How do I get over my fear of the Drop Tower?

Question

It's the 315 foot Drop Tower at Kings Island, it drops in 3 seconds at 67 mph with your feet dangling. Please don't tell me to just get on it, and no jokes about how my feet will get cut off because that is getting old, and it was a one time occurrence that has already been resolved.

I am not afraid of heights, but every time I've ridden it, I get so terrified that by the time I am at the top, I am almost in tears. The ride gives no warning as to when it drops.

I am so embarrassed to tell people that I am scared of this ride. I LOVE Millennium Force and Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point, and it irritates me that I can't get myself to ride Drop Tower.

What can I do to not be so scared, and what rides here in Ohio are similar that I can ride to maybe help with my fear?

Answer 1

Medatate ...  Serioulsy Its Good For You!

Answer 2

Maybe this ride just isnt for you.  You dont need to beable to go on every ride, but you do need to be ok with waiting in line with your friends/family and then not going.  What I would say to you if you wanted to try it again would be 67 is not that fast.  You've gone way faster in a car just think of it like that.  There are WAY more car accidents in a day then coaster accidnets in 10 years!  Try and think of it like that.  That should help if not thats ok if you dont want to go its a 3 sec ride so wait for your friends.  Its only probably a min by the time they get on and off and up and down!   Good luck.

Answer 3

Drop towers like Drop Tower always instill a fear in me, and I will ride anything.  Unlike some other rides where you get used to the feeling, I have learned I will never get over the anxiety freefall rides like that give me.  I don't know where it comes from, but it's there.

So I've learned to live with it because I walk away still loving what I experienced.  Just doesn't have the edge that it had the first time I rode it, and had no idea what to expect.  I look at it as "repeated thrills," whereas other rides you've ridden so many times no longer "scare" you, it just becomes fun.