Raptor Spiel

Well, I was just wondering about the Raptor spiel. Who made it up, or where did it originate? What is it exactly, how do you say it?

Just a thought I had a minute ago.

Heh, well usually a speil is just facts, safety information, music, and other tidbits to the ride. Making it up really goes to Cedar Point and the Ride Manufacturer. How do you say it...you dont. Thats why its a spiel....

Well, the most common one that I have heard is:

You've got your clear, your outta here!

There goes the floor your out the door!

See ya back here in 224!

Enjoy your flight on Raptor.

At America's Rockin Rollercoast! CLEAR.

There's the "official" speil that is supposed to be said every time,(as given in the ride manual) mostly for legal reasons. At times, the spiel is altered just a bit... I'm willing to bet he spiel is made up by upper management.

I've said it enough that I still remember the stock speil by heart:

"Oncoming riders, please remain behing the yellow line until the incoming train comes to a complete stop. Then you may enter the train, an donce seated please pull down on your shoulder harness and fasten your seatbelt. For your own safety please keep your hands and arms inside the train at all times. Please hold on to all loose articles as Cedar Point cannot be responsible for any lost or damged items.

Welcome back, how was your flight? Once your harnesses are released please pull up on the black buckle to release your seatbelt. Carefully exit to your right and down the stairs. Enjoy the rest of your day here at Cedar Point, America's Roller Coast."

Of course, there's plenty of variations on that. A few lines:

-Have a seat but don't swing your feet
-If you're having trouble don't worry, a fast and friendly Raptor ride host will be around shortly to assist you
-Enjoy your ride on the six flippin sky chicken known as Raptor
-For only 12 easy payments of $1 Million you too can own your very own Raptor
-You'll be travelling up 137, down 119 at a 45 degree angle, approaching speeds of 60 mph, then flipping upside six times four different ways

That's a SMALL sampling of the stuff that's been used.

Don't forget:

"if you're ready to fly the Raptor crew is ready to say ba bye"

"when the floor sinks you sail"

"We're going to take you really high, drop you really low but please, don't get really sick"

"One ride will show you why, we say Raptor rules the sky"

"that floor is going going gone, and so are you , see you back here in 2 32"

yea...it could go on and on....
I remember my 1st season I already knew most of the speils by heart just from riding. Pretty sad!!! ;)

Jo
2000 Raptor Crew
2002 Raptor Crew
2003 Raptor Crew

One of my favorites that I've heard this year was "Welcome to Raptor. Once you are seated pull down on the green thing, fasten the black thing, and hang on to the silver things." It was just funny to hear someone say it that way instead of in the usual way.

Some of the stuff they say is funny, and the stuff I just read on here is funnier! I'd love to be an op for that ride.

-Eagle-

We used to look for one guy that worked there, and for some odd reason I can remember his name. It was DJ, and he would get up there and say whatever came to his mind. It was always different. I think the best was when the operator in the control room was holding up sheets of paper for anything, and he would read them slowly and deliberately. We left to nothing, came back to how Cedar Point will donate every time somehting happened for their charity.

Ahhh DJ. I think of him as an 'innovator' of sorts when it comes to speils. "Enjoy the rest of you day at Cedar Point, America's home of big tall steel and wooden stuff!" "Enjoy your ride on what Frank Sinatra likes to call, 'The Raptor'" I don't know why I find the Sinatra line funny, it's partly how DJ said it. (I'm not a big fan of calling it 'The Raptor' or adding 'the' to any ride for some reason.) If you ever heard something along the lines of "Yippie Skippy" or "Wahoo Dippy" that was likely him as well.

"You'll be travelling up 137, down 119 at a 45 degree angle, approaching speeds of 60 mph, then flipping upside six times four different ways"

That's by far the most common. I've heard that one each time I take my yearly trip to CP for the past 4 years.

I love when I get to work raptor every once in a while ones I use are

There goes the floor you're out the door
see you back in 2:32
We're gonna take you upside down 6 times four different ways, so once we check that black seat belt do not touch or play with it for any reason
(insert name of person in controls) says you're clear so you're out of here.
(insert name of person at unload 3) gave the high clear so you're out of here
the floor is going going gone and so are you
enjoy you're flight, on the 10 year old raptor
we're gonna take you up 137 drop you down 119 at speads of 57 miles per hour
we're gonna take you up really high drop you down really low and take you at speeds that are really fast
please don't kick your friendly ride host
pull down on the green thingy buckle the black thingy and hold onto the silver thingy
push up on the green thingy flip up on the black thingy and exit following the yellow pointy thingy on the ground
(if I get on it again I'll add, "once that big silver thingy touches your feet)
"WELCOME BACK RAPTOR RIDERS HOW WAS YOUR RIIIIIDE!!!" (i love saying that)

I'm thinking of saying "we're gonna take you up 6 more feet than demon drop drop you down 29 more feet at speeds that are 2 miles an hour faster, but we're both green"

On disaster transport sometimes I'll say
"we're gonna take you up really low, drop you down just a little and take you at speeds that aren't very fast"
"we're gonna take you upside down 6 times less than raptor, 4 times less than mantis, 3 times less than corckscrew, so sit up right hang on tight and enjoy your flight to alaska"
enjoy your flight to (random place, usually canada)

liebevision said:

We're gonna take you upside down 6 times four different ways, so once we check that black seat belt do not touch or play with it for any reason

you need to add "or you'll go blind" to the end of that...

Its easy to remeber the spiel to rides that are not spoken by a ride op. Like Iron Dragon, Top Thrill Dragster, Millennium Force, Wild Cat Magnum XL 200.

But rides like Raptor and Manits were a ride op says it, it can be very creative and funny. The most funnest to me is the one on Cedar Creek Mine Ride. We are going to take you up 48ft, yes I sad 48!!.

I heard a pretty creative one on iron dragon once. "Wellcome to top thrill dragster.................of 1987"

He put a long pause and i thought that will confuse anybody who isint a die hard coaster fan and they will think they got in the wrong line. But then he added the ending. Creative.

P.S. I hope that one summer I can be a ride op. By the way where can I get info on like the age you have to be and any requirements you have to have?

You have to be 18 to be a Ride Op.. Basicaly all of the jobs at the Point (minus a few) require you to be 18. There is a link at Cedarpoint.com that has all of the requirements for all of the jobs there.

I also hope to be a Ride Op. in the the future...We'll see if I can fit that in one summer...

Were taking you up really really high.

Dropping you really really low

Making you go really really fast

---> Someone Tired? ;)

I know this has nothing to do with the Raptor, but I remember once at Mantis saying something like this:

"A word of the wise for our guests onboard, you will be pulling around 4 g's on this ride, and if you try to sit on that little bicycle seat, you may come back sounding like Mickey Mouse, and if you have not noticed yet, this IS NOT DISNEYLAND!"

Another one I enjoyed saying, but eventually banned from saying was "Take a queue from the Mantis and start praying, cause you're in for one wild ride!"

I use to say that speil in my sleep. Then when I went to the Paddle Wheel in 98, I would just stop telling jokes midway and gives speils from other rides. People where always like, "What the?" Those were the days...

"sit up right, hold on tight, and enjoy your flight on the often imitated, never duplicated, RAPTOR"

"If your harness comes up sometime during your flight, just hold down real tight"