TTD time to go?

Siouxsie said:

Sparty42 said:

What a hot mess.

And no, I'm not talking about Top Thrill.

Oh sweetie, don't be so hard on yourself. With a little therapy, I'm sure there's hope for you...

I'm curious, do you think you really contribute all that much to the conversation around here? Or do you troll so that you can have somebody else pay for your dinner?

I can't wait for you to tell us all about how your waiter didn't deserve a tip...

Siouxsie said:

Ha, thank you! I just won a bet. I told a friend that it would be less than 10 minutes before someone took a shot at me. Dinner's on him tonight!

Is this the same 'friend' that berated the CP parking lot and guest services employees ? The friend that got uncontrollably angry sitting in a car with you?

I truly feel bad for the host and waitress tonight. However, I'm sure the kitchen staff will makeup for any rudeness.

(I suggest watching the movie 'Waiting' after accosting the restaurant employees this evening.)

Hope it doesnt go anywhere, took me awhile to get up the guts to ride it. Soon as my youngest got tall enough, I had to suck it up and go with it. Amazing ride!! Hope its working when we get there for Halloweekends .

Sparty42 said:

I'm curious, do you think you really contribute all that much to the conversation around here? Or do you troll so that you can have somebody else pay for your dinner?

I can't wait for you to tell us all about how your waiter didn't deserve a tip...

I'm curious, do you really think bi*ching about someone's post contributes to the conversation? If so, you win the prize. I'm sorry if my accurately predicting the expected cattle behavior from the various members on this board upsets you but.... Wait a minute, I'm not sorry. Carry on.

In the first few years I might have agreed with you. Seemed like it was never up.

I remember waiting in line 6+ hours on 3 separate occasions only to have it break down as I was on the station platform.

One time in 2004 I believe, I waited over 8 hours, sat down in the front seat and the ride went down. I was alone and had to piss so bad at this point I begged the ride ops to let me leave for a second and reenter and they refused. As I was doing the walk of shame, the damn thing opened back up and they tried to call me back up to the platform but I was already in "hurry to the restroom before you pee on yourself" mode and couldn't bear to turn around. Still irks me that they couldn't make a small exception for someone who had waited all day, but all those guys are long gone by now.

Most of the time back then it simply didn't open. I think they felt more comfortable never having a line than starting one then having to offer people consolation prizes at the end of the night. That was the case most of the days I went in 2003 and 2004.

I was there when the cable snapped, planning to wait the whole day if needed after hitting Millennium Force. I think that ended up leaving it down for a couple months. I suspect Cedar Point probably considered just tearing it down as well at this point, wasn't even the first incident.

If you're complaining about how it is now, you really haven't known suffering.

Uptime has, at least in my experience, increased dramatically. Most of my last few visits I've been able to ride multiple times and with as little as a 15 minute wait for the front seat at times. I've seen it run consistently all day on many occasions. I've been surprised to find myself saying "Well, [x B&M] is down, let's go hit Top Thrill".

Maybe it's a bad year, I unfortunately haven't got to visit this year, but I really doubt it's anywhere near as bad as it was and for that reason I disagree that it should be removed and I seriously doubt Cedar Point will consider removing it for a long time.

8 Hours ?

RyanRSheets said:

I was alone and had to piss so bad at this point I begged the ride ops to let me leave for a second and reenter and they refused. As I was doing the walk of shame, the damn thing opened back up and they tried to call me back up to the platform but I was already in "hurry to the restroom before you pee on yourself" mode and couldn't bear to turn around.

When the need for No. 1 relief is that dire, would your bladder have really survived the launch sequence had you stayed?

Maybe not, I only knew they weren't going to let me board with pee pants!

I tend to have rational fears of rides these days. For Top Thrill I'm always nervous the cable will snap no matter how uncommon it is. Same with Power Tower since the Six Flags incident, won't stop me from riding either, though. For Windseeker, I'm afraid it will break down at the top and I'll just be up there with 63 other people trying not to be the first to pee all over folks on the ground. Weren't they stranded for 7 hours at Carowinds back in 2012? I imagine it would have been an amusing watch if there were cameras up there, everyone just sitting there in a circle trying not to pee like some kind of depraved game show. What percentage of those poor riders came down dry?

you would need to pay me a very large sum of money to stand in that line for 8 hours. that's crazy. where did the line start, the Cedar Point sign at the beginning of the causeway?

