MF ticket system *works* well

I met up with a friend while at Cedar Point yesterday and from what I have gathered the ticket system will be a success for the park. He said that in a six hour period he had gotten 3 rides on MF, while never waiting even 30 minutes. Yes there was a lot of confusion among employees on the first day the system was used, but by its second day in operation most of the kinks had been worked out.

The deal is that from 11am until 8pm each day tickets will be handed out near the ride's entrance. You have a 1 hour period to return to the ride during. The average wait once you return is only 15-20 minutes. Once 8pm rolls around everyone is allowed to enter without tickets again. The line at night were actually shorter than normal last night when I was there and was probably due to the ticket system.

All you have to do is pick up a ticket and come back at your designated time. In the end you will save yourself anywhere from a half hour to almost two hours depending on how busy the park is.

I still have problems with it. If I come to the park at five (which I do a lot) and have to leave by eight that would form a problem. Most of the tickets are gone by then and I don't have time to wait in the regular line after eight.

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Can you get more than one ride in a day? I mean, if you get a ticket at 1:00 and ride at 2:00 can you get another ticket to ride at 4:00?

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Yeah you can get a ticket as soon as you get off the ride, just get into the ticket line as soon as you look at your picture. I was there on Sunday and i thought the system worked well even though i didn't think i would like it at all. I got two rides in yesterday and i didnt have to wait any longer that 25 minutes. MIllENNIUM FORCE IS AWESOME!! I COULDNT BELEIVE HOW GREAT IT WAS!!

Man that doesn't sound even close to the system they were using on Saturday. Saturday was a ROYAL RUKUS. If you got in line from 11:00 to 8:00 with a ticket you would have had to wait in excess of 1-1 1/2 hours appoox. because the queue line was outside the normal entrance. All of the tickets were gone by 2:00 and we were told to come back at 8:00PM. DOWN WITH THE TICKET SYSTEM ALL THE WAY.
BTW VolcanoTBC nothing personal against your post. Our day was ruined and we were really upset.

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Dude (VolcanoBTC) how long did you wait in line for a ticket? I'm sure it wasn't 30 seconds. They just diverted the wait time in the queue to a ticket line. This is brilliant!!!!!

It is a bunch of crap that you have to make an appointmet to ride anything at the Point.

Welcome to Disney Point!!!!!! America's Roller Ticket!

Since I make tons of after work trips, the system sucks more than turbo-enhance Hoover. I can get to the park by 4 on a Friday, but won't be able to ride MF until 8:30.

Which part of that is a good thing?

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Exactly, the ticket doesn't let you plan your own day, Cedar Point is now doing that for you, whether you like it or not. Maybe I don't want to ride it during a certain hour. By time I walk back to Gemini, I'll have to walk back over to the Millennium Force, changing your traffic patterns and causing you to walk further. The system is pretty communist if you ask me. And if they start doing ticket to Ride for the other rides, then there will be even more restrictions on where you can go and for how long. People would never make it back to the Mean Streak without missing one of there tickets to ride.

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Here's what the point should do. When ever you buy a ticket they hand you a clipboard. The clipboard contains the names of the ride and when you ride them. It gives you the times you can eat, sit down, use the restroom, shop, and play games. If you don't follw the list to the letter then you are promptly taken out of the park. Most people don't mind waiting in line for 2 some even 3 hours. I didn't see mass rioting when I waited in line for Millennium Force for 3 hours. The bottom line is people stood inline for three hours with, Raptor, Magnum, Mantis, Mean Streak, ect. and they never cared before and they don't care now.

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The system will come, and it has too. The park doesn't make its money, nor does it, nor should it cater to only people that want to sit in line all day to ride a single ride. And I think overall, as time goes by, they will have to find a way to get people OUT of the lines and into the park. I suspect in time, as knowlege of the system spreads, people will expect to be able to get the tickets, they won't worry about getting there early, and that will lead to a number of things. People will get their later in the day, will be more likely to visit on "busy" days, will circulate to other rides more than they would otherwise, etc. I think it will alter the conventional wisdom of when to visit CP, and regulars to the park will adjust, and folks will wind up rideing just as often as they want too after a time.

I personally have a girlfriend that doens't ride the coasters. I have a number of friends that don't as well. And this system makes going to CP much more fun in the long run, as it lets you accomedate groups with varing degrees of interest in going on the coasters. I can't ask my GF to stand in line an hour and a half just to watch me ride.

Bring the Fast Pass on, the sooner, the better.

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Do they have a "Standby" line like at Disney for non-ticket holders? It seems if they didn't, they'd be running a lot of empty seats!

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Maybe the queue lines are so long because everybody's non-coaster girlfriends are waiting in line with their coaster-riding boyfriends.

Nope, there is no standby, and if there was it wouldn't work, because theres enough ticket to ride people every hour that you would never make it to the front.

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I don't think the lines are long due to people that don't ride the coasters. But I think the system will help attract more people that don't have to go away and do something else while their friends are riding, it makes it more family friendly I think, and puts a focus on developing and improving non-ride activities. That in turn will help the park evolve in the long term. And I think folks staying in the resorts will like it too. I think it will prove very popular, granted, thats with the general public more than the die-hards.

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I still hate CP because now I have to actually pay attention to the time!

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I have many opinions on the FP system now do some varying degree but will reserve my judgement until this friday/Saturday...It just seems like they are trying in a way to manipulate what we do now..Man I hope not...CP is sold on the idea from who I have spoken with of keeping it for a while anyways ..I mean there not gonna base the outcome on this last intro weekend of the system

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So does this mean that during the afternoon if you dont have a ticket you cant ride Millennium Force?

yep..after tickets are gone you wait til it open to the GP again in the eve at 8 or 8:30....

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Nate,

I was supplying you with a ludricous explanation why queue lengths are long in response to your ludicrous reason why TTR is a good idea.

Ok, this is starting to bug me. All you people who say "TTR is great because we don't have to wait as long in lines!" do realize that ALL of the lines for ALL of the other coasters will be longer now, right? Instead of 1/2 hour for Magnum it will be an hour, and so on. I still stand by my opinion that TTR is really not a good idea , although I am willing to wait and see how it all pans out in the long run, hopefully for the better.

And everyone, don't worry. I'm sure CP is taking everything we say along with everything the GP is saying into account. IMO, They handled this all VERY intelligently (by starting the system the week before the busiest weekend of the year, with hopes to get most of the bugs out. As Dave Atloff and a few others have said, I'm sure that they are going to use this weekend as the official test run of the system to see how it all will work out, again hopefully for the better)