2003 Season: The Good, The Bad, and TTD

The Good: Riding TTD for the first time

The Bad: TTD's downtime

TTD: 2 awesome rides

2004: Looking forward to ride TTD in the front seat

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CP Coaster Guide Ride Count
TTD: 1; WT: 9; MF: 4; Mantis: 3; Raptor: 6; Mean Streak: 5; Magnum: 5

The Good: Finishing off my CP season with a midnight, rainy and painful run, front seat on MF Saturday night.

The Bad:Halloweekends was a bit disappointing this year and the auto-spiels

TTD:Getting on it 10 times, plus a rollback on Saturday.

Good: Just being able to be at the point, meeting fellow GTTPers, Just riding magnum ;), Getting to be on Dragster...amazing ride

Bad: When I wasnt able to be at the point, and I agree with Spid3rman04.........auto spiels.

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2003 Stats: Top Thrill Dragster: 17
Magnum XL-200: 85
37 trips to the Point

Good: Riding TTD for a Travel Channel shoot! 6 rollbacks!Getting 50 rides on TTD! Goal reached! Getting 500 lifetime rides on Millennium Force and having a hometown news paper their to talk about it!

Bad: Big crowds on Friday nights for HalloWeekends!
TTD down time!

TTD is one incredible rush, but for me MF is still better!
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MF Circuts=556(03=240)
TTD Launches=50
TTD Rollbacks=6

The good:

Meeting all the people that I will remember for my entire life.

The bad:

The guests that I just wanted to ask if they were dropped on their heads.

The TTD:

Amazing! I loved it. First ride waited for 10 mins. GREAT RIDE!

The Good:

Getting my employee ID and walking Magnum's lift. Being on International TV in Japan (and my mom didn't have to call and ask) Making the front page of the Plain Dealer (again my mom didn't call and ask) Finally getting my Magnum entrance sign! Thanks Paul!

The Bad:

The weather on closing weekend.

The TTD:

73 rides and 4 rollbacks.

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Dan Haverlock
TTD Rollbacks 4
TTD Complete Laps 73
"get a job man!"

The Good:

The memories, new and old friends, sort of being on international tv ;), there is too much good to list. Highlight of the year to me is my 1st 2 rollbacks with Dan. I thought we were never going to get them!

The Bad:

Miles on my car & Frank

The TTD:

121 Rides, 5 rollbacks, rollback on my 100th ride, one of my best friends reaching 202, it's an honor to be behind you, and what a great crew.

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Steve Sergent
TTD: 121 and 5 rollbacks

The good: 42 visits to Cedar Point this year, a new record for me.

The bad: No rollbacks.

The TTD: Despite no rollbacks, it is one amazing ride and I can't complain about 27 laps on it.

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2003 Season Visits: 42 Dragster: 27 Rollbacks:0

The good: The guys at Tales of Terrors did great this year, and I got to visit 10 days this year, a new record for me! Front seat of Dragster!!

The bad: TTD not always working. The long line and packed day for Halloweekend's 2nd to last Saturday. Especially for Werewolf Canyon!

TTD: Front seat was awesome! Downtime not too bad for being a new ride! But a little annoying!

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The Good: Having lost enough weight to fit on and enjoy rides at Cedar Point with my kid. Going from white knuckle fear on Ocean Motion at the end of last year to working up the nerve to ride the Magnum XL-200, which is now my favorite ride. Finally vanquishing my fear of roller coasters in general. Getting 2 CP T-Shirts after years of settling for buttons & hats. Racking up hundreds in parking fee savings with the parking pass. Soak City for the very first time.

The Bad: Still don't fit on TTD, Millenium Force, Raptor, Mantis. But next year is coming. Being too tall for the Corkscrew. Stupid molded plastic seats on the Blue Streak. October 11th.

TTD: Seeing my daughter ride after a 1 hour wait on Memorial Day weekend, and after a 15 minute wait on October 17. Gotta love Joe Cool.

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Tank (aka Timothy A. Bretz)
Magnum: 12

The good: My first time on Dragster opening day

The bad: When Dragster is down/barely missing rollbacks

The ugly/TTD: Whiney enthusiasts complaining that Dragster is down at Coastermania.

-Tina

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The Good: Meeting a ton of great people and having a lot of lifelong memories with them.

The Bad: August 14th, 2003, and October 11,2003

The TTD: Awesome ride when it runs when it doesn't run it's a pain in the employee's @$$. One time at Magnum entrance we tallied how many times we got asked what was wrong with Dragster and our total was 548 times in a day.

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Dan said:
The Good:

Finally getting my Magnum entrance sign! Thanks Paul!

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Dan Haverlock
TTD Rollbacks 4
TTD Complete Laps 73
"get a job man!"

