IndyGuy4KI Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 On Saturday, Oct 20th IBEW_Sparky and I left Indy around 4AM to head up to Cedar Point. We were attending the GOCC/ACE event Shocktoberfest. On Saturday we were going to be filming an episode of Insane Coaster Wars on Magnum XL200. It was a very cold and dreary day, but we had a good time fiilming. At 3:45 we checked in to walk through Eden Musee's haunted house. (Like Madame Fatale's Cavern of Terror at KI) Here are some pics of the house with the lights on. I got some good pics of Mean Streak while we were waiting to go into Eden Musee. At this point in the day it was around 5:00 P.M and the park was getting very busy. So we tooks some pics in the park. A stream that we had not ever seen before. Mllie pics! At 5:30 this is what the queue looked like while we tooks a relaxing ride on the train. Full queue! Haunt props! Corkscrew from the bumper cars queue! We ended up heading to the hotel about 9 PM to get some rest for day 2, which was the actual event day. Day 2: On Sunday we got up about 7:30am to be at the park by 9am to film another Insane Coaster Wars on Maverick. At 10:00 AM we had ERT on Millie for the event. After our ride on Maverick we headed towards Millie for the ERT. We got about 6 or 7 rides in during our Ert and about 1/2 hr of normal ERT. At 10:30 we headed back to Maverick to get a ride in before the park opened. After another great ride on Maverick we headed towards Mean Streak and got a few rides on it before the GP made it to the back of the park. We then headed to Dragster to get a ride in before lunch. We got on in about 1/2 hr. This was my best ride on it, since this was my third ride. I now knew what to expect and was able to relax and enjoy the ride. We then had lunch provided at the Coral Courtyard. After a good lunch we have a behind the scenes tour of Cut Throat Cove, an outside maze. Here are some pictures of the maze.... A few fellow coaster enthusiasts Annie from Marketing who was leading the tour. More pics to come! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Darn it. I could of met up with you possibly on saturday. Oh well. Nice pictures! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyGuy4KI Posted October 23, 2012 Author Share Posted October 23, 2012 So you may have noticed that we were under Maverick for the walk through of Cut Throat Cove, so we also got some great pics of Maverick as well. Track Traveling through the roll First Drop: First turn after the second launch. This was a hard picture to get with the speeds of the train and using a cell phone camera! Up next was the construction tour of Gatekeeper! Pics from tour! Crane ready for putting in track! All that remains of Disaster Transport, the transformers. These are still needed for service so they will not be removed until after the season ends by the power company! Annie explaining plans for the new ride. Footers ready for pouring! Electrician Larry explains about the power coming into the park. He also states the main entrance will be leveled and rebuilt about 10 ft closer to the parking lot than where it is today. Station location! The footer behind the crane in where the first drop will be. Parking lot construction: At this point it was about 5:30 and we had a 5 hr drive ahead of us. So we headed out to make our drive to Indy! I just found one more pic I got of a Wildcat car! Hope you enjoyed the PTR! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcgoble3 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Great pictures! I thought about going to this but opted not to after the expense of my Florida trip. Definitely looking forward to Gatekeeper next year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongliveKingsCobra Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Did I spot a Wild Diamond Back in those photos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyGuy4KI Posted October 23, 2012 Author Share Posted October 23, 2012 Darn it. I could of met up with you possibly on saturday. Oh well. Nice pictures! Sorry we missed meeting you! Great pictures! I thought about going to this but opted not to after the expense of my Florida trip. Definitely looking forward to Gatekeeper next year! Thanks Jonathan! I understand, I really have to give IBEW_Sparky credit for me going to this event! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beastie1980 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Sounds like you had a fun trip, and you got some really great pictures! I would love to participate in an episode of Insane Coaster Wars, that sounds like so much fun. I can't wait to go back to Cedar Point next year, seeing these pics just make me more excited about the coasters I didn't get to ride this year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomTheater Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 No pictures of the booty? or the Dirty Duck? or Susan for president signs? You missed the best parts of the cove! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBEW_Sparky Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I figured you would beat me to it, Brad, since I went to bed at 930 last night. I am uploading/editing photos to my laptop as we speak, and my PTR will be posted some time this evening. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyGuy4KI Posted October 24, 2012 Author Share Posted October 24, 2012 Did I spot a Wild Diamond Back in those photos? My comment when we got up there was, "How did DB make it to the Point?." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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