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Oh that's a fun promotion. Get fun all winter long, then get a pass which you'll use once but lets you upgrade to a Platinum so you can go to Cedar Point instead.

You make Disneyland Paris look really great. Drooling over those Ratatouille photos....that prix fixe looks very much worth it. Stunning presentation, and if the quality is as good as you say (and I have every reason to believe it is), then that's a star attraction for this park.

Sweet. That seems like a much better design than the old Tamagachi style.

Oh damn. This park has been on my radar for some time but this endorsement just boosted the got-to-get-there factor. I have zero interest in SLC beyond this place, but Frontier has cheap flights from Branson to SLC....

Oh man, Rafty is gonna be all the rage in 2016!

There's a lot of parks that probably don't need more coasters. A lot of then have 6 or 7 and that's enough to spread out what crowds they do get. Maybe replace an older one when it reaches the end of its usefulness, but otherwise they're taking on additonal operating costs and not getting much back for it.

What, not Volvos? Man, that theming sucks. Great report of a park I knew very oittle about.

There are rumors that it’s a straight budget cut but closing your best ride for staffing seems so unbelievably ridiculous that I feel like I’ll cut them some slack and assume that maybe they’re just doing some refurb or something. We’re visiting in February and planned to do a day at Magic Mountain, a day at Disney and a few hours at Knott’s before we fly home but only that final day falls on a weekend. If anyone hears anything about this I’d be interested to know since if this becomes a semi permanent thing we’d probably just do the full day at Knott’s and hit Magic Mountain on the day we fly out since it’s a Saturday. I didn’t really want to cram the place into like 3 hours but it’s probably worth it to ride TC. Yeah, since you've been there before once on the log flume and the rest of the 3 hours on Colossus should be just fine. Make sure you get on X2 though.

That's a fantastic read. The Raptor and Millennium Force videos are so great too. Very 90s sort of cool. Thanks for sharing!

Yes this is a perfect way to do it. Takes all the work off us, so I can just say I like Coaster X and it still ends up being representative. Well done!

Great photos! Pretty crazy how the train becomes the longest line at Christmas, but I get it. The lights they have back there are legit.

The waterpark is pretty solid. They have one of everything, and the slides are huge. Definitely fits CP's MO of having the biggest and craziest rides. I rode Steel Vengeance, Maverick, and Millennium Force after dark, and all three are fantastic night rides. It's just that at the end of the night, when I have to pick one last ride, that ride is always Millennium Force.

Outlaw Run again.

Of course!

You know more than me then. I would have to Google "what is a Kumbak restraint" first.

