teenageninja

If you liked Big Thunder Mountain and Mummy you would enjoy Mystic Timbers, I would think.

If you are going either way, I absolutely would pay for the upgrade to Fast Lane Plus. This will be one of the busiest Saturday's of the summer, especially with the more mild temperatures.

I think you'd be hard pressed to see the park remove Vortex unless it developed a serious structural issue, or part prices escalating. It is one of the higher capacity rides in the park.

The last time I rode Mystic Timbers, the ride op said "Thank you for riding Mean Streak".

Boredom doesn't necessitate doing a bad job does it?

Consider the bridge built. I am still wondering why you think talking on a microphone and saying "Enjoy your day at Cedar Point, America's Rock N Rollercoast" is a detriment to your safety. If you don't like it, wear ear plugs.

I never said anything about lack of paying attention. I was merely saying that it helps to motivate to work quicker, not to the point of being unsafe. Have you ever worked at the park? A lot of these kids are working 50+ hours a week, so yes something as stupid as joking around on the microphone can improve the quality of their day. I've seen a lot of posts complaining about how slow certain crews have been, so it is a double edged sword. Do you want them to work at the pace of snails or do you want them to work at an appropriate pace? I assume you would complain if they appear to be working "slow".

I think you guys are taking this stuff a little too seriously. The job that the ride ops do is very tedious and repetitive. It isn't easy by any stretch of the imagination. Having the opportunity to spiel and say things as a joke was one of the bright spots of the job. If the ride ops are happy, capacity goes up and your wait goes down. If you beat them into boring submission, they have very little incentive to push to get capacity up. It's a double edged sword.

Always hard to predict, but the Spirit Song days are some of the busiest the park has throughout the year.

She likely doesn't know anything, especially not this early in the game.

Could it have triggered during the launch causing the ride to not have enough momentum to make it to the brake run?

You are right, it is no Maverick right? SOB was trash. The hill had absolutely no airtime whatsoever, it was rough, not re-rideable, and not reliable. Not to mention its safety record.

I live 7.25 miles from Great American Ball Park (as the crow flies) and I can hear the fireworks they set off.

I rode Diamondback while it was in the testing phase as well as IJ:ST before it opened while I was an associate at the park.

I can assure you that most of the ride crew has already ridden the ride, if they had training this past weekend.

You mean Mary Fessler? Source: Picture I took from WCPO.

The reason the first row has more room is the length of the car. The front of the car has a point on Vortex which allows more leg room.

I would imagine for this season they will have a line splitter at the top of the station, which that person's responsibility will be to look for loose items.

You would be jealous, I look at KI out my office window.

One would assume that they have hired an outside company, who that is, we likely won't know until after the fact.

Working during Haunt, not specifically in the Haunts themselves, is usually very stressful as the hours are late and the park is extremely busy on Saturdays. Haunt Fridays aren't terrible nor are the Sundays following.

Oh well. I remembered hearing that at some point, must have missed when it was clarified.

As said above, CF made the recommendation (likely due to insurance reasons) to turn recaR around, due to PTC recommending the trains not be run backwards.

It will not turn back around, unless PTC specifically states that it is ok to run their trains backwards.

Highly doubtful. Especially on a Friday.