Mr. Coastermania Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Had a great trip that started on thursday and ended saturday night.3 great days at cedar flags.yikes.there is a story to that.Details later. But back on to my Cedar Point trip. thursday june,2nd thought what the heck.I wanted to get one great day in before the weekend madness. Thursday was pretty slow.Most ride time's was 15 to 30 mins wait so i knew the day would be great. WIND SEEKER-NOT RUNNING YET.Sad sense i had hoped to get a ride over the weekend. MFORCE-front seat.ALways a great ride.Seat belts had a better fit.just me? Get that paint job done guys.Such a great ride needs the job fully done. From what you can see,the paint is great. The crew-Great as always.Very outgoing and fast to get people in and out.10/10 5 rides TOP THRILL DRAGSTER-Great as always.Break downs lite compared to friday and saturday. Front seat ride. Note i got most front seat rides on all coasters. Crew------You guys rock.You always keep us entertained when things are slow or broke down.10/10 How funny.launched at 420 mph at 120 feet in 3.8 sec. or how about a rollback at a low cost of 500.000 lol 6 rides im off to bed More to follow including info on SOB GOOD AND BAD And coastermania fun stuff Im off to sandman land after 3 wild but fun days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBEW_Sparky Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Took my first ever ride on TTD Friday at approx 1045 am. I now feel like a complete fool for letting that ride (mainly its 420ft height) intimidate me for so many years! I truly wish that it had been built by someone other than "Intamightwork" because I really LOVE the ride and would like to be able to get more than 3 rides a day on it (we got two Friday total). I bought the on-ride photo from my first ride, and I Love how the launch photo shows me with the "OMG are you freaking SERIOUS" petrified look on my face, and the brake run photo shows me screaming with excitement and happiness with my hands in the air lol. Friday was a great day/night, Saturday was just a bit too hot/busy for me, and I spent a good amount of it at Soak City or outside the park. What I would like to see happen, is to extend the Friday ERT to 3am, eliminate Saturday morning ERT, and extend Saturday night ERT to 1am, thus making up for the elimination of the 3 hours of ERT Saturday morning. I feel that would allow people to actually enjoy Saturday more, as well as keep more of them in the park spending nickels instead of leaving to eat and going back to their rooms for naps, like Jesse, Brad, and I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Coastermania Posted June 5, 2011 Author Share Posted June 5, 2011 Had a great trip that started on thursday and ended saturday night.3 great days at cedar flags.yikes.there is a story to that.Details later. But back on to my Cedar Point trip. thursday june,2nd thought what the heck.I wanted to get one great day in before the weekend madness. Thursday was pretty slow.Most ride time's was 15 to 30 mins wait so i knew the day would be great. WIND SEEKER-NOT RUNNING YET.Sad sense i had hoped to get a ride over the weekend. MFORCE-front seat.ALways a great ride.Seat belts had a better fit.just me? Get that paint job done guys.Such a great ride needs the job fully done. From what you can see,the paint is great. The crew-Great as always.Very outgoing and fast to get people in and out.10/10 5 rides TOP THRILL DRAGSTER-Great as always.Break downs lite compared to friday and saturday. Front seat ride. Note i got most front seat rides on all coasters. Crew------You guys rock.You always keep us entertained when things are slow or broke down.10/10 How funny.launched at 420 mph at 120 feet in 3.8 sec. or how about a rollback at a low cost of 500.000 lol 6 rides im off to bed More to follow including info on SOB GOOD AND BAD And coastermania fun stuff Im off to sandman land after 3 wild but fun days. Now that im rested back to my report. Mean streak Great job on the repairs.It runs much better. Rides-1 10/10 Mill force- 5 TTD- 6 Mean streak - 1 power tower -6 Blue racer-1 Maverick-1 magnum-3 mantis-1 iron dragon-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Such a tease...you DO realize the SOB lovers are waiting on more info from your "clue." