Millennium Mania vs. Coaster Mania

What was it and was it fun. I can imgain there were very few people in the park. How does MM compare to coaster Mania and Is coaster maina worth a trip to CP.

Millennium Mania was a one time event in which guests paid $15 to enter the park on a friday evening from 5-10 (?). The cool thing about it was they were limiting the number of people that they would allow to enter the park. I can tell you, having been there, that they didn't even begin to approach the total number they were planning to allow in. It was far and away the emptiest that I've ever seen the park. Only the major rides were open, MF, Maggie, Raptor, Mantis, Power Tower, and I think Mean Streak, but there were empty trains leaving stations all over the place. The ride ops were allowing re-rides it was so insanely dead. Highlights for me included, riding in the back right car of Raptor for seven consecutive laps without getting off the train, and riding in the front left of Mantis by myself for four consecutive cycles. I was literally the only perosn on the train, insane!

Coaster Mania is an annual coaster club event at CP which features ERT on the major rides and a nice picnic lunch which is free with admission, or just plain free for season pass holders in clubs. Coastermania is always a good time but there's a running joke that instead of exclusive ride time, you actually get exclusive wait time due to high attendance of coaster club members.

Millennium Mania is where Dan and I got our Solo Ride in the Front car of Millennium Force! That was one of the sweetest expereinces...

That was an insane ride Sparty. The train felt so slow going through the 2nd and 3rd overbanks!

Ahh the days of MM getting 64, 72, and 84 rides on Magnum in only 6 hours! Not to mention my two odd ball days of 35 and 40 on MF!

Millennium Mania was the absolute best. I honestly had to stop riding MF because I had just about had enough. I would walk back to Magnum to "catch my breath" then after a quick lap or two on it, I'd head back on up to MF. It was absolutely awesome to say the least. The only downer to the time I went was the fact that it was 2 days after 9-11 and everybody was in that mood.

And not to forget about Coaster Mania...I liked it the past two years I've went but I just don't get the bang out of it that I did MM. Being one of the winners of last years contest was pretty cool stuff though.

Too bad for MM. Countless times I've said I would pay up to double what they charged to have the same experience again. Small price to pay for the re-rideablity factor I think. :)

Milenium Mania was awesome. No crowd to think of.

I imagine it wasn't very cost effective for CP, but I looked at it as a thank you from the point to the dedicated CP coaster nuts that patronize the park.

Kind of like a customer appreciation day.

I wish they would do it again, but I don't think it is worth it for them to do it.

When did millennium Mania happen, and how did you get to go???Is there going to be anymore

coaster mainia was awesome last year. Because TTD was down they gave everyone a pass for TTD and a walk up the exit pass.

Millennium Mania simply put was the greatest event ever. I miss it so much. So many memories. I'm with Joey Stewart i'd pay double heck triple the price to do that again.

Millennium Mania in 2001 was super. Even the first day (Thursday, Sept. 6, 2001) when MF was still down because of the lift-cable issue. Riding the late-great Vertigo free of charge was great.

I went again that next Thursday (two days after 9/11). Got a lot of rides in on MF, which was interesting since it rained steadily much of the time. I've never really gotten used to that feeling of having my head run through a sewing machine, but I'll keep doing it anyway.

I went to Coaster Mania in 2002, and there were just too many people to get many repeat rides in during ERT, both morning and evening. Also, it was that time of year when the park was swarmed by mayflies. Furthermore, Wicked Twister was down. However, they opened Mean Streak for the night ERT and had most of the lights that normally illuminate the structure turned off (presumably because of the mayfies). The line on Mean Streak was very short and riding in mostly darkness was quite cool.

Bottom line: Millennium Mania offered true ERT with short lines etc. Coaster Mania offered ERT to too large a group, but it was OK as well. Just not as good.

Coaster Mania's ERT isn't Exclusive Ride Time. It's Extended Ride Time.

I think I even recall hearing somebody from the park call it that back in 2002...

Never been to CoasterMania, but Millennium Mania (both years) were probably the best times I have ever had in this park. I think we got like at least 30-35 rides on MF each time. We made it a point to try and sit in every seat of every row. I was with my wife, brother-in-law and a buddy and on our poses for the camera we also made it a point to hold up how many fingers for the number of rides we have been on. When we got to 10, that is the one we bought and that was a great picture. We had to actually go on like Raptor and Magnum about 10 times each just to relax and take a break. :)

I'd be willing to pay double the price if they brought that back it was so good.

