CoasterMania 2008-My first

Sorry for any misspellings.

Stayed at Breakers Express for the night. Woke up at 5:30a.m and started getting packed for the day. Got out to the park at about 5:45 and walked up to register. With registration I got a all day refill cup, sweatshirt, lanyard, lunch ticket. I could not belive that Cedar Point was just giving away stuff, and since this was my first CoasterMania I didn't know what the normal for Cedar Point is. After registering went back to the car to drop off my sweatshirt since the temps were going to be in the 90's. After the trip to the car I headed back to Maverick.

The ERT's for the morning were Maverick (1) then to Millienum Force (3) ,Raptor (1), Blue Streak (1).

After riding it was about 9:00 and I headed back to get another ride on Maverick. Then it was over to Skyhawk and rode it a few times as a walk on. Then rode Iron Dragon on the way back to the car. After going to the car it was about 10:30 and the school groups started pouring in, it was also getting very very hot and humid. During most of the day untill maybe 12:00 p.m I walked around the park geting photos and some video. Around 1:00 I checked into Hotel Breakers and took a rest. It was about 7:00 p.m I rode Magnum as a walk on then rode Millieunum as a 15 minute wait. Then waited for the park to close for night ERT.

Lunch: This was HUGE they had tons and tons of food! Chicken, sausage, ice cream, cotton candy, and soo soo many more things. People were very friendly to talk to and I met Dick Kinzel after eating he was very friendly too.

Night ERT: Went straight to the tallest and fastest ride ever Jr. Gemini and I think it saw its biggest line ever. I have some video too. Then headed back to Maverick, Tony was at Maverick trying to get the weather report, and about 15 minutes we were all on and riding. I got about 5 rides in a row each were just get on no wait at all. Then later I rode a few times with Tony. Went over to TTD to get a ride and rode it once and then headed back to the hotel. One thing when I was in the Maverick station the person speiling was geting very into this he was cracking jokes, saying the TTD "Arms down, Head back, and hold on" and it was very entertaining.

CoasterMania was a great event and I can't wait till next year! All the ride host were into it and weren't getting too tired and grumpy. Great job on Cedar Point's part for planning such a great fun event and I thank all the employees for doing such a great job, they made this possible.

Video is Here.

Pictures are Here

Sounds like you had a good time, one question about the park hours for coastermania, how long of a day is it from open to close?
Nice trip report to.

6 am (well actually it was more like 5:45) through 12:30.

Maverick was flying for its nightime ERT. I had my best rides on Maverick ever that night.

^ I think they kicked up the speed a little. One word of advice don't ride front seat at night. One word bugs

Wow sounds like a long day there, I might just need to attend next years event.

^If you're planing on going make sure you have a hotel for the night before and the night after. It gets to be a long day and it's nice to take a rest.

Also there is a blog update on the event.

^Or live close by, make sure you get to bed early the day before, take a nap midday (at Soak City or on the beach) and then make sure you arent working Saturday (so you can sleep in.)