...if you are 48in. tall you are in luck

thats right if you are vertically challenged or have kids who are 48in. tall starting with Millennium Mania they WILL be allowed to ride Millennium Force as the height restriction is being changed.

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daniel j. haverlock
'99 Magnum Count: 801
spiritofthepoint.com

OMG that is so cool! Now my little cousin can ride it!!

Noooooo! I feel sorry for the little kids and all but this means much longer lines for us!

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-Chris
"Any day, is a great day, to ride a rollercoaster!"

it won't effect lines that much....
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Yes, becouse every little six or seven year old wants to ride Millennium Force! ;)

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Dispatch Master, This is Transport one! I'm losing control, I'm losing control!

That's true...VERY true. But alot will be scared!!!

I seem to recall predicting last winter that Millennium Force would have a 48" height requirement. I failed to predict that it would take almost a whole season for it to go into effect, but I remember predicting it... :)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I have never heard of a park lowering the height restriction on a coaster. Are you sure this is true? If anything after a coaster has weathered for awhile and a few complaints come in they usually raise the height restriction.

I've heard this as well, but if it is going to happen, the people who would most likely know don't know anything about it.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 35

CHitown, Iron Dragon was 48 when it first opened...Mine Ride was 48 restricted, then 48 accompained by, now again 48.
These are just a couple of examples of changes. CP will look at a ride EACH YEAR and determine the requirements to ride.

Chitown said, "If anything after a coaster has weathered for awhile and a few complaints come in they usually raise the height restriction."

Has this really happened? Where? When? I can't imagine the height requirement would be UNDERestimated initally, nor that complaints would change the height restriction.

Hersheypark raised the height requirement on Wildcat to 48" this year (from 42"), and Kings Island raised the height requirements on both Racer and Adventure Express from 42" (or was it 36"?) to 44".

I doubt that any of those changes were as a result of customer complaints.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Its also happened at SFGAm. The Iron Wolf was raised from 48" to 54". The American Eagle was raised from 42" to 48". Like Rideman said, it might not be due to rider complaints but I just thought that could be a possibility. There has to be a good reason for height restrictions to go up.

So then what caused the re-evaluation and subsequent changing of the height requirement for these rides? Wear & tear? Park execs feeling pressure from recent media over-exposure?

Why would CP change the height requirment?

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Gravity knows no force like Millennium Force!

I remember reading in an article (I think it was the Plain Dealer one) that Intamin thought 48" was appropriate for the ride, but Cedar Point set it at 54" anyways.

I think the Iron Wolf increase had to do with the restraint change last season.

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Ban(shee Man)tis, what's not to get...?

I think 52" inches would be more likely than 48".

I think Mine Rides height requirement was changed at some point and time.

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Dispatch Master, This is Transport one! I'm losing control, I'm losing control!

Yes they changed the height for The Mine Ride. I can't remember the exact year, but I can remember being able to ride it one year and then coming back the next and they told me that I was too short.

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Brandon Sorc
Millennium Force count:46
www.spiritofthepoint.com