Is Shoot the Rapids going to be the same as SRF?

well they did say it was for the family so im guessing 46''-48'' somewhere in there

For my daughters sake, I hope it's more like 42".

I doubt it will be 42''... thats the height requirement for some of the small childrens rides. this will be just a little larger than that. 42'' is pretty small this ride might be a little intimidating for her.

Most log flumes at other parks are 42" or less. She rides all of them with no problems(she really loves them).

I believe that wwl was 42" or maybe even less than that. I have the original press relese for wwl somewhere, when I can find it I will look it up.

My daughter may be the exception, but she has been on the demon at sfa, and several other coasters. She loves them.

Now if cp can only lower the height requirement for disaster and dragon iron, she will be the happiest child alive. :)

Crazy Horse:
WWL- 46 in
Wild Throneberry's-46in
Log Flume (KD)- 36alone 46 with adult
Whitewater Falls- 46in
Timber Mountain- 46in
to name a few what are 46 inches

Snake river falls is 48inches
Thunder Canyon is 46inches

With this data the ride is likely going to be 46 or 48 inches tall to ride. Some of the log flumes can be 36inches with adults. This is because there is no individual seat. On Shoot the Rapids, they are. I would see 46inches being the requirement.

Very true, but if you read the small print you will see that as long as the child is 36"(or 42" in some casses), the child may ride with an adult. We brought my daughter on a east coast trip over the summer and did busch, kings dominium, carowinds, sfa, sfnj, kings island and a few other small parks , and had no problems getting her on any of the log flumes with us.

We also got her on the log ride at michigans adventure, six flags chicago, waldameer park and disneyworld/ land , and also the log ride at knotts as well.

I could see the height requirement being 46" to ride alone, or 36"-42" with an adult on shoot the rapids.

Snake and thunder are a differant kind of monster, and I can totaly understand why the height requirement is where it's at on those rides.

well since this will have an over the shoulder restraint it will prolly be 46-48''

^Exactly.

The seatings are very different. I really think because of a harness, it will be 46-48iches

Yea, The otsr does not help it's chances of being an under 46" ride. But I do also have to mention that the demon(arrow corkscrew) at six flags chicago, has a 42" height requirement. That ride has otsr as well.

That is one of the reasons I had taken her to sf more than cp this past summer. It was because of the rides she can ride there, and not ride at cedarpoint. She can ride the demon, whizzer and dark knight coaster there as well as the kiddie coaster and log flume. At cp, she can only ride jr gemini and woodstock. The kiddie rides are boring to her.

Like I said though, my daughter is one of a kind. :)

My daughter is the opposite. She was tall enough to ride the 48" rides the summer she was 6. Didn't want to though. After one trip on Gemini (hating it), she limits herself now to Iron Dragon and Woodstock (won't ride Disaster Transport because its a dark ride). But she has a great time on all of the smaller rides (with my wife). I don't expect either of them will want to ride STR.

Have you tried getting her on CCMR or Wildcat? In my experience, those tend to be very kid-friendly.

My mistake. She will go on Mine Ride too. I thought Wildcat would be good as well but she isn't interested. She may at some point change her mind but thats up to her. My wife's family doesn't like the big coasters so that may not be likely. Last few years, we have gone to CP with my wife's brother and his kids. I take my son and my nephew on the big coasters/rides and my wife and her brother ride the smaller rides with my daugther and my other nephew who is too young for the bigger rides. We meet up to eat and ride a couple of middle of the road rides and then split up again. Cell phones make that so much easier to do.

It's funny how every kid has a different track for how they add rides. My daughter, who is almost 8, has been gradually working her way up and is now relishing Millennium. Height really isn't a big factor for her anymore. However, ever since a bad experience on Coney Island's Rock-o-Plane (she got a couple bruises and a small cut), she won't touch anything that goes upside down. Not even Corkscrew or Witches' Wheel.

crazy horse said:
Yea, The otsr does not help it's chances of being an under 46" ride. But I do also have to mention that the demon(arrow corkscrew) at six flags chicago, has a 42" height requirement. That ride has otsr as well.

That is one of the reasons I had taken her to sf more than cp this past summer.

That is Six Flags though. This is Cedar Point where safety is more of a concern. Cedar Point takes safety much more seriously than Six Flags.

My son would pretty much ride any ride they let him on. And at this point he can ride anything at CP. But I introduced him gradually to the 48" rides. The 4 ft threshold opens up a large number of rides. And to me I think its better to work you way into them rather than diving onto all of them at the same time. So we added a couple coasters a year. I grew into Mine Ride, Blue Streak and Jumbo Jet and maybe Wildcat (I can't remember timing on that one). The rest of the coasters I rode as they were built over a 30+ year period. For my son, we compressed that 30 years over something like 4 years. Others differ. My brother took his kids on every ride they could ride as soon as they were tall enough to ride them.

adidas said:

That is Six Flags though. This is Cedar Point where safety is more of a concern. Cedar Point takes safety much more seriously than Six Flags.

Errr.. I'd say they're both in the business of taking safety very seriously. Their entire operation depends on it. With CP/CF, I'd say taking safety overboard might be a better description.

crazy horse said:
Yea, The otsr does not help it's chances of being an under 46" ride. But I do also have to mention that the demon(arrow corkscrew) at six flags chicago, has a 42" height requirement. That ride has otsr as well.

That is one of the reasons I had taken her to sf more than cp this past summer. It was because of the rides she can ride there, and not ride at cedarpoint. She can ride the demon, whizzer and dark knight coaster there as well as the kiddie coaster and log flume. At cp, she can only ride jr gemini and woodstock. The kiddie rides are boring to her.

Like I said though, my daughter is one of a kind. :)

Well this isn't Six Flags. It is a different type of ride. Pilgrims plunge has the exact same boats and the height requirement is 48''.

Can someone explain how, exactly, an OTSR affects a height requirement?

^ I should point out that the reastraints are not over-the-shoulder. They are lapbars that are inverted so they can save space.

It affects it by having an actual restraint hold you in on Shoot the Rapids unlike log flumes that do not have anything. Restraints make the ride require a minimum height so they can be affective for the rider.

coolkid2345 said:
^ I should point out that the reastraints are not over-the-shoulder. They are lapbars that are inverted so they can save space.

Actually it is over the shoulder. Its just a very unique over the shoulder restraint as it is an over the shoulder lap bar...