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TombRaiderFTW Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Even some curious SOB non-lovers want the story on your "clue"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatar Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 pikeman77 thanks for your report and if you do not mind I will add a few things about my thoughts about Coaster Mania First since I was in attendance to hear Mr. Kinzel speak I can drop another small hint while you wait for pikeman77 to fill you in on the rest; Mr. Kinzel said " No decision has been made at this time" I was a bit surprised as to his candor on certain subjects and even more surprised when it came to questions from the audience that many asked more park related questions that a GM from those parks could have answered rather than more corporate type questions that we rarely get to hear about especially during a time that Mr. Kinzel seemed to be so open with his answers. I truly enjoyed Coaster Mania and this trip we tried to do more than coasters and I think that experience is what made me deem this trip a successful one. Coaster Mania was educational, entertaining, thrilling adventuresome, friendship bonding and so worth every minute spent on the trip. Of course there are some short falls here and there but minor compared to all the other great experiences as i mentioned above. My Coaster mania experience has gave me a greater appreciation for Cedar Point and I look forward to many more trips there especially with the family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Coastermania Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 Had a great trip that started on thursday and ended saturday night.3 great days at cedar flags.yikes.there is a story to that.Details later. But back on to my Cedar Point trip. thursday june,2nd thought what the heck.I wanted to get one great day in before the weekend madness. Thursday was pretty slow.Most ride time's was 15 to 30 mins wait so i knew the day would be great. WIND SEEKER-NOT RUNNING YET.Sad sense i had hoped to get a ride over the weekend. MFORCE-front seat.ALways a great ride.Seat belts had a better fit.just me? Get that paint job done guys.Such a great ride needs the job fully done. From what you can see,the paint is great. The crew-Great as always.Very outgoing and fast to get people in and out.10/10 5 rides TOP THRILL DRAGSTER-Great as always.Break downs lite compared to friday and saturday. Front seat ride. Note i got most front seat rides on all coasters. Crew------You guys rock.You always keep us entertained when things are slow or broke down.10/10 How funny.launched at 420 mph at 120 feet in 3.8 sec. or how about a rollback at a low cost of 500.000 lol 6 rides im off to bed More to follow including info on SOB GOOD AND BAD And coastermania fun stuff Im off to sandman land after 3 wild but fun days. Now that im rested back to my report. Mean streak Great job on the repairs.It runs much better. Rides-1 10/10 Mill force- 5 TTD- 6 Mean streak - 1 power tower -6 Blue racer-1 Maverick-1 magnum-3 mantis-1 iron dragon-1 Friday and the start of coastermania The park was more busy today but still wait times not to bad I will get ride to the good stuff. Had the lunch get together about 5:30 and the line to eat was like waiting for line on a saturday.long Food was great and even had a cash bar. Mr kinzel spoke and we heard from others that help keep the park running. Got many question's answered. Well for the Son of Beast.No answer on it's future yet but The texas giant rebuilt could be in the works but only after seeing how it goes.But my bet is the money for that could very well be spent on a new coaster for Kings Island in 2013. Much money has been spent by Cedar Fairs to fix it up but still has problems. Look for less wood and more steel in the coming years. Cedar Point might go for the 500 foot mark. In the film fest we saw a nightmare of a guy who woke up years later only to find Cedar Point gone and now owned by cedar flags. Bug off.A new film showing Ways to fight off the bugs people face while going speeds up to 125 mph. After all that was done it was time to get ready for ERT from 10:45 to 1 am but first i must see the new show American Portrait nighttime spectacular that will light up the sky! You have got to see it.It is that good. The ERT had top thrill dragster,mean streak,magnum and sky hawk.Great rides and small lines.Made some nice new friends.Other than TTD and magnum going down for a bit,it was great. Left the park at 1:30 am but i got back to the park at 5:00 am How about a 5:30 am wake up ride on Millennium Force? I was in heaven.I rode it 8 times that morning before the park got slammed and i mean slammed.At 12:30 some wait times were 2 hrs. Cedar Point had some great deals for students over the weekend so i knew it would be busy on saturday. Any how Saturday mornings ERT'S had Millennium Force,maverick,corkscrew and mantis.All i can say is thank you Cedar Point for some great choices. Wehad a picnic at 2:30 with all club members getting nice shirts and yummy food. We got a bit of good news.With WindSeeker being down that night they gave us Millennium Force as a extra ERT for the night from 10:15 to 12 am along with Raptor, Blue Streak, Disaster Transport, Wicked Twister and maXair. With 3 days under my belt i was tired and headed off into the storm to get back home. That you all at Cedar Point for the great time,food,rides,shows,stories and the friends i made while i was up. Ilook forward to seeing more for you guys this summer.Enjoy this season.RIDE ON!