Cedar Point 5/14/07

[BoddaH1994]

Went on my first trip to Cedar Point today. Here’s my breakdown of what I rode and how I felt about the rides.

Magnum XL-200 – Rode it twice. I figured it would have been obsolete being more than 10 years old but that’s not the case. Arguably the best ride in the park 10/10

Millennium Force -- Never heard a lot of good things about this ride. Mainly that it was boring. I disagree. The hill is amazing and the rest of the ride has incredible speed. 9/10

Skyhawk – This ride has a VERY short cycle as you know. The lack of restraints makes it an even more thrilling experience. 7/10

Cedar Creek Mine Ride – This ride is completely pointless. It has some fun turns, but I’d take Adventure Express over it any day. 5/10

Mean Streak – Awful awful ride. Probably the worst woody in operation in Ohio right now. The ride is rough and just overall not fun. Some people in front of my seat were saying it was the worst wooden coaster ever built… Don’t worry, I told them the legend of the Son…

Jonny Rockets – Themeing, atmosphere, service, food, all 100% 10/10. Much better experience than a non-park Jonny Rockets would offer. 10/10

Disaster Transport – Screw you guys, I liked this ride. 8/10

Raptor – I was sure this ride was overhyped by some of my friends, but it wasn’t. This is clearly the best B&M I’ve ever been on and likely one of the best steel coasters I’ve ever been on. 10/10

Demon Drop – I was encouraged to get my ride in on this since it’s up for sale and I’m glad I did. The drop is amazing, and since you end up on your back, it feels like you just shifted your weight rather than hitting a break run. 7/10

Wildcat – Very surprisingly pleasant. VERY fun for a ride that is both older and at first look would be considered a kiddy ride. 7/10

Iron Dragon – This ride is like Top Gun without all the love. It certainly wasn’t terrible, but I’m glad I didn’t have to wait for it. 5/10

Mantis – I didn’t want to ride this but they made me. I hated the B&M standup at SFKK and I was sure I’d hate it at Cedar Point…. I was right. Nothing but painful Gs in the lower body and awful headbanging. 2/10

Top Thrill Dragster – You guys have probably seen me post that I’ve been looking forward to riding this one for years now. The ride was very temperamental today. It was down for the better part of 3 hours and when it reopened, it would rollback about a fifth of the time. The reliability really takes a notch off the ride, but the ride experience is amazing. If you haven’t ridden it, it would be difficult to even converse about it. I guess the best way to put it is that it’s like using the Burst Mode on a camera. You’re launching, you start going up, you’re at the top, you’re spiraling, then it’s over. I’d be willing to go back to Cedar Point just to ride this again. 9/10 (had to give it a ding for the downtime)

Just a few notes:

To use your Maxx Pass to get into Cedar Point, you can’t go through the regular scanners. In the entrance near Mangum, they had us come in the employee way and wrote down our pass numbers. No big deal, but I figured I’d forewarn.

The park is VERY clean. No doubt. They have the same logo on their trash cans as ours, just with the Cedar Point name on it.

Although they don’t have themed rides like a lot of us would define, I think that the old Cedar Fort area (forgive me for not knowing the proper name) certainly has a LOT of personality behind it. Even the museum looks like a town hall. I hope they bring that element to Kings Island.

I know there’s something blasphemous about being the co-pilot of a huge Cedar Fair park fan site and not having gone to the coaster Mecca, Cedar Point, but this was my first trip, so all of the notes above are first impressions.

A very special thank you goes out to Dane, Delirium_Guy, David, CoasterDime, and The Interpreter for including me on this trip.

Regards,

Ryan

[TOPGUN1993]

Mean Streak is actualy a real great ride if only you ride in the front seat all other seats are bumpy.

[Ki Man]

Great to hear you liked TTD, MF, and MXL200. All in my top 4

I didnt really like Skyhawk for its very...VERY short program. I really like Mantis, though! I never had any head banging in the front, and it was great!

KI "MF is still #1 IMHO" Man

[CoastersNSich]

Hell hath frozen over: Ryan finally went to Cedar Point!

Seriously- glad you enjoyed it! I have to agree that Magnum is better than Millennium Force(less).

However, did you miss Gemini? The park may not have been as busy as a weekend, which means it might not have raced. But when it does, THIS is a racing coaster!

[pkiboy]

WOW And I thought i was the only one who has never been to Cedar Point. I went Opening weekand.

Few notes on my trip

Since we stayed at one of the Cedar Point Hotels I got Joe cool. First Ride Millennium Force Like Ryan said Great ride non stop and lots of air time.

Saw Kinzel he said thanks for comming. Also ran into John Hildebrandt He is the GM of Cedar Point Very nice guy shook his hand we chatted with him for a bit. O I cant forget TONY Yea TOPGUN1993s DAD saw Tony Clark so we talked with him for 10 min

T0PGUN1993 and I got a roll back on Top Thrill Dragster. That made my day.

Overall Cedar Point is nothing like Kings Island You just see coaster after coaster all the staff are very Friendly. The longest I waited was Raptor 1hr and 10min. But one thing Kings Island needs the most is Dispaching the rides faster I have never seen a park ware they keep sending trains out and checking bars as fast as Cedar Point does.

