Fun Facts

Kevinj said:
There used to be another Sky-ride lift station in Frontier Town.

Are you sure about that? The current restroom next to Skyhawk was the original station, as far as I knew.

The Land that Cedar Point currently occupies is part of the huge land grant made to thr Colony of Connecticut by King Charles II of England in 1662.

Certain residents of Connecticut, whose homes were burned by British invaders, recieved land grants in the Sandusky area, and formed a settlement in 1816. This land came to be called the "Firelands"

2008 will see many aniversarys

10 Years:
Power Tower
Frog Hopper
Death of the dolphin Misty

20 Years:
Soak City

30 Years:
Gemini

40 Years:
Palace Theater
Town Hall Museum

50 Years:
Cadillac Cars

Are you sure about that? The current restroom next to Skyhawk was the original station, as far as I knew.

That's the one I was referring to. I guess I meant another "working" station.

I wonder what's upstairs now? Probably storage.

And to answer someone's question earlier, yes, by "FT" I meant Frontier Town.

I really miss those paddle boats. Of course, the whole boat ride itself was different back then, but the paddlewheels added a nice touch. Do they still call it "Paddlewheel Excursions?"

Sky Ride never went to Frontier Town, the Frontier Lift did. The washroom building next to Skyhawk was one station, the other one stood where the present day Iron Dragon stations stands.

It's funny how our memory plays tricks. I was thinking they were connected...like one continuous lift.

Wasn't there a road that went through Cp before perimeter road was made?

Raptor Facts:

There is 117 sections of track.

All of the ride put together weighs 1.5 Million tons.

The lift chain weighs 9,000 pounds.

It used 1,500 gallons of paint.

When it was built it replaced 85,000 sq. ft. of the Main Midway.

Halloweekends Facts:

It takes 45 minutes (average) to get one monster in makeup and costume.

The Halloweekends popular hearse cost the park $800. (Bought in 1997)

1,000 bales of hay, 5,000 cornstalks, and 10,000 pounds of pumpkins are spread through the park.

Millennium Fact:

Mille has 400 support colums.

1. Jumbo Jet

2 Haunted rooms at Breakers

i worked at turnpikes in 85 when space spiral went down, had a great view of them getting guests out up there. and in 87 when i worked thunder canyon, its 2nd year, never saw a fish in a raft.

^^Those aren't fun.

It is possible to get in the park free through a side entrance gate, about 10 minutes before the park closes and ride something like TTD or MF, since entrance lines don't close until 8 minutes after the park 'closes'.

Some of the more original facts I've come across and compiled over the years include:

• On Space Spiral, riders only travel 285 feet up the 330 foot tower.
• Space Spiral was once painted Red, White, and Blue and had neon lights on the outside of the cabin.
• If you took the total distance the Space Spiral has traveled through the years it would reach from the Earth to the moon more than 4 times.
• The all time ride record for one year was set by the Cedar Point and Lake Erie Railroad. It gave more than 4.5 million rides in 1970.
• Cedar Point guests each an average of 190,000 pounds of hamburger patties, 91 miles of hotdogs, and 595 tons of french fries each season.
• On average, Cedar Point guests drink 802,000 gallons of Pepsi products and consume more than 29,000 gallons of ice cream per season.
• There are 44 drinking fountains in the park (as of 2005).
• Cedar Point traffic employees park approximately 3,000 cars per hour.
• There are 67 soft drink machines at Cedar Point (as of 2005).
• The average number of costumes used in a live show during one performance is 120.
• Arsenio Hall worked in Safari Gifts, now known as Speed Zone.
• The laser show screen is 50 feet high and 72 feet wide.
• Gum is not sold anywhere at Cedar Point.
• It takes approximately 6 weeks to remove the gum on the ground in roller coaster queue lines and coaster platforms. This does not include any of the gum on the midways or at smaller rides, which takes months.
• The Pagoda Gift Shop used to be a restroom and the Cedar Point Post Office.
• The Frontier Trail's authentic Gristmill was moved, stone by stone, from South Carolina.
• Sagebrush Sue's Food Stand was also once a restroom.
• There are 450 picnic tables in the Public Picnic Pavilions, equating to enough seating for 4,500 guests.
• The Breaker's Express pool is shaped like Snoopy's head.
• There are 11,010 parking spaces available for guests; 9893 in the Main Parking lot, and 1217 in the Soak City Parking lot.
• There are more than 2,100 trash cans throughout Cedar Point (as of 2005). This does not include trash cans at Soak City, Challenge Park, the Marina or the Hotels.
• It is exactly one mile from the Front Gate to the farthest point at the back of the park.
• A Top Thrill Dragster train is 25 feet long.
• A Millennium Foce train is 32 feet long.
• Each train on Millennium Force has 120 wheels.
• There are 4450 railroad ties on the CP & LE RR.
• On average, the park removes 30,000 pounds of trash each day.
• 4,038,000 cubic feet of concrete makeup the Cedar Point midways.
• 3 tons of nails and 200,000 feet of lumber were used to build Blue Streak.
• Corkscrew was not only the World's first triple looping coaster, but also the first coaster to do so over a midway.
• The Giant Wheel weighs 221 tons and has 32,000 colors lights.
• Space Spiral utilizes an elevator traction cable system. There are 12 pieces of cable, each measuring 300 feet with a 15 mm diameter.
• Annie Oakley, John D. Rockefeller, John Phillip Sousa, and Presidents Hayes, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Collidge, FDR, and Eisenhower have all stayed at the Hotel Breakers.
• The Cedar Point peninsula first appeared on a map in 1805, although it was unnamed.
  

