cholderfield

In addition to the large I already voted for, I'd like to order an XL as well.

Love old threads...highlights for me:

The raft is constantly spinning and moving around, so which side is the right side?

Columbus OH is forecasted to be in the 95-100 degree range on Thursday and Friday. Gonna be a hot couple of days!

First of all, Kings Island is owned by Cedar Fair. Secondly, Kings Island and Cedar Point are two very different parks with different park guests and expectations. Cedar Point has been known as "roller coaster capital of the world" for years- Kings Island, Canada's Wonderland, etc. have not. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if we were only comparing Cedar Point and Kings Island, Cedar Point would be considered a destination park while Kings Island would be considered a regional park.

Yep. You're right. We need Skyhawk at CP. It looks really fun, but I've never been on it. SkyHawk is defintely my favorite flat- it was the first ride of the day on my first trip to Cedar Point this year- such a rush!

I saw the show when I went to the park on Thursday. I thought it was very entertaining and fun. I really like watching the shows at the park, but the musical revues all start to blend together and aren't really worth seeing multiple times. I did really enjoy British Invasion, which I also saw for the first time on Thursday, but I'm pretty sure that's because I'm a big Beatles fan... Anyways, I think the park needs more shows like this- not necessarily magic, but something other than the 60s 70s 80 etc music revues....

After my visit yesterday, I was offered three choices at level one (free poporn, cotton candy, or ride on "king's island" thunder alley)...thats after three visits and about $50 spent on food/merch.

maybe i'm a little to willing to hand out likes...but the last two pages have been full of it... "You have reached your quota of positive votes for the day"

I was at the park today, didn't make it in the gate until a little after 9:30, went straight back to Diamondback and rode it two times before 10am.

"You're hanging there with that harness, hanging, hoping that they don't throw the wrong switch and the harness open up," said Ray Reichardt. Love it!

I am kind of surprised to see Kings Island and Cedar Point listed as the same attendance figures (p. 22 and 23). I wonder if Cedar Fair gives an average for all of their parks???

I think i'll be taking a trip to the park tomorrow; I'll have to ride Flight Deck in the front seat. To be honest, I don't know that I have! I'll also try Terp's suggestion of seat 5-1 for Vortex.

I completely agree; Maverick is front seat only. I still have a lot of parks I'd like to visit, but of the ones I've been to Maverick is definitely a favorite in the front seat.

I'm sure it was packed, considering its a holiday weekend. With temperatures in the 90s. At a water park. Hopefully your next trip is more enjoyable

My wife refuses to ride it...I'll have to save that for a personal trip

My wife and I decided to take a trip to Cedar Point. We left Monday night and were planning on staying at The Maples Motel, but we got there later than we thought we would (11:45pm) and nobody was in the office. So we decided to drive a little further down (closer to the park) and stay at the 4-star hotel known as Howard Johnson. Maverick experience quite a bit of downtime. We got back to the line at around 9:30am for ERT and it was closed. We waited until about 10 but they weren't even running empty trains yet. We thought we'd go ride Mean Streak instead, but we walked over to the line and was told it didn't open until 11, which I thought was strange but I wasn't too disappointed. Went and rode SkyHawk, no wait- awesome ride, I love it every time. Continued through Frontier Town and rode Millennium Force (30 minute wait). On a side note, it was the first time I rode from the first hill on with my hands up. The speed and height of this ride still gets me every time. We walked up to the front of the park and rode Raptor, I think it was about a 30 minute wait. Next we headed to MaxAir, we looked to have about a 5 minute wait, but a person on the previous ride got sick on the ride so we ended up waiting for 15-20 minutes for them to clean and run the ride a few times. Still worth the wait, of course Took a short break and went to Pink's for the first time- we both got a chili cheese dog and shared an order of onion rings and a Gatorade. The total was $20, which seemed excessive, but the hot dogs were very good and we were full. Walked to Wicked Twister, no wait and rode in the back. Next we headed for Magnum. I think it was only about a 5 minute wait. I love the ride, but those last few hills at the end kill my legs every time. I read some suggestions online to tighten the seat belt, but I hate feeling strapped in to the ride. Instead, I placed my hands between my legs and the lap bar and that helped big time. I think its the first time I walked off the ride with my legs NOT throbbing in pain Gemini had a very short wait, less than 5 minutes and only running the red train. Enjoyable ride as always. We decided to head back to Maverick. The posted wait time was 1 hr 45 minutes, which was very surprising considering how slow the rest of the lines were. The line was pretty far out, filling up over half of the outer queues, but once we got closer we realized that none of the inner queues were open. So in reality, by the time we got up to the platform it had been about 40 minutes. We got in line for the 2nd train, 1st seat and were about 3-4 trains away from getting on...when the ride went down again! Luckily, it didn't last for too long, I think we only waited another 20 minutes. I absolutely love this ride. After that,we stopped at the Gourmet Pretzel shop close to Magnum and enjoyed a pretzel. I had to work early this morning, so we decided to head home from there. It was definitely an enjoyable day, and probably the smoothest and slowest day I've ever been to Cedar Point. The weather great, if not a little on the chilly side. It was very cloudy until around 3-4 when the sun started to peak through. Low-to-mid 60s for most of the day. The only negative was the Maverick downtime during ERT, in hindsight, we should have went over to MF and went around a few times. Employees were all helpful and friendly. Can't wait until our next trip!

As has been stated previously, the ride is back open. I was at the park yesterday and it was running.

My wife and I went to Cedar Point on Tuesday and rode WindSeeker. It was our first time riding it at Cedar Point and we had only ridden it once prior at Kings Island. But to me, it didn't seem like the seats came as close together as they did on my previous ride. Hopefully Kings Island's WindSeeker will be open soon...

I did that on Friday, no problem. The voucher can be used for one entry to the park (parking and admission).

If the rest of the season continues to be executed in the same fashion as what I (and others) experienced yesterday, there is a lot to look forward to for this park and the rest of Cedar Fair. Friendly staff, great ride experiences, great food (didn't try anything yesterday so that one is still up in the air for me) will lead to the "best day ever" experience.

I meant to check it out yesterday, but I didn't even think to look because I tend to completely ignore vending machines for fear of them reeling me (and my dollars) in...

I agree with all the above; I only rode it once yesterday, but it wasn't nearly as rough as I remember it being. Its not Diamondback smooth, but for The Beast and for a wooden roller coaster that old, it was a great ride. Sometimes its hard to gauge one season to the next, especially when ride comfort can vary by seat, train, weather, etc, but I did notice a lot of new wood along the track.

It didn't seem bad at all to me today, I rode in the last seat, front seat, and I believe the 4th row. I felt some vibrations, but I can't really say that they are "worse" than they were when the ride opened. Is it normal for that to happen after a few years, and if so can anything be done by the park to stop it from happening?

Weather ended up being great today, I left around 12:30 but the radar still looks fairly clear with a few scattered storms west of Cincinnati. I wrote a brief TR in the other topic for 5-4 (wait times for 5-4) http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?/topic/25461-wait-times-for-5-4/