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Taken straight from the Cedar Point website: I have also seen people unable to fasten their own seatbelt, so they were told they could not ride, and had to exit the ride platform. Many of the ride ops at CP also announce this on their safety spiels as you are getting in the train.

I have my renewal voucher right here on my desk for my platinum, great deal for people like me who love both CP and KI. I made a wonderful 13 trips to KI this year, including opening day, and rode 3 rides that I'd never ridden before. 2 of those days were terribly crowded.. the rest were like the park was waiting for me. However, instead of spending closing day at KI, I will be at the Point, after being harassed by several friends who are going as well, including CP employees (my 7th trip this year!). I hope you all have a wonderful closing day at KI, and I can't wait to read the TRs and PTRs when I come back.

In the words of another theme park chain: Wishes! Send in the cranes There ought to be cranes And soon enough, it will BE next year! Terpy (you thought he forgot!) In the words of BoddaH1994: epic bump. Angie, who dishes it out just as well as she takes it

Sorry. I still love you guys. I just tend to get a little irritated sometimes when facts are constantly misrepresented.

You took the words right out of my mouth, I was about to get mad and defend my precious Millie. I laugh at those who compare DB to MF.. DB is a LOT closer to Nitro and Behemoth.. I had the impression that all coaster enthusiasts knew this..

Supports? They're building a coaster?!

I second that. It is worth the 3 hour drive from where I sit. I'm going on closing day (after being harassed by many ), and I don't care if it's so cold I have to wear a down coat and gloves. (hey, I made it to enthusiast status! w00t!)

My boss doesn't like amusement parks, but her kids do. I've been at my job almost 6 years, I'd rather not risk getting fired over something like that.

The look on my dad's face on his first ride on TTD was priceless.

I don't have my 09 pass yet, but I wrote "2008" on the back of my 08 pass, right next to my signature. I will definitely be able to tell the difference between old and new even if I didn't do that. My 08 pass is bent, worn and scratched from using it so much this year.. I went to KI 13 days and CP 10 days!

Seriously? Now that I think of it, someone at CP asked me if Maverick went upside down.. and they were looking right at the track. Some people shouldn't be allowed outside.

I've been so tired that I yawned while waiting for the launch on TTD. I sure woke up in a hurry, though.

I'm not a SOB fan. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I don't like having a headache and a backache after riding a coaster. If I want to ride tall, extremely fast coasters that won't give me a beating, I'll take the extra time and drive to CP.

I love the roar/hum it makes as it hits the brakes at the the bottom. That never fails to give me chills, no matter what the temperature is outside.

CF platinum passholder here! Had the Maxx Pass last year. Renewing it for '09, have the voucher right here on my desk.

I would go on Sundays, except I normally work 7 am to 3 pm, and it takes an hour for me to get down there.

