HELL YEAH! Halloweekends

That could be, however, the usual restriction reads:

Not recommended for children.

So, perhaps there is another reason for the 54" restriction?

/me smacks head

The Thunder Canyon has a height restriction of 54" right? Maybe the water won't be turned off after all, except for the falls that normally soak you..
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It has to be a ride if they have a height restriction. I can imagine seeing alot of cool effects on the mountain cliffs, maybe the water will be died red. :)

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Bummer that they weren't in fact going to be open until midnight. I've voiced this concern before... is $25 really worth it for five hours? Is it even worth it for season pass holders? While they do have the numbers to support that a midnight closing isn't cost effective, I still think they deal with a value perception problem.

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In October and those months, it is normally a bit cooler and I find five hours plenty of time for Halloweekends.

Is it worth it for season pass holders? Certainly, as I'm sure most season pass holders have already "paid off" their passes. No value problem as I see it.

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I think Jeff's question may be whether it is reasonable, even as a Season Pass holder, to drive a great distance for only a five hour operating window.

I feel priveledged by the fact that I can drive to CP in only about 45 minutes. If the trip was more than an hour & a half, I don't think I would go for the shorter evening on Friday.

Usually I get there around 5, Get off work around 4, and say "Let's go to CP" and usually stay until closing... I rarely ever go allday (4 times this season) and going after work, or football is great, lines are usually short, its not blazingly hot, and its plenty of time. I've been there over 18 some times this year... but then again its only about a 50 minute drive from me, and when my friend drives that turns into 35 minutes :)

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neo said:

The Thunder Canyon has a height restriction of 54" right? Maybe the water won't be turned off after all, except for the falls that normally soak you..

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TC has a 46" height requirement. Kinda interesting.

Mr. Exceptional Size gets what I'm talking about. Consider I don't even get home from work until 5:30, and by the time I get into park attire and have a quasi-dinner (in preparation for eating park food), at that point it's probably 6:30. That means I get to the park at best at 7:30, which gives me 3.5 hours in the park. I question if that's worth it, and that's coming from a person who has only missed two Halloweekends Fridays in three years.

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i wonder? will the water still be there during werewolf canyon, i say it will more than likely be because, dont they have like raised areas of concrete on the surface the water rides on, to create the "rapids" and things, or not... and what about the lift hill, how would you bypass that...this is very confusing and im sure it will work out great, as to the fact that i will certainly be doing this several times...but the 54 inches is throwing me as to what it will be about

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What I was told is that there will not be water present, you will indeed walk through the flume. As for the mechanical parts that make the rapids, those are taken out in the offseason anyway, so it's no big deal to take them out for Halloweekends.

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Who the Millennium Force ride ops made a special announcement for when he took his 100th ride on 8/12/03.

If it is a walk-thru, why the height restriction? Doesn't make sense to me, but still looking forward to whatever it is.

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We're going to try a full-weekend family trip, but I'm a bit skeptical about whether or not we really need to be there Friday night, rather than just show up on Saturday. There are only a handful of rides that my kids can ride on Friday, though there should be plenty of shows/entertainment for them. Then, on Saturday, they wake up at 7 or 8, there's challenge golf starting at 10, but nothing in the park gets going until noon.

We could just as easily leave our house "late" on Saturday morning, get there in plenty of time to catch even the Joe Cool entry time (which even with little kids would be useful during Halloweekends just to be able to walk around and look at the decor), and still have a good time in the park.

But, for me, the issue is the (relatively) late opening time on Saturday, not the early closing time on Friday. My kids are of an age that they need a break from the park after about four hours or so, and it is highly unlikely that they'll still be in the park at 10 (or even 9:30), let alone 11.

If my kids were tall enough to ride, or it was just my wife and I, I wouldn't worry about going once, but that would mean planning to leave work early. It wouldn't be an every Friday night thing. In fact, for this trip I'm tempted to go up with my wife on Friday, leaving the kids with grandma, then getting up on Saturday to go fetch them for the remainder of the weekend.
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I've found Friday nights excellent for getting a lot of rides on the coasters that are open. They may have a value perception problem with the shorter hours, but I think Friday's are mainly for locals or for resort guests that are staying the entire weekend. I doubt they ever got a lot of people who travel far for just Friday night.

