Fun Facts

See, it seems shorter than a mile to me. To clarify, the source says the "Mean Streak entrance" to the front of the park, which could very well be referring to the gate near Planning and Design from which the parade entered/exited from... although that does not seem to be the farthest point.

According to "The Unofficial Guidebook to CP", 2nd edition, published April, 2003, the length of the actual Cedar Point Peninsula is 7 and 3/4 miles. But that is peninsula, in total.

I remember visiting the park, I belive in 1972 when the Giant Wheel was but in, that that there was a rider in the Giant Wheel trying to set a record for the continues riding of a ride. Does anyone remember this?

The Centennial Theater were the "America Sings" show is held (main midway near the entrance) was previously the Hollywood Wax Museum. It had statues of stars of TV and movies in various settings. Before that, it was called the Eden Musee, I believe, and contained images in wax of various scenes - some of them depicting gruesome murders. I can remember it well, as it was quite disturbing. Needless to say, management terminated the lease and the Hollywood Wax Museum was born.

sarah1 said:
I remember visiting the park, I belive in 1972 when the Giant Wheel was but in, that that there was a rider in the Giant Wheel trying to set a record for the continues riding of a ride. Does anyone remember this?

Yes, wasn't he a DJ from a local radio station? I remember they had shades on the cabin to keep the sun off him.

That was Mike Kelly from WIXY 1260 AM (defunct) in Cleveland.

Jason Hammond said:
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"

Thanks for that trivia. I always wondered where that name came from.

t canyon 87 said:
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.

Just curious, how'd they get people out of the space spiral at that

height?

Parachutes ;)

"All of the ride put together weighs 1.5 Million tons."

Raptor uses 3 billion pounds of steel?!? I can only imagine the tens of thousands of trucks needed to haul that.

Okay, fun facts: CP used to have two dark rides (San Francisco Earthquake and the Pirate Ride)and a funhouse.

In the funhouse was a spinning cylinder that you had to traverse. You can still see these "barrels" in carnival funhouses. CP eventually made a bridge through the center of it so there was no more enjoying that.

Outside the Pirate Ride, periodically you could hear the unseen characters shout out orders, followed by cannon sounds, whistles, and plumes of water.

On the Earthquake ride, the ride cars resembled automobiles from 1906 (a little bit like Cadillac Cars).

Kevinj said:

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.

It is storage. There are supplies for rides up there like candy canes and cleaning products. It also gets ridiculously hot up there during the summer. I had to reorganize the room while Dragster was down, and it was awful.

Candy canes?????

The height measuring sticks that look like candy canes.

I have only gotten sick once at Cedar Point and it was right after getting off Wicked Twister.

Lacrossedman, you know it sucks seeing you rode the TTD 102 times or something and only had a rollback like twice. My girlfriend and I have a lot of riding to do it seems haha.

Macho Nacho's and rollercoasters don't mix well either....uh... my...uh...friend told me that.

^^^^^^If you dont believe me I got it from this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=HW-6nviIknI

It says it at 4:28 into the video.

djDaemon said:
The height measuring sticks that look like candy canes.

Thanks for the clarification

factory81 said:
Lacrossedman, you know it sucks seeing you rode the TTD 102 times or something and only had a rollback like twice. My girlfriend and I have a lot of riding to do it seems haha.

Both of the rollbacks were on test runs and I knew they were coming. It was still fun though.

Heres a random one about Paddlewheel: The scenes (the moving characters with sound on the shore) are activated with motion sensors triggered by the boats, not the ride operators themselves. The sensors are on both sides of the water and are triggered with an object disrupts the signal between the two.

Edited for clarificaton

^did not know that about Paddlewheel...sucks for when a duck or goose swims through I suppose...

mk522 said:
^did not know that about Paddlewheel...sucks for when a duck or goose swims through I suppose...

I dont know how big of an object will set it off, but I do know a waiving hand right infront of the sensor will do it :-)

I got another one, Cedar Point is mentioned in the beginning of the Jonathan Rand American Chillers book, Orgers of Ohio.