Damned Cedar Point Greedmeisters!

The BBQ Pit
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You’ve never been on the Millenium Force. That first hill… well, every other coaster sucks in comparison now.

(For the record, it lasts over two minutes. :slight_smile: )

I was at Cedar Point last Friday. We waited in like for a maximum of one and a half hours - for the Raptor and Mantis. The Force has an ingenious new ticketing system that let us ride twice in a single hour.

Friday is reputed to be a less busy day for amusement parks. I had heard the average wait for the Force was between three and six (!) hours, so we got off easy.

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As far as Millennium Force goes, Cedar Point got what it wished for. And you should always be careful what you wish for, because you might get it!

They got HUGE crowds. Which means they got LONG lines. Unfortunately, theme parks don’t like really long lines because people who are waiting in line aren’t spending money on food, souvenirs and games. Also, if the lines are too long, people tend to remember the lines more than the rides and are less willing to come back.

It’s a balancing act. How to increase attendance enough so that you turn a healthy profit, but not so much that your guests have a bad time. It’s one reason why a park may have it’s biggest season ever one year and then experience a decline the next.

I’m sure The Point is thinking about how to decrease the lines for next season. They didn’t last 100 years by being stupid!

BTW, I remembered two other roller coasters I have ridden, so my total is now 73 coasters in 18 different locations.

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One hundred and THIRTY years.

I remember going to the Cedar Point Centenary when I was a kid, back in 1970. The only coasters they had back then were the Blue Streak and the Red Streak. I think the latter was torn down around 1972.

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Damn, maybe we need a Doper Day at Cedar Point?

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Cedar Point is a ripoff now? Why, when I was a kid you got in free and all the rides were free and they PAID you to take the cotton candy! All you had to do was click the ad bar every half hour.

No, that’s my ISP. Cedar Point has ALWAYS been a ripoff.

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I love Cedar Point we try and go at least once a year. My favorite ride is the “Witch’s Wheel” I find it very relaxing in some bizarre way. I have a question for some of the posters who said they have worked at the park. It seems the employees have very little interaction with the visitors, perhaps seeing so many people the visitors are like objects to them. Is it just my imagination? The employees seem to be in their own little universe cut off from the rest of us.

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Got a slightly different rant about Six Flags. We went to 2 Six Flags parks this week ( Darien Lake nad New England) Each park has a Superman ride. They are essentially the same ( height, degree of drop, seconds of weightlessness, speed etc). So why could my son ( the coaster freak) ride the one at Darien Lake ( 48 in height req) but not the one in New England (54 in). According to the person my husband spoke to in Guest Services, it’s because each park sets their own height requirements, and New England is a safer park.What kind of answer is that,considering that their both owned by the same company ?

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Only two hours from Ann Arbor to Cedar Point?
I haven’t been to a major amusement park in years. (1991) My husband went in September of 1998 with a friend of his who wanted to go to Cedar Point. We had a 5 month old and I certainly was not going to go to a park with a baby to pay that money to not go on the rides. Our friend is single and still in his college phase of life. Dresses and acts like a college kid. When you are 36, have a hair line like Agassi, it is pathetic.

Anyways, told my husband to drive because it would give him the control to leave the park when he wanted. If he didn’t, our friend would insist on staying at the park until midnight because, well, what else was their to do?

Also told hubby that he would be getting there about 10a and stand in line for hours on end for the popular rides. Probably hit four or five bigger rides before he would want to depart by 5pm bcause he would be so tired from standing in the lines and talking nonsense to this friend who picks arguments on every subject, not to debate you, but to get a rise out of you because he is immature. This reason alone, I would not do the trip. The guy is exasperating.

Also said to him to notice all the families at the park. NOtice the parents who pay all that money to get in to watch Jr. ride the teacup ride for the 200th time. Notice all the parents with cranky infants who cannot possibly ride the rides and the parents have to pay anyways to walk around the park with a crabby hot sweaty child on their shoulder. WHAT FUN. A fun that I will never ever participate in in my life.

He went to the park. His friend drove. Got there at opening. At 530p he calls to tell me he is being held hostage in the arcade and our friend is dropping money left and right playing video games.Video games that his game system at home blows out of the water. Hubby is not really into video games. My husband is too nice and too patient to tell this friend “lets go”.

Calls at 7pm to advise that the friend wants to stay until midnight because, well, why not. Hubby protests. They decide to leave, after much bellyaching by my husband from sheer boredom, at 9pm. (Three hours in the arcade, gee, what a hoot.) Calls me on the car phone to tell me that the friend wants to actually go into a sit down restaurant for a meal ( something he, the friend, never does) and chat. After being together since 6am, they are all chatted out. My husband is about to murder him and hands the phone over to his friend to hear me state through clenched teeth that * I want him home by midnight, you prick, because he has to take a night time feeding and I’ve been with a baby by myself all goddamnday while you desperately try to recapture you youth. *

My husband has not been back to an (Watch for the oxymoron) amusement park since, by his own choice. Personally, I won’t waste my money in them again.

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