Corkscrew got seatbelts.

Oh my. I have never realized that Magnum has different colored trains. I can't believe that slipped by me after so many rides on it.

DD - they are in storage with Dragsters wheels and spoilers, the robot from DT, WT's cowls and the enthusiasm of the ride ops.

Don't forget about the "ride-themed" trash cans and parking lot numbered signs, they must be in there too.

Actually, the ride themed trash cans found their way around the Employee commons dorms.

I never knew Magnum had different coloured trains either, I can't believe I didn't notice that. I learn something new about Cedar Point every day.

Okay Walt now you're just showing off. ;) At least I'm not the only one who never took notice of that. Actually I had seen them before, but just never though much of it - at least not enough to "brand" and entire train blue, red or black by them.

I love the red train on both Magnum and Millennium Force :)

(I'm sure that'll bring Tony out of the woodwork)
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The red and blue Magnum trains also have a colored stripe on the bottom under the nosepiece of the lead car. I think that's so that the mechanic under the station can tell which one is the blue train without having to look for the bent axle... :)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Last year, two or three of the parking lot signs were under Magnum's pretzel. Wicked Twister's wheel covers were inside Disaster Transport as of two years ago, and I think Dragster's wheels were in there too. Lusty Lil's sign is still sitting on a palette behind the Palace Theater/Comfort Station (you can see it when you ride Mean Streak). Dragster's spoilers were stacked up outside the maintenance shed within Mean Streak at one time.

Are Wicked Twister's wheel covers similar to Raptor's? What color are they?

They were similar to Raptors (don't know what color) but the biggest difference is that they were designed by Intamin instead of B&M. Its almost like they were engineered to not work.

If by "not work" you mean fly off during the ride...

Personally I thought it gave the ride some character and distinguished itself from the other non-large-projectile throwing coasters at the park.

Here's a picture of Wicked Twister with it's wheel covers on.

I still can't believe they couldn't come up with some design for those that wouldn't make them keep snapping off during the twists.

Chris, that's the photo that CP used a couple of years ago for their recruitment poster. Note also the crap (packing material?) wrapped around the upper rail. I had that photo hanging on my office door for a while.

The interesting thing about that photo is that it is extremely rare: There have to be very few people who have photos of Wicked Twister with the wheel covers in place, because by the time the park did the media preview, they were gone! That's right: NOBODY, other than park employees, ever rode Wicked Twister with wheel covers!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I've also got that recruitment poster hanging on my wall near the computer. That's what made me think to go look for that picture in the first place.

I heard they were taken off because of multiple wheel replacements during the first few weeks of ride operation. They were taken off, and left off, to make these wheel changes faster and easier on the maintenance guys. It sounds plausible, but it could also be total BS.

Whatsup with all the complaining? How much will this affect the ride experience....and the 5 minute usual wait time.

It won't affect the ride experience. But it could affect the wait time substantially. Many rides at CP, even with short lines, are still ridden by a lot of people. Corkscrew is an example of this as was Gemini with 6 trains (it has a line quite often now). Magnum gave the second most rides of any ride in the park last year and that rarely has a long wait and spends the first and last hours of every day as a walkon. The point is that lines are short because of the great capacity of these rides, not because no one rides them, although maybe that argument could be made for Mean Streak! :)

It's just disappointing to see that lawyers are running (and ruining) the park these days. It's also disappointing to see that cuts in one area (maintenance) are causing extra expense in others (seatbelts and load times). The park needs to be aware of these things and not oblivious to them, otherwise it will be just like a Six Flags park soon.

While we're on operational stuff, anyone know why they've now permanently closed the front of car path for Gemini? I noticed they had it permanently blocked off when I was there last month.