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I think it will be a flop. I expect no lines for anything once 10p hits because everyone will be done with everything. I can't imagine going until 2am in what will likely be such an empty park. Should have made Ice Breaker a HOS exclusive. Now that would be a smart business move right there... make up for disappointing everyone with lack of rides with some new hotness. I mean, I HOPE I'm wrong. I want it to succeed. But I just don't see it. Not trying to be a negative nancy but there is so much missed opportunity. And everyone is going to compare it to HOS in Tampa and be disappointed with lack of rides, etc, for a much higher cost. Maybe it's because I still have Six Flags Darien Lakes fright fest stuck in my brain from a few years ago. lol. I'll find out soon!

Starting to think I'm wrong about this and they really will only have 2 rides open... with the $ they are charging compared to BGT which has a ton of rides open for a lot cheaper.... I know completely different locations, but... damn. Guess we'll see, going opening HOS weekend, but luckily also planned for a day trip to Seaworld as well so I can do everything else. Looks like everything will be closed off before shark encounter and they are using the side entrance for entry to the park. EDIT: WELP I guess it's official..... I love the excitement in the response... lol

Thanks for writing everything up. I'll be back there in a few weeks after taking a several year Florida hiatus. Ops have always been terrible. I worked Gwazi for a short period of time, back when it was... Gwazi... and visited at least once a month after I moved to Orlando, but the management at BGT never cared, and being a ride supervisor at SeaWorld I got to experience the workers that didn't give 2 shits first hand. Some of the management did a really great job (pats self on back ;)) at setting a good example, but I feel as soon as a supervisor left a ride to go to another ride everyone went back to their old ways. There are always exceptions and some people were awesome, but overall there was no customer service / getting trains out fast mentality. Manta was the absolute worst for several years, though. lol. I'm excited to go back! Oh, and that garden grill place used to be a sit down pizza/pasta buffet. I'm guessing it changed once COVID happened since buffets weren't really a thing anymore. It may have changed well before that, but last I knew that was the case. I've only been on it once or twice, but Falcons Fury is an awesome ride. I wish more parks would get something like it. Definitely my favorite (not so) flat ride / non coaster that I can think of. I don't normally care for drop towers but that thing is a whole different level.

If you could buy a membership anywhere and not go to that park then everyone would just buy from Six Flags Mexico. It says season passes don't have to be processed by a certain date and are immediately active. And since season passes are only good at the park you buy it at, that makes sense.

I was going to prove you wrong and say they had a whole ornament section on their website.... but...

The thing that kills me is the processing at your home park. My home park doesn't open until May, so if I visit any park before that (spring break, etc) I will have to buy the membership from another park unless I buy it before the season is over this year, but it wouldn't make sense to double pay because I already have a non local park season pass. If they had the GOOD perks for every park it would make sense, but the bring a friend, etc only work at your home park. I hate it. The percent off discount that's good at every park is usually more than the online prices anyways. Not that I want to bring a friend to suffer at Darien Lake, but still... to make it financially worth it there's no good way to do it for me.

What's everyone's fascination with that stupid bridge over the antique cars? Like... there is a path just to the right of it that takes another 50 steps to get to. There's like not even a reason for it. Of all the things they could paint. I guess I'm just old and grumpy. Yesterday and today tantrum, predator, moose, motocoaster, corn popper, mind eraser, sleigh ride all closed for staffing. That's not even the full list. Like what's the point of even being open if everyone is angry.

I still love that it has a multi colored Franken-train. It fits Darien Lake so well.

Seriously awesome. Great work! Like night and day ever since the new forums started. Now I don't mind missing Tapatalk, the speed was one of the reasons I preferred it but now I like the web interface more.

I heard that someone at Cedar Point had looked into a crystal ball and knew that the CP TTD accident was going to happen. They told Tony and he thought it would make sense to close down Wicked Twister because they could use the existing hardware to launch Top Thrill Dragster, save some money, and to please coaster enthusiasts which want the change for no apparent reason. PROBLEM SOLVED

I'm not making the connection that only two rides will be open like all of you. It's just what they are "featuring" as being IN THE DARK. That could just be the featuring those two rides for the website right now, but it could also mean that I think they will turn the lights off similar to Six Flags for those two rides in particular, but I think Kraken and Manta will still run with lights on like a "normal" night. They would get a lot of flack did not opening all the coasters. A LOT. I don't see it happening, but then again SEAS never fails to amaze me sometimes.

EDIT: nevermind, I'll wait for the official announcement... weeeeeeee

It varies by the day. Just go to the cedar point site and pick the day you want to see the price for. Look for the Fast Lane price (not the plus) and that's what it (should) cost at the park. Used my pass to buy two on Sunday for friends with no issues.

