Crazy things you hear while waiting in line...

Other than the "look at the Ohio ocean" or the MF comment(s) as it goes upside down, most have been about the previous Mean Streak(while riding train). This past Saturday, we heard a rather self proclaimed expert tell his companions how he's been coming here 2x a year for past 5 years. AND that CP has been slowly removing(demolishing) Mean Streak ever since, and how it can't be EVER turned into something else..lol. I did correct him however(maybe with some public humiliation..shame on me). Another statement, on a later train ride, yielded just me rolling my eyes because I was too busy laughing (silently inside my head). A female guest told her group, that MS was bad news. "They are REALLY tearing it down now-because people were climbing to the top and trying to put screws back in to stop them from doing anything"...LMAO. I guess all the fresh timber & track mean nothing?

Not "in line" but while we were riding a full circuit on the train, the family seated behind us (also riding full circuit) had a few mis-informed comments and questions at the park Tuesday evening.

As we left the station and rode past MF, one of the children said, "Look! That whole rollercoaster is inside of a tunnel!" and then a few minutes later as we went past the bay with downtown Sandusky on the other side a kid asked a parent if that was still part of Ohio or if it was Canada.

On the second leg of the train ride, after we reached Boneville and the gunshots rang out, someone in their group commented: "THAT's where all of that smell is coming from!" (the sulphur from the coal burning steam engine was particularly pungent on this ride) and then finally when the outer edges of Rougarou first became visible someone triumphantly declared that we were approaching the Iron Dragon. But in his defense, the orange color schemes are similar to the untrained eye, it was clear that this was their first ever go around on the train (based on pointing out 'here comes another one!' each time we encountered a new set of skeletons), and he DID correct himself once we reached the Rougarou queue entry along the railroad tracks.

I'm not sure how old the kids were -- maybe between 10 and 14 I would guess, so I would give them a pass on most (if not all) of these miscues. There is a difference between an enthusiastic child full of excitement who cannot help but vocalize his ideas and an adult who should be more aware, but is merely trying to spout off his knowledge/authority on a particular topic that he really knows nothing about.

It reminds me of another train trip I took about 20 years ago from Toledo to New York City. A kid maybe about 8 or 10 loudly declared to no one in particular (and everyone in the train car) that we were riding past the Brooklyn Bridge. He took at least ten photographs of is with his flash camera. I think we were still several dozen miles north of White Plains at the time and nowhere even close to the city yet. But this kid had to have ended up with a least ONE good photo of whatever darn bridge that was (assuming the flashes weren't reflecting back at him off the train windows)!

My sister-in-law has been with us this week armed with her Kings Island pass for entry so we planned on multiple visits to CP this week. She says she has been exercising alot lately and is looking forward to the several miles of walking each trip to CP. She is one who tends to go on about her exercise prowess. We did early entry on Valravn, then walked to MF. After that we suggested to go to Gatekeeper before the 10:00am people came in. She says "I'm not walking all the way back there, it's way too far!"

While in line for Wicked Twister, guy in front of us is talking to his buddys,

"this launch is the poor mans TTD"

While in like for Troika, Guy behind me is talking to a lady about MAXAIR and goes,

"yeah there is a video of this ride at a different park and it shows a lady fly out of the seat while it swings in the air"

Well she isn't 100% wrong. There is a video of a person falling out of a ride sowhere in Asia (Japan maybe?) but it's more like Skyhawk, not Maxair

What is this windpipe ride you mentioned?

Corrected

While in line for Maverick, I overheard some kid in front of me say:

"Yeah, I was told Millennium Force used to have 2 circles. The first one was right after the drop, and the second was inside the tunnel. They removed them, however, because a lady died on it once."

Well it's a good thing she only died once because if it happened more than once I would definitely be complaining to guest services if I were her.

This just happened tonight in line for maverick, and it seems to happen every time this season im in line for maverick, someone looked up at mean streak structure and said "oh thats the one they're tearing down"

It concerns me that once they finish and open it people will think it's the same ride. Every time I go with people and point out the clearly new track and shape they say it's just the old track and they are slowly taking it down. Hopefully it doesn't turn out to be people thinking it's the same.

To be fair, wouldn't that lead to shorter than expected lines? Not something like Rougarou that doesn't fill the train every time, but something like GateKeeper that fills the train every time and has a short wait.

Is that really a concern?
Cmon. You think CP won't go at least a little out of their way to let everyone know they've got a new ride? I think in the end there won't be any mistakes around that subject.
People standing and pointing right now aren't following quite as tightly as you are. They have no idea, which is kind of where the park so far has been aiming, right?

And even so, remember that a little marketing truly goes a long way for promoting previous investments as "new." Case in point, I can recall seeing lengthy 60-90min+ waits for Rougarou when it "opened" in 2015, and I also remember hearing parkgoers saying it was a new coaster, even though it was in fact a conversion from Mantis. In essence, we can see that it certainly isn't the marketing department's first rodeo; they successfully promoted Rougarou as a new coaster (and avoided the conversion label), they are currently successfully promoting CP Shores as a new waterpark (instead of a refreshed Soak City), and they will most likely be able to successfully promote RMC Mean Streak as a new coaster (and again avoid the conversion label). To paraphrase Field of Dreams, "promote it and they will come."

2 days ago, I heard a dad argue with his son, mentioning that the Mean Streak was previously located up by Raptor and Valravn, thinking they actually were mistaken by Blue Streak. No, the dad claimed to his son, that Mean Streak was picked up and moved from the front, to the back of the park. Whether he was joking or not, I found this pretty amusing.

The metal track on Mean Streak should be enough of a clue that they are not tearing the ride down. Yet people still think they are. Mean Streak was previously wooden. I mean the funeral was all over the news both on tv and the internet. I think you would actually have to try to avoid them to not know Mean Streak was previously wooden, and now has metal track on it. And even if you didn't know, a simple google search to find out would be better than assuming what's false and then telling everyone as if it is the undeniable truth.

But they don't need to google, they know they're right...;)

ValravnCP said:
The metal track on Mean Streak should be enough of a clue that they are not tearing the ride down. I mean the funeral was all over the news both on tv and the internet.

Yes, but....

Most folks aren't going to be attentive to details like that. Hell, I still have to explain what a parking lot is. (For the record, it's a flat paved surface with cars parked on it.)

I saw news stories and Internet posts about the funeral -- but if you asked me what the most important sports story was last week, I couldn't answer. I tune sports stories out.

I overheard someone say that Millennium Force at Cedar Point is the tallest rollercoaster in the world. They're only off by 17 years. Lol

And yesterday in line for MF, I heard someone say that it would be funny if it got stuck upside down. It doesn't even go upside down!