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Fun Spot is the best. Yeah, the rides are pricey compared to like a standard amusement park elsewhere in the country, but in Orlando, that's a bargain. Plus 2.50 drafts during happy hour and attendants that seemed oblivious or apathetic to my preposterously aggressive driving style on the go karts. Did I say Fun Spot was the best? It is the best. I would probably just go there and Sea World if I was an Orlando local and be totally OK with life.

Do you have a kid with which to ride Wilderness Run? Are you below the maximum height limit? Because if the answers to those two things are "no", then you're not riding 17 coasters at Cedar Point. As far as the list goes, I think you should do Dragster and Maverick first, then maybe cycle back to Millennium Force. You don't have the benefit of early entry, and that's gonna make things challenging (especially if this is a Fri-Sun situation). By the time you get to MF, it'll probably have a line, but if you're lucky with timing and ride openings, the masses will have gone to Valravn first and ignored the giga a little further down. Then go back and to the back half of the park, and hit the front half later in the evening (after 5PM). It is theoretically doable, but you might not ride anything but coasters and you probably won't have time for any shows or a sit down meal. On the upside, I guess you'll be able to brag to someone that you have a 100 coasters on your count. I hope there's someone out there to whom that means something for you.

Yes, but the braking starts a lot earlier than the ARM towers.

Outside seats have insane amount of vibration, load slowly due to horrendous train design, restraints suck (feels like I'm doing a push up when in the flying position as a survival tactic), half the layout is taken on your back while you face straight up into the air, and the elements that exist aren't particularly forceful. I suppose the last point is actually a positive, as if they were taken with the kind of force B&M doles out on their pretzel loops, half the train would probably return dead from closed head injuries.

food in the area: -Hot Dog Tony's in downtown Sandusky is too raw for y'all. -Danny Boys on US 250 is decent. -I saw the menu for The Reserve over at Kalahari and it looks like they added some interesting "african" dishes that, basically, you aren't gonna have made for you anywhere else in the immediate area. -Zinc and Crush are owned by the same group and I've always heard they're good, but never been to speak on them -There's a new italian place over in Port Clinton called Ciao Bella that's on the pricey side but also not trash. Like legit decent food.

I understand. My point of using i305 as an example was not to demonstrate that i305 would be less comfortable with lap-bars (because rather it would have less throat-chopping) but to understand the less security lap-bars would provide in extreme transitions. Your upper body would be thrashed around like a rag doll. Was this what you were trying to say? No. Restraints have nothing to do with holding the rider in a more comfortable position for dealing with lateral G forces. Restraints have to do with keeping bodies in the seat for individuals either no longer in control of their corporeal selves because they are incapacitated or attempting to exit willfully. Restraints restrain. If i305's laterals were such that it would throw you so forcefully your own inate ability to tense up and anticipate those moves would be overrun, it would be unrideable with any restraints.

I've never heard that from anyone. Doesn't mean it isn't true. Also doesn't mean you could just adjust the manner in which the seats are mounted to have lapbars in those forceful Intamin rides. The point was made about Skyrush earlier, and that thing doesn't even have a floor on half the seats to which you could restrain riders by the ankles (as Premier and Intamin both did in the past).

B) Didn't this discussion die with Mantis getting floorless trains? Rougarou has OSTR like Mantis did. OTSRs have different standards for lateral acceleration and maximum force than do lap-bars. Imagine if i305 had lap-bars to understand why the difference exists. You mean no one would have gotten smashed in the neck by the old restraints? I understand the argument here. Really, I do. But with re: to your point about "maximum force" and so on: that comes more from the fact that OTSRs are generally capable of more containment than lapbars when a totally inert body is subjected to physical forces as well as to an individual actively attempting to defeat them, not necessarily that it makes it a more comfortable ride. Restraints are designed to specifically do what they say.

The place is run by a 90+ year old woman who's wealth was obtained probably with the death of her actually successful husband umpteen years ago. Assuming the best case scenario where Alaska Presley takes excellent care of herself, she's probably still dealing with diminished mental faculties and I legitimately doubt she has any insight herself.

