Riding the rides

If I was part of the Mantis or Raptor team could I get rides on the Millennium Force after close or before opening?
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Mike Bojanowski

On worker ride nights you could.

When you're not working you can do whatever you want, but you won't get special access or anything outside of ESD employee ride nights.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 35

How do the employee ride nights work, If the teams still have to Control the rides, how do they get to ride???
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Went Full Force: 2
Kicked The Sky: 5
Stood up to it: 4
Magnum:10, MeanS: 5

During ride nights, the crew that runs the ride doesn't get to ride. Usually they take volunteers to run it (team leaders, etc.), but it only takes about 5-8 people to run the ride, and the crew is about 15+ people, so not everyone works it. Also, remember, if you work the ride, you could test ride it whenever you open!
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Disaster Transport '97 Crew
Iron Dragon '98 Crew

Sometimes, the ESD will offer ride mornings for the Force. This just happened recently for a photo shoot. I have also heard that on some mornings, Park Ops will have "test" ridings. I do not know much about them, except that they happen frequently.

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Monster Ride Host
2nd Year

All the coasters have test rides every morning, on every train (MF would have 3 test riders) for the ops that work the ride. Sometimes, if the winds are right, they will have more employees ride for the weight.

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Disaster Transport '97 Crew
Iron Dragon '98 Crew

On Tuesday, while I was in line for the Force, I got up to a few feet behind the unloading station. Saw a couple mechanics doing some things on the blue train. As it happened, we walked up onto the loading station and went into gates to the car we would ride. Workers started to walk back and forth and this and that, and then, we see the extra track move over and here comes the blue train! Apparently, it had just been fixed or had maintinence done on it or something.

I thought we would ride that, but the gates didn't open. A fairly large black man wearing dress clothes walked up after standing and talking to ride operators for a few minutes. He took his seat on the ride and the ops went through the procedure, and out he went.

Then came our car, we loaded, and all was well. I guess a park official has to take the first ride on a freshly fixed/checked-up train before the public can ride it. In all, the experience was pretty interesting. ESPECIALLY looking at the empty train in the on-ride photo booth, with the manager wincing and holding on for dear life. (At least he got a free ride. Hehe.)

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WHOO!

That guy is a Double Blue from Park Operations, Andre is his name I think, he's always around Millennium, he rides almost everyday. I've only talked to him like once or twice but when we are starting our computers at Millennium Photo he's usually on a test train.