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Dan,

Did your mom have to call and ask for the Magnum sign? :)

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MF Circuts=556(03=240)
TTD Launches=50
TTD Rollbacks=6

The good: Opening day.

The bad: Closing day.

The TTD: Watching operations improve throughout the season.

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Without upstops, airtime would have a whole new meaning!

The good: the first 5 hours of closing day(had to leave to get back to Chicago, but got 3 TTD rides in) my first Holloweekends, 36 Magnum rides in one day, catching both a cell phone and a pair of sunglasses on MF from the person in front of me, getting stuck on the top of the lift hill on Raptor for an hour, seeing and standing in awe from seeing TTD in person for the first time, and riding all coasters in one day with my best friend:).

The Bad: Staying in the Breakers for 5 days and TTD only being open for 3 hours(2 rides though), waiting 7 hours for 1 ride on TTD, 0 rollbacks:(, $2.50 for a pop.

The TTD: There have been some good and bad times, 10 rides and 0 rollbacks, I've been lucky on the wait times and but also very unlucky on some, but is there much more I can say about the crew;) THANK YOU!
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You haven't ridden Top Thrill Dragster until you have been on a rollback.
TTD- 10 (0 REAL launches ;) ) MF-25 RAP-28 WT- 23

The Good: Working day in and day out with a crew I absolutely loved on a ride I grew to love; the Magnum lift walk and working there every now and then, getting to see Matt everyday for 3 months, the cafe menu line ("the special of the day is"...heheh!). Oh yeah, and having the best amusement park in the world in my backyard :).

The Bad: Nothing truly devastating...when I processed in and was handed the Corkscrew manual after trying so hard to get placed on Magnum was a bummer. Even though it worked out for the better, it was not a happy welcome to the summer I looked forward to so much. Similarly, leaving the place was hard, and not in a good way. Contracting screwups at their finest.

TTD: Incredible. Got quite a few rides in without waiting long periods of time....lots of front seaters, too :). Fun times listening for it to go up from my dorm room and seeing the drama unfold day after day from across the midway on Corkscrew: taking bets on if it would rollback...the time they brought the sled down the midway on a flatbed truck with a crane in the middle of the day...and that one day Brian called from entrance telling us it got stuck at the top. No really, it did ;)

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Kara (car-uh)
Super/'Screw Crew '03
Races for the Sky: 20.5

Good: Going to Cedar Point for the first time after a dreaded long years time.

Bad: Driving and spending 21 hours and 58 mins in the car, the hugh storm that we were leading from Des Moins to the Point, it rained and tornadeoed for two hours. Some, not many, long lines(1 hour for dragster day, 1/4 hour in the moring for dragster).

TTD: Going on it twice. Probley more than some people. Even though no front seats or rollbacks, it was still a grrrrrrrrrrate ride!

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"Welcome back riders, how was your ride?"

Dragster:2 MF:7 ID:2 Mantis:4 MS:5 Screw:11 DT:3 WT:2 BS:1 Raptor:4 WC:1 WE:0 JrG.:0 Gemini:12 CCMR:1

XL 200:20

The Good
First time staying overnight at the point, getting in early with the resort pass, first time going to Halloweekends, going to halloweekends on a saturday that wasn't packed (Oct 4th)

The Bad
No rollbacks on TTD

TTD
Waiting only 15 minutes for my first ride on TTD, that includes the wait for the front seat. The resort pass is a wonderful thing.
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TTD launches 2 (first launch in front row, second in fourth row)

The Good: My first trip to the Po!nt Opening Weekend. A good Friday, a BAD (SICK) Saturday, and an AWSOME Sunday (all at LP). More good: My first Halloweekends trip, at BE. Enjoyed Friday, Evacuated Saturday (RECORD CROWDS) and totally enjoyed Sunday (and the walk-ons). Already have 2 weekends booked at LP in May & Sept. Can't wait!

MrScott

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"If we go any faster, she'll blow apart for sure!"

The good: Working at Cedar Point. Getting my 200th ride on Raptor. Ending up with 246 rides on Raptor. Getting 50 rides on Raptor in a day. Falling in love with Raptor? ;) Making lots of new friends. Getting paid to come to the Point! Being able to come to the park for free. Riding with Magnum Robert on numerous Magnum rides as well as other rides.

The bad: Very busy days that would be annoying. Cleaning up some really nasty puke. Cleaning up poop (not in the bathrooms)! The foot pain from walking the first week there. Waiting in line for TTD and having it break down.

The TTD: Twelve rides and three rollbacks.

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2003 Raptor ride count: 246
Raptor Rules the Sky.
Environmental Services knows who I am!
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