A) the rides are already uncomfortable B) Didn't this discussion die with Mantis getting floorless trains?

Does this mean people will stop claiming that Disney bought the Marvel rights back and that they're changing Superhero Island to Wicked/DC/whatever? I sure hope so.

Yet another example of what you can do with projections that "practical effects" just can't imitate.

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It's ridiculous that they are ensuring that particular train is safe for you to ride? You are complaining that the third train was not ready? Did you ever think for a split second that there may have been a delay with that train? They are stripped and inspected completely during the off season, then rebuilt. Sometimes, parts are replaced as needed. Rides are REQUIRED for a minimum number of cycles by different departments. Maintenence, state, operations, etc. From my experience, operations are the last to get control of the ride. Then before they can put anyone on the trains, they must have a minimum number of cycles per ride vehicle. I can tell you, things do not always go as planned when it comes to commissioning these rides. As someone who works at a park, I am very offended by you post. How dare you call something that is done for YOUR safety "ridiculous"? Every rule or procedure a park has is for YOUR safety. "Now back to your regularly scheduled program." lmao, the anger is amazing. Perhaps I lack bill's tact, and thus am more willing to say certain things. And so: CP has roughly 5 months to get their work done, and it is pretty plain as day when that work isn't finished on time *and* it has not necessarily been improving year over year at doing so. Almost everything in this industry, good and bad, sees "safety" trotted out as a justifying cause. Let's say what was in this thread was true from you and others: the work simply got done late because of mechanical items that needed replacing and work to be done to it. Possible. Cedar Point may not have wanted to pay the money to have people cycle it the prescribed number of times too, causing the late opening. That seems pretty plausible too. Is safety the real reason then that it doesn't open until late May, or is it bean counting? You tell me.

Opening day has been a $#itshow for awhile. Expect nothing and you might get something. If 3/4 of the coasters run, it is a miracle.

I don't have an issue with a Guardians of the Galaxy attraction necessarily, I just find shoehorning it into Tower of Terror that's the weird part. How do you turn the Hollywood Hotel into the location of a space opera?

The big indoor part is what interests me. The rest is production model-ish stuff that I've already been on before or will invariably see repeated here.

This is definitely relevant to my interests. Pictures/video/whatever, I'm game to read this.

Legoland is roughly 40 minutes away. Much closer would be Lowry Park Zoo (maybe 10 minutes), which has a log flume, kiddie coaster, and a couple other rides. Clearwater Beach is nice and will probably be packed (but nice). There's also an aquarium there as well. A little north of Tampa are things like Weeki Wachee, home to the famous underwater mermaid show, and Crystal River where there's manatee snorkeling trips.

https://www.cedarpoint.com/passholder/ Sent from my XT1575 using Tapatalk Thank you! Yeah, that's still there, but you can't do things like buy Legoland or Vegas show tickets on it any more. Which is a bummer, because they were a great deal.

If you found that (I might have posted about it too, IDK), you broke the matrix and the machines had to cobble together a hole to fix it. They closed that exploit around February.

The majority of positions are minimum wage or slightly higher jobs filled by people who just want a paycheck and occasional fan boys. Unless enthusiasts happen to be related to the owner or GM, they're generally weeded out over time (hint: they all work in rides, except Disney, where they all work in shows and rides) and the people who manage park operations are elevated from within with varying levels of competency given that it isn't the sort of position that requires an advanced degree or any degree at all. TL;DR version: theme park employees are the same as any other entry level job market situation. It's McDonald's with roller coasters.

Just rumored. I was by there a few weeks ago and didn't see any changes either.

Breakers has been renovated and thus the interiors of the rooms are in great shape. Sandcastle was the "luxury" option on the point for awhile because every room is a suite, but the decor is generally a bit dated. If it is less money to stay there than Breakers, I'd consider Sandcastle though certainly since you get a balcony and a separate living room/bedroom area.

Coaster Studios makes the kind of content the internet seems to like, and that's fine. He seems like a nice kid. But he isn't a source of any info.