Picking Seats on MF

The ramp is also wheel chair accessible, so you can't shrink it.

I'm not crazy about the assignments, but after seeing the way things went on Longaberger and opening days, I agree that it is entirely necessary. There's no way of getting around it.

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Jeff
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Millennium Force laps: 50

Well last year, I got in the park at 9---marina entrance-and I suppose I ran in the Millennium Force dash and I was on the second load of the day for the yellow trainand I only waited about 5 minutes, well anyway I got to choose my seat and I never heard the op/seat hostess (it was a she) or whatever ya call it tell anyone where to sit, it was just like waiting for any other coaster in the park. I could have waited in the line for the front but I wanted to get on that thing right away so I hopped in a middle with my friend and we were back in the station in what seemed like the best 2 minutes or so of my life!! *** This post was edited by JPointer on 3/13/2001. ***

Last year they let you pick your seat on Millennium Mania days, so you might want to try that if you can make it this year.
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MF Rides=50

They also let you wait for the front during Coastermania, but only until it got too long.

Red Garter Rob said:
I for one.. never worried where I sat.
MF 2000 - 269 laps

Well I would not expect you to care. Whenever I rode S:ROS @ my home park of SFA, I would pretty much take any seat available. It, like MF, is a great ride anywhere. BUT, it is a little disheartening when you know that you will only get limited rides on the coaster (in my case with MF, TWO). I cant be bouncing back and forth from DC to CP all willy nilly. So in an instance like that, I would have been more than willing to wait an extra hour (on top of the two hours I already waited) just to get my choice of seat (which for the record would have been the backseat). If you ride a lot, odds are eventually you will ride in every seat. But with limited rides, there is the desire to make the most out of them.
lata,
jeremy
--who hopes that he can get a first car and last car ride on opening day

How acouple of you said 93mph is 93mph. Their is alittle difference. I mean. The front drags over the large hill aliitle ways and the back has speed going all the way down the drop. I prefer the front. Better veiw. And I had my best ride in teh front on the yellow train. so i guess their is alittle difference. not much. if you get what i am saying.

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There's not really all that much of a difference, especially since it "launches" you over the hill.

If you do a force analysis, the front and back are measurably different from the middle.

How could the speed be different in different places? If the back of a coaster is going speed y mph, the front is also going speed y mph.

While that is true...

If you measure the speed of the train at a particular point on the track you will find a variation from car to car. When the lead car goes over the peak, it is travelling at y mph, but when the last car crosses the same point, it is travelling z mph. And that variation in speed can make a difference in the ride!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Yep, the back sure goes faster, going downhill that is. On the way down when the front hits point a, it will be traveling at a certain speed. When the back hits point a, it will be traveling faster because the train has accelerated due to gravity from the time the front hit point a. The exact opposite happens on the way up. Like Rideman said, This is most evident on the crests and valley's. Once gravity kicks in (after release from the lift), the train is going more downhill than up so the back will have a higher average speed.

On the Force though, I think The speed variation is less felt then lets say on the Gemini. It goes so darn fast wherever you sit!

By the Way, can anyone explain this better, or actually shorter. I try do explain to my friends that the back will be faster but they get lost, or they don't care.
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Joe E

Actually, at the bottom of a hill, the middle goes the fastest, as the front is still accelerating at the bottom, and the back is *decelerating* -- most of the train is heading back uphill.

Way back when, Rollercoaster magazine had a very in-depth article covering the dynamics of this. A pdf file for it exists, but I can't find the link to it.

Out of 90 rides in '00
I managed 4 front seats
Could have waited for front during Media Day-didnt want to-rode 38x instead
Could have waited for front during MM-
didnt want to-ride 26x instead
got front car 2x thanks to sheer timing and luck
2x thanks to one of my many CP heros!!!! :)

Assigned seating doesnt bother me
there is NO bad seat on MF

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Welcome back Raptor riders-how was your flight??

Sure Jo, there is no bad seat on MF, but looking at it differently, there are BETTER seats (front, etc), at least in my opinion. People don't want to wait for the front because the other seats are bad, it is just that the front is a better experience to them. And this pretty much applies to all the coasters.

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Chris G.

Good point Chris-I should have known that remembering how nuts the front line for Raptor gets!! I prefer seat 8-1 on Rap but must admit for the morning test ride its seat 1-4 every time!
(Hooper and I almost took out a bird during one of our front seat rides on MF!!!)

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Welcome back Raptor riders-how was your flight??

I don't see why the station can't be expanded, frankly.

Is there a bad seat on MF?

Link to those Coaster Dynamics .pdf's

http://www.me.rochester.edu:8080/~clark/coast.html

Bill, the station can't be expanded because it is pinned between the ejector hill.

Surely there's room to quick it back enough to put in a dedicated row or two.