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I hear ya! This year on Cedar Point opening day, I rode Magnum XL-200 in heavy rain with the trim off. Tom76257 and I also rode Legend at Holiday World in a raging downpour. Those rides were extremely cold and painful.. but I won't hesitate to say I'd definitely do it again. Have also ridden: Maverick at CP during an approaching storm, Millennium Force at CP in light rain (youch!), got my 100th ride on DB in a downpour.. And my BEST ride EVER: Voyage during HoliWood Nights 09, at night in the pitch black, with lightning bolts flashing in the sky, on a wet track, and the train FLYING over the MCBR as if it weren't even there. NOTHING has even come close to topping that one.

I went to Cedar Point on closing day for the past two years. Try riding Millennium Force and Magnum XL-200 in November temps with a significant breeze blowing off of Lake Erie. Even with 2 layers of socks, leggings under my pants, gloves, an insulated hat, 2 long sleeved shirts, a sweater, and a down coat.. I was STILL cold. But yes.. I would really like a ride on Voyage right about now.. or Maverick..

Oh I have just as much fun at zoos, aquariums, and nature preserves as I do at amusement parks. I am absolutely in love with nature, and historic landmarks. In fact, I enjoyed the St Louis Arch 10 times more than I enjoyed Six Flags STL.. no, I'm not joking. I'm sort of a live for the moment kind of girl, but I also like to have some things planned out. That's why I'm asking for advice on where I should go. Most of the long coaster trips will likely be done with a group so we can all save money. I just recently became enthusiast, and I LOVE to travel to new parks to see what they have to offer. I HIGHLY doubt I will burn out any time soon.. I'm just getting started!

(well, we ALL know I need help, but that's not the point here ) I plan to visit several new parks in 2010. Please see my signature for parks I wish to visit. This is actually a smaller list that has been narrowed down! I would really like to know the good things and the bad things about any or all of these parks. I've done exhaustive research only to find that there are more and more parks around the parks I want to visit. I'm at a point where I just want opinions, I am overwhelmed with the amount of parks that are out there. I don't know where to start mapping out what parks.. the ones I want to go to, the ones to hit along the way, the ones I might pass up along the way.. aaahh! My biggest wish for next year is Worlds of Fun. I know for a fact that I want to go to Hershey, SFGAdv, Lakemont, and Indiana Beach. Carowinds and KD are a given. I am really not sure what the others have to offer. As much as I enjoy coasters (woodies being my favorite!), I do care about landscaping/scenery, park layout, quality of food, pricing of food and admission, what shows are worth seeing, quality of service, any special offers they may have, and anything else you feel is worth mentioning. Any and all help is appreciated. Feel free to be honest and give details. Thank you VERY MUCH.

My favorite was the Days of Thunder. That was and is still one of my favorite movies, so I really enjoyed that one. The James Bond was good too. I liked it when Action Theater actually had action movies in it.

I added it to my favorites too! That was entertaining. I like that the CP/CF staff has a sense of humor.

Gabriel, that right there is why I love you. I too was a bit shocked when I heard the news that CF had been sold, but I quickly got over it. I didn't expect a sale to come this soon. IMO, we need to have faith that these guys know what they are doing. CF is a very high profile and very large company. Apollo has to know what they are dealing with. At least CF is calling out for help with their debt any way they can, instead of continuing to dig themselves into a hole like Six Flags is.

Kind of not shocked, but I didn't see it coming this soon. Who the heck is Apollo Mgt anyway? Glad I didn't buy my CF platinum pass yet. I hope these people know what they are doing.

Nick, why wouldn't that be a good idea? SOAR was held the same day as the KIC DB tour this year. Unless there was a problem I wasn't aware of at either event, both events ran smoothly. I was at both events. I honestly don't think it matters where we hold it or what day it is, unless there's some kind of beef between ACE and KIC that I'm not aware of, which if there is, that is immature, not to mention laughable.. aren't we all here for the same reason? Ryan, my vote is yes for EnterTrainment Junction. I remember Bill Mefford speaking about the place at ACE Winter SOAR last year. It seems like a very interesting not to mention historic place. I just never went there, even though I've been wanting to.

I like it. It has a cleaner, brighter, and more organized look. Just gave it a whirl on my BlackBerry Curve 8330.. I found the menu to be more user friendly, and easier to navigate. I give the new KIC an A+. Great job, guys!

Obviously you have never been on GCI's Millennium Flyer trains. It's like tiny sofas on wheels.. and yes, it made the ride experience better. I don't ride uncomfortable, painful, shaky roller coasters that jackhammer me to the point where I drink out of a bottle of Aleve. That to me is NOT thrilling. If the comfort of the riders wasn't taken into consideration, then it should never have been built in the first place. This is also why I stay off that monstrosity known as Mean Streak at CP. KI has plenty of coasters that don't make me feel like I may as well have climbed into a wooden barrel and rolled down a rocky mountainside.