[shadow2k3]

Awesome Ryan, nice to know you enjoyed your trip. I don't see how you enjoyed Disaster Transport that much. The ride itself was alright, but the theming is just awful. Makes no sense at all. I will agree with you on Wildcat and Magnum, though. Wildcat was a wonderful suprise, and Magnum is one of the best airtime coasters around. You really should have ridden Gemini, though. They have some insane "head choppers", I believe.

-S

[scotty]

A very special thank you goes out to Dane, Delirium_Guy, David, CoasterDime, and The Interpreter for including me on this trip.

Regards,

Ryan

I missed my brush with greatness??? I was in the same park on the same day as the great interpreter and did not know it?? Bummer!!

[TOPGUN1993]

I don't like WildCat anymore. I hit my hand on a support and it's still hurts!

[PhantomTheater]

The park is VERY clean. No doubt. They have the same logo on their trash cans as ours, just with the Cedar Point name on it.

Although they don’t have themed rides like a lot of us would define, I think that the old Cedar Fort area (forgive me for not knowing the proper name) certainly has a LOT of personality behind it. Even the museum looks like a town hall. I hope they bring that element to Kings Island.

Actually, The KI trash cans are a copy of the CP ones. Guess they want to have the same trash can logo chain wide. For reference the area with the Town hall museum is called Frontier Town, and the area from MF to Snake River Falls is Frontier Trail.

[BoddaH1994]

The park is VERY clean. No doubt. They have the same logo on their trash cans as ours, just with the Cedar Point name on it.

Although they don’t have themed rides like a lot of us would define, I think that the old Cedar Fort area (forgive me for not knowing the proper name) certainly has a LOT of personality behind it. Even the museum looks like a town hall. I hope they bring that element to Kings Island.

Actually, The KI trash cans are a copy of the CP ones. Guess they want to have the same trash can logo chain wide. For reference the area with the Town hall museum is called Frontier Town, and the area from MF to Snake River Falls is Frontier Trail.

The areas weren't really marked as I saw, but then again, most of KI's aren't either. My company with me knew the park well, so I didn't find it necessary to carry a park map.

One thing that I didn't like about the museum is how it goes primarily through the history of Sandusky rather than having a true focus on the history of the park, although the presentation of everything was great. I liked how they had their Golden Ticket awards in a glass case in the museum as opposed to KI's which has them on a shelf in the admin building. haha

[Dane]

Ryan, you didnt say anything about Wicked Twister. Oh wait, its cause it broke down on us on 2 different occasions after getting into the station.

Dragsters story was cool, we were sitting down asking if anyone wanted to do anything again before we left, so we headed to Magnum and "Oh look, Dragster has a full crew in station" so we walked over to the entrance and right as we got there, they dropped the rope.

[Delirium_Guy]

Ryan, you didnt say anything about Wicked Twister. Oh wait, its cause it broke down on us on 2 different occasions after getting into the station.

Dragsters story was cool, we were sitting down asking if anyone wanted to do anything again before we left, so we headed to Magnum and "Oh look, Dragster has a full crew in station" so we walked over to the entrance and right as we got there, they dropped the rope.

The Point sure had some operational issues yesterday, more than I am used to seeing, but was to be expected for only being open 3 days. With that said, rough operations there are equal to a good day at KI. Rides were running great, especially Maggie! That ride never gets old for me. Our front seat Dragster ride was well worth the wait. Still impressed they re-opened the ride with 15 minutes left until close.....considering it had been closed for hours and the queue had been cleared out.

It was great to have you join Ryan & Dane! You gotta tag along on one of my whirlwind trips sometime :-) As for Interpreter, its always great to see you.....it sure has been a while since we've been able to meet up at a Park!

Oh yeah, Maverick. The ride area turned out great and the ride is going to be a blast! We did catch them cycling trains through out the day.

- Todd

[The Interpreter]

There is virtually nothing that can top off a day at Cedar Point like a front seat ride on Dragster. Well, unless of course one also rolls back on that same ride.

Sadly, such was not to be.

And I still await my first INTAMIN rocket rollback.

Some day!

It was fun. A great day. Yup, some operational issues, but a weekday in early season when many of the employees are still in school.

I am also glad Ryan enjoyed his great adventure to Alaska!

[The Interpreter]

I don't like WildCat anymore. I hit my hand on a support and it's still hurts!

I don't mean to sound cruel, but this could not have happened if you had been minding the instruction to keep your hands and arms inside the car at all times.

The same possibility exists on The Beast, as some have painfully learned. At one time, ride designers could safely assume that riders would follow safety rules.

[corn4ahead]

I am going june 7. Do u think that we will have to enter in a diffferent place with my maxx pass even then?

[Dane]

I would say so, but its no biggie at all. May even be faster.

[Reclaimer]

Ryan, you didnt say anything about Wicked Twister. Oh wait, its cause it broke down on us on 2 different occasions after getting into the station.

Dragsters story was cool, we were sitting down asking if anyone wanted to do anything again before we left, so we headed to Magnum and "Oh look, Dragster has a full crew in station" so we walked over to the entrance and right as we got there, they dropped the rope.

It's just an Intamin...and it's being quite moody this year. It was nice seeing you guys at entrance though. Too bad I was uber-tired of being out there for hours. haha