The 26 year wait for a ride..

[caffeine_demonI teach at the school of donkey!]

Back in 1986, an English documentary programme called "QED" had a show about roller coasters + thril rides, called "The Most Swirling Swinging Sliding Spinning Up-and-Down Ride of Your Life".

Clips can be found on youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1unVsyuMezE

Amongst the clips of pirate ships, enterprises, wave swingers etc. they showed a first gen intamin drop tower. I'd wanted to go on one ever since - and I finally got the cred at dorney park a couple of weeks ago!

Has anyone else had any seriously long waits between finding out about a ride, and actually going on it?

Also worth noting are my waits to ride Ultimate, the big one and shockwave at drayton manor - heard about all of them at Uni (early-mid 90s), rode them in 2006 and 7!

I also waited about 25 years for a reride on space mountain at disney world!

[Rai FoxBeware of the Magic Donkey at Lotte World!]

I read about Steel Phantom in '91, when it first opened up. Seeing pictures of it and hearing about its famous drop was what turned me into a coaster fanatic, and I was determined to get on it.

I finally did get to ride it (sort of - never did get on the original version pre-transformation into Phantom's Revenge) nearly two decades later- 2008, I think.

Absolutely worth the wait, and possibly still my favorite steel coaster.

[UrbanLegendThe playground is where I spend most of my days]

I would say 'everything at SF Great America', but I've never been there before, so it's not really a 'wait'.
Under my parameters, both Shockwave and Volcano at KD were the longest wait for me, from 1998 to 2011.

[NozzyHoly crap you have a HUGE donkey!]

My longest was still just half of yours- 13 years from watching Evolution test at Great Adventure to finally riding it as Excalibur at Six Flags St. Louis!

[KDcoasterMANFluffy, Fluffy, Donkeys Filled With Medicine and Goo!]

I remember watching a coaster documentary film when I was way young and Great American Scream Machine at SFGAdv was the programs feature coaster. It was "fastest and highest" blah, blah, blah. When I saw the show I really wanted to ride it, I told myself I would ride it one day.

well... that never happened. lol.

[palmerleeberryDonkeys are my way of life!]

Okay . . . what was the longest wait I had to endure to ride a ride I wanted to ride so badly?

Answer - I had to wait nine years to finally ride Deja Vu!

Why did it take so long for me to be able to ride this extreme inverted boomerang? It was because of the two Six Flags parks that did have the Deja Vu, but on the day I visited the ride wasn't running. Six Flags Great America in 2001 and Six Flags over Georgia in 2003 and 2004. It wasn't until I visited Six Flags Magic Mountain that I was finally able to ride Deja Vu ( And I did it twice in a row, both in the front seat)! In 2012, Deja Vu was moved to Six Flags New England and renamed Goliath, and I rode that one too.

Stop the Presses!!! I just remembered another coaster from Six Flags New England in which I had to wait even longer before riding: I forgot about Bizzaro. During my visit in 2001, that coaster ( known back then as Superman) wasn't running due to maintainence issues. This year, 2012 - 11 years later, I finally rode that coaster!

Besides those two coasters, I cannot think of anymore rides in which I had to wait for a very long time before getting the chance to ride it.

"Hey, what about me? Don't you wait too long before you decide to ride me!"

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I figured this was a thread about Flying Turns...

[MrSum1_55I just swallowed a whole donkey!]

In 2006, as an enthusiast noob, I found out GCA once had a flying coaster, and I was determined to find and ride that flying coaster.

I did. At Carowinds. Last week.

[Geauga DogThe only thing better than a naked woman is a naked donkey!]

The first time I saw the Great American Revolution in the movie "Rollercoaster" way back when the movie was first realeased to theaters in the 70's I knew someday I was going to ride it. I finally did in 2001 even though it already went through its modifications.

[Barge84I'm a know-it-all about donkeys!]

I think I first saw a picture of Loch Ness Monster's interlocking loops in 1987 or 1988. In less than a month I'll get to ride it on the New Hotness Tour!