TTR

Regarding the Ticket to Ride, does anyone know if ANY of the rides will be using this system next year?

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Live for FUN!

GO SHAMROCKS!
GO WOLVERINES!

Not sure, Magnum...I talked to a CP Rep yesterday and she said TTR WOULD Be in effect this year during the busy months for MF again, but did not mention any other rides..and I have NO clue on 2002..but this is info i got from a phone rep, so i don't know how reliable it is :)

hope that "helps" mikey :)

That pisses me off....

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Live for FUN!

GO SHAMROCKS!
GO WOLVERINES!

I wonder if they consider Opening Day as a day during which they will use TTR on MF. All I have to say is that if they do, there will be havoc.

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Chris G.

I think its funny that the lines for the ticket were longer than the line for MF.

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What in the world?

I got an e-mail from CP about TTR when I asked at the website. Their response was:

"No decision has been made yet on the ticket-to-ride program. The decision will be made when the park opens. Please check our web site often for updated information."

So there ya go!


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-The Pants Has Spoken
"Yellow line? What Yellow Line..."

It would be a huge mistake on CP's part to re-initiate TTR after last year's response.....

Hopefully they learned their lesson.

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Trim brakes-a necessity???
(used to be MFistheBEST)
AOL Screen name-SkiDoo8613

What exactly was last year's response from the GP? (not from the enthusiasts, a tiny percentage of CP's attendance.) I know that most people on these boards hated TTR, but what did the less vocal GP think?

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A bad day at CP is better than a good day at work.

I'd be willing to guess that the GP favored the system, only if they could figure out how to use it.

It seemed to me that the response from the GP was mixed - many loved it, but many did not. Probably due to all the confusion moreso than the idea of shortening the wait.

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Chris G.

Last year I went in July and they never started up the TTR program the whole day. We rode 3 times and only had to wait an hour MAX.

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Let's Go Pens!

I had 23 people from my family go to CP last August and out of the 9 of us that rode it (some were chicken and some were too young or short) none of us were in favor of it and I'm the only one that is an enthusiast.

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Bring the Ruckus!

I think the TTR system is really good. I also think CP needs to work some of the problems it has. (Like the lines for tickets that streach all the way to Snake River falls.)

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MF Count: 11
First CP Rollercoaster: Corkscrew

Cedar Point put more research into the TTR program, specifically for MF, than we are lead to believe by its outcome. Many experiments, and even more calculations, were made before the program even gained approval in the first place. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the systems comes back at some point this season...especially for MF. My guess is that there will be more bugs worked out for this time around and the system will run more along the lines of what CP had originally intended.

I'm not saying I like the system or that I am happy at the idea of it coming back (because I'm not). But I wanted to share some of what I know about it all, so as to shed some more light on the subject.

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James Draeger
'00 CP Trips: 23
'01 New parks to visit: 9

The fact of the matter is that the only successful (depending on who you ask) virtual queue system is Disney's Fast Pass. It requires a good bit of technology, however, and I'm not convinced that it is something they're willing to spend money on.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Futuristic bow-wow... do the dog catcher!

I have recieved official confirmation that TTR will NOT be in effect for this year on any ride, including MF. They are looking into other options, but they probably will not go into effect this year, and if they do, it will be towards the end of the year. The assigned seat policy, however, will be in effect on Millennium Force for the 2001 season.

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Jeff Walker
www.cedarpoint.cjb.net

I still say that a more effective method for limiting the amount of queueing time is to (a) keep the capacity up, which Cedar Point does a remarkable job at, and (b) work harder on distributing riders throughout the park. Ever notice that on days when the line is long, the line tends to build to a certain point, then it never gets any longer, or in fact gets shorter? Once people are spread around the park, they tend to arrive at the ride entrance at approximately the same rate at which the ride handles people, or even a little more slowly than that. The trick is to deal with that bump in the early part of the day when people are arriving at the ride at 2,500 PPH when the ride can only handle 1,300.

Solve that problem, and you're set. But I don't think any of the current virtual queue or ride reservation systems does a good job of addressing that problem. In fact, TTR did a good job at making that problem worse by maxing out the ticket queue capacity early on, then creating another arrival bump when the ticket system shut down for the day.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

My friends and many people at my school thought it was a stupid idea. They thought it was dumb for the park to tell them when they could and couldn't ride. And when they give you a pass, what's to say you won't be in line for another ride or on the other side of the park. I thought it was a solution looking for a problem.

I believe this is another reason attendance on Mantis was up. Many people wanted to make sure they were in that area when they could ride MF, so they went over and rode Mantis first.

I'm still a strong proponent of posting signs at the major rides that indicate the queue times of other major rides. One day, with my sporty FRS radios, I was always somewhere opposite of where my wife was. The good news is that she was able to tell me that the line on Raptor was 30 minutes when I was getting off Magnum. Power Tower, the nearest ride, was running about an hour, so there I had my choice.

Now imagine you show up for the Magnum line and see that it's a long line. The friendly sign indicates shorter waits on Mean Streak (I wonder why), Mantis and Raptor. I go to one of those rides and I'm "distributed," as Dave put it.

Has anyone implemented a system like this at some other park?

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Futuristic bow-wow... do the dog catcher!

That's a GREAT Idea, Jeff...and it doesn't seem all that unreasonable, or unrealistic...(but what does your comment about Mean Streak having a short line mean?) :)

mikey