Fun Facts

^I always smile when I see something about Cedar Point in an unrelated place like that.

I was reading this weird book called No more Dead Dogs when I was in 7th grade, and I remember in the first few pages this girl randomly starts talking about this 'really cool place called Cedar Point' and described it a little. It was never mentioned again after that. :)

Here's a Dragster one: The green train getting stuck on top of the tower in June 2005 was not the first time a train was stuck like that. It was the first time it happened when it was loaded, but the gold train was stuck on top of the tower earlier that season during testing. I belive it also happened once more before the 2005 season during testing.

I know it happened before the ride even opened in 2003, during inaugural testing too.

I was under the impression that it's been stuck about 5 times now. 2 of which were with people on the ride. If I recall correctly, the 2 with people were about a year apart.

This is a link to a video of Top Thrill Dragster stuck at the top. It shows someone taking the elevator to the top to fix the situation. It states it happened on June 24, 2005. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeOEZqbCjzQ

I believe that was the second time with passangers on board. I think there are pictures of the first time, but no video.

I have a picture of Corkscrew stuck right in the middle of the loop. ;)

Vince982 said:I have a picture of Corkscrew stuck right in the middle of the loop. ;)

Can you post the pictures?

I think the ;) meant he was being sarcastic.

Or the fact that any picture of any roller coaster you have the train is "stuck"....

Good Point.

^^well in that case, I have hundreds of pictures of rollercoasters "stuck". ;)

I got another one:Ellen, (the ellen show) sent a guest to cedar point a awhile back.

^^ Here's my favorite looping roller coaster getting stuck at 4:00 min into the video "Get a Life - Terror on the Hell Loop 2000 - S1E1 - Part 2/3" :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY1P7FfWg5w

(It looks like the stock on ride footage they used was the Corkscrew at Vancouver's Playland which was also used in the Final Destination 3 movie).

Back to CP Fun facts. These are fun to read. I've been thinking but I don't have any I that aren't in a book or online. If I think of one I'll post it. Didn't the person who shot that video of TTD stuck at the top on June 2005 worked on the Iron Dragon crew the following season?

- The peninsula 364 acres big

- In the 1860s, during the American Civil War, a housing for a battery of four field artillery pieces was constructed at the tip of the peninsula to guard access to the Confederate prisoner of war camp on nearby Johnson's Island.

During Prohibition, Cedar Point was a well known place to get a drink. The administration building (the white building between Planet Snoopy and the CF offices, now the Finance dept.) was where most of the booze was kept.

Everybody I think knows that the forward pass for football was invented on the Cedar Point beach where WT is now.

The forward pass was not invented on Lake Erie's shore, because it was around before them. However Knute Rockne did practice said forward pass with Gus Dorais in their spare time the summer before they used it to defeat Army that fall. That game, while it was not the first game with a forward pass, made it popular because a huge underdog (ND) used it do defeat a major power (Army.)

Ok sorry for the mixup. I thought I read that somewhere.

There's a sign on the beach that says something along those lines.