Why is CP still selling 3D glasses for Disaster Transport?

When DT was first given its new 3D / neon glow theme several years ago, I at least understood the 3D glasses...could see the paintings all around and whatnot, even though I personally never purchased them.

However, in its present state, I don't think there's much anything that still exists to see, making the 3D glasses almost a scam?

Here's an experience I observed on my trip this past Wednesday that was personally kind of funny to me...but at the same time, I was a little ashamed of CP...made the park I love feel slimey, taking advantage of outsiders:

A family apparently visiting CP for the first time went past the 3D glasses / junk stand while waiting in line. The father asked "Now why do we need these?" Though I couldn't hear the worker clearly, I believe she said something like "To see all the 3D effects in the paintings and on the ride." He then purchased a set for himself, his wife, and all of his kids. I think they were expecting something like the Spiderman ride at Universal Studios: Islands of Adventure.

They didn't put them on until they boarded DT. So, during the whole short ride, the father kept saying, "I don't see anything at all! What is the point of these glasses?!?!" The wife was like "Honey, I don't thnk there IS anything to see...it's all darkness." (The ride was 100% dark this year).

So, the ride ended, and this guy was just making non-stop jokes of how he was just ripped off, but he clearly felt a little pissed / taken advantage of. He was saying things like, "We were just sold 3D glasses for a ride of complete darkness...nothing to see at all, yet alone 3D! What a joke!"

So, my friend and I were cracking up at how true this was, and this father just angrily threw his glasses on the ground upon exit.

If anyone from CP is reading this, please remove these glasses from DT, market them as "silly fun goggles," or actually add some 3D effects to the ride. It's okay to make money selling $10 Icee's, but it's not okay to make money selling snake oil...

Most people don't bother buying them. I think when the que was bigger last year you could see some effects in the que. Now that the que is down-sized I doubt you can see anything 3-D.

When I was there last Sunday I only saw someone selling light up mouthpieces for 5 dollars at the DT entrance. DT was a walk on for me, it was totally dark and for some reason seeing the lights on the lift hill make me feel sick to my stomach, so I have to shut my eyes.

Also, they added A/C in the DT building, I don't remember it working last year.

I don't see why you're complaining. You didn't buy them so it's not like it was money out of your pocket. That's like asking every company that sells something and you find out that people don't like to take off the shelves when there are people who do buy it and get joy from it.

I believe he is not complaining, just bothered by cp's business practice. If the guy who did buy them felt cheated enough, do you think he will come back to the park? You have enough people feeling cheated and don't come back, bad things can happen to a park.

I don't think a pair of glasses is going to be enough to make someone not want to come back. I've been to Disney and Universal and felt that I was cheated on certain circumstances but I go back every year because it's not that one small item that makes your trip it's the whole experience and I really doubt that a pair of glasses is enough to make someone not come back.

It's all about the taste left in the consumer's mouth. It can be big or little,it's all about customer perception.

If they're misrepresenting the glasses they're selling, I think that's a big deal.

That they continue to sell the glasses at all is a misrepresentation. There now are very few 3D effects remaining to justify pawning them on off on the unsuspecting public. I'm with Ffej: get rid of them, Cedar Fair.

If anything, they should add a disclaimer.

Zeek, as others have said, it's the fact that they are selling 3D glasses without any 3D effects to view. When people walk in and see 3D glasses being sold, they assume there's a reason. If all of those effects are now gone, people feel cheated.

Since I have been on DT about 2 times ever and I didn't pay too close attention to the different painting and effects, can someone explain how the 3D glasses are supposed to work in the first place? Are the walls supposed to be 3D? They've always just looked like someone took some neon paint and did whatever they felt. I can't see much of a 3D effect coming from that.

Thank you ffej man & Walt...exactly.

I care about people other than myself, Zeek. When I see guests ecstatic over how great experiences are at CP, it makes me happy / satisfied. In contrast, negative experiences are disappointing. Haven't you ever taken a group of friends to a favorite restaurant of yours that you bragged up, and you want them to love that restaurant too? Same type scenario here.

