Magnum's Orignal Effects

What were the orignal special effects in the Magnum tunnels like? My first ride on Magnum was in 1995 and all I remember was the fog, two flashing lights, and a siren sound in the last tunnel. I heard that there was lasers and lights in every tunnel.

There were never lasers on any ride. The fog is still used from time to time in the last tunnel. Aside from that there were/are some strobe patterns and some goofy sound effect in one of the tunnels.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 27

There was white, black and red lit fog in the third tunnel with sound effects and patterned lighting and strobes with white lit fog in the last tunnel. it never lasted even through the first season.

Didnt Magnum used to have a strobe racing up and down the lift hill before they had the chasers added? For some reason i remember it having that.

It sure did. Apparently it was either expensive to maintain or the FAA didn't like it.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 27

The strobe sounds cool, but can you explain it a little better? Do you mean it was sort of like Millennium Force's lights? Sorry, I wasn't into Cedar Point Magnum's first year.

Every time I've rode Magnum this year their has been fog, last year they never had it going when I was there. Odd.

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"If I go crazy, will you still call me Superman?" Kryptonite-Three Doors Down

Why don't they use all of the special effects anymore?

Why does CP spend all the time and money to install special effects if they stop using them after a few seasons. What's next? will MF stop using the colored lights and go to something conventional in a few years?
Clarkbar: hard to really explain but it looked kind of like one bright light traveling quickly up the hill. When the light reached the top, it would make a short quick descent down a small portion of the downhill side and then turn off. Another light would immediatly start the climb again. I was very fond of this lighting scheme, sad to see it dissapear.

It looked similar to the one on the Wildcat side of Mantis' lift hill, only bigger of course.

They spent too much money on the lighting for the Force, it will be there a long time.

About Magnum's effects, I didn't ride until '93 for the first time, so I can't be any help.

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daniel j. haverlock
'99 Magnum Count: 801
spiritofthepoint.com

My understanding...and please understand this is mostly a rumor...is that the strobes on Magnum's lift hill were taken out by lightning more than once, and ultimately the park decided that the tracers would be a more durable lighting package. That's the rumor, anyway. It wasn't as simple as a single light racing to the top, though...there were many different patterns, including lights going up, going down, going both ways, bouncing back and forth.........

Am I the only one who has noticed that on the tracer lights now installed on the Magnum lift, there is a section near the top that chases in the wrong direction? Or that the tracers on Raptor have the same problem? Or that the tracers on Blue Streak have more circuits and thus present a much more pleasing chase action than either Magnum or Raptor?

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I remeber back in my first trip to CP in 1994, we stayed in a Sandcastle Suites room outside of Maggie's turnaround and in the morning you could hear the sound effects and such. I can't really remember the lighting effects being there..

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Brian Z.
Hometown parks: Kennywood, Cedar Point!
Feel the Force NOW!!

Thanks RideMan, I remember the varying effects of the Magnum lights now. I didn't ride Magnum the first season but I sure did enjoy watching it during the day and at night.

They spent too much money on the lights for MF, it will be there a long time? They spent 4 million for the effects on Disaster Transport and how long did they keep EVERYTHING operating? *** This post was edited by Joe on 6/13/2000. ***