Why do roller coasters have height restrictions

Is the ride safe for all children who meet the height limit? Not necessarily. Make sure the restraints fit securely on smaller bodies before putting the small body of your beloved child on the ride. Minimum height limits for some amusement rides are already dangerously low.

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Did you like this? Share it! This site uses cookies. One full day of our vacation was ruined because of a CM - not at all a magical experience for us on that day. BUT at Knott's I was upset. Not upset at the employees it's not their fault, they don't make the rules , but upset at management. What a waste of track that is.

I used to work as a ride operator in the kids area of Busch Gardens I would measure the kids and if they were short, I always tried to sound very excited about the rides they COULD go on-- and they'd be very happy I really believe that every theme park has things to see and do no matter how small you are.

It's not ALL about roller coasters. My son was always big for his age so he met most of the height requirements early on. His maturity level was not commensurate with his height. I remember waiting in line at SM for over an hour. He was fine until we got up to the part of the queue where you could actually see the loading area. That is when he decided that this was not the ride for him I hate seeing parents forcing their kids onto rides they are not ready for. A part of society that no one has mentioned are the little people or whatever the proper PC term is of the world.

Many of them do not reach the height requirement. I would love to hear their stories. Although I have ridden plenty of roller coasters and rides in the past, I suffer from anxiety and the thought of already not wanting to ride the ride and then someone making you ride it just sounds horrible. I can imagine many times it does not result in a pleasurable experience for the child. I appreciate parents like the guy who said he did not force his child onto Space Mountain even though he was tall enough and they had been waiting in line.

Let people do things at thier own pace the kid will probably grow older and decide they are ready for that later. One horrible experience could cause your child to not enjoy theme parks at all.

Besides, a child feeling independent enough to say they are not ready for a ride at an amusement park despite the pressure to ride should be rewarded with support because hopefully when pressured later in life to do other things drugs, etc. It's not the most thrilling ride out there. That's true. But I remember taking my sister-in-law to Knott's and getting her to go on Jaguar.

A woman in her 30's who had never ridden a coaster of any kind was , understandably, not going to jump in on something like the Kraken or Hulk. So she rode it and gained confidence from it.

Now she goes on most things. Maybe not Kraken or Hulk yet but you never know. So rides like Jaguar DO have a place in the parks. They are the ones that encourage people, who might never have tried a coaster, to test the water. As for the height restriction issue.

If they installed one or two laser measurers like they have in hotels and Nike stores somewhere near the entrance then parents would have an accurate printout for their child that could be shown to the CM at the line. It could also print the list of rides that the child was able to go on to save more time. Just an idea. She missed the height requirement by an eigth of an inch. The Disney Cast Member said, "Sorry, you almost made it. That was almost a year ago and she still talks about the Barnstormer.

We are going again in a few weeks to celebrate my graduation from Grad School, any excuse to go back and now she is ready to tackle Big Thunder Mountain! Oh and I measured her already and she is the proper height for the ride. So no hat adjustments on this visit. Yup, I saw that one time. As to height limits, size limits and other factors such as no solid casts; the ride manufactuers have rider requirements which must be enforced by the park or company operating the ride, according to ASTM standards and certain state rules.

So some of the rides come into a park with the limiations that seem to restrictive but they are directly from the manufacturer and that would account for differences between seemingly similar rides if they are made by different companies.

It would be nice if parents would THINK for a moment that their struggling, crying child could hurt themselves worse trying to get out of a seat restraint then the apparent embarssment the parent suffers when they leave the line with their crying child. I don't know how many times I've heard a parent tell a child that they are an embarssment when they leave the line with their crying child; I'm thinking that was a smart mpve on their part.

There are people who would sue, even if they are the ones breaking the rules.