I had a family reunion this past weekend in Pennsylvania. My father lives in Cleveland, so I flew in there, and stayed the night at his house, then drove to Pennsylvania the next day, and stayed there for the weekend. We returned Sunday night.
Monday, we planned to go Cedar Point.
We left Cleveland pretty early, I forget the time, but we arrive a few minutes before they opened gates. This was the first year that we didn't have a Season Pass in three years, and also a Joe Cool. So we had to wait for general admission, which was 10, instead of 9 for Joe Cool.
We instantly walked all the way from the front of the park to Maverick, which took nearly 15 minutes. We hopped in line, and watching that machine was amazing, as it speed the trains up the hill, and dropped them at 95 degrees. A sight to behold.
A few minor few-minute breakdowns, and a 1 and a half later, we finally got on. And let me tell you, it's amazing! I love the drop, it's awesome, bowing under the track itself. The twists, the turns, and the air time hill was sweet! Two corkscrews, and an impressive launch, a climb upward, and swoop over the pond, an S curve, and few more tight turns, and the ride was over. Maverick is one of the best coaster I have yet to ride.
We went to go check out the Mean Streak line, which is was never more then 15 minutes before. This year: 45 minutes. Maverick did what it was planned to do, drive more people to the back. We ended up not riding it. So then we rode Skyhawk, an awesome ride indeed. Now we wanted to ride Magnum XL 200. But, much to our dismay, it was down. I've never seen it down before, so I figured it would be a few minutes. Well it wasn't, it ended up being down all day, with the train stuck at the top of the lift.
After this my father had wanted to parasail. We walked to the parasailing booth, bought a regular double, and waited a few minutes. Then a guy took both of us out on a jet ski. While nearing the boat, the guy made a sharp turn, and the jet ski rolled over, thus throwing us into the water.
Once on board, the two guys said that the wind was not strong enough to take up both at the same time, so they did us one at a time. I was first. One of the guys stapped me up, and and I sat down on the back of the boat, with the sail behind me. And we sped up, and I began to get pulled backwards, in soon I was in the air. A picture was snapped, and the line began slowly releasing, and in a few moments, I was 400 feet in the air. Which is more then we paid for, but I assumed it was for the jet ski mishap. I looked down on Millennium Force, and almost eye level with Top Thrill Dragster. It was too cool, and awesome, to explain. So peaceful, and yet exciting!
After that we went through the park, and to the parking lot, went to our car, and dried our hair with towels and spare hoodies, combed our hair, and freshened up a bit, drank a sprite, and went back at it.
First maXair, which is still awesome in my book, full of airtime, and heights, and spins. Wicked Twister, which bared almost no line, all the way in the back. I love sitting in the back, on the back spike looking down at the sand, and line, and dive show (defunct) theater. After this we rode Raptor. I love that ride, and it was cool to see they added the CDRide cameras on it. Unfortunately, our train didn't record for whatever reason, so we didn't get to see our video.
This was when we went to go eat at Friday's. It was busy, and we had to wait about a half hour for a table. We began to dry off by then, so it wasn't too bad. After Dinner, we went to go see if Magnum was back up, but it still wasn't. After finding out it was still down, we rode Gemini, which is an awesome family ride, and it's fun to slap the hands of people on the other train, and to race them. So then we went to Power Tower. Teal side, or the Turbo Drop side. I love being up there, looking around, then suddenly being dropped. All though, I will admit, Scream at Heide Park, which is a Intamin drop tower, was better. Although, they are pretty much the same.
It was then that it began to get dark, so we hopped in line for Millennium Force. The line looked to be about 2 hours long, the sign said 1 3/4 hours, but it ended up being an hour and a half. The people in the front of the train were getting pelted with bugs. Some returned with black spots all over their face, white shirts that returned black. No joke. We sat in the back, for airtime, and bug safety. I did catch one or two in my mouth.
It was a quarter past 9 o'clock, and we wanted to make Dragster our last ride. So we headed that way. The sign said 1 3/4 hours. So we got in line. They were launching trains the way they are supposed to! Every 30 seconds, a train was launch. No break downs, no nothing! It was amazing! I had never seen Dragster running so smoothly before. Seems like they finnaly got it under control. We only ended up waiting about an hour. It was incredible.
But unfortunately, we got stuck with the crowd while leaving, because of the Summer Lights show. Not a biggie though, we took Cedar Point road back instead of the Causeway.
Overall, it was a busy day. But it was still fun. A drop in Lake Erie, a broken down ride, and too much fun to describe, it was an incredible day. I miss the Point. I should make it a point to make it back more next year, or possibly later this year, in October.
Good trip report. I was also there on Monday...Magnum was running early in the day, I got in line while it was still running at around 11:45, but it broke down shortly after, and they had to evac people from the lift and everything. I wonder what was wrong. I believe it went back up at some point in the afternoon, then went back down again shortly after. Anyways I'll be posting a trip report soon.
Good TR! To bad Magnum was down. It's one of my favorites and couldn't imagine going and not riding it. Oh well I'm sure you still had fun!
I was there on the 6th as well. My buddy came with his daughter and grandkids, and spent most of the day there. We rode Magnum right at 10am, saw TTD testing and got into line, which was a good move. We then skipped a huge line for Maverick and rode MS after a 45 min wait.
By then the park was packed, probably the result of a very wet Aug. 5 and the fact that the first Monday of August is a bank holiday in Ontario. The heat and the humidity were both in the 90's.
We hit Maggie as it re-opened and nabbed a couple of rides with little wait, then it went back to 45min.
Gemini was a 30 minute wait, and Millie a 95 min. wait. We skipped DT's 60 min wait and Raptor's even longer one.
By that time two of the kids had conked out and it was so hot I was happy to be the one to take them home. The others got rides on TTD again and on Maverick finally, both after a 90 min wait. The clan proclaimed the day a sucess!
Roz
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