I understand that there are more male coasterholics than females. But I just feel like the tshirt selection for women is severely limited in comparison to men. All season I jumped between pagoda and park plaza, and I ended up settling for a shirt that was pretty cute, but it just had a silhouette of the skyline with the words CEDAR POINT emblazoned across the chest. That seems to be the general pattern for women's tees. Just chuck the name on the shirt, and throw some swirlies on it or something. I have been dying to get an awesome dragster tee, and the only cool ones are for guys.
Does anyone else feel my plight?
Area 2 Sweeps 2010
Test rider for TTD/Mantis/STR
Got my own page on the cedar point blog!!!
I feel your plight in that there are very few coaster t-shirts that I would consider stylish for either gender. They all seem to be ill-fitting and gaudy, and just not the sort of thing I'd like to wear out of the house.
I've looked around for more retro-style t-shirts, maybe with ringers that might feature some of the older coasters. I think that 70s-style shirts for Corkscrew, Gemini or even the park itself would be cool, and something that I would wear out to rock shows and the like. I guess there aren't enough of people like me to justify selling these.
I did find an old Demon Drop shirt at a vintage store below the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, but historically cool as it was, it was still pretty tacky and I didn't buy it.
The path you tread is narrow, and the drop is sheer and very high.
My wife struggles with the same issue. She has a pink Universal Orlando shirt that she loves because it's a proper girl shirt, but I think it has seen its limits. She found nothing at CP during BooBuzz that really did it for her.
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Exactly-I have a few shirts I got back in 2002 during my first trip to CP, but they sit in a drawer, more of a memory, not something I really wore at all
When I went to San francisco for my honeymoon, all I wanted was a great Alcatraz t-shirt. They sold sooo many of these at all the gift shops around town, at fisherman's wharf, downtown, and so forth. They had many styles of men's shirts with really neat prison stripes, logos, prison sayings, etc. but the women's shirts only looked like this;
They had stripes, and said: Alcatraz- Rejected....."Too cute!" (to be locked up....) ALL the shirts in every store had this for kids and adults, plus sizes and smaller sizes!
All I wanted was a regular shirt, and finally found one at the ferry shop in the loading ferry dock shop. it was a womens' shirt too. :)
PS: Can you imagine a plus sized adult woman wearing a shirt that said Rejected-Too cute!!"
I saw only 1 shirt this season that I liked, it was a dragster shirt that came out a few years ago that I spotted a guest wearing. If it were in a girl's cut, I would adore it.
I cannot find an image of it online though...but the image on it was based on a concept art piece for the dragster. There was a giant print of it in my supervisor's office, along with this amazing magnum art piece.
The image was of astronauts riding in the dragster, and it was facing vertical. It said the heights and speeds of older coasters, and showed the dragster's speed at top. It looked like the dragster was being launched into space.
Does anyone know where I can find some concept art pieces for some of the coasters at CP??? I found 3 on google, but I know there is a lot more promotional art and such
Area 2 Sweeps 2010
Test rider for TTD/Mantis/STR
Got my own page on the cedar point blog!!!
never mind, I just came across the coolest website on the planet.
http://rollercoasterfreak.com/Cedar_Point/Conceptions/index.htm
EDIT: it still does not have what I was describing, though. It has the other TTD concept piece, and the magnum concept piece I mentioned
Area 2 Sweeps 2010
Test rider for TTD/Mantis/STR
Got my own page on the cedar point blog!!!
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