It cracks me up every time....

CP started fogging the second tunnel on Magnum again this year and I just have to say that some people think something is seriously wrong. Every time we come out of the tunnel and hit the brake run people are always saying, "is it supposed to do that." and, "Is something on fire." I just laugh and pretend I don't know anything. Somebody even asked an op if it was supposed to do that, I just cracked up, it's pretty funny.



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Shhh... It's a secret, don't tell! While I worked on Dragon, we had the most fun with some arrogant guests -- the college guys that are out to impress everyone, who think they know everything. We'd wait until the train was leaving, and be looking in the cars as they moved as if we were checking something. Then, when their car went by, we would act shocked and tell them to "Put your seat belts on!" It was hilarious, because we'd have people checking all the way up the lift hill for that seat belt. We never did it around kids or people who were really nervous, and they always came back laughing. :)

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I hate people like that but it's funny!

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Live for FUN!

GO SHAMROCKS!
GO WOLVERINES!

Does Iron Dragon have seat belts? *** This post was edited by CP_bound on 7/17/2000. ***

*Wink* Not a chance! That's what was so humorous -- mind you, we NEVER tried to scare anyone or anything like that. Usually it was a group of college kids and the guys were bragging about how they could do anything, and the girls were rolling their eyes, so this gave everyone something to laugh about. :)

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: "Does Iron Dragon have seat belts?"

No. Well, not yet, anyway. After all, Cedar Point is the Orange Seat Belt Capital of the World...!

--Dave Althoff, Jr, who suggests that if you look hard enough you can find orange seat belts in some pretty odd places at Cedar Point...
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I can't wait until the day park benches have seat belts.

And individual lab bars.

... with high foam rubber seat backs and dividers. ;)

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Millennium Force laps: 35

And queues!

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That brings up a good point. Don't you think that some of the midway walk-up food stalls should have queues to prevent cutting in line, and to keep the midway congestion to a minimum?

Good point CP_bound! There has been many a time when we had to be rude to people just to keep our place in line at the food concessions. That idea would pretty much stop that!

It would be difficult, as it would require flush loading of food. =)

It would really help with the stands on the midway, those lines can really get out of hand. They have stand queues at Burger Patio, and they work pretty well, except they are really difficult for wheelchairs.

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Ewwwww, Bill......!

Actually, there are two food joints where they have put up queue railings...the Burger Patio, and the Stockade.

In both cases, the railings went up at the same time that cash registers came out and the joints went from multi-register "McDonalds-style" service to single-register "Wendy's Style" service.

I refuse to take any credit (or blame) for the change, but it *did* happen shortly after I posted a suggestion to rec.roller-coaster that they do essentially the same thing with the Grist Mill stand. :)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Ewwwww, Bill......!

Actually, there are two food joints where they have put up queue railings...the Burger Patio, and the Stockade.
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Appropriate that the Stockade would get a queue, I'd think.

[and no, that pun wasn't intentional]