A Few Questions?

I just have a few questions to ask regarding Corkscrew, Dragster, and Season Passes.

1. My friend told me that when she was riding Corkscrew around the time it had opened she was going up the lift hill and her Ostr was totally unlatched. Her boyfriend did hit it down and it latched. I am wondering if this is possible now to happen and did this happen to anyone a while back?

2. Next my other friend said that his lap bar came up on him on Dragster at the top of the tower. I don't belive this at all because of Dragster's safety features. He claimed that he got a free season pass from Cedar Point.

3. Season Passes. I am thinking of buying a season pass this next year but i don't want to the park to get it. If I buy it online how do i pick it up or do they send it to me. I new to this Season Pass stuff..

Thanks!!

EDITED:for clairity
*** Edited 9/7/2007 12:40:50 AM UTC by Force00***

I HIGHLY doubt your friend's harness opened on TTD. It has two cylinders that need to fail in order for it to open.

You can buy a season pass online and they will send you a voucher. But, you have to go to the park and "process in". That means they take your picture and print you a card. You can do this the first day you attend the park.

I, too, highly doubt either of those stories are true. Dragster has lap bars, not harnesses, anyways.

I have a question on SP's also. The new info came out for the SPs and Im wondering if special perks only come with the Maxx Pass or w/e they call it now since they changed everything. Can you still get ERT and disscounts with the reg. season pass?

One more I allready have a pass for this year. I heard if you get one for next year you dont have to go the SP center they just use your old pic. Is that true and how do you do it?

I think your Dragster-riding friend is pulling your MF seatbelt. I'll try to find the page, but I think it was Dave (Rideman) who posted about the lap bar mechanisms on TTD and MF (actually, I think it was all recent Intamins). Basically it employs two hydraulic cylinders with electrically-disengaged check valves. Pretty difficult to fail.

I highly doubt that story too.

But I have another scary one that my Mom told me.

She said that she and her sister were on Blue Streak (before safety checks were routine) and their lapbar wouldn't go down and no one came to help (seatbelts were also not installed on any coasters at the time). Anyway about halfway up the lift hill Mr. Strongman in front of them turned around and forced their lapbar down.

Wow, scary! I asked the guy who said his lapbar went up on TTD to show me his season pass and he said he couldn't show me. I was just wondering if it could happen.

My moms OTSR came unlocked on raptors Helix 2 yrs ago.

Here it is. I guess it wasn't on Dave's site like I thought. Go down to the bottom of the page.

http://www.hydraulicspneumatics.com/200/IndZone/Entertainment/Article/False/9810/IndZone-Entertainment

Thanks thats really cool.

Your mom is to fat to ride TTD. said:
...Im wondering if special perks only come with the Maxx Pass or w/e they call it now since they changed everything. Can you still get ERT and disscounts with the reg. season pass?

One more I allready have a pass for this year. I heard if you get one for next year you dont have to go the SP center they just use your old pic. Is that true and how do you do it?

Point perks are only valid with Platinum Passes purchased at Cedar Point. You cannot add Point Perks to a Cedar Point only season pass.

There are no renewals for season passes this year. So, even if you have a pass this year, you will have to go to the park at some point and process your pass again.

Your mom is to fat to ride TTD. said:
My moms OTSR came unlocked on raptors Helix 2 yrs ago.

At the part of the ride with the highest G forces? Unlikely.

It probably just went down an extra click.

I can't speak about TTD or Raptor, but I can tell you that my OTSRs popped open going up the lift hill on Vortex at Kings Island on a visit in the 90's. That was quite a traumatic experience that I've already related on Pointbuzz before. Vortex is an Arrow coaster, just like Cedar Point's Corkscrew. (Of course now CS has crotch belts, so such a failure nowadays would have a backup system.)

i think your friends lying to you!!

my seatbelt always comes off on blue streak

i just always happen to sit in the same seat *** Edited 9/7/2007 11:21:10 AM UTC by cedarpointluver***

I can also confirm that my sister's OTSR popped opened on Vortex in 2001 on the first drop...a little scary, but she just lowered it again and it locked.

Me, myself, just two months ago at KI my OTSR popped open going down the first spike on Face/Off! Since I had the seatbelt I also wasn't concerned and just re-lowered it and it clicked in...the rest of that ride I rode pretty cautious, and I usually like to leave my OTSR's very loose if at all possible. I also think my OTSR may have popped open on the Raptor lift hill earlier this season.

cedarpointluver, I can almost promise you that if it is constantly coming off that one of two things unrelated to the actual mechanism failing is happening. One; you have it placed in such a way that the latch is able to catch on something and lift, causing it to unlock, or two: it is in, but not fully clicked in, maybe an article of clothing is caught in the lock, and even a check from a ride-op doesn't catch it. It happens sometimes, which is one reason I want the Intamin style latches or regular seat belt clips instead of the airline clips.

Mike - Vortex had the seatbelts when I went in July.

Of course, these were implemented and installed with some thought behind them rather than by a drunk brain-damaged monkey. The clip is on the horse-collar and the belt is retractable down into the seat. So, not only did I not get bonked on the head, but I was also able to buckle the belt rather easily because I didn't need to lean way forward to reach the clip.

Yeah, I've ridden it since the belts went in. Probably the only time I've been glad to see seat belts put in on a coaster. That really is a much better design than Corkscrew's. I envision a trainload of riders coming out of the station, each of them with a little red seat belt-shaped indentation on their foreheads.

So on the Blue Streak, did you mom leave the station with the lap bar still up or did it come up after she left the station (with someone forcing the bar down on the way up the first hill)? I find it hard to believe that they would have allowed her to leave the station with the lap bar up. I cannot remember if anyone came by and physically pulled up on each lap bar to verify that it was locked but I do remember they unloaded the trains where they now load them on the Blue Streak, the trains then moved forward with the lap bars up to be loaded, you got in with the bars up, you heard a buzzing sound and the bars could then be pulled down and off you went (without seatbelts or dividers). But I cannot imagine that no one noticed that the lap bar (which was just one bar that went over the entire row -- they were not individual per person as they are now) was up when they left the station.

On my last ride on Raptor I'm confident my OSTR popped out atleast one notch. I'm not one to be overly cautious, I trust the restraints on all of the rides. I do up my belt and my lap bar or OSTR on everything just as I am supposed to but there was deffinetly movement movement within my OSTR in the first loop, and it wasn't it closing another notch because I know what that feels like.