Opening Day Fight

It's a shame this forum software is so archaic that we can't ignore people on it.

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Detroit, safer than 2% of cities.

Cool, sounds like another city I know.

Like your other comparison above, your posts are flat wrong on this topic. If you really want to grind this axe, it would be more convincing if you weren't being so obviously, intentionally misleading.

Just Coasting said:

People purchase season passes based on the information given to them from Cedar Point. Isn't it correct to assume that everyone was misled about Steel Vengeance and its capacity, therefore due a refund to their season passes due to their false statements.

Why hasn't Cedar Fair been held accountable?????

This was touted in their statements and hasn't even happened once! In any other industry this would be a class action lawsuit, guaranteed and rightfully so!

Do I want a refund and to be made "Whole Again"? No, I just want Cedar Point to get Steel Vengeance right as once touted.

I know I sure as heck only purchased my pass due to the theoretical capacity of Steel Vengeance.

Also out of curiosity do you feel this way about Gemini which now only run 4 trains max when it used to run 6? Or Corkscrew which only has 2 trains when it had 3? Or when TTD was only sending half full trains? Or Mind Ride now that it only has 2 trains when it opened with 5? Was your ride on Magnum tainted on opening day as they ONLY used 2 of it's 3 trains? Or when every other gondola is loaded on the Ferris Wheel? I saw some Antique Cars off to the side as well. Heck, when I rode Skyhawk Saturday ONLY one side was running!

I'm curious as these are all examples of rides not running at their theoretical capacity. Yet you're very focused on Steel Vengeance.

If you're gonna sue the park about capacity claims you may need to include every ride.

Also knowing Red Garter Rob I'll gladly take any of his facts over yours.

A Lawsuit Like No Other!

I wonder if this jabroni is the hot sauce victim...

It would explain some of his SVen hate.

Dude, if you are hot sauce victim, we as a whole are super sorry.

Please stop inventing reasons to be salty with SVen.

It is not the ride's fault!

Reg Garter Rob... his data is reliable.

If two teenage kids (and you said they were really adults, right?) want to bash eachother's faces in, that's between them. There's zero chance I'd stick my pretty face between two pairs of flying fists! Park security, in some capacity, was only feet away at the metal detectors, right? I know those aren't usually uniformed, armed security personnel but they certainly would have had the ability to radio in for support?

So all this happened without any employee at the entrance alerting security? That seems hard to believe.

Just Coasting said:

People purchase season passes based on the information given to them from Cedar Point. Isn't it correct to assume that everyone was misled about Steel Vengeance and its capacity, therefore due a refund to their season passes due to their false statements.

Anyone who bought their season pass solely for one attraction deserves to be disappointed in the value outcome. They also deserve a swift kick in the nuts.

1000 years of force said:

Please stop inventing reasons to be salty with SVen.

Please stop using this ridiculous nickname.

The only Sven that I know of was a very good Center for the Buffalo Braves in the 1970's.

You guys ever seen Ocean's 13? First of all, it's an underrated movie, but second of all, they discuss this. Talking about why the casino is already open when the grand opening hasn't happened yet.

Saul - "When is Opening Night."
Rusty - "July 3rd."
Saul - "We're going in now? It's already open."
Rusty - "It's a soft opening, to test the place before the grand opening."
Danny - "It's kind of like an out of town preview, only it's in town."
Saul - "Soft opening, grand opening. When they opened the Flamingo, one day it was closed, the next day it was open. End of story. I know. I was there."
Danny - "Well, it's different now."
Saul - "So when is opening night?"
Group - "JULY THIRD"

This is what "opening weekend" at Cedar Point has turned into and I, for one, don't mind one bit. They're introducing the brand new attraction Memorial Day weekend and I think that's a great move. You set up May 11 as the soft opening for everything else in the park. Most people going are season passholders and local families anyway. They know what this day is usually like by now.

You allow new employees to get their feet wet with the first batch of customers and work any kinks out. Then, when that's all done for 2 weekends (which usually have pretty crappy weather anyway), you roll out the red carpet for Forbidden Frontier (or whatever new attraction) 2 weeks later and by then everything should be running much smoother.

May 11-12: Soft opening
May 26,27,28: Grand opening

Nuff said.

That really happened? Does anybody know how it started? XS Nightclub

It really happened, I wouldn't make it up. As for how it started, all I know is that someone said something about the other persons sister. It could of been a derogatory comment or a comment misconstrued.

If you want to fight, go take it behind the dumpster in the parking lot, but not in the park. Way too many families and children around.

I see nothing about it on social media.

@ Sparty42. I agree and that’s a unique way to look at it. I never thought of opening day as a “soft opening”, but it kind of is true. The thing is, with the limited number of things available at the time, guests won’t be happy until the admission price corresponds to what is available.

But is it really that limited? And they have. This year they have offered discounted ways to visit the park during this early time (the Michigan deal, Wild Card, etc...).

I've always thought of the entire month of May as a soft-opening; from rides to concessions. It's always fun talking to the new workers...their faces so bright and full of wonder before July sets in ;)

Weekdays in May are one of the most wonderful times to visit the park...even with only the blue side of Gemini being open, and a bartender who needs help learning how to perfectly pour a beer, and wheels put on the coasters incorrectly.

Well, we're going up tomorrow for a couple days, so I hope your thought about weekdays in May being wonderful holds true. Just hoping there aren't hoards of school trips happening which we've experienced in May before.

Chris

It’s Physics week

Yep. I was at the park for a few hours Monday and there were plenty of school buses in the parking lot and lots of kids. Still wasnt crowded though and a great time to visit.

No, it's not that bad at all.

If it's any indication, we live about 2 hours away. On Thursday, we will drop the kids off at school at 8, and then off to the Point we go...for about 3.5 hours (we have to be back at the bus-stop by 4) of kid-free fun in the park, keeping our "may-days" tradition alive.

That said, if you have the ability to stay past 5 (sigh...before children)...100% of those physics groups make a mass exodus from the park around then, leaving the last few hours of operation simply glorious.

See you tomorrow then Kevin. We're practically neighbors now since I moved to New Franklin, south of Alliance.

Is there 2 New Franklin's in Ohio? I live in Green and there's a town called New Franklin next to it over by Portage Lakes.