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From looking on social media, most Cedar Point fans seem happy that one of the park’s signature rides is going to be running again after being on a multi season hiatus. I’m assuming they stuck with “Top Thrill” because it’s familiar with locals and those who grew attached to the original concept. Personally, I don’t think this ride was meant to pull new people to the park- for example, I’m not certain people who frequent Magic Mountain and Great Adventure will make the trek to Cedar Point to ride something that’s very similar to what their parks already offer. Years ago, someone said that Valravn was for the GP and Steel Vengeance was for enthusiasts and I think that applies here: Top Thrill 2 is more of a GP coaster. If it was geared towards enthusiasts, it would have been something crazy like the roll-back being a full reverse drop from the top hat, or a 500ft tall spike, or something insane. In reality, the new layout fixes a long standing maintenance problem by eliminating the hydraulic launch in favor of more reliable LSMs. Because of the launch being LSMs, the launches won’t be as intense as the rapid acceleration of the hydraulics. Maybe I’m wrong with it being more GP based but I think the general reaction from park goers, at least on social media, was “look it’s back, and it does something new!”

“Top Thill 2” is the equivalent of an RMC Son of Beast called “Son of Steel”- it doesn’t completely dismiss the original IP, in fact it prolongs it in a sense. The ride looks like it’ll be fun but the name is kinda dumb, but I guess that follows the tradition of weird names: Steel Vengeance, Valravn, Rougaroo.

Given that there’s a negative reason as to why they refurbished TTD, Cedar Point might not want to have a huge event to commemorate it.

They typically announce stuff in the morning if I recall correctly

To operate a 6 car train you only need 4 people… I thought there was a waitlist to be hired, surely it can’t be that hard to find one extra person to supervise the back half.

Here’s a rant: the train running at half capacity during 10-10 business hours is ridiculous. Imagine waiting 15 minutes to get on the train to go to Soak City only to have to wait another 15 minutes because they’re only pulling 3 passenger cars and they’re already full.

Maybe it’s just me but I personally don’t think they’re fighting to get the golden ticket award back. Planet Snoopy’s packed regardless of what awards they receive. Besides, if they really wanted to get the “World’s Best Kids Area” back, they wouldn’t be closing some of their rides early or delay opening others.

One more day and all will be (officially) revealed!

I think it’s in preparation for the Snoopy’s Racing Railway clone that we’re rumored to receive

@Captain Nemo Maybe that’s the SOP nowadays for them. I’m not defending it by any means but there’s no reason why people need to be blocked. That would be something I’d be interested in hearing from corporate. Perhaps corporate says “you have the ability to block people at your discretion.” Again, I’d love to hear corporate’s response to this issue because it does indeed not provide good customer service.

This seems to have turned into a rant thread. I understand people are frustrated, I myself included, but at times it feels excessive and comes off as obsessive.

I wonder if they’re still considering a hyper for them in the future

It’s very similar to what you hear ascending Beast’s lift hill

My timetable has a 5 minute stop between journeys, so in theory they could fill up while loading passengers. I’m not entirely sure how many laps an engine can go without needing to fill back up though

Dumb thought, creating longer lines might encourage people to buy fast lanes?

Those people who are the most vocal about the park’s communication are those who have a communication background of some kind whether they’ve studied it in college, worked in a communication related field, or are in charge of large groups. People aren’t complaining just for the sake of complaining or because they have a personal vendetta against the park’s communication department….. they saw how the PR was run in the past and how that quality has gone down recently. Even people who aren’t super familiar with the PR aspect are noticing the questionable communication practices as of late.

No but it’s become somewhat of a standard. Don also used his personal account for park related stuff.

I hope this ain’t the case with Winterfest. Haunt becomes less “haunty” every year and seems to be more rides focused imo.

I think he should still be the one to DM since the person is asking a question as opposed to him asking them to DM him. It just sounds a bit nicer.

Twitter is a weird beast- anyone can tweet anyone at anytime. Don used his Twitter to promote park content so people would naturally expect the same for Chad. People are going to go directly to him because it’s so easy to tweet at someone (unless of course they’re blocked.) If Chad doesn’t want to directly answer questions on Twitter I think it might be appropriate to DM the questioning party the “contact us” link, or at least reply to the tweet and say “please direct all questions to the ‘contact us’ page on our website.”

Being the nerd I am, I worked out a timetable where a single train makes 3 round-trips an hour assuming the water park is open: I watched the webcams and timed the trains. If the time table is correct, to maximize efficiency, a train can do 3 full trips an hour leaving Rivertown at :00, :20, & :40 of every hour which includes the wait in Soak City. Two train operations would allow for a combined 6 trips an hour with the second train leaving Rivertown at :10, :30, & :50 of every hour. This probably would never happen but it would be absolutely awesome if it ran on an organized time table for the busy hours.

Right? All that’s doing is making people wonder why he’s asking her to DM him. He could’ve easily DM’d her and wouldn’t make it weird.

I wonder if the blue, gray, and white are the train colors.

I’ve been having some additional thoughts on the communication situation. When people reach out to Chad on his personal Twitter, he doesn’t necessarily need to respond and has the ability to block whoever he wants- corporate isn’t in control of his personal Twitter…. …..That being said, he does make park related tweets and it’s well known who he is and what his position is- he should want to answer questions. Also it’s not a good look to block people who are asking simple questions. With regards to the “DM me” issue, I’ve tweeted at companies before with inquiries and they either answered them right then and there or they would DM me, not the other way around. When you tell people to DM you, you’re making them to ask the same question in private. If they don’t send you a DM, then you don’t have to be bothered answering their questions.