Pacific Park is known for our family friendly rides, and we have a few that are perfect for the young ones experiencing an amusement park for the first time. Rides that go up and down and spin at a speed appropriate for a first-timer will generate excitement for your kids to tell all their friends in school about!
Some of our faster, bigger rides require riders to be a full 48 inches or taller. Fun For Everyone Some of our faster, bigger rides require riders to be a full 48 inches or taller.
It gets much trickier if you know the kid is too short. That's when I would try to be proactive, to intercept the family before they got to the sign and suggest the child swap option or something else in the area. If the parents demanded a measurement, I always would crouch to meet the child at eye level, smile my most reassuring smile, and try to chat up the kid about how much I love playing on Tom Sawyer Island, and "have you gone over there yet?
Ideally, the parents would take the hint and head over the island, or at least whisk the kid away to unload, blaming me for not getting to ride, if they wished. However, some parents decided to fight the call. This is never, ever successful and only makes your kid feel worse in the end, so, please, do not be that parent.
Trained to defuse guest complaints at all times, if a parent demanded to enter the queue with their too-short child, we would let them pass. But we would phone the station to let the crew there know a too-short kid was on the way, so that they would intercept and measure them in the station. Too-short kids are not getting on the ride, no matter what.
By delaying that rejection, parents who challenge employees over this are only going to end up with a crying, angry kid at the load station, instead of enduing a moment of disappointment at the queue entrance, immediately followed by moving on to something fun to do. Theme parks impose height restrictions not because kids below that height are too short to fit on a ride or enjoy it. Heck, in normal operation, babies could go on Thunder and some other coasters safely. Height and other restrictions protect riders in case something goes wrong, such as the stopping on a safety brake or having to be evacuated.
In those, rare cases, people under the designated height can be at extreme risk. So don't take the chance. Respect the park's height and safety restrictions, trust the operators, and follow their lead to find the best experience for you and your family when you visit. Like posts such as this one? Support Theme Park Insider with a one-time or monthly donation.
Thank you! Why you have to be 40 inches tall to ride Disney's Big Thunder Mountain. Why don't people just measure their kids at home so that the kid knows what to expect and they don't have to deal with these stresses at the parks? Hey, there were times when my kids were one height when we left for the vacation and a measurably different one halfway through it!
That makes "going for it" when it's close tempting for some. Nice piece, Robert. So, this is more dangerous than swimming with sharks. However, the stats show that 8, — 16, kids are injured on school buses each year. NBC article from Thus, amusement park accidents rank somewhere between shark attacks and school bus injuries. All of the above was about park injuries.
There have been 22 deaths since , so 3. In contrast, the Consumer Product Safety Commission report from shows only 2. Spiders kill 6. And people get struck by lightning. For other facts about dangerous things, check out our post on the dangers of ground beef. On the scale of deadly activities, amusement parks are less dangerous than spider bites.
Now we are in really ambiguous territory. Because the parks certainly do some analysis to determine the height requirements. But we have zero visibility into what that analysis was. However, danger is rarely bimodal. Like, we can all agree that driving 66 mph in a 65 zone is probably not that much more unsafe than driving So fudging a quarter inch on a kid might not be a huge deal.
But how can we judge how quickly danger changes with height? Based on all of my personal experience on indicator values of predictive functions, there are two rules for identifying indicators for various rules and restrictions. Though, there are many roller coaster injuries and deaths that seem to be related to mental health challenges. Also infeasible, is to measure kids shoulder width to see if they have wide enough shoulders to not accidentally fit between the shoulder bars.
I can imagine all of these metrics would provide a more predictive way to judge injury likelihood. Height is probably the most easily accessible indicator for ride safety. It helps to look for fitted restraints with child-resistant closures.
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