I'm OK with the 11:00pm closing, in years past I usually left before midnight anyway.

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It's strange. When used to work on Thunder Canyon, we had to close it early for the season because we had too many leaves in the flume and they clogged the pumps up. So they (Management) decided to start closing the ride early for later seasons so it wouldn't happen again. That, and it got too cold for people to want to ride it in late september and october. But also I can't see them doing a walk through, unless the make a walkway that goes over the boards and tires and little spikes where old boards and tires that create the rapids are. Also there is the problem with going into the flume without going up the lift hill. They would about have to make a seprate walkway to get in to the flume. The 54 inch thing raises questions too, unless they think it's going to be too scary for kids. Are we 100% sure that this is Thunder Canyon?

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Having created that whole "Cedar Point Open All Night" thread, I'm very disappointed about CP closing earlier this year on Halloweekend Friday's, and if I remember correctly, CP was commonly open until 12am on Saturdays throughout the season....reduced to 11pm this season. It was the perfect trip on Halloweekend Friday's...after a day of classes, I'd head down there and enjoy a full night of short waits and fun. Now that extra time will probably be replaced with a dull, repeated TV show when I get home.

I will say one thing positive though; I'm thrilled about the new Thunder Canyon attraction. Was it just me, or were Halloweekends beginning to feel tired? Don't get me wrong, it's probably my favorite time of season. But, if I didn't go with any new people, the same repeated haunted houses were becoming very unexciting. "Oh watch out...in the next room, there'll be a mutant on your left, one on your right, a puking monster, and a lady dancing in a cage."

Fright Zone was consistently the only thing I cared about (and the foggy MF rides are awesome!), so it looks like the sequel to that will be the Thunder Canyon exhibit, with dense fog in the canyons. Yay!---something new to look forward to.

Why not just go up on a saturday like me and have from noon until midnight to get the crap scared outa you! On saturdays is it a normal halloweekend operation day...or are different attractions shut down on saturdays as opposed to fridays?

Aren't there places where thunder canyon employee's that are stationed throughout the ride can walk to without going up the lift, if so, they could easliy put a set of steps to get in and out of the flume area, but i still don't understand the height restriction, is it just to keep younger patrons out without having parents say that their kids could handle the scary elements?
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BMX, everthing is open on Saturdays and Sundays.

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-Chris Woodard
Who the Millennium Force ride ops made a special announcement for when he took his 100th ride on 8/12/03.

My Cedar Point trip got delayed to September 27,and 28th. Over here in Michigan I have recived mixed reviews about Halloweekends. Some people have told me that its awsome and that the lines are really short, while others said the lines are really long and the halloweekends stuff isnt that great. So how is the overall cedar point experience during Halloweekends?
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Rumor? What rumor...:) The TC crew was in the know about the ride for a while, especially since they had to find new places for the whole crew to work the last 2 months of the season. Sept. 1st is the last day for Thunder Canyon this year.

I know everyone is all giddy about the new attraction for HalloWeekends...I hope to be able to make it there myself. From what I hear is sounds like it will be pretty cool.

I really don't know why the height restriction would be so high...maybe they want to make that everyone can be seen in the security cameras. Here's a thought...since the concrete walls of the ride are a few feet tall, perhaps they will blanket the whole ride with those fog machines everyone likes, or have some dry ice. That might be a reason to turn away the little kids.

No there will not be water...people make it sound like that this is some kind of impressive task, but in reality the water is drained and replaced daily throughout the season. Thunder Canyon is very expensive to run with 6 massive pumps, and towards the end of the season it will start to pump mud because of low water levels in the lake and lagoon right outside the ride. Couple this with the fact that colder temperatures brings lower riderships, and it turns into a no-brainer for the park to close it down early in the season.

This is speculation on my part so I don't know if it will turn out to be true or not. Instead of having people walk up the lift how the ride normally runs, I think that people may enter the ride's flume by stairs at the back of the rides turntable and proceed in the reverse direction of normal operation. From there they would walk all the way down to where the observation deck is, and exit the attraction by stairs onto the midway.

To me this will be a great addition to the Frontier section of HalloWeekends. It would in effect bridge the Undertaker U. and Fright Zone themed areas so that whole area of the park could be engrossed with the haunted theme.

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...and the most anticipated event of summer 2003 is...

The Matrix: Reloaded!

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