Cedar Point had one of their Platinum Passholder Ride Nights with TTD & Magnum scheduled for 1 hour of bonus rides. At about 5 PM we made the decision to head north for a quick visit to the Point. We left the house at 6:45 and scanned our passes right at 9:00 pm.

Since we had 1 hour before the park closed we chose to park in the main lot and ride Raptor. The sign said 1 hour, but I think someone was playing it. We were on the ride in less then 10 minutes.

We then booked it over to Millennium Force to find one queue open with a 1/2 hour wait. Since this was going to be our only chance to ride it we got in line. After our ride it was pushing 10:00 pm and park closing.

We got over to Dragster to find a line that went back to grand stand. We walked up front to find that the ride was still open to the public and that they were not going to start the ERT till they cleared the station. We got in just before she closed the line. I have no idea why these people were waiting when they could have been in line for the ride and would have still had 1 hour of ERT after they got off. As it turned out we lucked out with our decision, when we went around to get in line for our next lap they announced that TTD was down and suggested going to Magnum.

We did just that and got 3 laps in with a 1-2 train wait each time. As we got off our 3 lap, we heard that they scrubbed TTD for the night and were going to open Maverick for 1 hour. It was not 11:00 pm and the ERT was just starting. We got over there and got 4 laps in before they closed the line. As I was getting off, I noticed an empty seat so like any true enthusiast I filled it and got the last train of the night. We then took the mile long walk back to the front of the park and exited the gate at 1:00 AM. A pretty good night for 4 hours in the park.

Ride count

Raptor-1

Millennium Force-1

Top Thrill Dragster-1

Magnum-3

Maverick-5

I had been looking into these ride nights and wondered how crowded they would be and how they would operate the lines and everything. Your TR helped clear some things up for me, thank you! Were you happy or not that they gave you Maverick instead of TTD for ERT?

I was OK with it. I wanted to lap TTD, but there were probably 4-500 people at the TTD queue. With almost 100 people per cycle of the trains I figured to have gotten 3-4 more laps in, maybe a few more. I have done Maverick ERTs many many times considering that it is an ERT every morning and a favorite for the events.

They may reschedule a TTD ride night or combine it with their next one. I wish that KI would do a few of these.

Were mayflies still infesting the park?

Not as bad as last year at Coastermania, but yes you could still feel them hitting your arms. We never did a front seat ride for that very reason.