Do you all agree with this?

Just called CP's Customer service or what ever you call it and spoke with a technical support person about the length of the seat belts on Millennium. She told me the length was 42" and it fitted across your stomach (so measure tummy) and 55" across your chest. Anybody larger than this will not fit.

Do you really think the belts are this short?

1 - it doesn't go across the stomach, it goes across the lap.

2 - I have no idea what a chest measurement would have to do with Millennium.

Read the other threads regarding rider size, you'll find some good detail about who does and doesn't fit and what their sizes and tricks are.

Fitted? She probable was giving you "general" measurements. Aren't the same waist and chest dimensions on their website in the rider's guide?

^ - now that you mentioned it, I checked:

From Cedar Point's Ride Policy
Due to rider restraint system requirements, guests of exceptional size may not be accommodated on some of our rides. This may apply, but not be limited to, men who exceed 6’2”, or those who exceed 225 pounds, have a 40” waistline or 52” chest or females who exceed 200 pounds or wear size 18 or larger. Each person has different body proporations so it is not possible to list exact size and weight.

That is BS and in nonwithstanding in terms of actually fitting on the ride.

I posted in your other thread the problem with the situation. There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow because the seatbelts are all very short. I don't think that either, I've been in the trenches and dealt with this issue on both sides personally.

On a side note chest size has practically nothing to do with fitting Millennium Force. Waist size is a factor, but not the only one. There is no black and white line where you can fit or not. Many factors determine that and you have little if any control over it unless you lose weight. To do this you need to be willing and able to lose weight. Millennium Force is just a ride, nothing more. If you can't ride Millennium Force because of weight, you should be more concerned with health issues that can and most likely will effect you.

I should note that of the tens of thousands of people I've seen not be able to ride, it is very rare that loss of weight will not give the rider the ability to ride. The exceptions that I have seen are leg issues such and inability to bend their legs or very long legs preventing the lapbar from going over them.

Have there really been "tens of thousands" of people not able to ride MF? That seems a bit excessive.

EDIT: Nevermind, I did a quick calculation and came up with about 25,000 people who probably got ejected in 2006. If about 300 people per day get booted, that's roughly 1.5% of the ride's capacity. If I take the 2006 numbers from CP's website, that works out to about 25,000 people. That's a lot. *** Edited 4/9/2007 9:34:35 PM UTC by halltd***