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Coastermania Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 I could tell by other statements made that The texas giant treatment might be the only hope for the sob.The economy how much more money could they put in on it is a big factor but anyhow we ere told they would watch the texas for the year and see how it goes. Also wood coasters are not being built as big as they once was due to the size and stress they cause and over all repairs that they need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Coastermania Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 pikeman77 thanks for your report and if you do not mind I will add a few things about my thoughts about Coaster Mania First since I was in attendance to hear Mr. Kinzel speak I can drop another small hint while you wait for pikeman77 to fill you in on the rest; Mr. Kinzel said " No decision has been made at this time" I was a bit surprised as to his candor on certain subjects and even more surprised when it came to questions from the audience that many asked more park related questions that a GM from those parks could have answered rather than more corporate type questions that we rarely get to hear about especially during a time that Mr. Kinzel seemed to be so open with his answers. I truly enjoyed Coaster Mania and this trip we tried to do more than coasters and I think that experience is what made me deem this trip a successful one. Coaster Mania was educational, entertaining, thrilling adventuresome, friendship bonding and so worth every minute spent on the trip. Of course there are some short falls here and there but minor compared to all the other great experiences as i mentioned above. My Coaster mania experience has gave me a greater appreciation for Cedar Point and I look forward to many more trips there especially with the family. It was such a gret trip and experience for me as well.Up until this weekend,i never knew how many people love the theme park experience and follow it as much as other club member out there do.Im proud to be part of it and hope to learn more as i come out to more events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatar Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 great update pikeman77 and again wonderful report. I might add a few more SOB notes from Mr. Kinzel since several members seem to want to know every detail about SOB. Mr. Kinzel also said about SOB; Paramount had 35-40 million in it and Cedar Fair put 8 million into it. He said the last quote they got 2 years ago to do a Texas type treatment would cost 20 million. There for they are weighing all options as even to getting rid of SOB and take the 20 million and put another thrill ride there. They just want to what a bit longer maybe 2-3 years and see what answers emerge during that time. He also said they feel any wood coaster over 80 feet starts to loose its integrity and value to the parks due to various reasons. Hence the reason pikeman77 reference to look for more steel coasters to come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastersRZ Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 How tall have the GCI coasters that Cedar Fair has recently installed been? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creed Bratton Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 I have to agree with you pikeman77 and avatar. This weekend was a ton of fun and I enjoyed every ride I had, including 5 coasters I haven't been on before! It was a great event and overall seemed well organized. I was very happy to see that most of the ride ops were a lot of fun! Some other park employees, meh kinda. My favorite part of the weekend: Mean Streak, honestly! It was a great and fun ride! I never rode it pre-retracking but I enjoyed every second of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Coastermania Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 I have to agree with you pikeman77 and avatar. This weekend was a ton of fun and I enjoyed every ride I had, including 5 coasters I haven't been on before! It was a great event and overall seemed well organized. I was very happy to see that most of the ride ops were a lot of fun! Some other park employees, meh kinda. My favorite part of the weekend: Mean Streak, honestly! It was a great and fun ride! I never rode it pre-retracking but I enjoyed every second of it! Yeah.i even enjoyed my night time bug fest.man i was covered but it was fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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