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Oops. Did you try again, and if so, how did that work out?

I'm afraid to ask: what happened?

Thank you for being bold enough to say what I was thinking but not willing to say myself. jcgoble3, who needs to stop biting on stuff like that

^ Now imagine a person not wearing glasses of some kind taking that bug directly to the eye. That does not sound fun.

I prefer SoundHound for song identification, though I haven't tried it at this show.

Absolutely not, especially when we don't even have official word yet as to the actual cause or a re-opening date.

Honest question so I can learn more about coasters: before it got upstop wheels, how did the train not fly off the track when cresting one of those powerful airtime hills?

I believe that's called a "support".

I shanked my kick into the netting on the right side. Just another reason why soccer is purely a spectator sport for me.

What LoraX said. Also, Diamondback will allow it in line, but will not allow it on the ride. If you bring it in line there, you will have to leave it in a bin in the station while you ride. EDIT: And yes, cargo shorts are a far better option. Look for a pair with zipper pockets, or thread up a sewing machine and add zippers yourself (or have someone you know do it).

A person recovering from a mildly sprained ankle four or five days ago certainly shouldn't be climbing 12 stories of stairs yet, but is perfectly capable of walking on flat ground, standing on the trapdoor, and going down the slide. Why should that person be excluded? There are probably other medical conditions that would preclude climbing all those stairs but would not preclude riding, and that would potentially bring the ADA and its requirement for "reasonable accommodations" into play. An elevator certainly seems like a reasonable accommodation to me.

Suit yourself. Given the choice between a 5-minute wait after climbing 12 stories of stairs or a 20-minute wait with no stair-climbing, I'll take the latter.

How about a lot taller and add a trapdoor release, like Deep Water Dive at KK? I loved that slide and would have ridden it multiple times if the stairs up weren't murder on my legs. Here's an idea: queue on the ground and have a employee-operated elevator to take riders to the top in small groups. (I feel like that has been mentioned recently here on KIC but can't remember by whom or in what thread.)

Love it!

Sounds like you did what you could to make the best of a not-so-great day. Sometimes that's all you can do. I hope you can make it back before the end of the summer season! Two tips for your next visit: 1. If possible, pick a weekday with an 8:00pm closing. You won't get fireworks or night rides, but the park will be essentially dead and you'll have plenty of time to ride everything you want to multiple times. 2. The magic seat on Vortex is 5-1. That means first row of the fifth car, which is marked on the station floor as row 9. 5-1 is the row around which Vortex was designed, and the difference in roughness and head-banging between that seat and any other seat is like night and day.

Back on the evening of the Soak City luau, before regular closing, I was walking up the secluded path from Zoom Flume's splash pool when I encountered a mom and two boys on the side of the path, with one of the boys peeing ON THE PATH. Not even in the grass to the side, but directly on the concrete. And it wasn't a small boy either; he looked to be about ten years old. Mom was actually LAUGHING about it. I just gave them a glare and walked on as fast as I could.

^ The source for that blurb is USA Today, found here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/27/ohio-amusement-park-ride-cable-snaps/13238009/ That article is much more well-written. The Daily Beast misinterpreted a few things in that article.

...now listed on the park map as Raging Rapids: Coming in 2015!

^ And the second comment is an RCT screenshot of an unfinished coaster sending its cars flying through the air. I'm not sure whether to laugh or shake my head.

http://www.cleveland.com/travel/index.ssf/2014/07/witness_to_skyhawk_accident_at.html

This article has been updated with some new information.

Referring to this thread: http://pointbuzz.com/Forums/Thread/30975.aspx

I just did a Google News search for "Cedar Point Skyhawk", and got nothing of relevance.

A friend of mine is reporting on Facebook that a cable snapped on Skyhawk at Cedar Point tonight and that there are injuries. Anybody here know if this is true or have a link to more information? (EDIT: Removed the question mark from the title, now that this has been confirmed.)

I think that was his way of "deleting" a double post.