"Celebrity" sightings at CP

For a second I thought you said "As in bad talk show host?"

Well, I guess either way is true. And yes, I believe that is the Montel they are referring to.

Speaking of Trent Reznor did anyone notice the picture on the splash at nin.com today 06/26.06?

http://www.nin.com/today.jpg

I believe that is Magnum! *** Edited 6/26/2006 9:47:40 PM UTC by Ron Daily***

Now thats pretty cool!

Nice picture.

I heard they are at the park today;)

I now <3 Nine Inch Nails!

Michael Darling said:
I now <3 Nine Inch Nails!

Me 2. But my mom won't let me buy their new CD. I hate her.

I was going to say the same thing! :) A new favorite band! ;)

They were at Pine Knob last night. Which is just north of Detroit. I'd bet they were their today, hence todays image.

EDIT:Yeah, the next show is Cleveland. *** Edited 6/26/2006 11:12:16 PM UTC by Coastern3rd***

When I was working Raptor in 1999, I saw Debbie Gibson, a.k.a Deborah Gibson. Anyone remember her? That was really cool. She went up the exit and boarded the ride, of course with CP executives.

Andrew Sharkey said:
Lebron James was there last year. A co-worker working at Magnum told me a story of him not recognizing Lebron and dumping his photo because he gave the shocker (CP employees have to dump inappropriate on-ride photos). When he found out that it was in fact Lebron, he had to radio the supervisors and/or managers to come and recover the photo in order to keep Lebron peppy.

Reminds me of when he got thrown out of the park for line jumping...

It's been a while since I worked at the Point (scales hostess/supervisor (aka weight guesser) '91 and '92). However, my first summer there Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were visiting --- she was quite nice, but he was attention-seeking.

coasterlovers4 said:
but he was attention-seeking.

You don't say? ;)

well, I am there all the time. But I wear a disguise.

Coastern3rd said:

coasterlovers4 said:
but he was attention-seeking.

You don't say? ;)

Watch out. That's Risky Buisness.

Trent Reznor was, in fact, at the park all day yesterday, so that explains the Magnum picture on the Nine Inch Nails site.

I'd never heard of Montel until he rode MF 5 times in a row on Sunday while I was in controls.

^ Yeah, he's an admitted pot user, he's talked about it on his show. He did Rip Cord right before us.

Saw weird Al 3 years ago. My daughter and I were there on Labor Day weekend. Sunday morning we were walking down the TTD midway towards Magnum when some tall guy with dreads walks by and asks me "Hey man, do you know where Magnum is?" I told him to follow us, we are going right there. Me, being nieve had no idea who this guy was. I pretty much had a walk on the ride, but this guy was coming up the exit ramp and got on in the same car as me. It was slow like every labor day. Everyone in the train was staring at this guy. I was the seat in front of him (2-1) I finally asked him why they were staring and he said "probably because they know who I am". Then it hit me.....stupid....this is weird Al! He said "have you heard of Weird Al Yankovich?" I felt pretty out of the mainstream. He isn't much of a celeb anymore...or was he ever? I haven't seen much of him since high school. He did not have an escort and rode alone.

Since LeBron is pretty tall, like myself, he probably just rode in the front of one of the cars, because there is a ton more leg room. I'm a few inches short of him, and I have plenty of room, but only when I sit in front of one of the cars. Plus, didn't Bron do that thing where him and his possee could just walk up the exit and pick any seat they wanted? So, I'm sure this was no problem.

Yeah, I always sit in the front of the car, especially on all the Arrows.

I've never seen any real celebrities.... In have seen and spoken with a number of the regulars including Mr. Kinzel and Mr. Hildebrant to name a few. I've also seen, and have a picture of, Sandor Kernacs working on Top Thrill Dragster and the president of Huss, whose name escapes me at the moment, showing off CP's Huss rides to some prospective customers, as well as at maXair's Media Day. I also saw Stan Checketts at Skyhawk's Media Day... but other then them, no luck for me... :(

*** Edited 6/28/2006 4:09:37 AM UTC by DBCP***