Who's going to CoasterMania! ?

Yesterday it wasn't available within about 3 hours of going live. Either they added more rooms to the deal or had some cancellations.

I'll be there with two of my buddies from last year. The third in my group is moving to Arizona, but I wish him well out there. This will be my 6th coaster mania!

Not to speak on it too soon, but the weather is not looking good at all this year :/

This is the great lakes area, so that could change easily, but as of now, yuck...

It's too early to be looking at the weather forecast for Friday. Today was predicted to be a pretty much washout and its been great other than a 10 minute shower that came through.

A couple notes:

Tony tweeted this morning that they released a few extra CoasterMania! tickets so you procrastinators have another shot at tickets.

As for the weather, a few days ago the long term forecast showed rain this entire coming week. The. It flipped to all sunshine. Now it's mostly nice with rain on Friday. The weather is so unpredictable, not just at Cedar Point. Here in Rochester we have a saying "If you don't like the weather, just wait 10 minutes. It will change."

I should have stuck with my original intent of becoming a meteorologist. It doesn't seem to matter if you're wrong....You still keep your job.

With that said, I hope Friday's forecast is dead wrong.Coming in Thursday and leaving Saturday. Hope to catch some decent weather before, during, and after Coastermania.

Shane Denmark said:

Here in Rochester we have a saying "If you don't like the weather, just wait 10 minutes. It will change."

Here in Iowa we're more laid back: The saying is ". . .wait fifteen minutes. . ."

I went on opening day where it was predicted to be almost a washout. Only sprinkled for about 5 minutes.

Our entirw group will be there as usual Pregaming Thursday night at our cabin as always. Lots of Beer & BBQ Friday during the evening prior to ERT. Looking forward to it!

diggerg56 said:
I should have stuck with my original intent of becoming a meteorologist. It doesn't seem to matter if you're wrong....You still keep your job.

Meteorologists actually tell you the odds that they are wrong.

Last year was my first CoasterMania! So to some of you more seasoned enthusiasts, has CM ever been a total washout?

Having been to every CM starting in 1996,most of them have turned out great. Janice Lifke(let see who remembers that name),IIRC,started out the CM by announcing 'welcome to the worlds largest water rides',the day started out very wet and rainy. It wasn't storms,wind,and lightning,just rain. The CM crowd is not the public crowd(CP realizes that) and they know we will ride in the rain.

Since it is (or at least very near) a sell-out, anyone know how many tickets they limit it to? Hitting the road for Sandusky in about 28 hours.

Go Intamin said:

I would go to the park about this, but nah. Does anyone know if I can bring a guest to CoasterMania that is not a card holding enthusiast?

The CP posted information says no.

I literally found it on google after about a minute, so I deleted the post hoping nobody saw it. Unfortunately you got there right then, so whoops

The forecast has greatly improved. Now it's only a 20% of a stray storm.

Thabto said:

The forecast has greatly improved. Now it's only a 20% of a stray storm.

That means it's guaranteed to rain now.. :'(

I'm hopeful it gets hotter than what they say cause our group wants to go to S̶o̶a̶k̶ ̶C̶i̶t̶y̶ Cedar Point Shores. Currently it might be a little bit nipply.

Toledo Eleven news at noon said a 40% chance of rain on Friday. Late afternoon and evening.

Larry Stone said:
Since it is (or at least very near) a sell-out, anyone know how many tickets they limit it to? Hitting the road for Sandusky in about 28 hours.

Last year was capped at 1200 tickets. I never saw a number this year but probably around the same. Tony posted on Twitter a few days ago that they released an additional 30 tickets (didn't say why)...

We roll out to a Cedar Point in T minus 12hrs!

So, wow, TTD was mostly a no-show for ERT. Down most of the two hours with numerous rollbacks and maintenance appearing to work repeatedly along the launch run (possibly on a brake fin). I estimate that there was somewhere between 7 and 15 successful launches during the ERT. We were able to enter the line about 11:45 although a rollback had just occurred. As best I remember it from here, they backed all the trains out and did some maintenance work, then they got two over before the third rolled back. This time no maintenance so they just backed up to get the failed train back to Transfer and went again. Got a little strange here when the Christmas Tree went dark and sound effects stopped; train just sat for awhile, nothing being said, then all of sudden without further warning, the brake fins retracted, a single "Arms Down" and instantly Y-Y-Y-G and it launched and was over. We then loaded the train in Load 2 and the next two launches (including us) went fine. And then we sat in Holding 2 (which I believe is the end of the descent block) even though Unload 1 and 2 were clear and while the next train was in Launch (I know with us there, it can't launch but still, I don't like sitting when we should be advancing). Finally after more block reset announcements, we advanced and the train in Launch (again with the Christmas Tree dark other than the final Y-Y-Y-G) launched. Then the last train was up and over and, it now being 12:45, they were done.

That's seven launches in the last 45 minutes but as it was DDM when we first got there at 10:30 and between then and 11:45, I saw (from a distance - i.e. at Maverick or Magnum) two rollbacks and no successful launches, I don't think there were too many other successful launches (if any)).

Actually, not a good Intamin day. Maverick was up and down - during the afternoon we entered right after a reopening and then had to wait out another DDM before getting to ride. And MF had a train stopped on the lift hill. We only saw it there for a few minutes but we heard it was over an hour.

And not to put it all on Intamin, I believe we were on Rougarou's last train of the night when it went DDM after our ride shortly before 10:00 (and this after being DDM during part of morning ERT).

OTOH, Gatekeeper and Valravn seemed to be operating perfectly. I'm not sure in what order but I put the two #2 and #3 behind MF on my CP favorite's list.

I was on one of the rollbacks on TTD yesterday! My first one ever.

And Rougarou is B&M, not Intamin.