Opening Day - 2005

First off, I'm gonna warn you about the length...but keep reading :)

I arrived at the park at about 9:00 AM. Had to go through Guest Services to enter the park due to the pass scanners malfunctioning so they had to write down all the numbers by hand. I did the usual Doughnut Time thing while 2 of my other friends got their Season Pass Photos. As soon as they opened the gates to the GP I went over to WT and got a locker. I noticed how maXair still had a pretty short line so I hopped in, waited, 20 minutes and got one pretty cool ride.

After wards, I headed for WT and got a nice ride on that. Following my WT ride, I made my rounds around the park, hitting Corckscrew, Magnum (which still packs a good punch), Gemini, Mean Streak, and Cedar Creek Mine Ride, all of which is practically walked on. After that, I ran over to MF (it was still before about 11:30) and got a Freeway stamp then I settled down a bit for lunch.

In the afternoon, I hit Raptor, which was another walk on. By that time, I went over to get my TTD stamp. Then went over to MF and back to TTD. MF was fun, same with TTD. Afterwards I rode random rides for a bit.

At about 7:30 or so I decided to hop in line for TTD. It was just fixed after a breakdown so I figured I had a good shot of getting on it. Well, as I was one train before getting on, it broke down (first we noticed the reflection of a big flashing red light in the control room). While we waited, the group of people behind me started cracking jokes about TTD and Windows, like "TTD.exe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down, please reboot" As we found, it was actually OLD CPer and NEW CPer. Behind them was One CP (you guys need to reply to correct me on your names). When I finally got on the ride after about an hour, we saw all the trains before us struggle over except for the one directly infront of us. We did the normal launch stuff and when we launched I noticed us slow down, but figured we'd go over. To my suprise, I got my FIRST ROLLBACK. It was a pretty sweet experience. After restting everything, we got launched again and mad it over.

Overall, It was a good trip. I'd go on opening day again (this was my first time going on opening day) becuase of the lack of crowds and such. There were some issues, such as distpatch time,s due to the fact the crews were still new. Also, FreeWay entrances into the regular line were not monitored (usually they only let so many in at once, not all 50 plus at a time), also, stations on rides like WT and TTD were allowed to become Magnum like. But overal, many employees were friendly and curteous. I think CP is in for one hell of a summer :)

*please ignore spelling and grammar errors...It's 12:30 am and I'm a bit tired, lol :P *** Edited 5/8/2005 4:38:45 AM UTC by Kyle Dersch***

Sounds like you had a good time!!! hopefully TTD will remain the ways it is operationg, and have a nice smooth season...

Kyle, I think it was Old CPer, The Real CP, and OneCper, but I'm not sure, was kinda late :P

Do you think WT and TTD became "Magnum-like" just b/c they were new or lazy, or have they changed their policies (2 to a row on WT)?

I think it was probably becuase they were new. They seemed to be fairly lax on rules regarding stuff such as sitting on railings. But, they strictly enforced the no lose articles policy. I think it was just probably something they were least worried about on their first "real" day on the job.

WT got Magnum style? That sucks, they usually only send out people for just the next train, if I remember correctly.

When TTD broke down around 9:30 there was no where to sit on the ground because they flooded the station Magnum style :(

^ thats why i was glad i was right out side of the station when it broke down at 9:30.

I was happy though, lines were short (except for TTD when the park opened and when Millennium went down), every body was nice (i was eating in coasters around 1 and a man working came up and asked us how everything was and how our day was going) (i had an Italian Job shirt on, and a couple workers, one at TTD photo and one at maXair asked me about it), and ALL the rides were running. I went to PKI's opening day, and everything was closed once through out the day.

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*** Edited 5/8/2005 8:27:04 PM UTC by ttdmfwtm***

Kyle, I think it was Old CPer, The Real CP, and OneCper, but I'm not sure, was kinda late :P

Yes, it was me, TheRealCP and OneCper. Sorry about the tacky jokes. TheRealCP and I work in the Academic Computer Lab, so computer jokes are the norm.

Glad you got the rollback, Kyle.

Sunday was even better than Saturday.

Yeah, thats who I thought it was, I was the person next to Kyle in line, and we're also computer geeks so the jokes werent too bad.

I'm Anti-Windows...Go linux. I thought the jokes were pretty funny, lol.

Too bad my Linux computer is dead :(