TTD major breakdown same day as WT last year

Does anyone know if they tested TTD at lease once today? There was a post that said they were getting the dummies in the trains. N-E-1 know N-E thing?

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Someday people will learn that us CP Place geeks and various other coaster nerds make up an extremely small percentage of the Cedar Point attendance figures.

As stupid as it may sound to close a ride to get people to come back. Check out this Mootley Fool article on Cedar Fair, I hope the link works.

http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2003/commentary030609ram.htm?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=y&npu=y

Looks like some Ride ops have been called back to TTD, I'm seeing some people in the red and blue in the station. Starting to look better.

Update: Most of the ride ops are in the station, looks like they are filling dummies up and checking restraints. The operating booth is occupied now. I'm almost certain we'll be seeing TTD return to operation today.

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*** This post was edited by Big D 6/10/2003 10:56:57 AM ***

Is the new valve already in place or is it still being shipped from overseas?

I wouldn’t trust anything from the Motley Fool. They have a long history of saying one thing, and then changing their minds when someone points out they were wrong. I was stupid enough to buy one of their investment books that describes how to pick Dow stocks. They since have admitted that the method in the book was total bull. I seriously doubt that any amusement park, including a Six Flags, would close a new ride in the hopes that it will generate repeat business.

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before we know it...dragster is going to be in the evc lot right along with vertigo..lol....i'm glad i rode that thing once, that's all i need.....i just don't understand why didn't they work out all the kinks BEFORE the park opened???...i'm gettng sick and tired of people complaining to me about it being broken..first of all, i DON'T CARE, secondly...what the heck am i supposed to do?..and thirdly, i'm a waitress, my main concern is getting your food out while it's hot and making sure you have a pleasurable dining experience........there are other great rides in this park...it's not MY fault that you were stupid enoough to drive all this way and spend the vast majority of YOUR day standing in line for a ride when you could've gotten in a good day of riding....so don't come yell at me when YOU were the dumb one and should be yelling at yourself...that's my take on it....

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My father and boyfriend and I are will be at CP tomorrow and thursday. Does anyone know if TTD is back running yet or do you think it will be in the next few days? When we went last year, wicked twister was down so we didn't get to ride that and I will be really disapointed if TTD is down while I'm there.

When is coaster mania?

I think CPTwister's got a point there. As a waitress, I think you're supposed to say, "Awwwwwwwwwww. I'm so sorry to hear that. Would you care to drown your sorrows in a huge, grossly overpriced margarita?"

Can't you smell the opportunity here? Make the world's tallest, fastest (temporary) coatrack work for you or something. Get the enthusiasses to slide that T-shirt and ride photo money into your pocket!

-'Playa

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CPTwister said:
That like a restuarant advertising a new dish on TV. The customer goes to eat there wanting that dish. Waitress says they dont have any and calls them stupid for expecting them to have it? Whats the difference?

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Wow, this thread is replete with bad analogies today. Your's simply doesn't make sense, because a restaurant patron goes into a restaurant expecting a single meal, not 16. You pay for a specific meal, as opposed to paying entry into, say, an all-you-can-eat buffet. That's a better analogy, and I would say it would be absurd for a patron at an all-you-can-eat buffet to complain if the buffet is out of crab legs when there are 66 other items to choose from, 15 of them being main courses.

(And even given your analogy, restaurants run out of particular courses all the time, especially daily specials and what not. It is silly to complain then, too.)

The same logical fallacy applies to that Motley Fool article. But more importantly, that article fails in its assertions because the majority of CP's visitors aren't from far away, and they don't necessarily have the disposable income for repeat trips. Therefore, Dragster's downtime will have, if anything, a slightly negative effect on them by effecting their view of the park. CP gains little from having Dragster down, let alone intentionally.

The only way that is true is that if the relatively small proportion of park guests that are resort guests bring in a sufficiently disproportionate amount of revenue to make it worthwhile. But even then we would have to buy the Motley fool's premise, which I don't, since the majority of resort guests are probably familes, and the sole purpose of their trip is probably not a single coaster. So it effects them little either way. The audience this Motley fool speaks for must be incredibly small.

And therefore, it is in CP's financial best interest to get this thing up and running as soon as possible. Which I'm sure they're doing. In the meantime, it is silly to complain unless CP begins to intentionally mislead people about Dragster's status in order to lure them into the park. There's no evidence of this.

does anyone know when it will be open again?i want to ride it for the first time this year,i am going june 11 and that will be the first time i went this year
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TTD_FREEK_6669 said:

does anyone know when it will be open again?i want to ride it for the first time this year,i am going june 11 and that will be the first time i went this year

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No one here knows, but my guess will be in the Friday-Sunday time frame this week. Tomorrow is possible, but unlikely.

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david meyer said:
First of all, I am just raising the question as a possibility. Also, 1000 bucks...apparently you were not at CP on Coastermania day at Coastermania times. Amusement Parks as a practice will have certain rides down on different days... YES ON PURPOSE... to try to attract return visitors that want to ride all the parks rides. Amusement Park Micoeconomics 101!

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Interesting, someone deleted all of my posts. Hmm, wonder who?

Guess which one is going to be deleted next. Pointless bashes at the people who support this board will not get you anywhere.

Jeff, Feel free to delete this one as well

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IntegraGSR said:
Guess which one is going to be deleted next. Pointless bashes at the people who support this board will not get you anywhere.

Jeff, Feel free to delete this one as well

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LOL, pointless bashes???? It just confirms what I thought, if you have a bad experience or are critical of CP in anyway here it will be censored. Its to bad because I thought this was a discussion board not a CP praise board. I'am not joking here, sometimes some of you do exhibit cult like behavior when it comes to CP. I'am not bashing, it is just an observation.

Also, what do you call the bashing that goes on when some expresses any type of disappointment that TTD was down? For some strange reason that is acceptable. That is all I was ever reacting to here. CP is my favorite park, I wouldnt be on this board if it wasnt. But it is not above criticism and to tell someone they cannot be disappointed or that they are dumb for being disappointed is ridiculous.

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CPTwister said:
It just confirms what I thought, if you have a bad experience or are critical of CP in anyway here it will be censored.

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What? Have you been reading the posts around here lately? In fact, we leave a lot of crap up so you "conspiracy theorists" don't accuse us of censorship.

I didn't delete your posts and I don't know which moderator did. But, I can assure you, the reason was not censorship.

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*** This post was edited by Gemini 6/11/2003 10:27:58 AM ***

If something you wrote got deleted it was because:

1) It was a pointless flame.
2) A lack of grammar, spelling or punctuation.
3) An obnoxiously long signature or inappropriate use of bold/italics.
4) The same tired crap we've heard over and over.

As Walt said, we don't censor things because they're critical of the park. We only censor things when you act like a nine-year old moron.

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Great Jeff, I cant wait to see you delete some of your posts then because I think you have met some of your own criteria.

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CPTwister said:
Great Jeff, I cant wait to see you delete some of your posts then because I think you have met some of your own criteria.

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Evidence that school must be out.

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