ALMOST BLACKED OUT ON MF TR for 7-11-00

Well lets start off with the Hotel. Which was hotel breakers a nice little Hotel a nice outdoor pool and spa just a casuseway away from Cedar Point.

Now to the park. We arived about 9:20 after parking and through the gate. I went with my aunt,uncle mom, and brother. We IMMEDIATELY headed back to Millenuim Force and waited about 15 mins.!!!!!!! More on the force in a bit. Then the line was backed up and was walk-on all around so within an hour we hit Iron Dragon 15min wait, Corkscrew 15min wait, Magnum 15min wait, and then the park was filling up quick and we kept on our way. We hit Gemini whihc was running one train and was a 30 min. wait. By now it was 12 and went to go get a Ticket To ride. Whihc was from 3-4 so went over to Mantis. Everyone after getting there tivket went to Mantis and was 1hour and 30mins!!! But the ride was great and worth the wait. THough mantis was stacking train all day. Now we headed with my aunt and uncles lil boy to Woodstock Express rode it twice and was pretty fun for a little kiddie ride. By then we decided to get in line for Millenuim Force with our tickets. The wait with TTR was 1 hour. But the wait all day besides that was 2 hours and the rest of the park was bare. My mom was getting sick so we had to rap our day up soon so we headed to Frontier land got on CCMR and Mean Streak which was 45 min wait. We then had to leave because my mom was sick so I hoped on Wildcat real quick whihc was a 20min wait. A nice ride not to Bad.

Now Millenuim Force
I got on this ride twice.
Now for a decription
As youreach the top of the left hill the evlevator lift speeds up and you go over the Main drop when you look out you see NO TRACK and finally you see it as you go straight down at 92 miles an hour*(I SWEAR IT WAS OVER 100)The rest of the ride has great airtime and I like the little trun around at the end of the ride. Though on my scond trip on MF I started to black out after the banked trun why could this be?
Great TRIP with no waits except Mantis,MF and Mean Streak.

IS that when it speeds you REALLY fast to the left, through the tunnel? I am not saying the tunnel blacked you out, I mean the sheer speed? Because on my 43rd lap, my head got stuck on that one and it was a lil dark because I could only see sort of my shoes and my lap bar. So umm, maybe that's what it was. I dunno. My head got stuck about 4 of my laps on MF.

On one of my two rides I did get dizzy and experience some blurred vision between the pullout and getting around the first turn. I was clear-headed by the time I reached the Magnum hill, though. And my other ride was perfect. Guess I just wasn't positioned right or something :) The pullout is quite intense, though, and I'm sure it does unpleasant things to your blood flow for the couple seconds you're there.

Actually, the only ride I've ever blacked out on was Corkscrew :) It was waaaaaaaaaay back, when I was about 6 or 7, and it was the first inverted ride I'd ever been on...maybe my first coaster period, for that matter. My memory at that age is blurry. Anyway, just wasn't prepared for the inversion, I guess :) I remember going into the loop and then getting out of the train. Mmmm...gotta love missing time on a coaster :)

On my last two rides on MF, I felt that the last 2 over-banked turn were extreme and had more G's than usual, and boy did I LOVE it!

The only ride I've ever had problems on with blacking out was the Steel Phantom at Kennywood. The bottom of the drop just slams you into a turn... I just loved the feeling of my face getting mashed backwards from the wind on MF.

Jman

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Millennium Force laps: 2

My second ride on MF felt mor intense then usual. At the bottom of the first hill the G's pushed me done so far that my head almost touched the floor of the train!!

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Raptor '00 Count: 45

Steel Phantom's 2nd drop does pull some high G's on the turn at the bottom. You can't help but just tense up like nobody's business down there. (I like it nonetheless.)

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WHOO!

When we went on MF last weekend, my fiance said he blacked out and his brother said he got tunnel vision. So you are not alone with that complaint. As for me, I just got a wicked backache.
Kathleen
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Did you ride Wildcat? Because Wildcat has more G's than MF.