5/10 CP Double the Rollbacks, Double the Beagles

5/10 CP Double the Rollbacks, Double the Beagles

Ill make this short, because Im sure there will be plenty of other TRs but just have to add in my thoughts, first what I did:

9 am-9 pm
Millennium Force
Top Thrill Dragster
Free Cake and Ice Cream plus I saw the two beagles and my sister got a picture with them
Bumper Cars
Matterhorn
Train
Mean Streak
Tilt a Whirl
Witches Wheel
Maverick
Lupper at TGI Fridays
Calypso
Raptor
Troika
Power Tower
Gemini
Train
Millennium Force
Magnum

Thoughts on the day:

-Got my first Dragster rollback today, in fact I got my first and my second. It took three launches for my train to clear the tower, first time wasn’t close, second time for a few seconds we all thought we would be stuck at the top, third time we were absolutely launched at full speed because we cleared that thing with speed to spare.

-The cake was fantastic, and so was the Tofts Ice Cream. I cant believe how well Uno took the crowd around him too, they even had a photo shoot with him in the space rocket ride with a family. New kiddie area is very nice, it looked like a lot of kids were having a blast there today.

-Not a good day park operations wise at all to list off:
*Raptor was down multiple times throughout the day, thankfully me and my sister were near by when it opened once, got on it midday with a 30 min wait
*Magnum had multiple rows of on every train walled off with that orange tape, that’s unacceptable to me on opening day, How can approximately 1/3rd of each train have its lap bars malfunctioning on day 1?
*Gemini, despite over an hour wait, did not open the red side until well after 12
*Skyhawk was down more then it was up, we tried to ride it three different times, no dice
*Maverick was also down a lot today, looks like its problems are not a one year thing, which is sad.
*Chaos was also down a lot (no big surprise there)
*MaXair was down, and it looks like it will be for awhile

-Got my first Maverick rollback today too, we didn’t clear the second launch the first time, not as thrilling as TTDs by any means, I hope I don’t have one of those again

-The park was a lot more crowded this year then last years opening day, Blue Streak, that’s right Blue Streak, sported an hour wait the entire day.

-Didn’t really check out the food prices, with the exception of the cake and ice cream, never had anything in the park, although we did eat at TGI Fridays, cheeseburger and a coke cost <$15 even with tip.

-Mean Streak was defiantly smoother then expected, and its nice to sit in that train like a normal person again thanks to the new seat belts, bravo Cedar Fair on bringing these to Cedar Point!

-Troika and Matterhon’s belts are not bad, they are one belt per vehicle (unlike Shake Rattle and Roll at KI) so they don’t bother me. Im glad I can still ride the Troika sitting in the middle of the car.

-Ride ops were very good today, and seemed happy to be working. One interesting thing was that all of them were saying “check” out loud when checking the restraints, must have been a push at orientation today.

-Great weather, warmer then expected, and no clouds in the sky. Had a great time, but I hope CP gets their act together and fix all the ride problems ASAP.

Yes Ride Hosts must say "Check" every time now. CP is all about safety you know and this helps us double check that yes we did just check that seat. I too was a bit surprised at the turnout and I was embarrassed by the insane amount of downtime park wide and hope things clear out soon. On the upside Mean Streak apparently gave one of its best opening days ever so thanks Maverick for being down.

When you can prove that saying "check", which I can do right now without actually touching a restraint - "check" - actually makes me safer, then I'll buy it. Until then its an un-necessary policy that is going to drive ops crazy just so a lawyer can feel like he did his job.

Yeah. Last year, I knew that the ride ops had checked me. How? They came by and pushed down on the bar and pulled on the belt. OMG did you say check? :)

Check.

Checkmate

Dang. Rematch?

I got double roll back on Maverick.

We didn't clear the lift hill, than we didn't clear the tunnel.