Corkscrew Headache said:
Wasn't there a road that went through Cp before perimeter road was made?

Yes, the road went through the present Marina gate, followed the path that now goes past the dodgems, over the main midway to what is now the employee gate by the Marketing Department and on the Hotel Breakers. All hotel guests drove down that road, across the midway, to get to the hotel. The midway had candy cane colored metal posts outlining the road to make sure cars did not start driving down the midway.

Kevinj said:
The boat ride used to use authentic Steam Paddle boats! Very cool! And now, if you drive to CP via Port Clinton, you can see one of the boats "docked" at a marina (Im not sure of the name of the marina)

No, the Western Cruise boats were gasoline powered (not steam) and the paddlewheel did not provide thrust. It free wheeled and turned because of the motion of the boat, which was propelled by a conventional inboard propeler drive I believe. This was very obvious when the boat was put into reverse for docking. The paddlewheel did not turn in reverse, the prop under the hull did.

Oh. Well, I was 8 years old. When did they switch to the boats used today?

DBCP said:

• Each train on Millennium Force has 96 wheels.

Incorrect.

Each wheel assembly has 6 total wheels or 2 main, 2 guideand 2 upstop wheels. There are two wheel assemblies on each car exceptthe first which has 4. That is eight cars with 2 assemblies each andone with 4 assemblies. That works out to be 20 wheel assemblies. Sincethere are 6 wheels per assembly, that comes out to 120 wheels total pertrain.

If you count the wheels which are used to lift the antirollbackdogs, that makes 126 wheels total per train. There are two antirollbackdogs on each of the 1st, 4th, and 9th cars totaling 6 antirollback dogsper train. The 4th car also has the chain dog attached to it between the antirollback dogs.

Maverick uses less power than Wicked Twister.

Jump to Conclusions said:

DBCP said:

• Each train on Millennium Force has 96 wheels.

Incorrect.

Each wheel assembly has 6 total wheels or 2 main, 2 guideand 2 upstop wheels. There are two wheel assemblies on each car exceptthe first which has 4. That is eight cars with 2 assemblies each andone with 4 assemblies. That works out to be 20 wheel assemblies. Sincethere are 6 wheels per assembly, that comes out to 120 wheels total pertrain.

If you count the wheels which are used to lift the antirollbackdogs, that makes 126 wheels total per train. There are two antirollbackdogs on each of the 1st, 4th, and 9th cars totaling 6 antirollback dogsper train. The 4th car also has the chain dog attached to it between the antirollback dogs.

You know, it's funny because I thought that number was wrong, and 120 is what I got when I added it up... but that's exactly what it says in the Coutesy Corps Guide. I guess I shouldn't have trusted it, considering that that is the same guide that says Top Thrill Dragster has vehicles that have "10 rows of passengers seated 4 across with three 36 passenger trains."

DBCP said:

• It is exactly one mile from the Front Gate to the farthest point at the back of the park.

It seems longer than that. Can anyone confirm?

It's 1/4 of a mile between the Sky Ride stations. Not sure what that scales to for the rest of the park, but I'm sure someone can figure it out. I know Demon Drop to Gemini (the Halloweekends parade route) is almost exactly one mile.