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Not really, maybe a bit for a Monday, but still, that's pretty bad for a ride with long dispatch intervals. Dispatches have been slow overall with at least one person training at nearly all the bigger rides.

For some reason Beast has been dispatching half empty trains when it has a 40+ minute wait.

^Overrated? Yes, but, its still my favorites among chain parks. Only a hair above KI IMO, mainly due to better ride ops and ride variety (sans wooden coasters), especially in the non-coaster department. Also, I love me some Lake Erie. Also also IMO- SteVe is currently my favorite steel coaster, Magnum>DB, Millennium Force>Orion, GateKeeper, Raptor, and Rougarou are top notch (yep, I like Rougarou), Maverick, also overrated IMO, is still really good, and I even have soft spots for the rest of their line up. The only coaster I have slight negative notions to is Corkscrew due to how confined the trains feel, but even it makes up for it with the simple layout and iconic midway corkscrews. Gemini and Iron Dragon are criminally underrated. CCMR is still fun despite being smaller, and Blue Streak is a classic. Valravn is a bit boring aside from the 2 vertical drops, but its nice to look at. EDIT: Another one of my goals is to explore downtown Port Clinton a bit more. Seems like a pleasant place just to walk around and relax. Getting an early start out of Ft Wayne so I can get some R&R in before 2 days at CP and a downtown Cleveland excursion.

^Maybe they pasted in the CW Bat wait time...

How has CP been so far this season aside from the 420 ft paperweight?

CP's was also at the height of covid.

Still active in looking for the new IB coaster updates, and going by what limited info I've come across, there's a slim chance I may get to ride it, but I'm still not hopeful.

Hurler isn't all that rough, its just drawn out and boring.

If anything, most CF park entrance redesigns have made them smaller.

^Try riding a stand up, even a smaller one, after a full day walking through a park and you'll understand. Also, designs for the 'seat' may be disadvantageous to the men out there. Standing up also doesn't allow for you to brace against the restraints very well either. Its a very rigid way to ride a coaster.

Just out of curiosity, any weird snafus at Cedar Point this season aside from the 420 ft paperweight? Also, I'm pretty much writing off riding the Schwarzkopf at IB, at least going by updates I'm reading. Maybe I'll get lucky?

Mondial Top Scan, S&S Screamin' Swing, or a smaller HUSS Top Spin please.

Just ran the expenses as if I had my full plans in mind- I can still add in Indiana Beach. Also, the R&R HOF is still under covid restrictions with masks and limited capacity (don't mind). I will wait until the week of to buy that ticket as weather weighs heavily in fitting in 2 days at the Point of Cedar. Itinerary- Sun, July 24- Leave Cincy and go straight to Indiana Beach open to close, stay in Ft Wayne Mon. July 25- Ft Wayne to Port Clinton, explore PC, Lake Erie Tuesday, July 26-Thursday July 28- Cedar Point 2 days and Cleveland/R&RHOF (weather will dictate how it goes because CP weather policies) Will be bringing swim wear for Lake Erie, likely use at CP for the day I choose to do the water rides Who knows, maybe I'll be going late enough in the summer to avoid hitting mayflies

I was at the park once when Britney Spears performed, and the park was walk on city when she was performing.

One thing I hope they look into with Timberwolf now is inviting some area community bands to play. There are a TON that play over the summer and they're all pretty decent.

^How would anyone know right now? There have only been 2 counting today.

^Listen, all time starts in 1972.

With gas prices going up, I am trying to weigh something to give up this year in order to keep Indiana Beach. I may be giving up going to UC football games sans Homecoming to go.

^Obviously to build The Vortex replacement. Cranes and Cliffords are for pansies now.

Wiki says Southern yellow pine.

^He laid it out in the post.

^The times we do try to get KICers to meet up during events like opening and closing day, things like that, its usually just me, malem, IndyGuy, pianoman, and Chris (I forget his username here now), maybe gator every once in a while, and we're lucky to get one extra KICer to show up or meet up with us during the day. KIC meet ups aren't what they used to be 7-8+ years ago.

Holy crap its wanting to become Son of Beast. SOB had a similar yellow and red alternate paint scheme on the front of the original trains.

The 'removed for future expansion' line sounds like a go-to line rather than anything involving actual expansion, especially considering they gave it on the second try.