I posted my super quick review/description of Dine in the dark on a Facebook group, but thought I'd post it here: If you are a passholder, this is 100% worth it. $20 for passholders is an absolute steal. Even if HALF the food doesn't appeal to you, there was a huge selection (if you can find it all in the dark! lol) took me a few laps to find it all. As you enter and get your ticket scanned, they hand you a souvenir cup that had one of those lights built into the bottom to make it glow/flash/etc. You get free soft drinks to fill it with, or you can use paper cups that are also provided. There are 5 stations with a huge variety of food. There are little cards that are hard to read with each food item. More than I remember reading on the website. Some of my favorites: Garlic Beef, Corn fritter bake, shrimp , mozzarella tomato salad. Other things I had which were OK included perch tacos with slaw, sweet potato mash, sausage, Boneless Pork Chop, bacon wrapped chicken, fudge balls (too rich for me), tres leches cake, plantain pudding. Nothing was outright bad some things were a little bland or dry. But if there is something you don't like, take some more of what you do! I didn't try the red beans and rice, the garbanzo salad, papaya, jerk chicken, or saffron rice. Full list of foods is here: https://www.cedarpoint.com/events/cedar-point-nights They also had a mini bar but there was a line so I don't know what was offered. The only thing I overheard was some sort of lemonade that your can add Tito's vodka to. Highly recommend. Give it a try. The "dark" aspect was a little cheesy and the music was weird (it is NOT a party atmosphere), but it's really about the food in the end. I was surprised you serve yourself minus the carving station. The entrance is right by Windseeker for those that don't know where to go

Ah yes, the Chic-fil-A. Elegantly and stylishly fashionable, lol.

Tried to ride it yesterday, but, once again, the coaster I can't fit in as I am just a tad too tubby.... too bad, I do like impulse coasters.

I'm 100% sure management was not like "hmmm...let's not open Legend today. Or the next day." There is no way it was due to staffing, they would have taken the people from the ice cream stand at that point and train them. Rides need maintenance. Earlier this year Thunderbird was down for a few weeks, but you know what? At midnight and into the early mornings they were tirelessly getting it back open as soon as humanly possible. They were doing MAJOR structural work and digging up all around the ride. I don't know what the issue with Legend is, but I can assure you it's not like they want the ride to be closed. Things happen, unfortunately it just happened while you were there. It may be going downhill over the years in your eyes, but major rides being down on purpose is not something Holiday World would allow to happen. I can see them maybe staggering rides if there was a staffing issue, or closing some smaller attractions or ones that require a LOT of staff to run, but cheetah chase is a brand new ride and there's no way they wouldn't just not open it due to staffing. (Unless you're Darien Lake). Sorry you had an unfortunate visit.

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There is a a cell phone video circulating from the boat behind them. They all witness the boat overturned and it's basically them yelling that they are about to get hit by their boat, and then freaking out with what they are going to do next after passing it. You can see some of them in the water getting out of the trough. I didn't look too closely and it was a one and done for me. Scary **** do not recommend. Makes me feel uneasy.

Had a ticket question, and putting it in here because DHS is going to be my first park of my visit and the chat with customer service wasnt very helpful. For FastPass+ and entry into the park I had always used the RFID (?) plastic tickets like they do for annual passes. I know magic bands are also a thing. But I have a comp ticket that someone gave to me with a barcode, and also a two day ticket that I bought online. Both tickets appear in my account separately. Do they have barcode scanners at the front entrance as well? And do they link that to my fingerprint? Or do they exchange for a hard card at the gate? They mentioned in the chat I can go to Disney Springs to get hard tickets, but since we wouldn't be going there I don't want to go out of the way. Also because DHS is going to be my first park and I need to reserve the Star Wars ride, I just don't want to have any issues where I have to wait in separate line to get physical tickets. Also, I am going in September so (if) FASTPASS did make a return I would need a hard ticket because the scanners don't read barcodes around the park, right? I don't know, I mean I added the tickets to the app and linked them to my account and made all my park reservations, so hypothetically I should be fine, but I don't want to get screwed over getting on the star wars stuff because I need to wait in a different line or need to do some sort of exchange that the ride reservation/lottery would need to be tied to. If that makes any sense. Has anyone used a comp ticket or bought online without physical cards and can walk me through how this works? Thank you! EDIT: I actually take that back, you can't even bring up the barcodes in the Disney app now that it's linked to my account. Now I'm even more confused. I don't have any magic bands or hard tickets to link any of this stuff to.

Interesting, the equipment has been there since the start of the season but I have yet to see them uncovered or in use at CP yet. Glad they finally got these up and running! Typically there would be like 4 lanes open even at opening, so getting them all going will be a great help. They have had them at Kings Island for a few years now.

Just bought my ticket, unfortunately only one day for me. FYI it took about 4 hours for my tickets to email or appear in my account... so don't freak if you don't get your tickets right away. More excited for Velocicoaster, but can't go there with HHN the same night, as much as I hate what it has become. Hoping for a good year!

Sounds like a lot of work. Or, you know, go at 1:00p with fast lane. ... but no there are some good tips in there for those without FL. Having stuff for the free lockers can potentially slow you down a bit, as you said, if you go with empty pockets you bypass everyone getting the lockers. At least when I was there... but we were super quick getting the lockers so it didn't matter.

This might be a stupid question but in these scenarios do they generally replace the entire chain with a new one? Or do they just replace a few links somehow?