You're hilarious.

Steel coasters fall into a completely different category.. I do not mix wood and steel in my top 10, nor do I mix them in comparisons to each other. Apples and oranges, my friend.

I'm a firm believer in the fact that some coasters don't have to have a large footprint to be the best. SoB and Mean Streak are both significantly tall wooden coasters with a large footprint. They both also put me in quite a bit of pain. I understand that SoB's height was built to break a record, but I have a hard time believing that they took guest comfort into consideration when it was built. I understand that there are some who enjoy it, but from what I gather, there is a significantly larger percentage of people who don't enjoy it, including those who have been injured on it. Look at GCI for a perfect example of why wooden coasters don't need to be record breakers to be the best. Evel Knievel at Six Flags STL is a perfect example of this. It has a height of only 88 feet and a compact layout, yet it was one of the most mind blowing wooden coasters I've been on. With that said, I will say as nicely as I can that I've come to realize that my daily life will go on no matter what SoB's fate ends up being. Leave the creativity and ingenuity to GCI and TGG, and stop trying to build ridiculously prominent wooden coasters with little to no foresight as to how well it will ride. Some may be offended by and/or disagree with what I've said, but that's how I feel about it.

Every time I've ever been to CP on a scheduled ERT (I went to both CM and Maverick ERT night this year), let me tell you, it was ridiculous how long the lines were. At HWN, and the other 4 times I went this year, I can remember ONE line, ONE time that we really had to wait for a coaster. Every other time I went, every coaster was practically a station wait every time. The ERT during HWN was terrific. Station waits for every coaster. Go ahead, go to CM if you want long, long lines and poorly planned ERT that overlaps with the behind the scenes tours, when you can go on any cloudy Sunday and get more rides in on that Sunday than you will ever dream about getting during one of CP's ERT events. I'm going to HoliWood Nights, and that is final.

http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/fun/blog/...db-2fbfcedb0310 So let me get this straight. They decide to move DD to KBF, and you guys get mad that it's going to be so far away, which was understandable.. KBF is well over 2,000 miles from CP. It was about to go to the other side of the country. Then they decide to move it to Dorney, which is less than 500 miles away from CP, and also could be done on a PA coaster trip or on the way to SFGAdv. It's in the next state over. And you guys are STILL mad? Wow.

Hit the refresh button. It does that to me sometimes too.

Go to their profile and look at their posts. Except for this one, all of their posts pertain to the topic being discussed.. how is that spamming?

Bolliger's speech will likely be on YouTube the next day. It's HoliWood Nights for me, without a doubt. As much as I love Cedar Point: I was nonplussed with the ERT scheduling this year, and next year it doesn't look any better. I was also baffled and annoyed by the fact that the lines for ERT were outrageous. CP was a ghost town when I went on July 5.. EVERY QUEUE was completely empty, if not a 5 minute wait. I got a total count of 36 rides in 13 hours, and still had time for a walk on the beach. I don't need a special event, I just need a cloudy Sunday or Tuesday with a chance of rain. With all due respect to CP, CoasterMania just isn't worth it to me.

Going through Trail of Terror and Massacre Manor with Ryan (BoddaH1994) and Gabriel (Captain Nemo) torturing me and picking on me while my dad just watched and laughed Also going to Haunt with Tom (Tom76257) and David (Dvo) aka feeling VERY short while walking between two guys over 6' tall (I'm only 5'5), and being the target of all the scareactors regardless of the fact that I had 2 extremely tall guys with me Oh, and can't forget running into a certain stalker at Urgent Scare rawr, she was hot hahaha

I chose Mav because as much as I love so many other coasters, 95% of the time the wait is 10 minutes or less for my favorites. The only time I've seen a huge wait for Magnum was on a Saturday during a holiday weekend, or HalloWeekends. I have noticed that as the day wears on, Voyage's line gets shorter and shorter. DB's line moves quickly too, and so does Raptor's. I lost count of how many times I was able to run all the way through the queue to the station and jump right on a seat on coasters at KI, CP, and HW. I go to parks on cloudy Sundays or Tuesdays, or when there's a chance of bad weather.. it's SO WORTH IT to drive 3-4 hours to see a deserted parking lot, and running to your favorite coaster to see that the only people there are ride ops, waiting for someone to come ride

Maverick at Cedar Point. It always has at least an hour wait, and even during ERT it fills up quickly.

Give your ID to me. I'll do it.

I dream of flats too.