What should Cedar Point do to improve the mean Streak or should they just give up?

I've talked to the Gravity Group guys about their opinions on Mean Streak. I don't know that they could make any meaningful corrections to it, though I do suspect that Timeberliners would certainly steer better on it.

The Timberliner lap bars are just weird to me.

They look a little weird, but they do save room. Phantoms Revenge at Kennywood uses similar restraints used on the Timberliners. The trains on Phantoms Revenge are small, so having traditional lap-bars that attach to the floor probably wouldn't be a possibility.

Do they have seatbelts as well? Or is it just the lap bar. I know it really is safe, but the lap bar just looks a little sketchy to me.

The lap bar doesn't require a seat belt, and it is redundant with two hydraulic pistons (see photo).

As long as its not OTSR then I don't care.

Has any wooden roller coasters been built that have had OTSR? That seems like it would hurt more on a wooden roller coaster compared to a steel.

Not yet ::knock on wood::

With the amount of "extra" work that has been done to Mean Streak this off season and last (I am assuming it has been a little more than the typical retracking, fix-em-up stuff, but please correct me if I am wrong), I would see that as an indicator that Mean Streak simply is was it is, and will be until the day it is no more.

Whatever they did to the Texas giant was cool. Although, I didnt like the red track. Id prefer brown to match the wood. But from what I hear, the nw Texas giant is a nice ride.

Topper track would do WONDERS for this ride. Remove the trims and add some M-flyers and you got a ful line (with me in it !)

This ride would be really enjoyable if those two things were factored in. The trains would just coast over the track and every air-time designed hill would actually produce some decent airtime. With all the valley's and hills, this ride could possibly have Maverick lines.

It's a gamble for CP, but I can see it paying off.

What do you all think of this?

I think the layout is boring and changing it to a hybrid would be an expensive waste.

Meh. Just for fun.

http://youtubedoubler.com/4P7U

Wow...I'll actually say left video looked a lot more fun than the right one. Maybe even some airtime on those hills after the brake run...

I have ridden MS so many time over the years that i've lost count. I haven't ridden it in a long time though. It was closed when I was at the park last year. I am pretty sure that when I rode it the trim's weren't on at that point.

I am going to give it a shot here next week and see how "Bad" it is. I like wooden coasters but i'm not 15 anymore either.

Chuck Wagon said:
Meh. Just for fun.

http://youtubedoubler.com/4P7U

Notice that the lift seems faster in the modern video (right) and that the midcourse also grabs really hard.

Holy cow, I wish I had gotten to ride MS in the old days :( But really, how did they not see it being a maintenance/roughness nightmare when designing/constructing? But the trims on the first drop are so terrible, you can feel them grab the train really hard. Even people around me last time I rode it (early August) noticed it and said "Why do they have brakes on the drop?"

Rode it last Sunday, while it was nowhere near as fun as when it didn't have a trainstopper on the first drop, it was probably better than it has been since they installed that trim. I didn't find it rough at all. But then I expect a woodie to have some roughness.

While I would love to see them give this ride the Texas Giant treatment, I would hope that they don't use some crazy colored track and I would hope they don't make the structure look all chopped up like TG seems to now. A ride of the magnitude should have a line at all times which would help shorten other lines. Too bad it doesn't live up to it's size.

When Mean Streak was new (and I was younger) I enjoyed the heck out of that ride. Its first season I have no idea how many times I rode it. As the years went on (and I moved from my late 20s to early 30s) it grew too mean for me - did not like the "recovery" time I needed afterwards nor the headaches I received. I am not sure how many years now it has been since I last rode it.

I am curious as to what the ride is like after this work they did the past season, but since I go to CP with my 43" tall six year old I spend more time on Woodstock's Express than anything else (and she is NOT happy about that! When she was three she rode "Vapor Trail" at Sesame Place 17 times, she wants to be on the big coasters. My bride can't ride 'em, so I made someone that could. - just a few more inches.)

Last Saturday I was standing by Gemini as the early sunset light was hitting the Mean Streak, it looked so very nice. I *want* to like that ride the way I did its first year...

I did notice that they improved the braking in the station. Now it only comes close to stopping once rather than the 3or 4 full stops it made in the station before the final stop. That always made me insane.