What type of ride do you miss at CP?

I'd really like CP to get some dark rides (besides DT). I miss the old pirate ride.

Can anybody think of other ride types that CP doesn't have enough of?

And "rollercoasters" doesn't count. Everybody wants more of those. :-)

I think there was already a topic on this.... So search it up on the old search feature!

Not a bad idea. Shoulda done that first... :-)

I miss the Mill Race the most... but I now have the Raptor!

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-Matthew Couts
RCT Recreations:
1.Cedar Point (vote best CP Recreation ever)
2.Kings Island

The kind of ride I miss is the big giant green slide that was where the Snoopy Playground is today.  Man that ride was intense!  You felt completely open in those burlap sacks. :)

Yeah, Sky Slide was the bomb. I think it had 5 or so dips, and whenever I would reach the peak of one of the dips it felt like I was going to fly off.  :)

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2001 Force Laps -120 
2001 Magnum Laps-249
6/11/01 Gemini Laps- 100

 I miss the Pirate Ride. I wish I could ride it again... And this time open my eyes! ;)

My 500th post on GTTP! :)

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-Eric
www.TheAmazementPark.com
"Would you like some mist?!"

Wow, congrats, eric!  It's my 20th, so I guess I have a long way to go.

I miss dark rides.  I like the dark rides at WDW and I really wish CP would have kept them.

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Paul

*** This post was edited by CP4LIFE on 8/20/2001. ***

The Mill Race was always one of my favorites when I was younger...the Pirate Ride too for that matter.

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James Draeger
http://draegs.tripod.com/
"Legend is a wooden Jesus"

I miss the old funhouse. And I agree with the Sky Slide and Pirate Ride. CP needs a new dark ride (true dark ride).

They need a good classic dark ride. Full of old time cheesy stunts. The new high tech simulators and fancy effects just don't have the same feel.

Oh, and the Millrace would be nice to have. It would look good over where Raptor stands. ;) All the current water rides are stuffed back in Frontier Town.

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Bayurn Curve. Wow we need more of those.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP
Watch my grass grow: http://www.sillynonsense.com/subdivision/

Now WHY did you have to bring that up???

 

As we speak, CP's Bayern Kurve is sitting in a storage facility in VF country.  Okay, the mechanical portion of the ride is, anyway--the decorative panels were more than likely run through a chippeer and used for mulch.

The Kurve never got a fair shake in Minnesota.  It never got the TLC lavished on CP's Schwabinchen or Calypso.  The two dancing puppets never made the trip up north, and most of the decorative airbrushing was painted over in a drab blue.

Furthermore, it was plunked in an area where passerby were quite likely to miss it.  Stripped of its decorative appeal and never allowed to face the crowds, its ridership suffered until its untimely demise.

After its retirement (end of '97 season), it was replaced with some picnic tables and chairs.  Ignominious?  To say the least!  Sometime in mid-season, a climbing wall went up on the concrete pad...and people ignore it, too.

At least I scored a couple laps a week with CBaby when she was 4 years old.  There's something almost spiritual about riding the exact rides that scared you as a child....

-CPlaya

Argh! It's not even in use there?

Please... if anyone at Cedar Point is listening, unless the maintenance folks can talk you out of it, please bring it back home. You can never put it back on the "million dollar midway," but you certainly could put it on that beach.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP
Watch my grass grow: http://www.sillynonsense.com/subdivision/

I sure miss the old fun house they had, it was always a blast to slide down the slide at the end of the fun house!

Let me guess, Jeff.  Yet another reason why you like going to Kennywood?? 
As for me, bring back the Frontier Lift, Satellite Jets,  Sky Wheel, Mill Race, and Shoot the Rapids.   Yes, I want to visit CP circa 1980
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Scott W. Short, Rail Junkie
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*** This post was edited by ShiveringTim on 8/22/2001. ***

You bet your bippy I love that ride. Oddly enough, I didn't get a chance to ride it at Kennywood until KennyKon. I was blown away. That's a flat ride with some guts to it. Very nice.

I do get the impression that it requires a good spot of maintenance though. It was closed two of the four times I've been to Kennywood. Perhaps that's the true reason for its non-use at Valleyfair.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP
Watch my grass grow: http://www.sillynonsense.com/subdivision/

I don't recall any significant VF BK downtime in '96 or '97...but it was time to either overhaul it or let it go.  Unfortunately, they chose the latter.

I miss CP's old Schwarzkopf Wild Mouse (the only other CP to VF hand-me-down, retired after '98) even more.  Can you imagine replacing the wicked drops, neck-wrenching laterals and sudden, crash-landing brake run with a well-mannered Arrow Mad Moiuse?  Ouch.

-CPlaya

 

PS - I wish they had handed down the Rotor (once on Oceana Midway) too.

Dark Rides!  Dark Rides!  Dark Rides!

Does anyone know if the Pirate Ride is intact or did they take it apart and use the building for something else?  I know the front is an arcade now.  I look at the floor of the arcade and see the tire marks from the track.  I loved that ride, along with the Earthquake.  Cheesy yes, but great to get you out of the sun, kids arent that scared by it, and it was just fun to do!

The Pirate Ride was more or less totally dismantled -- the rooms are used for storage and supplies, and the Blue Streak's computer is now housed back there too. I don't know if the whole building is in use, though, or what would be in the other sections.

I miss the dark rides too. The Pirate Ride was, well, interesting, but I will admit that I'd rather see a slightly more updated version. I don't remember the Earthquake Ride, but something to that effect would be nice to bring back. The Sky Slide was great, but wasn't it blue, not green?

This type of topic makes me wonder what people will be nostalgic for 20 years from now, and what people 20 years ago were saying about the rides that we're missing today!

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