July 2nd- Long TR

Well I still need to get the photo up on the Internet, but it'll be up sometime soon and I'll post a link to it.

The day started off at 10:00 got into the park and headed straight to Raptor. It had maybe a 20 minute wait and was a fun ride.

After Raptor we haeded over to Millennium Force sadly seeing almost a 2hr wait we decided to skip it for now and rode Mantis which only was 10 minutes, this was my first time on Mantis and it wasn't great at all I got off in pain from my head banging against the OSTR's and that that goes bewtween the legs. Ouch!

We then took a walk to check on Dragster's line and saw it was about 1 1/2 hours and decided to go on Magnum which was just up to the steps. We found the shortest line in the front and that was the 3rd row. Right before getting on I remembered that it was the ejector seat's. That really hurt too and it was very very jerky. I have bruises on my thighs from those bunny hops before the station.

After getting bruised on Magnum we went to check on Mavericks line which sadly had a line to get into the line and was backed up quite a ways, so like the others we skipped it and headed back down the frontier trail to check on Millennium Force's line. It was still a 2hr wait so we just decided to get in line and wait it out there. I still think this ride is the best in the park and it was well worth the wait.

By this time it was almost 1:30 and we were both hungry and tired we thought going to Fridays at Hotel Breakers we went and it took a while to get a table but it was nice not having to be in the sun.

Then we headed back to Maverick after lunch to check on the line, it was still a 2hr wait and we decided to wait it out. This is where I got a little ticked off. There are those carts with people selling drinks and stuff right by the vending machines, there were almost 10 people waiting to get stuff at the Lemon Ice cart thing and all the line was at a stand still from the carts on back when finnally people just started going around the people buying stuff, which is right I think but if anyone else knows otherwise please let me know. As we got to the carts people wanted to start going back to there original place in line which was a ways ahead, so the people would just ask you to move. Then they made it all the ways back, I just got a little annoyed by these people trying to cut in front of me and others and not really even being nice about it.

After riding Maverick it was time to head over to Dragster. We waited a 1 hour wait and I still love this ride. I can never get tired of that launch.

Then we headed back to ride Wicked Twister, A 10 minute wait and this time I didn't like it as much as other times I've been on it.

We then walked around and I decided to go on Power Tower. I went on the Space Shot side once then went on the Drop Side (Forgot real name) to check out the lines for the rides over towards Frontier Town. Overall a 20 minute wait.

We then went back to Millennium Force to go on it again as we started heading up the ramp to the statinon the train got stuck on the lift hill and then someone came with a battery like thing to release the lap bars of the train that was unloading, meanwhile someone went up in the evacuation pod to talk to the people in the train on the lift. We decided to just wait this one out and with in 10 minutes it was going up the lift hill. The riders that were stuck on the lift were offered another ride which I thought was nice. We got on the yellow train and had a nice ride.

For the last ride of the day we went over to Maverick and waited for a while, as we were waiting we started seeing lightning and dark clouds coming from a distance, time to get out of here, the whole park was a mad dash to the parking lot and it took a while to get out of the park with all the others that had the same idea. It was neat seeing the lightning light up the whole park at night.

Overall a great day and nice weather (for the most part)

You were right to be irritated with the people buying food then wanting their place in line back.

Taken from the CP website:

LINE JUMPING IS: “CUTTING IN FRONT OF OTHER WAITING GUESTS. LEAVING THE LINE, THEN ATTEMPTING TO REENTER. THIS INCLUDES USING THE REST ROOM FACILITIES OR TO PURCHASE FOOD OR DRINKS.” Once you leave your place in line, you have forfeited it, no matter what the reason. Saving a place in line is simply not permitted.

Capitalization and bolding is theirs, not mine.

^ - we beat this horse to death and beyond last year. The general consensus was that using the in-line drink machines/stands allowed you to keep your spot in line (you haven't actually left the line). Leaving the line to run over to, say, Chick-Fil-A to get food, WOULD forfeit your spot in line.

How did stands become part of the line? I guess I've never seen a line that long. I can understand the "in-line drink machines" (great product placement btw) shouldn't be penalized.

What truly ticks me off is when one friend calls a bunch of buddies to his/her spot in line. This happened (luckily for me) BEHIND me in TTD line. I think if I had been behind the guy I would have raised a big stink because 3 or 4 of his friends just cut in line to join him.

I've said something before when that happens.

I was out in Minneapolis for work and went to ValleyFair one evening. The line-jumping was pretty bad. And not just people joining their friends, but seemingly just cutting all the way to the station.

Well, in line for Steel Venom, this kid decided to try it. Tapped my shoulder and asked to pass, I said "No, you're not cutting". He countered with "I'm not cutting, my friends are up there." I said "Yes you are, and no you're not" turned around and just let him stand there.

The thing is, if one person stands up to it, not only is the rest of the line going to back them, but so will the ride ops, security and management.

Sounds like it was fun! You probably didn't enjoy Wicked Twister because you rode it after TTD. In your mind, you probably compared the launches to figure out how good each ride was.

Wow, sounds like big crowds.

^^ That is exactly what I thought "Wow this is wimpy"

^The crowds were a little on the big side, most of the parking lot was filled when we were leaving.

Well that's nice to know. CP could use these big crowds right now.

I just got that picture uploaded. It's of Millienum Force stuck on the lift with the Pod next to it. I'm sorry for the small size but I took it with my cell.

http://www.cedarpointpictures.webs.com/apps/photos/photo.jsp?photoID=8749420

That sucks the lines were big.