Any Rides Down?

Hi folks -

Just cuious to those that have been at the park recently. We'll be there on Tuesday and Wednesday.

I know MF is currently down - but was wondering if anything else is having difficulties. I haven't seen corkscrew run with looking at the DragsterCam.

In the past year or so, this has been a good place to look:

http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/visit/today/index.cfm

They generally list any rides which they know for sure will not be operating. I would assume they will do the same this season, althought MF is not listed. Otherwise, it's pretty safe to assume everything will be running outside of any immediate problems.

I'm at the park today (catching a break and feeding the kids at the camper), and on our way back to the camper village, looked like in addition to millie being down, ttd appeared to be geting a track walk-thru inspection, corkscrew and Gemini were not running, and wildcat was having alot of problems. Mantis was running an empty train about every other ride, but seemed fine (boy that thing seems speedier than I remembered!!!).

Thanks, Rubella.

So overall it sounds like there are quite a few things down today. I have seen TTD run along with Mantis and Magnum on the FunCam.

Looks like Corkscrew might start working soon - I thought I saw the train on the lift for a while on the DragsterCam - and it is now gone.

And TTD is running again.. line forming outside and just saw it on FunCam.

perhaps rain or power outage due to weather?

Will the rides being down really change your plans, or will you go there Tuesday and Wednesday regardless of what we tell you is/isn't down?

Dragster was having all kinds of problems yesterday. I tried to get in line around noon and mechanics were messing around with the third fin on the launch side. (IDK technical terms) Then I got in line at 4 and there was a triple rollback and it shut down for a good hour. It was pretty crazy yesterday.

In addition to the above, yesterday Maverick was down for a period of some hours in the afternoon. Also, the CP & LE Railroad was shut down for the entirety of the day. There was a crane positioned next to MF's lift hill, and I'm guessing it may have been placed directly on the tracks. There simply isn't much room for working in that area.

Everything of course went down during a twenty minute rain period too.

I was there yesterday and rode the CP & LE RR multiple times.

I figured that with the crane gone they would have the train back up and running by Saturday.

Does anyone know why Manis will randomly run every other train? It really makes the ride move slow and they dont even touch the third train! :)

Mantis has been down to 2 train operation for a few years now. Someone else may be able to tell you the exact year they started. I think they went down to 2 train operation due to stacking issues, as it takes longer to load and dispatch the trains.

The train was running, but only when the crane was not in use today at Millie.

Only ride I found down today having any issues at all was Maxair, which seemed to be having a lot of mechanical problems. They tried to run it midday but it broke down.

coolkid2345 said:
Does anyone know why Manis will randomly run every other train?

Generally if they are running one train empty they either just brought it onto the track from storage or someone got sick on it and they run it empty a few cycles to air dry after cleaning it out.