Saturday Sept 8

Thoughts on how busy the park will be this Saturday? I haven't been on a Saturday in years, so just wondering what to expect.

That 1PM opening kind of makes it hard to predict. Still think it will be busy if the weather is nice.

My company is having "semi-private" ride time for an event from 9-1. I don't know if other companies are having it as well or not, but then of course the general public opening is at 1.

With the private event in the morning plus regular guests coming in at 1:00pm, I bet the park will be very busy.

And Sunday 9\9 looks to be a rainy, windy day. Forecast is for 3" to 4" rain from the tropical storm remnant.

Friday after Labor Day (today) was an incredible day to go to Cedar Point (back when they were open). Only open from 6-10 pm but you could get a ton of rides in during that time. I talked with a family one year who only went to CP on that day each year. Someone else told me at the end of the night that he rode Dragster something like 45-50 times that night. For parts of the night they were allowing people to line up at the exit of Dragster to get full trains. When they were not doing that, you could walk around for a walk up re-ride. MF exit gate was open pretty much all night. You could stay in your seat on Magnum if no one was in line for it (if they were, you could pick an empty seat and ride again). Was a lot of fun.

Ah yes, bonus weekend as we used to call it. I once got 90+ rides on MF in just a few hours with SRB and a few other crazies on that Friday.

Saturday will be fairly busy. Last time I went on this weekend was two years ago and the park was already pretty crowded upon GP entry in the early afternoon. I think Red Cross had a buyout during the morning.

Assuming it takes 30 seconds from stop at unload to stop at loading, and another 40 (being generous here I think) to load and ready the train for dispatch... didn't look hard for data on that stuff, but ride time is listed at ~2:20 from dispatch to stopping at unload, which can be confirmed via video. So let's say 210 second total cycle time.

If you had to disembark the train on only 2 of 10 rides (assuming it takes only 10 seconds to get from unload to load station, again being generous here I think), it would take about 5.3 hours to get 90 rides on MF. This is without taking any breaks whatsoever. Never having to disembark the train takes that down to 5.25 hours. Disembarking every cycle takes total time to an even 5.5 hours. Of course this assumes my math is correct.

I have nothing substantive to add. I was curious as to how long it would realistically take to get "90+" rides on MF with no line.

I didn't try to check your math. However, I know on those Fridays (and also during the BooBuzz events) with the exit gate open on MF, you could exit a train and walk up into the station and board the train that was boarding. So each lap, you were moving up one train in the 3 train cycle. You were actually riding more than you would have had you just stayed on the same train the entire night. Again not checking the math but seems to me that would reduce the total lap time.

Good point. If you were able to do that every cycle, it would take 4.5 hours.

I LOVE MF, but 4 or 5 straight hours of riding it might be a little much.

The year I'm thinking of, 2009 I think, was my first having a season pass. And I could be mistaken, the 90+ ride night may have been a week or two later on a HW Friday (remember how those used to be?), which had early entry at 5 and went till midnight. That might have been the 90+ ride night. I even remember finally having to leave the que to go use the restroom.

The Bonus Friday was even better though. I remember coming in the resort gate when the park opened and I was one of only two people standing there when they played the anthem.

A Halloweekends Friday night in 2005 was one of our best trips ever (before kids) to Cedar Point. All the stars aligned.

The forecast was miserable, and it had rained nearly all day, but we decided to roll the dice and make the drive from Columbus. When we got there the rain had stopped, but started up again around 6. This literally cleared away most of whoever had decided to show up, which wasn't a lot to begin with. Then, around 7:30, the wind and rain completely shut off. It was a warmish-humid night, and with no wind it made all the fog pumped out by the machines just hang in the air forever without being swept away. The rides on MF were epic shooting through the fog in the dark.

Bonus night sounds awesome! Wish they still had it.
But I must be older than I realize. A 90+ ride night (on any ride) sounds insane to me.
I can usually do 4 consecutive rides on MF before my stomach says it’s time to stop.

My stomach never says stop. My back or my head maybe but never my stomach. I've had the conversation lately with my family that is seems as the rest of the family tolerates rides less and less as they age (even those in their 30s) I just crave them more and more. It makes me and my boys the go to "adults" when a child needs an adult to ride something.

With Sunday looking to be a major wash out, anyone who was planning to go Sunday may go tomorrow in addition to everyone else. Could be busy, but you never really know

If HalloWeekends was running Sunday I would go for the haunts. Wash out plus high winds, I can't see much rides running. Those who do go should most certainly be in a ghost town.

^ Yes, that’s what I’m thinking. It’s raining here now, and the weatherman isn’t offering any encouragement. I bet the park is dead all weekend.

Well, there is always the Surf Lounge. It was hopping pretty good last night. Wind is whipping straight off the lake right now and the water is rising.

I hate it for the companies that bought out the park this morning. If the rain continues with this wind, there won’t be much to do.

ImpulsivePhoenix said:

Those who do go should most certainly be in a ghost town.

Sort of like some kind of Forbidden Frontier