Sunday 5/24 Most lines 25 - 45 minutes long. Weather - cool, needed a jacket along with T shirt and shorts
MF - 7
Dragster - 3
Maverick - 2
Magnum - 3
Raptor - 1
Mean Streak - 1
Power Tower - 3
Mon 5/25 9:00 am 4 rides on Maverick during ERT
MF - 12 (2:00 - 4:00 line about 20 mins)
Raptor - 3 (4:00 line about 10 min)
Dragster 1
Magnum - 5
Tues 5/26 9:00 ERT went to Maverick - still not running at 9:15 so went over to Millenium. Station was packed and they were taking 2 trains off the track! Walked back towards Maverick and it rained. 9:45 finally started Maverick and got 3 ERT rides by 10:15.
10:30 rained again so left park until 12:30
Maverick - 1
Millenium - 4
Dragster -4
Magnum - 2
Power Tower - 1
6:00 rained again! Stayed around but nothing was running. Most people left the park. Finally started Magnum up at 6:45 (1 train only and it was still sprinkling off and on) Met up with Jake (ride op from last year on TTD and Raptor). We managed to get 9 rides in the back of Maverick from 6:45 - 7:45 even with only 1 train running. Dragster started up so we sprinted over and got 3 rides by 8:10 when the park shut down!
Jake - if you happen to read this report, hit me up if you plan on going to KI again or want to meet up at Cedar Point again. It is rare that I meet someone who loves coasters as much as I do (jkbarnes128@live.com)
Wed 5/27
9:00 - 10:00 ERT got 7 rides on Millenium!!! Line was so short that they occasionally let you go from disembark directly back to load station. Continued to ride Millie until noon. Got a total of 20 trips in the 3 hours! Then, a couple puked on the ride - knew it would take a while to clean up, so ventured back to Maverick. Only 1 ride on Maverick - 45 minute wait due to cleaning up puke again on one of the trains!
Dragster - 3 (10 - 15 min wait) - looked a lot like rain, so went up to Raptor - 3 rides.
Magnum - 3 quick rides then it started to POUR at 3:00.
Went back to the hotel to check the radar and looked like rain for the rest of the day, so departed for home.
All in all a great trip (I could have done without the rain). Thurs could have been a recordbreaker for number of rides if not for the rain. Most lines were 10 - 15 minutes. My record was last year on the tuesday after Memorial day when I got 53 of the BIG coasters in one day (followed very closely by 49 the next day)
Have a good one!
Oops - forgot to thank Jake for sharing rides with me Tuesday night.
Also - if you see someone with a cell phone on a coaster, YELL at them... I got hit in the head with one on Magnum - nice cut and bruise from that.
Two othere items worth mentioning that I forgot in my original post - on Tuesday, there was a low hanging cloud over the park after ther rain and you could not see the top of Top Thrill Dragster for about an hour - while they were launching trains up into the cloud.
Also for those of you that haven't heard, TTD got stuck at the top on Monday for about 1/2 hour. They had to send maint up in the elevator to manually push it on over (clip on youtube) I would have loved to been in that ride!
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