I think worse than peeing yourself stuck on windseeker would be the terrible sunburn you would get from sitting up there for 7 hours

It was more that it repeatedly broke down that day but none were declared hopeless. When I got in the line it was back to the vending machines, had every one of those people insisted on riding it would have been longer. I got to the station mostly by attrition, then sheer bad luck that it just happened to break down as I was next to launch.

I hope you have a season pass and that wasn't the only trip you took that whole summer lol

On Windseeker: No doubt! They were very lucky nobody on board had a medical condition any of the times it happened. Could have been way, way more serious.

I was like 15 at the time, these days I'm rarely willing to wait more than an hour for any ride. I was desperate to ride it and didn't really feel the physical toll of standing around in the sun all day. I think I took 2 trips that year and this one was 2 days in June, the other a single day in July. I actually went right back to wait on it the next day on the June trip, almost all day while it poured down raining. I knew that wasn't the ride's fault at least. In retrospect I should have just went and enjoyed Millennium Force over and over again or something more reasonable, I was just obsessed with getting that first ride.

At any rate, eventually it got better. I think I actually got to ride it 3 or 4 times in 2006 then several more in 2007 and one of those times was a rollback. Since then I've probably rode it well over 100 times and in general I'd say reliability isn't all that bad anymore. I can think of maybe 3 or 4 trips since then where it was down an entire day and I've probably been to the park average 4 times a year since I was old enough to buy a pass.

When TTD first opened, the line was reported 6 hours. Two trains I think. There was difficulty after that, and I didn't get on til mid summer, probably. That was when they allowed groups of so many to check out of line, go pee, and come back.

Siouxsie said:
We got there early Sunday and managed to get in line when it was short enough to take us straight to the platform. Sure enough, the lousy thing rolled back and thus began that whole reset drama, which meant we got out of line and didn't bother the rest of the day. The people behind us said they have not been able to get on all year because it keeps going down. I told them I refuse to wait more than 20 minutes because that's about how long it runs before the inevitable going down.

Hmm, I had no trouble getting on twice yesterday. It went down once......for weather.

Guess I just have better luck than you. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've had good Dragster luck this year, it's always down when I go but when I go in line, I get my rides in. I usually go right after it I notice it to start run and get on typically quickly. There was one moment where the train I was on was the last one to get a ride in before it went down.

If it's going at night, it seems very reliable, I often times target it as my last ride.

RCMAC said:
When TTD first opened, the line was reported 6 hours. Two trains I think. There was difficulty after that, and I didn't get on til mid summer, probably. That was when they allowed groups of so many to check out of line, go pee, and come back.

Opening day 2003 the trains were only 4 cars long and by the time the early entry line was gone, the line of people waiting stretched under corkscrew towards the sky ride. (Including block resets and rollbacks, it was 6hr from there)

They added the 5th car a couple weeks later and removed the fake engines in July.

Are there really people that can go 6 hours without a restroom break? I can't make it an more than perhaps an hour or so out in the Sun, CP would be wise to stock some diapers at the SV gift shop. Big profits.

Siouxsie said:

Dinner's on him tonight!

So....., How'd dinner go?

ImpulsivePhoenix said:

I've had good Dragster luck this year, it's always down when I go but when I go in line, I get my rides in. I usually go right after it I notice it to start run and get on typically quickly. There was one moment where the train I was on was the last one to get a ride in before it went down.

If it's going at night, it seems very reliable, I often times target it as my last ride.

I was going to ride Friday night after getting off Raptor, but on my walk over noticed it wasn't running so decided to jump on Magnum hope it would be up when I got off. Magnum was a lot fun in the dark, but I agree with people saying it needs updated cars. TTD still not open, it was just before 11:00 so there was still a little time before the park closed. Went and rode Maverick, front seat too and was worth the extra wait for that.

Dragster opened while I was in line for Maverick so I figured I could grab a last ride before heading in for the night. There was no line as it was 11:30 by this point and walked right to the platform. And it had just gone down. Waited 20 min, one train went, the next gets queued up, and back down again. At that point it was time time to call it a night.

So I'm not sure the time of day has any real effect on the reliability. As a disclosure though I should add I did ride the following night, no downtime during that wait either.