I got off work at 3 pm, and decided to head down to Kings Island for the rest of the day. I was almost to downtown Dayton, when everyone slammed on their brakes.. not only was construction funneling traffic down to 2 lanes during one of the busiest times of the day, it was funneled down to ONE lane due to an accident. I was going about 3 mph for about 10 miles. Yay, what fun that was. I got to the park and managed to get a great spot in gold pass parking, in row 55, which I took as a good sign. I was very wrong. The first ride I hit was Invertigo. The queue was half full, and combined with the low capacity, I waited about 45 minutes. Ready for some G forces? I rode in the very front, as always. Then it was off to Drop Tower, as I was craving that adrenaline rush. I walked over to the queue and was horrified to see that it was almost completely full.. but I waited anyway. I waited close to an hour. It's only a 264 foot drop at 65 mph.. don't look so scared! Xtreme Skyflyer.. something I still haven't done yet. After I got that amazing Drop Tower rush, I headed over to Backlot Stunt Coaster partially because I wanted to get some Diamondback construction photos.. yes, I like BLSC, be quiet. I wanted to try and get some good photos for you while it was still light outside. My jaw literally dropped and I heard myself say "Oh my God" when I saw the massive supports and pieces of track pointing toward the sky. Photos do not do justice to this, not in the least. It's HUGE. Standing directly under the first drop! This is going to pull some Gs.. I can not wait until April 2009. Something Cedar Point doesn't have.. I waited about half an hour to ride BLSC, and went in the front seat. Crazy as it sounds, I almost lost my sunglasses to this ride (they were in my hoodie pocket). After that, I hit Vortex and went for the very second seat. I still love this ride. It was about half an hour to 45 minutes, odd since it's usually a walk on. I heard sirens, and saw people lining up for Urgent Scare. After I walked off Vortex, I saw that the line for Urgent Scare was backed up all the way to Zephyr. By this time, the park was so packed that it became a sea of people. I saw no spaces in the crowd whatsoever. In the 12 years I've been religiously visiting this park, I have never seen it that crowded. I wanted to do something to make my night worthwhile, as I had this nagging feeling I wouldn't get on many more rides. I wanted a good dose of adrenaline.. so I headed for my first ride on Slingshot. My ticket to ride! I waited an hour to ride it. That has to be one of the most amazing rides I've been on to date, and my first bungee cord ride. I have to admit that at one point my heart felt like it was going to pound out of my chest while waiting in line, but it was totally worth it. Thrilling, yet exhilarating at the same time.. and I kicked my feet and got the cage to do a few flips.. wheee!! Skyscraper at CP is still better, but Slingshot was pretty awesome, and I'd definitely do it again. After this, I went for some LaRosa's pizza. While sitting in the Festhaus, suddenly the place went dark and strobe lights appeared on the stage. Apparently I had arrived just in time for Ghouls Gone Wild. The singers were great and so were the costumes, and the fireworks really got my attention. I had a pic, but it's very blurry and you can hardly see anything. I headed back to Drop Tower to see that they had even turned the water tower into a haunted attraction. This ugly thing was at the base, and occasionally it would snap straight up and scare anyone standing in front of it. Who needs scare zones when you have this? It was really starting to get cold, but I didn't care, I wanted another ride on Drop Tower, so I stuck it out and waited the hour in line. After that, I headed to Delirium, but it was down, so I went back to Drop Tower. I looked at the full queue, saw that it was 11:15 pm, and wondered at this point if it was worth it. Drop Tower ended up breaking down, and I saw that Delirium was back up and running, so I headed for it. I was 2 rides away when they announced that it had broken down again. I ducked under the rails, and headed out of Action Zone. I'd had enough. I stopped by a gift shop on my way to the exit, and bought this shirt. I've pretty much been eyeing it all season, and had to have it. I looked at my phone to see that it was 43 degrees in Mason, and cranked up my heater as high as it would go. I left the park a little before midnight, and got home around 1 am. Ride count: Drop Tower - 2 Slingshot - 1 Invertigo - 1 BLSC - 1 Vortex - 1 6 rides in 7 1/2 hours.. If KI and/or CP is going to be that ridiculously crowded for what's left of the season, consider that my last trip this year. I had fun, but good grief.

It is hilarious what coaster n00bs will believe, isn't it? That hiss you hear as the train nears the hill is the noise from the magnetic brake fins popping back up on the launch part of the track, so that the train slowly and safely returns to the loading station in the event of a rollback, and I'm pretty sure I just quoted the signs in the queue. I won't ride something if I don't feel safe on it, and I have been on TTD more times than I can count.

I can't remember where I read this, but someone said that there's a certain way to make the cage spin like crazy while you're in the air. While on Skyscraper at Cedar Point this weekend, I figured out that if you point your legs forward, then tuck them under real fast and point your arms forward, you can get that seat to flip about 4 times. So I was wondering if there was a way to do that with Slingshot.

I have never in my life seen more bird poo on a coaster than the Raptor at CP. It looks like someone poured random buckets of white paint all over the supports.

I'm considering going to KI every day of every weekend until the park closes for the season.. hey, why not? Sadly, I won't be able to make it to CP again this year.. but I crammed in so much on my last trip this past weekend that I am honestly just glad I was able to go. My ride count was unreal, I met some really cool new people, did things I've never done before, and I took every trip tip that was given to me so that I could make the most out of everything.

This past weekend at Cedar Point, I got the glory of walking through Cornstalkers just as it was starting. It was very disorienting, you couldn't see anything through the fog. One of the monsters jumped directly in front of me and I literally jumped and screamed, something I rarely do. It happened a few more times. I thought I was going to have a mild coronary. Haunts are starting to grow on me. That's the second one that's made me jump out of my skin.

Haha.. I can be so mean. The kids behind me in line for Wicked Twister were getting REALLY annoying (yelling, jumping, practically body slamming me every minute).. so after the train came back down from the second backwards launch, I looked up at the spiral and loudly said "Wow, look at that thing swaying in the wind!" The looks on their face were priceless (It really does wobble though. Watch sometime). Stand behind Dragster and look at the curved part of the track below the twist, after the train hits the brake run. Look closely.. the track sways like a clothesline.

I have almost said Face/Off a few times instead of Invertigo. I love being a living park map too. I'll be in line in front of or behind first timers with a map fully opened, and they're thinking out loud about what to ride, how to get there, and they are completely lost. I can't help but jump in and politely help them out. I'll direct them to the rides they want to go to, ask them if they are thrillseekers or not, and then give them a good rundown of which rides to go on based on their response.

One of the last times at KI, someone was trying to convince me that S:ROS was 100 feet taller than MF and had a straight 90 degree drop, therefore it's faster. I love the wide-eyed looks on first time riders' faces when the ride ops in the Maverick station inform the riders that they are going to be dropping "95 DEGREES! STEEPER THAN STRAIGHT DOWN!"