Iron Dragon...

Anyone else notice that the ride has gotten quite rough? Not only that but the seats are terribly uncomfortable for your back... It's a good family ride but could probably see something better put there in the future...

yes it has gotten rough. it bangs my head around a lot on the shoulder harnesses.

I'm a big fan of Iron Dragon. I hope it stays around for a long while.

I don't have any complaints about it and my kids still love it.

Kids love Fe Dragon because it is the biggest ride they can ride under 48 inches.

I believe it is the only coaster with a high back seat that doesn't have any kind of padding. I know it hurts the center of my back where my spine protrudes most.

I was at the park yesterday and I was shocked by how long the line was. We left and came back later. We had Fast Lane plus and I think Iron Dragon was the longest line we were in all day but we never did ride Millenium

On a side note Corkscrew is the ride my back cant handle. The padding is all very high and there is zero lower back support

I was at CP yesterday and the line was close a 1/2 Hr. I go there every Friday and Sunday and the Iron Dragon has been 1/2 hr and more. I am wondering why it is like that?

There needs to be some padding on Iron Dragon. Lap bars would be nice too.

Padding would be nice anywhere but I'm OK with the restraints it has unless it got lapbars instead of over the shoulder.

I'm officially old as hell if people are complaining about the roughness of Iron Dragon. Is this a joke?

I could enjoy some wine and cheese on ID.

I could catch up on my knitting on ID. I mean, if I knitted to begin with.

Or play chess.

I guess I'm late to the party but I just recently discovered the whole meme of people playing chess on coasters.

Me and my friends have literally played Black Jack on Iron Dragon and then went over to magnum and played chess with the pieces Velcroed to the board!

Mr. Cedar Point said:
I was at CP yesterday and the line was close a 1/2 Hr. I go there every Friday and Sunday and the Iron Dragon has been 1/2 hr and more. I am wondering why it is like that?

There arent many rides left for kids that are too big for snoopy rides but too small for the big rides

Iron Dragon rough? No way! The way my friends used to put it, they could do their homework on Iron Dragon.

rollerdog11 said:
Me and my friends have literally played Black Jack on Iron Dragon and then went over to magnum and played chess with the pieces Velcroed to the board!

Lol! Did you get a picture?

Which one of you guys did this?
http://imgs.xkcd.com/chesscoaster/2009-08-09%20-%20Millennium%20Force%20-640.jpg

That's hilarious!

Maybe we'd best take flash cards to the park this week. My younger son needs refreshed on his math facts before school and Iron Dragon seems like a good opportunity to get some of it in.

Chess on a rollercoaster. I thought I'd seen it all.

As far as the wait time on the Iron Dragon I think there are multiple factors at play. They are down to two train operation which obviously slows down the process. It wasn't "fast" by any stretch when it was 3 trains.

Second, there is a sorely obvious lack of family rides in the park that are not spinners. Mine Ride and Iron Dragon are the only "family coaster" options...regardless of what they call Maverick. They've eliminated a host of other options too lengthy to list. Oh, and their "family water ride", Shoot the Rapids, is down. I haven't ridden Thunder Canyon in over in nearly 20 years but felt compelled to do so simply because my 10 year old son, not yet riding coasters, was desperate for me to ride something with him.

Third...there is a strange phenomenon where people get in line simply because the line is there. "I see people in queue...therefore I should get in the queue." Since the Iron Dragon queue line was drastically reduced to make room for the Illuminations stage, and they are operating two trains, the queue is often spilling onto the midway. It used to be that the Wildcat or the Giant Wheel would take up some of that capacity but you have a pretty significant stretch of midway now where the only options are:

Dodgem Cars, the Train, Mantis, MF, and Iron Dragon there in the middle. Presto! Iron Dragon line is long.

Since when were we talking about Epcot? :)

I haven't seen three trains running any of the times I've been there this year. Many of these were very busy days, so I can only imagine that Iron Dragon has been reduced to 2 trains indefinitely. Anyone hear of a reason for this? There was definitely demand for a third train on many of the days I was there.