PointBuzz Off-Season Event - April 2

It appears that the remaining trees on the Twister midway will be getting new planters and/or benches around them. All the old round planters have been removed and the concrete has been cut in a square pattern around them.

^The LARGE tree by the Gazebo that was cut down was already almost completely dead. It dropped sticks and branches fairly often, so it was only time. The rest with the brick removed appear to be staying, I'm sure they are just updating the landscaping around and adding new retaining walls... they were all looking a bit rough. The wind seeker area is obvious, room for the crane. They usually replant trees elsewhere once construction is complete... but it will obviously take years to get them to a respectable height.

Did anyone notice over by Hot Potato, that they were building onto it a little bit? I am wondering if they are making a wooden shelter for guests now that Chaos is gone.

Uploaded some pics to picasa so they can be downloaded full resolution....

https://picasaweb.google.com/JasonJMonroe/PointBuzzOffSeasonTour?feat=directlink

In the above photos (see here), it looks as though part of WT's queue (specifically, the section located on the beach side of the stadium) has been removed. Am I seeing that correctly? Does anyone know what that area will be used for?

GREAT pics !!!!!

^^^I notice our favorite new blogger made a few appearances in those photos....and is she eyeing you in pictures 79 and 80? Haha!

Judging by the hand she held the microphone in, she may be a southpaw as well, and I may be in love..... ;)

As far as I can tell from the picture, there has not been a change to the Wicked Twister queue.

I think you're right. It appears they took out a few of the queue rails to allow vehicles through, but the section of queue behind the stadium had already been removed a couple seasons ago.

What Tim said. That section has been gone for a couple of years.

It seems to me that Corkscrew has had some welding done after looking at the pics from jmen. These are the photos with the red straps tied to the cross beams, in one shot in particular the blue paint at the seams don't match the rest of the paint. But, then again I may be seeing things, or the light is playing tricks with the image.

I know these are a bit late to the game. But here are some more pics.

http://www.greatohiocc.org/photos/index.php/Cedar-Point-PointBuzz-Tour-April-2011

I'm curious, i've looked through most all of the pics people have taken in these off-season events and I saw no draggin iron train pics. I was very curious on the contrapment used to hold those cars up in place, how much similiar would it be to Raptor's? If there are pics and I just plain missed missed them, then my bad.

I think there was at least one train placed by the ID station with the others still getting their overhaul. We did not make it over to that area of the midway so I can't confirm it.

The Iron Drgon cribbing is not complicated at all...as I recall, they simply cradle the bottom of the tub in such a way that the whole assembly can be lifted with a forklift.

The only coaster that appeared to have trains on it was Gemini, with a pair of trains on the storage track.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Cribbing, that was the word I was looking for yesterday. Thanks guys for the info.

Mil Force and Wicked Twister also had a train on each. Granted that is all you would see on Wicked Twister or else things would get real interesting! ;)

Jason Hammond said:
I know these are a bit late to the game. But here are some more pics.

http://www.greatohiocc.org/photos/index.php/Cedar-Point-PointBuzz-Tour-April-2011

Great pictures thanks for sharing them