Magnum

You are correct. The air was great, but the WAY to short radius at the bottom of the hill resulted in a serious slam into the seats. The way it is now, you float/launch over the third hill and drop easily back into the seat. The first year you floated over the hill, reamined airborne down the drop and then slammed back down into the seat as the train landed (with a noticable thud of the wheels) back on the track. When the train began to descend, your body was still floating, so the train literally yanked you down (compliments of the unpadded lap bar). The landing was very rough. Once they increased the radius, the pull out was much more rideable. I rode it the second saturday it was open 7 times and my thighs were black and blue for two weeks. The air was great, but they needed to fix the drop and bottom of the hill. Trust me, it is MUCH better the way it is now, though I hate the trim.

Idora Wildcat

If you hate the trims, ride on a slightly to moderately windy night...:) I had some of the best air ever at HalloWeekends with no trims. It was awesome!

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IU shocks the world!

(and screws up 99% of people's brackets. :))

I remember I had some really wicked rides on Magnum at Haloweekends last year. Those were some fun rides :)

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- Chris -
Computer Science - Ashland University
Witches' Wheel/Monster - 2002
3rd Shift Trash Removal - 2001
http://www.thepointol.com/~simplycp

The worst rides ever on Magnum are when all the muffleheads are out. I remember taking a ride on Magnum during an employee ride night early last summer with one of my friends, and laughing at the guy in front of us who was trying to wrap a towel around his head and face DURING the ride to prevent himself from being plastered with bugs. Needless to say, he wasn't very successful, and almost lost the towel several times.

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~Lee~

Group Sales ATL '01
Park Admissions TL '02
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"What time is the snow going to stop?"

Jeff said:

Check out this photo. See where the horizontal beams are? That's where the track used to go.

So that's what those are for! Now I can see how the third hill was more intense, thanks for the info.

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I'm NOT one of them...

Haha, I think a ride on any CP coaster when the bugs are out is pretty nasty (or maybe tasty if you lik bugs). The front of Magnum's trains do get pretty nasty looking and those things are not easy to clean off! :) I had three seperate groups of people that I showed around the park last year, and two out of the three nights, there were tons of bugs.

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-Matt
2001 Magnum Crew