Cedar Point - Opening Day

There was a thread in the general, but it seemed to have been deleted, so I will re-cap here.

Today was not as smooth as Geauga Lake was last weekend.

Dragster was down most the day, and running very slow in the evening.

Most coasters were not running at 10AM

waited 15-20 minutes for cheese-on-a-stick when they forgot about us, and served them to other people.

Millie was running two trains and stacking badly. Even with Freepass it took 30 minutes or so.

On a posative note, Mean Strak ran REALLY GOOD, with **NO TRIMS!!!!!** It ran GREAT!!

Changes I noticed:

New sign on Dodgems... Retro look, from 60s instead of 70s.

New paint on Iron Dragon and Corkscrew

Macho Nachos sign no longer on awning Los Gatos.

Gullivers Grill is now a pretzel stand.

Maggie seemed to deliver WAY more air than I remember. It ran really good.

1EJ

Sorry I missed you!

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We are at Lighthouse Point. Cooking out... Come have a hot dog or a burger and a beer!!

1EJ

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Most coasters were not running at 10AM

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Not so. I was on WildCat at 10am and could see from there that Corkscrew, Iron Dragon, and Raptor we operating. By 11:00am, I had finished my lap around the park. Just in that time, I saw Gemini, Corkscrew, Iron Dragon, Woodstock Express, Jr. Gemini, Magnum, Mantis, Mean Streak, Raptor, Millennium Force, Wicked Twister, WildCat and even Dragster all operating. I also saw people exiting Disaster Transport, so I assume that was business as usual as well.

I'm not sure how you could see all 16 coasters at 10am to know they were operating, unless maybe you were on Space Spiral.

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Gullivers Grill is now a pretzel stand.

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That was new last year.

I don't know. Maybe we were at different Cedar Point's today. I left with a good impression and thought it was a good first day.

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Walt Schmidt
Virtual Midway
*** This post was edited by Gemini 5/8/2004 11:17:14 PM ***

Dragester, Gemini and Mine Ride were not running.

Saw Wicked Twister, Magnum and Raptor down later in the day.

Dragster did have a rough start this morning, but I thought the ride rebounded well and ran fairly smoothly thorughout the day.

I'm not sure why you thought it was running slow in the evening either. I got in line at 8:30 and was on the ride at 9:30 with no rollbacks or mechanical issues the entire time I was in line.

As a side note, I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere yet, but Raptor was running beautifully on it's 10th opening day. Very forceful and smooth.

11th opening day (94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04)

I don't know what wasn't running at 10, I arrived just before 10, checked into breakers, and then me and my brother walked onto Magnum, Corkscrew, Dragon (which ran absolutely beautifully) and Mantis. We waited maybe 15 minutes for Mantis because of the one train thing, but otherwise it was fine.

I'll be adding a recap probably tomorrow, we just got back after I spent about 2 1/2 hours in the park before we left this morning.

John

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1eyedjack said:

On a posative note, Mean Strak ran REALLY GOOD, with **NO TRIMS!!!!!** It ran GREAT!!

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I wish it would of stayed that way, we rode in the late afternoon, and they were trimming the trains pretty hard off the mid-course.

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I rode MS also that morning. It was the best ride I ever had on it.

The mid-course doesn't matter so much. I got a great ride on Mean Streak Sunday because the first hill trim was off. It's a very good ride when that brake is off, especially fun is the turn that goes through the lift hill and the drop immediately following that turn.

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than in the drink with a boat on the rocks.

We arrived at the park at noon and were happy to see it wasn't very crowded. We got to ride most rides without any wait with the exception of Millennium. We didn't have to wait that long for TTD either. Mean Streak was down when we arrived at the back of the park, so I didn't get a chance to ride it. We checked out the new restaurants and noticed that many people were complaining about the prices at Donut Time, saying it was too expensive, so they just walked out. It was a fun day and it was good to be back "home".