I went to the park with a school group. Got there at 10:30. We noticed that Raptor wasn’t running (people were looking at the midcourse brake) Rode the Turbo Drop side of Power Tower first. It’s really weird to focus on somebody’s head below you when you drop! Next, we rode Magnum (smooth ride) and Gemini. For some reason, they weren’t racing Gemini – both sides were running but they wouldn’t wait for one side to get done loading before releasing the other!!! I wonder why not; there didn’t seem to be any reason for that. After riding Snake River Falls, we headed for MF. The sign said 45 minutes but the wait was more like 30 minutes. Great ride! After that, we went and sat on the ground in the Frontier Trail for some reason (don’t ask me why, not my idea; they actually let us sit there for 20 minutes before yelling at us though!) At that point, the people we were with became preoccupied with looking at women, so a few of us decided to leave the group (good thing too, the other people in my group almost got in a few fights with guys! Stupid people! They actually sat there for two hours looking at people and making fun of them, and at CP of all places!!) We rode Magnum again. We got the back seat. Sitting in the back and getting pulled over the drop is awesome, but.. bad wheel? It was VERY bumpy. We rode the Turbo Drop again. Another fun thing to do (if you’re facing the inside of the ride) is to wave at the people riding on the Space Shot tower (we started at about the same time.) After riding Raptor (is the front seat queue ALWAYS closed? This was the 4th time we tried to get in it, no success so far,) we got some ice cream and sat down. Some people walked up to us with some Cedar Point surveys they wanted to take. We thought it was people working for the park but the questions kept talking about different topics and eventually ended up on religious beliefs(the people were actually evangelists from a local ‘nondenominational’ church.) We talked to them for about 35 minutes, then ran to MF, trying to ride it and have time to get on the bus before it left! The last ride of the night; rode around 9:15. The train had their hands up for the entire time, from the top of the lift to the brake run (except for one MF newbie, oh well, better luck next time!) It still was an awesome ride though, with us sitting in the back seat! And so ends a great trip to CP.
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A bad day at CP is better than a good day at work.
The Gemini issues tends to happen because they start only one side first thing in the morning.. and when they bring b-side up, they don't always match them up. Sometimes it's just ready to go while there is already an a-side out there.. other times the delay is load related..
They try to match them up as best they can but they can't just hold a b-side or a-side in the station untill another train comes because they could very easily c-set that way. This was thier problem earlier in teh year when they were running 3 and 2.. waiting to try and synch up a train..
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MF 2000 - 269 laps
MF 2001 - 73 laps as of (6/9/01)
June 11th, 2001 - Gemini 100
I dont know what you mean by The Raptor Front Line Being Closed, How can it be Closed, I can only Guess that the line just happened to be full up at that exact time, and they wer'nt letting anyone on for the time being.
If that was'nt it, I dont know, What About the Small Overfill Line,Was that full(Thats the small Line they have to the Right when you enter the station) They use that when the other part is full. But I dont know how it could have been closed????
Well, there's the front seat queue railing, and there was a chain hooked on it so nobody could enter. We didn't see an 'overfill' line but maybe we all missed it? MF was running efficiently that day, the trains were being dispatched as soon as the next train cleared the brake run. Raptor was running a little too efficiently - I had something to put in the bin. When I could I crossed over, fought my way through the extreme congestion near the bin, and put it in. When I came back, they had already closed my restraint (oops!) I explained what had happened. The op gave the signal to open the restraints, but the person at the controls wasn't looking. They knocked on the window for a while, and they finally opened them (by that time, the entire train had them closed!) I did get to ride though :)
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A bad day at CP is better than a good day at work.