How was your opening day experience!??

pointperson's avatar

Has anyone seen Wave Swinger open? Both opening day and Friday it was not operational,


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First Top Thrill Dragster train of 2011!
Rollbacks: 1st Triple Rollback of 2009!

Good heavens! The Mondial infection is spreading. Quick, somebody quarantine Lolli Swings!


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Skyhawk was working flawlessly

factory81 said:
Broken Point!

I tell ya this year might be the worst for rides and reliability. Everything is down.

TTD down multiple times for repair.I would dare say it was down more than it was running on 5/22
Magnum had a train stuck on the lift hill in excess for 20 minutes on 5/22
Raptor down for more than 1 hour on 5/21
Millennium Force down briefly during my wait in line on 5/22 and had a train stuck on the lift hill on 5/21.
Maxair is obviously not working.
Windseeker....watching it go up and down
Iron Dragon was even closed on 5/22

Rides are going to have downtime it's just part of it. Maybe you just came around to these rides, with the exception of Dragster, at the wrong times? I can promise you that we don't like rides being down any more than you do.

I can also tell you that Wildcat suffered very minimal downtime this past weekend, and even though we lost an hour of operation, we set a new high water mark for ridership over the last two years. :D

Pikajane's avatar

Hey tcgolfer, tell Paul (the TL) Jane from sweeps last season said hi!
I also agree that if you go mid-season, though, less rides will be down. That's what I observed from how last season went


Area 2 Sweeps 2010
Test rider for TTD/Mantis/STR
Got my own page on the cedar point blog!!!

Hey Jane. Will do. He and I have that ride running really well right now. Hopefully we can get some PointBuzzers on there to see just how smoothly and efficiently we are running it.

tcgolfer, pbreader here. :)

I went opening day, and I was there sunday 5/22, I watched Wildcat run... I am impressed with your crew.. and noticed the lines stayed very short..- Oh, and yes I am bias, my son works on your crew. :)

Rode it twice already. I am probably going to ride it every visit. :)


GATEKEEPER-I came, I rode, I was mildly disappointed; until a second ride (rear left) put GateKeeper back on the...it's a nice ride list.

Hey. I saw you guys watching when I went on break Sunday. He's been doing a great job. Running Wildcat is a total team effort and it takes ever crew member to be on board. I'm very proud of us, which is why I'm hoping that if we keep this up we can get a lot of people through the ride this summer.

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Kevinj's avatar

Weird. While we were at the park last week I thought WC was dispatching quicker than previous seasons. Guess I was not just seeing things.


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Yea a little bit earlier. But, not only that, we've been hitting interval on practically every car we send which is a huge improvement over last year.

I'm really glad that some people have noticed.

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