Mean Streak (Before)

I've finally just quit giving Mean Streak any chances.

Every time we go, I convince my wife to ride it with me again, because I so desparately wantit to be a good experience. We wait in line....still excited....get on....excited....go up the first hill....excited....

Then the ride starts, and I'm disappointed all over again. Soooo....sloooowwwwww....and painful.

This really has to get at Kinzel and all of CP and CF's staff. So much money wasted on a giant waste of time. Its just like Son of Beast. Bigger...taller...faster....only this time, that just means its a biiger disappointment.

I love the ride, but if they were to take it down and replace it with a new hybrid woodie I wouldn't mind. If they took it down and replaced it with a steel coaster or something else I'd be disappointed.

I love the ride, but if they were to take it down and replace it with a new hybrid woodie I wouldn't mind. If they took it down and replaced it with a steel coaster or something else I'd be disappointed.

Exactly

I know this has probably been discussed many times somewhere else....but just what is MS's problem? Why the brakes added? Why all the maintence? Was this thing poorly engineered? Did they take a shortcut? Or is it just a fluke...something that can happen with a woodie?

Just curious

From what I have heard without the trims the ride would rip it's self apart.

Spend enough time around her and she'll grow on you.

I don't know what is causing Mean Streaks current problems. (I think it's lack of knowledge on how to properly maintain a wooden coaster.) But I have to say that when it was new and untamed, with no brakes and no reprofiling, Mean Streak was hands down my favorite rollercoaster at Cedar Point. It was the roller coaster that made me fall in love with wooden roller coasters.

Now I can't stand to look at it. It is a mockery of its former self. Every once in a while I will reride it to see if it is fixed, but no such luck. But maybe someday it will be restored, after riding the reworked Wolf Bobs I have a little more faith.

CP4eva'04 said:
From what I have heard without the trims the ride would rip it's self apart.

Then let's operate and ride the coaster without the trims until there's nothing left of it! ;)

You people are way too hard on Mean Streak.

Received 2 trimless 1st hill rides back in May of 2004. Loved the ride when I rode her on opening day in 1991. Then they put those damn trims on! I still find the ride enjoyable mainly due to the short lines. It was nice having those trimless rides again. Hopefully you all will get to experience this. As some have said in past posts, it is a totally different ride.

I say to CP, do whatever to get rid of that 1st hill trim, even if you must add some steel supports to keep her together!

I must say that Predator at SFDL is far worse than MS. My visit to CP always includes a ride on MS, there's never a long line. I assume if there was a better method to improve MS, it would have been done already.

I really enjoy MS. The lines are always short, and I don't think it is that bad. I've had one trimless ride back in '02 and it was really cool. Totally differant. Does Texas Giant, which I think MS was modeled after, have the same problems? *** Edited 9/29/2005 2:07:00 PM UTC by Top Thrill 182***

"El Toro" looks like its going to be a good ride. :(

Someone mentioned the idea of a woodie being put up near WT and DT by the coast. Im starting to think that would be an awesome idea.

I think they should just tear it down. It "only" cost $8.5M to build, and probably costs a small fortune annually to maintain. If the trims were indeed put on to prevent the coaster from destroying itself, I say why bother keeping around a half-***ed ride? Tear it down and all of a sudden, CP finds themselves with a pretty darn big plot of land for future stuff.

And just think of all the campfires we could have... ;)

I always wondered if it was slowed down in response to complaints from the riders. With the yelling and cursing I hear now from people claiming the ride is too rough and that they will never ride it again how much worse would it be if the brakes were not there?

I am not sure if I buy the "tear itself apart" argument, especially after just getting back from riding Gwazi at Busch Gardens. That coaster is awesome - intense but not painful at all. My thought after riding it was if it has not torn itself apart then there is no way Mean Streak would tear itself apart. Again it brings me back to the "supposed" pain problem.

What if they just ripped up the track and layed down new track? It seems simple enough and could be pretty cheap.

I remember riding MS the day it opened as well... We waited in the longest line and it kept raining off and on. SO it kept delaying the wait. We stayed at Breakers that year and my mother would wait in line that started on the south side of the tracks and went back single file until just after Gemini entrance.

It was such a great ride to look at and ride at the time.

Shades said:

I am not sure if I buy the "tear itself apart" argument, especially after just getting back from riding Gwazi at Busch Gardens. That coaster is awesome - intense but not painful at all. My thought after riding it was if it has not torn itself apart then there is no way Mean Streak would tear itself apart. Again it brings me back to the "supposed" pain problem.

Anything GCI and MeanStreak are COMPLETELY different machines...

Like Many other coasters of now-and-gone, MS is a lesson to be learned.

My first visit to CP was MS's debut season. We sprinted the entire park so it could be our first ride, and an amazing one at that!

As life tends to present, all things are not golden forever.

...NEXT!