Best and Worst of the 2010 Season

Capacity Best: Raptor and Magnum

Capacity Worst: Mean Streak (2 trains op) Corkscrew (3 train stack every time cause of the seatbelts)

Crew Best: Magnum

Crew Worst: Corkscrew

Food Best: Elephant Ear (Frontiertown)

Food Worst: Getting rid of Heinz Ketchup.

Shows Best: LIVE band back at the Red Garter Saloon for the regular season.

Shows Worst: Not having the LIVE band at the Red Garter for Halloweekends.

Best Crew: Magnum, Mean Streak, and Disaster Transport.
Worst Crew: Raptor, Turnpike Cars, and maXair.

Best Capacity: Magnum, Iron Dragon, and Raptor.
Worst Capacity: Mean Streak and Gemini.
Most Improved Capacity: Disaster Transport.

Best Food: Hot dog Stand next to WildCat.
Worst Food: none :)

Best Show: All Wheels Extreme (really corny)
Worst Show: Hot Summer Lights

Overall it was a pretty good season. The employees seem to be lacking friendliness; capacity seems to be better on many rides(exception of Gemini).

Most bizarre addition: A seatbelt lock on the bins

Best Crew: Magnum XL, Raptor, Iron Dragon
Worst Crew: Blue Streak

Best Capacity: Millennium, Top Thrill Dragster, Magnum, Raptor,
Worst Capacity: Shoot the Rapids

Best Food: Only ate the fresh cut fries at Mr Potato next to Raptor.
Worst Food: Same place took 18 minutes for two orders of fries on a Saturday.

My last visit was on the 8,9,10 of this month, noticed every time in line for TTD it never went down, the line kept moving. Can not say the same for Shoot The Rapids.

Best: Being able to experience Cedar Point for the 1st time.

Worst:Not being able to go back for another year.

Daniel Smith said:
Worst Crew: Blue Streak

Definitely disagree with that portion. The BS crew seemed great. IMO, they were one of the few that retained their enthusiasm throughout the season. Perhaps I just went on days good people were working. :)

Best Food: Panda Express

Worst Food: The new fries at Happy Friar

Best ride crew: Maverick

Worst ride crew: Raptor or STR

Best Employee: Tony Clark :(

Worst Employee: One of the screamsters in Fright Zone

About Blue Streak, one of the ride op's blocked the stairs off then she left. The station was getting some empty row's so I and everyone else entered the station, then we were told to get back behind the red and white pole, and not to enter the station. The guy who was suppose to come and re-open did not, he was having a nice chat with the driver at the far end of the storage track. While Millennium Force and Top Thrill Dragster(which have a lot longer line) did not have some one at the station, so the station filled up, but they have one on Blue Streak?

Other than that one time, Blue Streak's crew was great. And I thought that Gemini's crew was excited when the train left and entered the station.

Best new lighting: Blue Streak

Worst disappointment: The fire on Mean Streak getting noticed in time to save it

Best Crew: MF / MaXair. Kudos to both crews who made both rides even better all summer long.

Worst Crew: Raptor. Some of the rudest, nastiest, most sarcastic jerks I have ever had the displeasure of listening to in my life. CP should update their customer service training for this crew.

Best food: Sliced apples covered with caramel at Toot Sweets during Halloweekends. Those things are like the crack cocaine of amusement park food.

Worst food: The "hamburgers" at the stand back by Maverick. A skinny cold hockey puck half the size of the bun it is on does not a hamburger make.

Best overall day: Passholder appreciation day. 6 rides on MF during the day, 7 rides on TDD in the hour ERT after closing, plus Maverick, Mean Streak, MaXair, and Magnum over the course of the day.

Worst overall day: 4th of July. Just didn't have a good day, and was kinda disappointed in the fireworks.

Looking forward to spending a few hours at CP on Sunday, then spending the winter looking forward to next season and Windseeker.

