Paddle-wheel Excursions RIP

Jason Hammond said:
I rarely see many people on the cruise with the boats they have now. They don't need 4 more boats.

No, I'm suggesting that the cruise is the spiritual successor to PWE, not that they're going to physically put the PWE boats in the bay.

In other words, when people complain about the lack of PWE, and how it was such an important historical aspect of the park, park officials can say "no, we didn't retire the ride, we just altered it (again)."

I don't know why CP did this. $15.00 to see Dinosaurs. That is a waste of $$$$$. I might go 1 or 2 times.

15?

It's 5 at Kinds Island.

It's $15 for a family of 3. :)

Mr. Cedar Point said:
I don't know why CP did this. $15.00 to see Dinosaurs. That is a waste of $$$$$. I might go 1 or 2 times.

So, its a waste of money, but you're going to drop 30 bucks on it?

So is a Snuggie, but people still buy that. :)

$35 for a family of 7. Ours will not be seeing them if we even go next year. Might take a break and head somewhere else for a change.

Oh hey they're going to perform mass genocide of their guests too. Those evil corporate cedar point people them.

Boycotting the park and Six Flags Sandusky in your signature is pretty over reactive in my opinion.

PointofView said:
"Last boat" should be a lie.

Is there anyway we can still save Paddlewheel Excursions?

You know, either design a bridge that goes above the area or combine the boats and dinos to create Dino Cruise. Can't you walk a longer distance to get to the dinos?

Or, we could just let the bigwigs walk over our faces as usual. I guess it won't matter in 2013 either when they add a Wing Rider, only to remove 2-4 coasters (Disaster Transport, Iron Dragon, Mean Streak, and Blue Streak; the first two may already be a given).

That Wing Rider will have quite the footprint...

There's nothing you or anyone can do to save the ride at this point. Let it go.

I don't understand why they couldn't have built a spiral ramp that goes over the water to the island. All NFL stadiums have them. Just build a mini one.

http://thenflchick.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Heinz-Field.jpg

Wheelchair accessible and all that...

Things like ADA accesibility don't always scale well. I'm not saying it couldn't be done. But, there may be more to it than just "making it smaller"

Rideman could probably speak to this better than most of us.

<visual scan for dave>

That has to be the most bizarre safety precaution I have every seen. It looks like a joke when someone first watches that.

Check.

^Beat me to it.

I had never seen the visual scan thing! lol :)

The visual scan was very entertaining at Great Adventure. It even found a place in my signature line. The policy seemed to be a big joke to many guests as they would act out the motions with the ride op. I even saw a kid have to recheck the train because he did not do the appropriate head motion during his scan.

Visual Scan must be a chain wide policy - They do it at Six Flags over Texas all the time.

coolkid said:
It looks like a joke when someone first watches that.

I was certain it was just one ride crew goofing off until I noticed all the crews were doing it. I'm still not really certain what it's supposed to be accomplishing.