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The other thing that this closing will do is hurt Cedar Point's platinum sales. Having a second very nice and less crowded park so close to CP with the water focus was a great option to get people to extend their CP trips and spend some more money. When we went this summer, we were shocked how pretty the park was with the coaster on the water and how well themed it was. We actually enjoyed it more than CP. We were pumped up to buy the platinum pass with the free parking in order to plan another trip to both CP and GL. Now that GL is gone, it is actually cheaper for us just to pay for CP tickets. It was a very nice park, and one that CP gave up on too quickly. I just wish I could have visited during the Six Flags era.

I assumed this agrument was over a long time ago. The aquatrax prototype directly lead to Maverick. Future ride designs will likely use the shorter coaster cars that worked so well with Kinga Ka, like Maverick does. Same with the TTD protoype and its themeing, with the future rides Intamin switched to the more traditional design. Now, I am trying to imagine a heavily themed maverick, with unqiue trains in a far off land, sounds like a winner to me.

Are all CF haunts upcharge events? I am a little disappointed that a season's pass only gets you $5 off admission to the CW haunt.

If you are lucky you can bumped from the Bon Aire section to the tower. That happened to us, and our 120 dollar a night room was right beside the the $360 a night rooms. It is just so great to on property.

I am anti the pre-drop, I find that take feet away from the first drop which is ideally as high and as steep as possible. Imagine MF with a pre-drop it would take away from the highlight of that ride.

It's a shame, we hit up GL on our road trip to CP, and though it was a stunning park with the coasters on the lake and loved the view from the waterpark. We loved the setting and wished we could have tried X-Flight but we were a year too late. We were also shocked how nicely themed it was. In fact, the majority of our best shots were taken their and not at CP, and probably our best memories of the trip were at GL even though we stayed there for 3.5 hours versus 3 days at the point. Raging Wolf has a great location, it's too bad CP couldn't market GL as a brand extension. It could be great as a value add way to get people to extend their trips, for example, by having a free shuttle between CP and GL for Breakers or other resort guests. Or to get pass holders the illusion of choice and variety will still catching their concession dollars. The much hyped waterpark, however, was a bit of a joke. One slide tower and a Tornando with an hour plus line does not make a waterpark. They were even trying to upsell people to rent their own tubes.

I hope that this is a point that you will respectfully reconsider. The TPR trips are by design very lengthy and demanding trips. In my profession, I simply cannot take off two weeks the entire year, yet alone in one shot. Furthermore, the marginal benefit of attending 10, 15, or even ten parks in a short period of time is not much higher than an intense and memorable one or two park experience. Another scenario in which an la carte option would be ideal is for couples or families in which all members are not as obessive about rollercoasters. I know for a fact that my wife would not be willing to use all of her vacation days to accompany me on a TPR trip which she would no doubt enjoy, but not to the extent that I enjoy it. It is, however, quite possible that she would be willing to support me for a day or two of the trip. And in return I can support her in a different type of vacation, beach or shopping, etc. A third scenario is for the trips abroad, as someone who has never been to China or has not travelled Europe as desired, I cannot justify skipping the major cultural landmarks and cities and going for the most credits possible. But with an ala carte option, I can use a day trip with TPR to Holiday Work, DLP or DisneySeas as the impetus for planning a trip to Europe or Asia. Designing my own ideal balance between culture and credits. Therefore, I implore you to consider allowing members, local or not, to be able to attend the trip events on ala carte basis. By allowing this it does not mean you have to grow to an ECC size affair or have anywhere near the 25,000 members of this group at any park. Simply allocate an addtional 10, 20, 30 spots of the ERT for day trip members. Make them sign up in advance and pay a fee as well. You can price the fee in a manner to subsidize those on the larger trips, for example, the addtional revenue can be used to finance a second meal at that park. I highly doubt that an additional train of participants will really made an impact in the ERT experience and will allow those on the trip to meet some new people and have a different experience. Furthermore, someone who attends only a day or two of the trip, will likley be more likley to sign up for a much longer trip in the future. A TRP trip sampler if you will. For me and likley countless other members, it would allow us to have the same TPR trip experience without the need to feel excluded if we cannot make the same committment of time, and/or money for either work or personal reasons. Adding an limited Ala Carte opportunity would provide flexability for your members, and hopefully improved profits for your future trip planning ventures. It also create an enviorment which provides fun and the fellings of inclusiveness. I hope you reconsider.

How bad are the sunday night, monday crowds at Cedar Point. It's a Canadian long weekend, but I don't thing a long weekend in the US. How much better would be to hold off until late September?

Is it confirmed at Max Passes get you early admission, any other tips to avoid lines? Is VIP the only upcharge line avoiding option?

PM please

On the Togos lift your legs in the air, it is an incredible gravity fighting sensation.

Yeah one guy was obessed with puka shells dude - Each of the five raters looked for different coaster types.

Two recent nightmares 1. I couldn't figure out fastpass 2. Just as I got onto Kinga Ka's front row after driving 12 hours, it started to thunder and I had to get off.

The apparently failed joke is that if you looked straight out the station and all you saw was the cobra roll, it would appear to be a "bommerang"-type shuttle coaster from vekoma. Which aren't nearly as much fun as a B&M floorless. Usually the vekoma's are called bommerang, the bat, the "coast-to-coaster" or something to effect.

The order got reversed on the pictures. Hence me making fun of scott, after already saying he was wrong.

To get you all excited about Kinda Ka's return.

It was going to the hospital. When I wasn't tall enough to ride Dragon Fyre (PCW, Arrow corkscrew looper), I want home and ate four bottles of Flintstone vitamin pills hoping to grow an inch and a half overnight before my next visit. When my young (24 year old) aunt who i was staying with found out, thought I was going to OD, and rushed me to the hosiptal. Doctor's laughed, my pee was bright yellow. I lived. The next day, I wore huge shoes to PCW the next time, and somehow got on, and the rest was history.

Batman: The Not Clone since was the first at SF: Great America. Hit a tree branch with my foot. Pretty easy to do if you sit on the right most side.

When he adjusts his hair after Kinda Ka it's classic.

Materhorn splash is a system of "breaking". At least it was claimed to be Disney back in the 1960s. That the splash effect slowed the trains down.

Mondial Splashover - hands down. Better version of a top spin with a water element.

I could see stratasphere in Vegas setting up a Intamin Rocket Coaster up the side of the tower from the base. Use the record as noterity. CP doesn't have the space and I think/hope learned it's lesson with MF and TTD, don't spend the money to have the record for 30 months at best. I see them going with more unqiue coasters like Beast, Son of Beast, Storm Runner etc - that will have staying power years after the record is done.