Janie

Facebook nearly universally hated this concept and you guys seem to love it. I'm going to go with "average age of user" as the defining difference. See, when we shell out our $170 for Platinum Passes at the beginning of the season, we do it as a family. Our Cedar Fair investment is our summer entertainment. Period. We have jobs, so we don't often make it during the week. We try to confine the bulk of our visits to the beginning of the season if we can, so we can get as much in at a time as possible. However, we do often find ourselves in the park on Saturday or Holidays. I think this is going to make the lines a nightmare. Especially while the staff is learning how to execute it. To a teenager who has a Gold Pass paid for by Mom and Dad, they're not going to mind shelling out $50 of their lawn mowing money for a day skipping lines. I just think that's crap while my WHOLE FAMILY would renew our passes year after year. They push season passes because we're the people who keep the park in the business. Selling this as an add-on to season passes would have been awesome. As it stands, it's just a slap in the face to people who shell out the cash year after year to support the parks. A friend of mine on Facebook pointed our how silly it seemed to be worked up about something so trivial, I responded that I take two things very seriously. Pie and roller coasters. Cedar Fair better not mess with my pie.

I don't know that I've ever actually posted here, but I read constantly. I just read about this on Facebook and I'm all riled up. We love being Platinum Pass holders and the opportunity to hop between Cedar Point and KI all summer, but this is just insulting to the people who support the park year after year. If you're a Platinum holder and people can skip line AHEAD of you, that's kind of a slap in the face. This makes it a lot easier to just pick Holiday World next year and be done with it. We'll get our one yearly visit to KI out of the way early in the season to avoid the lines entirely.

I've been a couple of times this summer. I'm about 2 inches taller and 10 lbs. heavier than you are. I didn't pass the test seat for Diamondback. I'm, um, chesty and couldn't get the belt to click on Vortex. I was cool on Invertigo. I was fine on Delirium. I didn't even try Firehawk. I've ridden Beast with the current restraint in the past and I can ride it but it's a squeeze and really uncomfortable. Stunt Coaster is fine. If you can't get enough clicks, have your riding partner stand up and push down a ton. I mostly don't even try to ride a lot of rides as I dread the "walk of shame". But I know for a fact that you're fine on the ones I listed. Just have fun and try all the restraints you're not afraid to try. I'm just a chicken to try them in front of a bunch of people.