# Of Riders

Now that the season is over, does any one know the final count of rides given on Millennium Force during its first season?? I'm thinking it must be a quite large number, but I'm not sure.

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Magnum-Just Ride It!!!

On the 13 Action News Story this morning, they gave an estimated number of 1.8 million.

That's it? I thought it would be more since at the time they announced MM they said they had 1.3 million riders that far.

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Copied off from C.P.'s web site:

Cedar Point delivered nearly 41 million rides in 2000. The 10 most popular rides during the 2000 season were as follows:

1.) Gemini -- 2,437,198 rides
2.) C.P. & L.E. Railroad -- 2,057,093 rides
3.) Raptor -- 2,055,065 rides
4.) Magnum XL-200 -- 1,985,296 rides
5.) Millennium Force -- 1,735,347 rides
6.) Sky Ride-- 1,702,938 rides
7.) Iron Dragon -- 1,679,303 rides
8.) Mantis -- 1,444,817 rides
9.) Corkscrew -- 1,419,106 rides
10.) Mean Streak -- 1,137,143 rides

It's hard to believe that both the Magnum and Raptor beat out M.F. for rides given. Could this have something to do with all of the down time that this ride suffered during its inaugural year?

That, and the fact that for the first half of the season it could barely break 1,200 PPH. Even with three trains, its capacity was far less than it should have been.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I would wonder, too, even though a great number of us were anticipating the ride and couldn't wait for that first lap, how many people looked at it as just too tall. Magnum might be okay, but this is so much bigger and faster, you never know. Me, I'll go on anything (coaster-wise), but I know some people really need to work up to it! I'm sure the grand totals will be far different next year.

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