No cell phones... at all

Air time?
Seriously, if humans feel like they might eject, imagine the launch a cell phone might take.
Last week as we were being thrown down SV’s first drop, many of us saw an object of some kind shoot from a middle seat somewhere and land below the pull out. It was white. Might’ve been a cell, a pack of smokes, or something as harmless as a piece of paper. But I suffered from “dropus interuptus” as I watched that thing fall, making sure it came no where near me.

I’ll just leave this here.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/audience/david-whitley/os-ae...story.html

Watch the vid. Wait for it...

Again, they could just modify the station to put bins in there so we don't have to have this issue at all.

XS NightClub said:

And next... emotional support animals ride too?

Bob Wiley being told he can't take his emotional support gold fish (Gil) on Steel Vengeance.

In a psych class about 7 years ago we did a little in-class experiment. Students volunteered to be separated from their cell phones for 72 hours. They were asked to predict how they would feel over the 3 days (from nothing at all to extreme anxiety), and they were allowed to contact loved ones, etc. before it all started if they wished. Most of the students hypothesized that they would get through the ordeal (notice the choice of words I use) unscathed.

We locked up the phones in my office and the fun began.

Mind you, most of the students (about 25/30) did make it through just fine, although they reported they felt more anxiety and depressive symptoms than they expected. But what about those other 5?

Within hours (literally), I had three of them outside my office pacing. While they chose to continue, they were really a mess, and lost sleep, their diet got all wacky, and their peers noticed just how much they changed; irritable, nasty, emotional messes. Another one was in my office in tears by the end of the first afternoon, and didn't make it past the 4 hour mark of the experiment (they were allowed to drop out if they just couldn't handle it).

The fifth actually had a panic attack in her dorm room, and I chose to give the gal her phone back.

And this was seven years ago.

I think my next experiment will simply be the people-watching of folks losing their minds when they see the sign. Can you make it all the way to the ride without passing out? Can this be a new challenge of some sort? Maybe this is just a new marketing ploy to sell more Fast Lane Plus...

Like most of you posting here, I find this rule to be reactionary (to something), and also a nuisance. We're a family of four, and the tiniest of us can't ride SV just yet. We use our phones to communicate where everyone is, when to be close to the ride for parent swapping, etc. As someone mentioned above, it's all the kids in a class getting some privilege taken away because Billy the asshole who sits in the corner did something stupid to piss the teacher off. You're being punished for others' ignorance.

And enforcement? Good luck. Are they going to pat down riders now before boarding? You made it through the line, but how about a strip search before you take your seat? Are there going to be extra employees monitoring the queue watching for someone who snuck a phone in? I haven't a clue.

But folks, we'll make it. Yes, we're attached to our phones, but it is possible to live a life without one. We did it for decades at Cedar Point. Guests with kids, guests with medical emergencies...we all survived. Thank god no one had cell phones on my favorite "flat ride" as a kid...

Back to the class; of those 25 that made it through 72 hours just fine, 3 of them actually mentioned something unexpected; they actually felt better at the end, and pondered how they could voluntarily ditch their phone more often.

What I see in the future is a queue full of people. Staring in amazement at the folks around them....like cave dwellers peering out from the darkness for the first time...starting conversations....reaching out and touching other humans they never knew existed before....

OK, enough drama, but as someone pointed out, they built a fancy sign and everything, so it would appear this is happening, and here to stay. Someone bring a beach ball.

Although I still see nudity as a viable option.

I will say, the poor SV employees, who might have thought awesome I got to work on the new ride. Oh dear all the stuff they have had to put up with and now this

Skyhawk06-
Again, the idea is no cell phones. If they relied on everyone to put their phone in a bin there would be a greater percentage of non-compliance. If their intention is to keep phones off the ride, which it is, it would be more successful to check everyone at the entrance.
Also, having riders be responsible for their own phones and their whereabouts takes another liability away from the park. No one’s hurt, no one’s phone is lost, and no one’s is stolen should someone decide to go shopping in one of Cedar Point’s bins.

I’m not in favor of this policy, but I also do what I can to protect my phone from flying out.

Well I won't be at the park til Tuesday for MF ERT. I will probably bring a watch at least, I have to know the time. I would leave my phone in the car for riding SV before I pay for a locker, I don't care how much walking back and forth I do (of course though SV has to be far away from any parking lot).

