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Touché. So let me ask my question without the does anyone know. What is the name of the song that plays on the first lift hill on The Beast or was it composed just for the ride?

Yes to which part of my question?

Yeah it was a blast during rwcw. I actually liked it better than the tomb raider program. I didn't like the part in tomb raider where it just hung you face down for several seconds as it slowly lowered you to the lava effect.

I'm sure someone has answered this but searching on my iPhone is next to impossible. Does anyone know if the music that plays on the first lifthill for The Beast was made just for the ride or is it from something else?

I thought I would give the crypt a try after reading this post. I was hopeful it wouldn't be too bad since many here didn't like the last program which I really liked. I think you all gave the new program too much credit. It was really really bad. There are no more spins which made this ride so much fun. After all isn't it called top spin? It is nothing more than a large tommy tour ride now.

You might think that, but you wouldn't necessarily be right. Tornadoes are strange beasts, and can totally demolish everything in their path, while leaving other things totally untouched.... Plus, it's not just wind it is flying debris.

How odd is it that we were just talking about this yesterday. It looks like the park is empty after looking at the webcam. Does anyone know if they shut down early or is everyone in shelters?

I love the pic of Don looking at The Vortex.

I ended up talking to that lady later that night, her daughter was telling us the story about it. Apparently last weekend, her daughter nabbed a low-flying hat, so the whole family are now heroes! That is funny. I got a laugh yesterday over a sock under one of the bunny hills on the way back and a flip flop on the chain fence under the brakes before the station. People lose the most random things on rides!

I was wearing a green polo but left to drive home to Louisville around 4.

Oh, BTW was that Captain Nemo on the mic in the station of DB? Great job pumping up the crowd!

Hi Mark, Great seeing you today!

Today was a really fun day. I think I got about 10-15 rides in on DB and 1 of each for everything else. I too was impressed by the amount of powder they poured in the station from sick people. I was also sad at how many flats were closed and Scooby Doo

Did anyone see this? http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/fun/blog/...6d-a9b6db3a7f94

Sorry if this has already been asked. I went back several pages and didn't see... Does anyone know what they have installed about a foot to the left and right of the track in the splashdown? Edit: It appears to be all around the track in the splashdown. Is it a fence?

From talk here, it seems as if they plan to keep the cam up and running showing various locations in the park. If this indeed the case I would expect the cam to get just as much traffic and maybe more. Once opening day hits and the park starts operating people are still going to want to see the other sights as well. Oh, and constant refreshing of a website is not a good thing, especially if lots of people are doing it. That just increases the load on the server even more. It gets so busy trying to handle all the requests that it has a hard time actually sending out the pages. Ever heard of DOS attacks or slashdotting? Yes clicking the refresh button just makes things worse. Plus there is javascript that executes every 5 seconds anyway to refresh the image so there really is no point to manually refreshing. I have the same issues as everyone else, but I just leave the browser alone and within a couple minutes I normally get lucky and see an image.

Are they getting ready to test three trains?

The thing that I am most excited about is how fast this ride is going to gobble up a queue line. I mean, with no seat belts and the seats at a comfortable height for employees to check restraints load time is going to be lightning fast. Plus with three trains I think the line might move as fast as Magnum. Does anyone know how many riders per hour magnum is capable of??

I'll let you post the one of the train going through the splashdown with water spraying. I haven't seen it yet but I'm sure we will.

Yes two trains, one in the station the other one at brakes.

Beat ya to it

Web cam just refreshed

Are they really filling it up with a garden hose?

The answer varies alot. For example, Chang at SFKK was originally painted yellow but it started flaking off the year it was installed. Soon after they painted it I believe purple and yellow but it faded after a year or two. 3 or 4 years ago they painted Chang yellow and blue and it is holding up very nice. Edit: I should add that I'm not implying the reason the blue and yellow paint job is holding up better is because of the color. In fact color probably doesn't have to do much with how well the paint holds up except you'll probably notice darker colors fading faster etc.

Those are not where paint has "flaked off." It's the welds from where the track section were welded together and then smoothed down. The touch up paint hasn't been applied yet and most likely won't be until just before opening. Thanks for the clarification. For some reason I thought the only thing keeping the sections of track together were bolts.