{"id":8048,"date":"2020-12-09T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/?p=8048"},"modified":"2025-06-12T19:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T19:38:04","slug":"get-to-know-coasters-on-the-coast-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/?p=8048","title":{"rendered":"Get To Know Coasters on the Coast – Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been creating content for you guys for a few years now. I\u2019ve never really sat down & let you guys into my little story of becoming & accepting myself as a theme park enthusiast. So I thought why not begin sharing it now.\u00a0 <\/span>I hope you enjoy this mini series & if you\u2019ve clicked this thank you for actually wanting to know more about me & us (Ant). <\/span><\/p>\n

My Childhood & First Theme Park:<\/span><\/h2>\n

My first theme park was in fact Disneyland Paris. I must of been around 4 at the time and just tall enough to experience Big Thunder Mountain. It was my first ever rollercoaster like I\u2019m quite proud of that minus the fact I was terrified. I remember we queued for something like 2 hours it was a horrific wait time anyway I got to the front and needed the toilet. My mum was livid but I sucked it up and continued. I would not say this is where my love for theme parks came from in all honesty. I was quite young & a very poorly child so during this trip I was ill & it wasn\u2019t the best foot to start of on with theme parks.\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

As a child growing up my mum often took us to theme parks such as Drayton Manor also majority of our holidays consist of a theme park in some way. We used to holiday a lot at Skegness which is home to Fantasy Island, Bottons Pleasure Beach & sadly now closed Pleasure Island was nearby. So I\u2019ve always had rollercoasters & rides in my face throughout growing up. I was always that wimpy child who refused or cried a lot about trying new things especially rides. One of my earliest memories of rollercoasters included Jellykins at Fantasy Island & for some reason I had my favourite diary on board with me & lost it. I was heartbroken.<\/span><\/p>\n

But where my love for theme parks truly began was at Drayton Manor when I first experienced Pirates Adventure. I remember entering the building & feeling really on edge almost afraid I was going to get frightened. It was all quite dark & mysterious. Sat down in the boat had to be in the middle, I\u2019m still guilty of doing this now. I can remember the thoughts & feeling clear as day if I\u2019m honest. Each scene I was thinking I\u2019d love to see this lights on, water drained and effects of. At that point I can remember thinking to myself I\u2019m really weird & odd. I went home that day and began drawing deigns of what I\u2019d love a boat ride to look like & feature ( the drawings were as crap as an untalented 8 year-olds would be).\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

I think I\u2019ll leave this post here for today. I don\u2019t want to ramble too much but I\u2019ll be back with part two very soon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you so much for reading…\"\"<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been creating content for you guys for a few years now. I\u2019ve never really sat down & let you guys into my little story of becoming & accepting myself as a theme park enthusiast. So I thought why not begin sharing it now.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy this mini series & if you\u2019ve clicked this thank you for actually wanting to know more about me & us (Ant). My Childhood & First Theme Park: My first theme park was in fact Disneyland Paris. I must of been around 4 at the time and just tall enough to experience Big Thunder Mountain. It was my first ever rollercoaster like I\u2019m quite proud of that minus the fact I was terrified. I remember we queued for something like 2 hours it was a horrific wait time anyway I got to the front and needed the toilet. My mum was livid but I sucked it up and continued. I would not say this is where my love for theme parks came from in all honesty. I was quite young & a very poorly child so during this trip I was ill & it wasn\u2019t the best foot to start of on with theme parks. As a child growing up my mum often took us to theme parks such as Drayton Manor also majority of our holidays consist of a theme park in some way. We used to holiday a lot at Skegness which is home to Fantasy Island, Bottons Pleasure Beach & sadly now closed Pleasure Island was nearby. So I\u2019ve always had rollercoasters & rides in my face throughout growing up. I was always that wimpy child who refused or cried a lot about trying new things especially rides. One of my earliest memories of rollercoasters included Jellykins at Fantasy Island & for some reason I had my favourite diary on board with me & lost it. I was heartbroken. But where my love for theme parks truly began was at Drayton Manor when I first experienced Pirates Adventure. I remember entering the building & feeling really on edge almost afraid I was going to get frightened. It was all quite dark & mysterious. Sat down in the boat had to be in the middle, I\u2019m still guilty of doing this now. I can remember the thoughts & feeling clear as day if I\u2019m honest. Each scene I was thinking I\u2019d love to see this lights on, water drained and effects of. At that point I can remember thinking to myself I\u2019m really weird & odd. I went home that day and began drawing deigns of what I\u2019d love a boat ride to look like & feature ( the drawings were as crap as an untalented 8 year-olds would be). I think I\u2019ll leave this post here for today. I don\u2019t want to ramble too much but I\u2019ll be back with part two very soon. Thank you so much for reading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5053,5054],"tags":[2854,2857,1975,1970,1255,1382,2856,2855,2858,1637,2861,2860,402,1953,1248,1286,2859],"class_list":["post-8048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theme-parks","category-themed-attractions","tag-about-me","tag-about-us","tag-adventure","tag-adventure-girl","tag-blogger","tag-childhood","tag-coasters-on-the-coast","tag-get-to-know","tag-how-it-began","tag-insight","tag-my-story","tag-rollercoaster-lover","tag-theme-park-blogger","tag-theme-park-enthusiast","tag-theme-park-girl","tag-travel","tag-who-are-we"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/85542E22-5F5F-481D-ADE3-7D10893ACB95-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb4qDv-25O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8050,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions\/8050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastersonthecoast.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}