When my daughter was 4 or 5 and could ride for the first time, I reached forward the ENTIRE ride and held her in place. I literally felt my arms were going to fall off when the ride was over. And, sure enough, our next trip, when she was about 7, she asked me to do it again.
I don't know these people ... just found them floating around the internet
Good view of safety bar.
I was so far down the belt was loose around me and when went over a hill I raised up out of the seat, my dad pulled me back down and held me in the rest of the ride. Kind of laughed it off at the time, but it could have been something bad.
Only if you had actually jumped could it have been something bad. The physics of it just doesn’t allow for you to go up high enough.
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This got me interested so I did google. Since I never made it to WDW before 1999 I only knew the one style. I don’t think I would have enjoyed the original!
From 1975-1989, rocket trains featured two seats, each seat designed to hold two passengers, the front passenger rode in the rear passenger's lap, for a total capacity of eight passengers per train. In 1989 the trains were replaced with the 3 seat configuration we now have today
http://www.bigfloridacountry.com/wdw/spacemountain.shtml