Customer Reviews

Here Comes a Roller Coaster [VHS]

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If you love Kid Vision/Dave Hood videos, you will be disappointed with this one. My family owns 16 different Kid Vision/Dave Hood videos: "There Goes a (Bull Dozer, Dump Truck, Fire Engine, Airplane, Train, Police Car, Mail Truck, etc.). They are generally both entertaining and educational. I expected the same from "Here Comes a Roller Coaster". Although my 5-year-old son found it entertaining, there was little educational value to this video. There was no discussion of how rides are designed, built, or maintained. It focused its entire attention on riding rides at Six Flags amusement parks. My son now says he loves Six Flags and wants to go there, which I think was the whole point of this particular video. "Here Comes a Roller Coaster" is, in my opinion, a 30-minute commercial for Six Flags.

We have much anticipated this installment of Dave and his great videos. We have enjoyed the video and have played it often. All of Dave's videos are fantastic.

This is not a great video at all. The only reason I bought it for my 3 year old is because he is so into rollercoasters right now. The heavy metal music in the background that only occasionally swithces to CLASSICAL is about to drive me bonkers, and I'm in the other room!!! It has a bad story line and to me encourages kids to get upset with their parents if they have to work instead of taking them to Six Flags. I've put this movie away.

If you love Kid Vision/Dave Hood videos, you will be disappointed with this one. My family owns 16 different Kid Vision/Dave Hood vidoes: "There Goes a (Bull Dozer, Dump Truck, Fire Engine, Airplane, Train, Police Car, Mail Truck, etc.). They are generally both entertaining and educational. I expected the same from "Here Comes a Roller Coaster". Although my 5-year-old son found it entertaining, there was no educational value to this video. There was no discussion of how rides are designed, built, or maintained. It focused its entire attention on riding rides at Six Flags amusement parks. My son now says he loves Six Flags and wants to go there, which I think was the whole point of this particular video. "Here Comes a Roller Coaster" is, in my opinion, a 30-minute commercial for Six Flags.

It's a sort of a good movie, even though i haven't seen it since i was about 6 or 7. I loved roller coasters back then. If the person, who is going to watch it, gets a adrenaline rush through watch roller coasters on screen go and buy. Yes it did make me want to go to Six Flags. I finally got to go in July 2003. It was great!!! So there is some good in the movie. Bad Music!!!

This video has zero educational value. It is just a long commercial for 6 Flags which shows all of the attractions at their theme park.

There was a lot of potential for a video about roller coasters. There could have been scientific tidbits about centrifugal force or how roller coasters affect our senses and bodies. They could have talked about how roller coasters are designed or given a close up look at the mechanics of a roller coaster. The other "There goes..." videos from KidVision have always had humor and silly antics, but also taught children something about the profession or vehicle which was the topic of the video. This video has no redeeming value. What a sell-out. I wonder what will be next in the series...maybe "Here Comes a Chevy Suburban"???