Yeah the worst thing at the Round Up next to Maverick, there burgers do not even come with toppings.

RideWarrior18 said:

Best: Gotta give a shout out to James on the PWE crew. Called him Steve all summer, and made my 17 excursions worth my time. Hilarious dude! :)

Aw I'm totally gonna tell him you said that! James is totally awesome

firefox15 said:

Daniel Smith said:
Worst Crew: Blue Streak

Definitely disagree with that portion. The BS crew seemed great. IMO, they were one of the few that retained their enthusiasm throughout the season. Perhaps I just went on days good people were working. :)

I disagree also! I LOVED the Blue Streak crew this season they were GREAT! :)

Also the DT crew was awesome this year also!! :)

Jo
Lifetime Raptor flights: 2300 :)

Thank you guys, for all the Mean Streak love it really means a lot. At least some people noticed =)

Is hot summer lights really that bad? Was it that bad last year? I only ask for I have never seen it, we usually only go a couple times early in the year and a couple of times during Halloweekends so it is either not on yet or done for the season.

Chase Gilbert said:
Worst Crew: Raptor. Some of the rudest, nastiest, most sarcastic jerks I have ever had the displeasure of listening to in my life. CP should update their customer service training for this crew.

Best food: Sliced apples covered with caramel at Toot Sweets during Halloweekends. Those things are like the crack cocaine of amusement park food.

Wow...glad I wasn't a part of THAT crew Yikes! :(

OMG I so found those caramel covered apples (wasnt just at Halloweekends either I had been eating them all season) they are HEAVEN and also my MUST have every visit!! :)

Jo
Lifetime Raptor flights: 2300 :)

Erik Lee said:
Is hot summer lights really that bad? Was it that bad last year? I only ask for I have never seen it, we usually only go a couple times early in the year and a couple of times during Halloweekends so it is either not on yet or done for the season.

It's not so much that Hot Summer Lights is bad, just that it is so mediocre. The entire show is essentially the background of a karaoke video mixed with lights and the occasional bit of pyrotechnics.

The park might be better served by the whole set-up if it was used more to add energy to the nighttime atmosphere, much like Glow Fest and ElecTRONica at Disney California Adventure. Instead of having everyone come in and sit down to watch the same thing happen (music, lights, Firewater, repeat) for twenty minutes you could create something of a party vibe. DCA has apparently had considerable success with their events, particularly through the sale of food and specialty "glow" drinks.

Once again, Disney competes in another topic and wins hands down....is Disney like the king of the amusement park world?

When I went, I thought is was OK, I liked space mountain a lot, but well,............dont know.

I think HSL was kinda random, with the cheerleaders and random people and such, I just like the end with the patriotic stuff, and firewater. Fireworks are OK, though.

Best crew: Gemini, hands down!

Worst Crew: Raptor, I guess...

Best Moment: Getting green train on TTD to complete the 6 train cycle, also closed out my 2010 CP ride season.

Worst Moment: Girl constantly yelling at me in line for SkyHawk.

Captain James was great on Paddlewheel. He could really get wacky. He was completely unhinged on a ride we had late on July 4th. That was the best ride ever. Captain Steve was great too. He ended up at Corkscrew for most of the season. The others on Paddlewheel are all good too.

The Blue Streak crew was great. I really liked Ashley (I'm pretty sure that's her name) they were always upbeat, silly and fun.

Gotta give some props to the Sky Ride crews too. They work their butts off and are always friendly.

^ Steve, thats funny about the girl at skyhawk, was it an employee yelling, or another guest?

In the past, I have seen others get yelled at in TTD's line about line jumping, sometimes the cops came to remove them! Funny stuff.....

i have had other women take my picture (of my a**, a LOT) yes, its true, and creeeeepppyyy! Not men, women (girls my age)

They dont know me, they just snap a sneak pic as they stroll by, pointing it downward in my direction.

Hard to get used to, knowing that others want my legs......:)