Something like people complaining about food prices doesn't bother me at all though, as they received what was advertised. In this case, no matter what was the cost of the glasses, they weren't as advertised. Is this guy going to storm to CP customer relations and demand a refund? Not likely. Will word of mouth cast a bad image on a company if experiences like this exist? Yes. Experiences like this at CP are rare, so my mentality is zap them out as they occur.

Mikel30, the glasses are not really 3D at all, but nobody seems to know what else to call them.

In reality, the lenses are what are known as "diffraction gratings" which are actually tiny little prisms. They have the effect of causing a slight repositioning of different wavelengths of light, so you do get something of a 3D effect in places such as the Disaster Transport queue or in Garfield's Nightmare, as they tend to cause the orange to shift one way and the blue to go the other, leaving the green in the middle. If you look at white light through those lenses, you will see the whole spectrum break out from it. But to call it any kind of a 3D process is really kind of overstating the case.

They are cool for looking at point sources of colored light, for example fireworks, or I imagine Cedar Point is probably distributing them for the Starlight Experience, although so much of that is monochromatic and thus would not give much of an effect other than sparkles or color fringing.

In a way, the diffraction glasses actually work in the opposite way of the modern 3D glasses, which are actually polarized lenses.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

They were pushing the same 3D glasses last night at both ends of Starlight Experience, and again at Hot Summer Lights. So, I'm sure they'll have the DT people start using the tagline: "Keep your glasses and use them tonight for our All New Starlight Experience!"

If I take someone someplace that I have told them is good, I am not going to talk it up so that they think they will have the same experience. If I went and had a really good burger someplace I'd be like yeah I went there and had a really good burger I'm not going to be like oh you're going to love this and think this is the best, everyone has their own personal opinions. If you think the glasses are a waste for people then that is an opinion, because I have seen families buy them with their kids and yeah there really isn't anything worth viewing in 3D but the kids seemed to enjoy just having them and wearing them. It's all your own opinion and if someone buys something and didn't like that then that's them. Because no place does it say you have to buy these for the ride, they made a choice and it didn't pay off, that's life.

They should rebrand the 3D Glasses for what they really are, they are basically kalidescope lenses that distort images. Yea 3D is the big gimmick in theaters again right now, but come on, as living human you see in 3D, unless you have vision problems, so a why would you need 3D Glasses for the starlight experience? P. T. Barnum Said it best."There's a Sucker Born Every Minute." Cedar Fair is just preying on them.

I think that the point the OP was trying to make was that the first room (ie all the travel posters) through the "Brother Bear" area and into the "warehouse room" was were all the effects were that made buying those glasses "worth it." There is nothing, save the Dispatch Master logo in the section of the queue still open that was designed to be enhanced by those glasses.

There's a big difference between "worth it" and "nothing happens." I've never used the glasses on Disaster Transport, so I don't know for myself.

If it's simply "not worth it," whatever, I guess. I wouldn't necessarily agree, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it. But if it's "nothing happens," that's a big problem.

It's like dropping $5 for an order of fries and not getting what you expect. If they're overcooked and taste like cardboard, that's a "worth it" discussion. But if they just give me an empty container, that's a problem.

I found a pair on top of a trash can one year before I went in. Grabbed it and used it, and I can say there is nothing but the Dispatch Master logo at the bottom of the stairs in the portion of the queue they keep open that the glasses enhance.

The 3d glasses from dt are different from the starlight glasses. You actually see different with the glasses on throughout the experience. When I went by the girl selling the glasses in dt, she never said anything about starlight or the fireworks show. She just said that there are things on the ride that you can't see without the glasses. That is an outright lie!! This is really shady.(pardon the pun). Would be upset if you went on-line and bought a '67 vette and got there and it was a vette, but was actually a '77chevette? Than the guy said oops I put a 6 insted of a 7, oh well you bought it!