Dragster's one millionth rider of 2007

They finally hit the milestone of one million riders in a season. We were there to witness it as it happened.

I have pics but I'm too lazy to upload them tonight.

Great day at the park though!

That would have to be pretty cool to see. I'm impressed, but not surprised. They really had the line moving on that ride this year. Congrats to the crew!

Yay for TTD! So I guess that means it's running great, right?

Also a video to come of this too!

Man I wish I could have been there for that...... oh wait I was. ;) Great day indeed!

OK, the video is 195 MB and I have no clue how to edit it. I also have a video of the parade today but it's 490MB.

Youtube's max is 100MB and I've never edited a video before.

EDIT:

Here's a couple of pics of when they just got off the train before they brought them back into the station.

Pic1

Pic 2

*** Edited 10/1/2007 2:24:13 AM UTC by Loopy***

loopy email me the video Ill cut it down to size then email it back to you.

Jason Hammond is just going to host it full size, it'll be up soon.

Thanks Bryan for posting the pics. It was great to be there to witness Dragster history in the making!

Thanks to this years crew for all your hard work, and all the maintenance staff that have worked like crazy to keep TTD running great this summer!

I think it's really awesome that they made a big production out of the one millionth rider. I know the crew has been excited about it for quite some time. From the pictures they look like a nice family, which is good. It would kinda suck if some punk teenager got it.

YAY I am so happy to see this finally happen!!! Congrats to the crew!! Now I want to see Kinzel take back his words of TTD being his worst decision!!! That ride has made alot of progress the last three years and I am glad I was there to watch it grow. Last year was so close but the weather just wouldnt let us run!!!

Congrats again to the crew from Dragstermarc!!

Loopy got the video uploaded. Here it is.

http://rollercoasterfreak.com/Upload/093007073.avi

The headset he was using was the one that belongs to the op who does the spiel so it kept cutting out on him. Overall it was really nice to see them stop and take the time to do something like this.

I'd suggest saving the clip before attempting to watch it.

Bryan, or anyone else, I'm guessing this was Sunday?

Yes, just before 6 o'clock.

They still have a month to go. Congrats to the Dragster crew, and let's not forget the maintenance crews!! :)

I just watched the video, that was pretty awesome. I like how they made Lance do a "live version" of the arms down spiel. The crew and maintenance people really deserve a lot of credit for making this ride run as well as it has all season.

Yay to Drasgters crew. I was happy to hear that Dragster has been running really well this year. I think they finally know how to fix the things before it happens. Anyway...congrats!

This is pretty awesome!

Does anyone know what their surprise was?

What a day, and what a great moment to witness. Not only did we all have sooo much fun waiting for it to happen, but we all got to talk to Tony, which is always fun and interesting...right Bryan?;).

So BIG thanks to the Dragster crew, the mechanics and everyone else who made this part of CP history happen.

And as Tony put it "Come back next year for two million!":)