Ride Capacity Questions

I don't think its an enthusiast specific skill to be able to carry what you need in your pockets. And bringing too much stuff isn't limited to amusement parks.

I understand that parks provide bins as a customer service. I would favor lockers over bins but whatever. I just find it amusing to see what a lot of people want to lug around with them all day.

I've traveled with 2-3 items in my pocket the last 10 years, my car keys and my wallet. If it's chilly, I bring a windbreaker and tuck my baseball cap inside. The cellphone is left in the car so I can have fun and not be bothered. I'm not there to Instant Message, check Itunes, or Facebook. I'm there to RIDE rides and see shows with my family. We buy souvenirs at the end of the night when we're leaving. Sorry, I'm with Jeff on this one, I've never used any bins at Cedar Point...EVER. Stop carrying stuff you "think you need" or have your wife/girlfriend carry it for you. Oh wait, they don't want your junk either..........

Thinking back on when I was a young kid, all I remember was that my mom had her purse and my dad had nothing but his pockets. Count me among the people who don't understand why some must pack for a camping trip to go to CP.

Captain Hawkeye said:
Jeff, your kid must have been very neat. At 2 my nephew would spill food on his shirt almost every time he ate

Well sure, but you wipe it off and he continues along with a stained shirt. All good things.

CPfan1976 said:
I'm not there to Instant Message, check Itunes, or Facebook. I'm there to RIDE rides and see shows with my family.

See? You just proved my point. Some of us have fun in different ways other than just power RIDING rides.

Not to mention, some of us work jobs that require us to be immediately accessible from time to time. CP is so close to home, that I often go after I leave the office for a few hours, but I'm not on vacation, so I still have to be on call and ready to assist, should any tech problems arise. If I left my phone in the car, I'd miss that and probably lose my job.

I don't use the bins often, but there have been times I didn't trust my pockets, or I've had my camera with me but I want to take advantage of a short line, or I'm wearing a hat and I don't feel like holding on to it. It's not like I'm carrying around more than I need - it's just that sometimes it's convenient to set things down and not worry about them flying out of your pockets for 2 minutes.

I carry my glasses, hard case for said glasses, sunglasses, hat, sunscreen, wallet, phone, keys, and a few small necessary pill containers. The only thing I might get away without would be my phone, but that's my camera.

I know, through a fair amount of experience, how to carry the above without needing a bag, but just barely (and sometimes my Wife carries a fanny pack).

If I didn't have that experience, it wouldn't be easy to fit all that on my person.

It's not at all surprising that most of the anti-stuff folks who have chimed in are locals who have been going several times a year for decades.

I'm somewhat local, and I've been going several times a year for a decade and a half, and I'm still not anti-bin :)

And you probably don't even like gravy.

Everyone likes gravy. Don't be ridiculous.

Even vegetarians?

This guy loves gravy a little too much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8kTOdanxFI

You might not after watching, however.

e x i t english said:
This guy loves gravy a little too much.

Something tells me that guy would have a hard time fitting on Wicked Twister.

My issue with the bins centers around the people using the bins and not the bins themselves. It should be as simple as put your stuff in the bin and sit down. Unfortunately it is usually involves the person sitting down in the ride, realizing they have something to put in the bin, gettting out of ride, texting someone, walking to bin, putting stuff in bin, texting someone else, walking back to ride, sitting down, realizing that the friend needs to go to the bin to put their stuff in it.

Shades, we must have been in the same ride station at the same time. Geeez!

With the draconian loose article policy, unnecessary belting, hypersensitivity to safety & idiot boxes I wouldn't imagine too many rides meet their designed interval anymore ("Please remain seated. Please remain seated. Please remain seated. We are moving 1/10 the speed of an escalator but please remain seated").

I did the math on the boxes once, and the amount of time one can potentially lose as a result of some twit not taking his oversize racially insensitive banana back to the car is significant when accumulated over the course of a day.

Calling it a customer service decision is laughable; if the park was truly interested in serving the customer they would offer either free lockers or a package pickup service.

At this point I will probably manage to not use a bin unless it's a carry your poncho with you sort of day. Most of the shorts I bought for my kids this summer are cargo so we may not even have to do that. That being said I believe, as was pointed out, the average person on their once or twice a year trip is more likely to need the bin because they haven't been planning and plotting over the winter how to finally fit all their family's needs for the day on their body.

I want to bring up how different "safety" is at WDW, but I'd hate for the fanboys to declare that they can't be compared.

Just by saying that, you compared them, Jeff. Don't you dare go down that road; the two operations ain't got nothing in common.

(Note: grammatical fail on purpose. Thus, no fail.)

You're right, the one in Orlando is better.

Better is a subjective term. Care to elaborate?