Ride Testing

Can you believe it only 23 more days till Cedar Point opens! I just stop by their website to check out the webcam and they are testing Sky Ride. Yeahhhh!!!!!! Here is a picture of it!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37699103@N03/3467684389/

Wooohoo!

alright, my ride works!!

Here we go again. Every year....

EDIT: Time-lapse from yesterday (longer than originally posted):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E613ePjqGqw

Sometimes the HD version doesn't start for me unless I click a couple seconds into the video's time bar.

Cool video!

Nice video!

Hopefully they test Raptor sometime before 5 minutes prior to opening the park on Opening Day, unlike last year.

OMG!!! I saw them testing the hot dog warmer at Dragon's Inn!!!

Power tower was testing at the end there as well...

23 days away I would think all the rides are probably working. All the trains probably are on their tracks, or being put on as we speak probably.

Just saying 20 some odd days away......not a lot of time. Gotta do inspections and all sorts of stuff with the state I am sure.

RaceRinger is correct, the trains weren't on and ready until just prior to opening last season, but they're all on already this year. They had to take the CD Ride off and reprogram the still photo camera, which is a big part of it. Also, everything's just being put on a lot faster this year, A lot of rides cut it close last season. And yes, there are state inspections, last year they were all done the morning of opening day and we opened with a temporary paper seal of approval because it was so fresh.

Last year it seemed almost all the rides were cutting it crazy close heading toward opening day. From what I've heard it seems they are pretty far ahead of where they were last year, which I imagine is good.

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Yes that's good. Would really help in training a crew if the ride was ready for the entire week of training week, rather than just a day. I'm ready for days of fun training with an empty train, my favorite! I would assume it will also help iron out some opening day bugs with ride systems that have been on standby for the winter.

Mantis trains are still in the Hotel Breakers parking lot...::Sigh::

I really hope that they test the rides better than they have in the past. Opening Day always seems to have a lot of break downs.

Come on Bill Sphen!

I saw they added two strips of either wood or metal about 6 to 8 inches wide to the Blue Streak track on top of the ties between the rails. Anyone know what those are for?

Hopefully everything will be running smoothly opening weekend. This will be my first opening weekend. I have never gone so early because of all the bugs that need to be worked out from the off season. I hope Maverick is running good this year as well.

Yeah I sure hope it's not an Opening Day like last year. Maverick kept breaking down and there were so many seats on the trains that were taped off.

Opening Day last year was pretty bad for malfunctions. I don't know how many people came to RipCord complaining about how all the roller coasters were down half the day.