Think how close your phone will be once they build the LHP Gate, you’ll barely even miss your phone then.

On a side note: I was in the front seat getting my restraint checked when a friend called and I answered on my Apple Watch, ride host looked at me then the booth shrugged and my friend got experience the front seat from Wisconsin. I couldn’t hear him til the
break run but he got every awesome sound.

So there are devices to keep you in emergency contact with the rest of the world already available.

So, I've always just gone with cargo shorts, never had an issue with my loose articles, so I don't know much about lockers, but I did a quick search, and the only all day lockers are at the front, as far as I can tell... Am I blind, or is there no "floating" locker or all day locker pass that you can use anywhere in the park?

$10 will get you an all day floating/roaming locker. The catch is your stuff has to be moved at least every 3 hours. I suppose the other catch is if they have any available at your chosen location.

There are lockers in close proximity to all the coasters (and some of the flat rides.) and if you look on the screen, there's an option to rent a floating locker that can move to other rides. It'll set you back $10, bit it's worth it. If you do go for it, you'll have to make a 7 digit id number for yourself and then the usual passcode. I'll warn you now Lincc, they only last 3 hours.

The floating locker can become an all day locker provided you keep moving locations before your limit is up. Take now, for instance. My Skyhawk locker expires at 9:16 pm, but I can go to another location and get 3 more hours. Well worth it if you ask me.

Thanks Skyhawk06 for explaining how that works, it seems easy to keep track of and worth the $10.

I appreciate the explanation. I'll probably just count on that from now on, though I will likely find it more useful for my wallet and other such items than my phone anywhere in the park that isn't Steel Vengeance.
Glad you guys knew about it, because my own penny pinching policy never even let me go near a locker, hahahaha. $10 is fairly cheap for me nowadays, and would be well worth it, especially considering that it will be split among multiple people, more than likely.

I have went to Cedar Point 20 times this year, alone each time. $200 for locker usage,absolutely not worth it to me.

Skyhawk06 said:

If you do go for it, you'll have to make a 7 digit id number for yourself and then the usual passcode.

Don't forget to store the User ID and password on your phone in case you forget it.

My phone is old and cheap and kind of sucks so I'm not inseparable from it like some people are with theirs and up until about 2 years ago I used to turn it off late in the evening. Up until maybe 2012 I didn't even turn the thing on unless I was getting in the car and going somewhere it just sat on my dresser most of the time. There are things going on in my family right now though that make it a bit more of a need for people to be able to find me so I do look at it sometimes in the park to make sure nobody has texted me about anything important that would require me to cut my visit short and leave.

See, ImpulsivePhoenix, I do not go quite that often. It's usually a one time thing for me every year, so a one time charge isn't going to kill me. If I were going that often, though, I would be a whole lot more conservative with my locker use.

While my phone is kinda the opposite of old and cheap, I've actually done just fine without a phone in the past. Back in 2016, my phone actually died - like, I put it down one Saturday, and that was the last time it turned on. I went about 2 weeks without a phone, and the worst effect it had was that I was more wary of driving longer distances (it was winter, and I didn't want to go without a lifeline) and I had a hard time finding my dad one time when meeting in Toledo for a high school basketball playoff game (I was living in Michigan at the time, and my family lives an hour and a half south of Toledo). Other than that, and the general annoyance that is Verizon, I did fine. I still prefer to have mine on me, but 2 hours without it is tolerable, if not a blessing. I've found not having my phone a lot easier since I deleted my Facebook and Twitter.

Sure the locker fee isn't bad if you don't go often. For people that go often like me and ride Steel Vengeance every trip, getting a locker is just going to insanely add up.

I do know I can survive without a phone. Passing the time will be more boring. It's bad enough that I have spent probably around 36 hours in the Steel Vengeance queue.

Locker fee $10 /day

Park is open 9-11 for 14 hours

$.71 an hour for locker rental.

And that doesn't include the last hour to two hours for a late night SV ride

Seriously, if $.71 an hr is too much, you most probably don't belong in an amusement park.

The lockers are like every other machine in the park and require maintenance, replacement and initial investment. The all day deal is a bargain.