast would do. (At least I didn't go on Jr. Gemini for the credit. :p)
 
Growing up, I went no where. I'm not even kidding. I went to Cedar Point when I was 2, riding Jr. Gemini with my dad. The only reason we went was with the Church.

It'd be 8 years before I'd go there again, this time with my mom's work. This became a yearly trip until 2007 when they cut it due to the economy. So, Cedar Point being the only trip I ever did, I looked forward to it. I'd spend hours in my bedroom, looking at old maps, planning what I'd ride next year (I totally not). I did go to Michigan's Adventure in 1998 and rode...4 coasters.

I never really thought about myself being an enthusiast until Freshman year, in 2004. I joined the point online, and got into that pretty nicely. But, they weren't friendly (and ate me alive) and so I was kicked out after only 3 weeks.

Browsing pictures, I came across here. And discovered that (GASP!) there are park outside of Cedar Point. Shockingly, better ones as well. So, my count then would be...16. I've gotten 50 credits since.
 
Um, I'd been on well over 200 or 300 coasters before I 'discovered' ACE or TPR. I'd seen RCDB somewhere around 150-200, but I didn't really catch on that there was other people that did this as a hobby.

It's funny in a way, but I kind of wish that I was still doing it myself, without knowing that these places exist.

I don't think I'd have become nearly as rabid as I have about it in that case.
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I didn't really start to become a huge coaster enthusiast untill i got RCT1 in like 2000 from my uncle.

I played that for hours, and eventually got RCT2 and then RCT3 (i got it first day it came out, last one on the walmart shelves :D ).

I really got into coasters in 2006, when i got NoLimits. Since then, I've visited an epic number of parks (4), and have ridden a total of 32 rides, including a couple fairground coasters..
 
I think my coaster count was around 20 in my "pre enthusiast" days. As a kid, my favourite rides were always that of Disney. My first favourite ride ever was Big Thunder Mountain in DLRP at the age of 5. My first looping coaster was Indiana Jones et Le Temple Du Peril, Á L'envers, which shook me up quite a bit :p
 
Pre enthusiast, very small count. I'd always enjoyed rides, just never made a big effort to go on them. If I had an opportunity to, I would jump at the chance, but I never made a big, concious effort to go. It was onlu when I went Alton Towers that I really started liking rides, but even then, it was a while before I really got into them like now. It was this site that probably did it. When I joined, I just was interested in rides, but before long I guess I became an 'enthusiast'. Since then, I've tried to get to as many parks as possible. I'm not that bad that I will travel the country to a small obscure park to ride one small obscure coaster to add it to my count, although the only reason I went Camelot was to go on the two coasters before they are destroyed. In the year or two I have been an enthusiast, my coaster count has probably increased 3 fold, and my park count has probably gone up by the same degree.
 
I was actually scared of coasters until about two years ago, then I slowly got into riding them by riding rides like Revolution, Cali Screamin' and Ninja, and going up. Now I'll ride anything.

Even though I was scared of coasters, I still would have called myself an 'enthusiast'. I still loved going to parks (even though I wouldn't even ride kiddie coasters or log rides) and watching rides/taking pictures. I also played RCT2 a lot (and still do) and I'd be on RCDB and forums all the time, even though I didn't start joining them until last year.

When I joined my first forum in July of 2008 (which is when I'd say I became completely obsessed and a total enthusiast) I think my coaster-count was about 38 and my park-count was about 20. Only a little more than a year later my coaster-count is 126 and my park-count is 31!
 
Well, I guess before properly becoming an enthusiast I'd done...

Disneyland Paris
Alton
Thorpe
Chessington
Drayton
Blackpool
WDW
American Adventure

...and the stuff they all had prior to becoming a "proper enthusiast" in about 03, so my count was already at about 60 or so? Maybe a little less? Maybe more? God knows...

I mean, I wouldn't say finding websites "made" me an enthusiast, but, it certainly sped the process up :p
 
CreditCrazy said:
I was actually scared of coasters until about two years ago, then I slowly got into riding them by riding rides like Revolution, Cali Screamin' and Ninja, and going up. Now I'll ride anything.

Even though I was scared of coasters, I still would have called myself an 'enthusiast'. I loved going to parks (even though I wouldn't even ride kiddie coasters or log rides) and watching rides/taking pictures. I also played RCT2 a lot (and still do) and I'd be on RCDB and forums all the time, even though I didn't start joining them until last year.

When I joined my first forum in July of 2008 (which is when I'd say I became completely obsessed and a total enthusiast) I think my coaster-count was about 38 and my park-count was about 20. Only a little more than a year later my coaster-count is 126 and my park-count is 31!
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I hadn't visited a park until last year.
I have two autistic sisters, my mother is disabled and my father is obese and doesn't like coasters.

We went on a school trip to DMP and I discovered coasters.
 
When I joined CF my coaster count was 19 and I'd only ever visited Pleasure Beach Blackpool and Flamingo Land.

Although becoming an 'enthusiast' has boosted my count to 100+ and visited loads of other parks in the UK and Europe, I have a much worse time when I visit theme parks at the moment.

I can't help over-analyse things, I'd love to be an 'ignorant' member of the GP again, and believing things which just weren't really possible (switching the wheels between the Bullet [Schwarzkopf] and the Corkscrew [Vekoma] is a favourite pre-enthusiast belief).
 
When I joined CF.. my coaster count was around 25.. in 2006. I didn't really turn true enthusiast until I joined CF.. and the rest is history.
 
I was always interested in them. whether it was a coaster at carnival to seaside or rct.
I remember when i was young(er) i had a book about them and i would look at it all the time then when i moved i lost it but recently found it because we are moving again and i was looking through things and i found it but it is missing the cover :--D
 
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