MM sounds awesome. Too bad it wasn't marketable.

I think CP should do a sort of "E-ticket" system as what has been done at Disney: Add money to your ticket price, stay for "ERT" after hours. Disney's system only allowed 5000 people, IIRC. They didn't have trouble selling that.

Wish I could have been to MM.

MillenniumMania was the best money that I ever spent at Cedar Point! Rerides in the front seat of Magnum! That will never be beat!

Yeah Dan the power riding was great about MM..I can remember a guy on MF riding over 30 times consecutive without a break..he pauses on the exit ramp on the way down to get in line again, stops, pukes all over the place, then proceeds to get right back in line..Ah the memories!! ;)

Millennium Mania was a dream come true in every way. Most of my favorite memories of Cedar Point are centered around those two weekends. I remember re-riding Magnum so much that first weekend and my friend unintentionally stopping our train on the lift hill. This was just before we discovered Vertigo and got 19 rides(in two days) on it. To this day no other ride has ever had me so terrified. That is the closest I've ever came to chickening out and not riding at the last minute. My hands were shaking like a leaf! 100 feet above Magnum's first hill and flipping to the nose dive position and feeling my body slam into that harness, and not having any part of my body touching that seat I couldn't even scream. I was like a drowning man trying to grab onto anything I could. R.I.P. Vertigo, you were truly an amazing ride and I will never forget it.
I went back with a friend the next weekend when they got the cable on MF replaced. That day will always be "Monsoon" Mania to me. I had the most harrowing experience on Mantis that day. It really started to downpour as I was walking up the stairs to the station. I was turning around to walk back and this guy talked me into riding with him. We were the only two on the train, in the front car of course. The first loop was almost beyond words. I honestly didn't think that we were going to make it. We floated for so long up there that the water from the bottom of the train was raining down on us and my feet left the floor! We had time to look at each other and fire off a few choice curse words, that's how long we were up in that loop. The ride went down immediately after our ride, which just added to the drama. My all time favorite Mantis memory, nothing will ever top it.
Of course this was "Millennium" mania and I can't forget to mention The Force. I got 22 rides in that day. 15 of those were in a row(red train!), without any wait whatsoever. We would exit our train, the ops opened the special access gate and we walked alongside our train while it went into the loading station where we boarded again. The rain had made my hands so cold that I could barely buckle and unbuckle my safety belt. I distinctly remember riding while sitting on my hands and having my head bowed trying to avoid the rain and learning every inch of that course. It is very hard to explain, but because of the rain, the train would hesitate repeatedly while making the climb, which translated into feeling like it was slipping backwards(I know this isn't possible, but that is exactly what it felt like) This was all the more intense since the cable had just snapped shortly before and the rain was relentless. I wouldn't even feel the way I feel today about that coaster if I hadn't attended MM. We really got to know each other during those amazing rides. :) Sorry for the novel! I have a warm spot in my heart for Millennium Mania and would be embarassed to admit how much money I would pay for another weekend like those in 2001.
I don't know a thing about Coaster Mania, sorry.

I will have to agree both years of Millennium Mania were truly the best. The friend I took there the first year had his first ride on MF that day we went. I had already been on it a few times and since there were NO lines the OP's would let you pick your own seat as opposed to earlier in the season where they placed you in a row... I made him ride in the front row... Totally an awesome experience.

We rode in the front car on raptor for 35 straight minutes without getting off. We finally did because we were getting light headed. I remember the Vertigo rides to as compensation for the MF cable snap. That was the best compensation ever. THat ride was the greatest.

So many great times, small crowd. The line on MF never went past the station entrance by where the trains unload. we must have rode 50 times that day.

For the one who asked the rides were: Millennium Force, Magnum, Raptor, Mantis, and Power Tower. They had a sign up in the park near those 5 rides in the season about it and I purchased tix online. They were $20.00. I would pay full park admission price if they had this exact same event with the exact same number of people in the park at one time. It was that great! MMaybe throw WT in there now that they have it.

Oh don't forget that we all got front of the line passes to ANY ride at CP the following season for the cable snap thing (on top of free vertigo rides), with the HINT of a NEW coaster coming next year (WT).

I could go on forever about how great it was.