Okay... What's The Problem?

When I was at Cedar Point today, so many rides were down! I understand that it is only the second day that they have been open, but Wicked Twister, Cedar Creek Mine Ride, Magnum (for a little while,) and Chaos doesn't even have passenger cars! Does anyone know what's wrong with these rides?

Wicked Twister was operating today, as was Magnum. So that leaves Chaos and CCMR... remind me again why you're complaining? It's exactly what you said in your first sentence. The second day of the season.

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I swear, in all the times I've been to CP, Wicked Twister has been running.. 2 times.

Oh, and MF always has smoke coming from it too.

I don't ever remember a time I've been at CP when I couldn't ride WT, so either I'm lucky, or you guys are unlucky.

And the only thing I've seen smoking is Iron Dragon and the area by Paddlewheel Excursions... Throw in the train I suppose.

The only thing I have seen smoking is that fire that is in Magnum's last tunnel. ;)

The past two days haven't been bad. The only thing I noticed, which was closed both days is Mantis.

This is what happens when rides take a 7 month break. Dont worry, everything should be up and running smothly in a couple days. : )

mantis yesterday was closed because it didn't make it through the corkscrew and was just sitting at the bottom. Later in the day they used a cherry picker and was pulling it up to the brake run.

Well, when I was there, they started running empty trains through CCMR about four different times, and then stop randomly each time. Everything looked as if it were running fine...

As for Mantis, that is true, I forgot that one. I had seen that one run Saturday or Sunday. It's weird that just now it couldn't make it through it's track, when it's been able to for the past 13 years now...

And what I meant about the Magnum is that I remember it constantly was getting stuck on the first couple feet of the chain lift.

I have to say that Saturday was one of the best opening days I have seen in a long time when it comes to rides up and running.

I saw Wicked Twister down for a few minutes, but it was back up and running within 20 minutes. It marked the first time in a long time I had been to the park on opening day and didn't have to get out of line due to a broken ride.

PrawoJazdy said:
I have to say that Saturday was one of the best opening days I have seen in a long time when it comes to rides up and running.

I agree. On Saturday, it seemed like CCMR was down a good chunk of the day. During one pass on the train maintenance was working on the one operating train in the shed, but it was on the main line.

I did see WT down. It looked like it was half out of the station when I saw it.

What I want to know is does anyone know why Dragster does not have all of its trains on? Seems to be operating with 3 or 4 trains opening day with the others nowhere in sight. On Saturday afternoon I did see Dragster not even make it much past the highest catwalk. I know it was windy that, however.

All in all, I agreed that Saturday was one of the better opening days all around for quite some time!

What I want to know is does anyone know why Dragster does not have all of its trains on? Seems to be operating with 3 or 4 trains opening day with the others nowhere in sight. On Saturday afternoon I did see Dragster not even make it much past the highest catwalk. I know it was windy that, however.

It's because not all the trains got their safety certification, I believe.

If you look at the webcam now, only 4 trains are parked on the transfer. The other two probably haven't finished their offseason work.

If you ride corkscrew and look to the left going down the hill the red dragster train is sitting there just not connected.

Cedar Point has many more ride vehicles to service than they did say ten years ago. While the point can be made as to why they didn't hire more people to service more vehicles, I'm pleased that they seem to still be meticulous in overhauling the trains and are not rushing things just to get the trains back on the track. You expect safe, clean rides at Cedar Point, and I think you still get that in spite of the economy and some budget problems.

There are multiple trains sitting in and around the maintenance building inside Mean Streak as of Tuesday.

• Dragster - gold
• Mean Streak - green
• STR - 2-3 boats in various states of repair
  
• Chaos - multiple cars
• and also the usual Thunder Canyon boats, Gemini's extra trains, Cadillac car or two, and a random Mine Ride car

I believe Thursday marks the First day of the season Top Thrill Dragster Never rolled back. I also say that it was open for the 10 hours of park operations, tho it did have a 20 min downtime however made up due to opening 20 minutes early (9:40 opened to ERT..)

Great Day for Dragster. Millennium had a rough start, and Corkscrew had power issues until 4pm. Raptor closed for an hour around 5, and Maverick... I thought I saw closed for only minutes but none the less perfect.