New Webcam & Blog Entry

Webcam magic.

The new location is awesome. We'll be able to pin point if its busy or slow on some days. I'd be a little nervous standing on that platform from 370 feet. Other than that though I think it's great that they put it back up there again. The spot I was thinking they would've put it would have been on top of Space Spiral. This is a much better location! Good Job Cedar Point!

Kinda really unrelated, but... My classroom is the only place in school where we can't access the website we need to use for CCNA prep. The only way to get there in that room is by an iPhone (or a laptop, but that's not as easy). So, some people brought out theirs and started reviewing. :)

T&T GREAT JOB! Love the new location!

I agree that it would be great to have another one placed up there facing the back of the park!

I love the DragsterCam.

Stupid June 9, come faster!

There are probably free ways to do it, but I use this.
http://www.robomagic.com/webcammagic.htm

I think I'm over the new webcam already. Its too far to away to see anything I feel like I'm looking at www.local.live.com. Other than the sun changing positions I don't think I'd even notice if it stopped updating.... Talk about never being satisfied Huh?

Yes it is kinda like that but I also love that because you can see the parking lot and see how busy the park is :)

New web cam only tells you 2 things. When the line for TTD is jammed, and how busy the parking lot is.

I still like it. I have it set as my Active Desktop.

^^ What else do you want it to do? Make you a cup of coffee and do your laundry?

^^^ & ^^^^^ And exactly how different is the Goodtime cam from the Dragster cam and every theme/amusement park cam? They all do the same thing, show an otherwise straight forward constant view. What are they suppose to do that will visually satisfy you? Dance and sing show tunes?

Ha you both are absolutely right (although it would be nice if it would do my laundry and make me a cup of coffee). I have a compulsion after Mav was built to constantly check the webcams, I guess I just got pissed cause I went to cp.com and nothing had changed again. So I suppose this is a perfectly fine location as there isn't much new goin on.
For awhile Mav was really interesting to watch: footers, supports, track, testing, roll removed, testing, water canons. Now there is nothing new going on. Basically it comes down to I should be doing work and not checking CPs webcams :)

I just looked at the one on Dragster and it looks to have moved a bit and not straight. I hope it does not fall that would suck. It looks like the wind that did it though.

it is off line now

You can still watch the Dragster Cam Here. It doesn't automatically refresh but it still has an image.

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In other news, we've diagnosed our DragsterCam issue (you may havenoticed we took it offline). Turns out it decided it didn't want to situpright in its all-weather case, so we're bringing in reinforcements tokeep it horizontal. It will be down for a few days.

We're still trying to connect our third camera.

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Looks like the Goodtime Cam will be down for the count...I'm not sure I want to know what is streaking down the lens..

That would be sweet if they put the cam facing challenge park so we could watch skyscraper and know what it's doing. At least put one facing the back of the park, because almost all the cams have been facing the front, and we always see the front of the park.

Only a few of the cams in recent times have faced forward. Previously, the midway cam was on the front skyride station facing back. The last construction cam was facing planet snoopy, there was the maverick cam, and the frontier cam which was mounted on snake river falls. There are others but that's all I could think of off the top of my head.