Day 9: Back with a Vengeance I guess I'm Dan Carlin now. You wait months for the next installment, it shows up when you don't expect it to, and it's full of way more information than you cared to know. This was my second trip to Cedar Point, the first being in 2016, and I had way more fun this time. Cedar Point is just so huge, the first time it was fun but overwhelming and exhausting. This time I went into it with a good idea of what I liked and what I didn't, and could just enjoy the day a lot more. Philrad71 had also made independent plans to be at Cedar Point on Thursday and Friday of that week, while I went on Friday and Saturday. So of course we made plans to meet up on Friday. They slept in a bit, so I started my day rope dropping the new hotness! That walk along the beach is fantastic! Really glad I came for the new attraction, it totally lives up to the hype. What? A roller coaster? Yeah, it was all right, I guess. Okay, fine. Yes, I will admit I am a tad excited to be riding the best RMC. Steel Vengeance totally lived up to the hype, and that's significant at Cedar Point, where literally everything gets way overblown to the point where people can't even enjoy a good roller coaster like Gatekeeper just because it's not as intense as Maverick. Steel Vengeance does everything RMC has ever done except a barrel roll drop. It goes on forever, and it keeps its intensity the whole time. In fact, I think I like the bunny hops at the end the best of all. On to Maverick next for a super short wait on early entry before grabbing my Fast Lane Plus and meeting up with Phil and his parents. I met up with them around Millennium Force for a great back-seat ride on the very best roller coaster. This ride is amazing in the morning, but b-b-b-baby y-y-y-you ain't seen nothin' yet. Time for lunch! The food trucks were out, and I had a slice from the Cameo truck. It was $8, but also a quarter of a pizza, so that was great. On to Melt for some good local brews and also a cool old map of the park. Loved Valravn in 2016, and it was great again this time. We went on it several times. Helped that Fast Lane Plus made it a walkon in the back two rows and a one train wait in the front. That with a 45 minute standby line. At the moment, though, we were not going to be riding Valravn. Is it down? Yeah, that's an evac all right. Turns out every ride was down, because the power went out! I forget exactly the reason, but the whole peninsula had lost power, except for critical systems like cash registers. What else do you do when the power's down? Head back to the RV for a beer! I hadn't seen Lighthouse Point before, so it was cool getting to walk back there. It's a really nice campground that goes well with a Southern Tier 2XIPA. All right guys, power's back on; it's time for the single sh*t parks give about anniversaries! Gemini is a fantastic coaster. It's one of the ones that I was most looking forward to riding, and I hope they keep it around for a long time. So much fun. Train time! I love the Boneville area, makes this one of the very best park trains. We kinda just walked around riding whatever. We made sure to get on the Skyride and Cedar Downs, Blue Streak, and of course the phallic, 17 second adrenaline rush that is Top Thrill Dragster. So. Tall. So. Very. Tall. Goodbye, Witches Wheel, I barely knew ya and never rode ya. We ended the day as one should, on Millennium Force. It was a great end to a great day. I had done nearly everything that I wanted to, a lot of it multiple times. Thanks Fast Lane Plus, and thanks Phil and fam for an awesome time. Day 10: Shore Shot The next day I planned to spend the morning at Cedar Point Shores. There was a storm a'brewing, but there was also beer a'brewing, so I knew I'd be aight. I again parked up front and walked along the beach, this time carrying waterpark gear. I rope dropped Steel Vengeance again, and while queuing ran into the very same people who were illegally filming at Kings Island! They were illegally filming at Cedar Point now! Steel Vengeance and Maverick were every bit as good as they were the previous day. I actually lucked onto a front row ride on both from spotting a person riding solo and joining them. Then I got my waterpark gear out of the fluffy bunny by Steel Vengeance and headed across the road. I absolutely loved this waterpark. It was really cool climbing to the top of each slide complex and looking out over the lake. Plus they have just the best lazy river. I went around and around that thing, almost as much as Kings Island's. I did have one slight mishap; I cut my finger on the handrails and got to experience Cedar Point's excellent first aid! They had me bandaged up and back at it no problem. It was then that the storm rolled in, so I hit up the bar. I had heard reports of excellent Mai Tais, and the reports were not wrong. Once the rain let up, I went around the lazy river a couple more times then headed back into Cedar Point. I first went to Magnum, noticing it was a pretty short wait. Still ended up taking about 20 minutes or so, and I was looking at the wait times on the app of over an hour for some rides, so man, was my day gonna suck. It was nothing but standing in line over and over again the rest of the day and I rode like 2 things. Yeah, screw that. I went straight over to the gift shop by Top Thrill Dragster, paid for a Fast Lane Plus, and plopped my ass on Top Thrill Dragster about 5 minutes later. Whoosh! Wheee! Oh god this is high up. And just like that, it's over, attend to your wounded, count your dead. Absolutely love that ride. It is still intimidating, and I get a nervous excitement every single time. Keepin' it gate. Keepin' it max. Keepin' it ravn. Keepin' it millennial. Best. Coaster. Ever. I then headed to the back of the park to end my second day just like the first. I will say one thing for the no phone policy on Steel Vengeance: The whole queue was chattering in a way I haven't seen in years. People were talking to their neighbours; what else are you going to do for a half hour? I happened to be right next to a family of 3, an older couple and their son, who was about my age. With my being solo, we agreed to be a group of 4. They were really cool people, and since we all wanted to reride Steel Vengeance immediately, we ended up in line together for another half hour. They invited me to follow them over to Maverick next, and since they were cool people, I agreed. We rode that twice before saying our goodbyes. They finished the night on Maverick while I went back to my favourite, Millennium Force. Best. Lighting. Ever. No, thank you, Cedar Point! Absolutely. I will be back.

Sweet! I'm always for improving park food. Honestly it wasn't great when we were there a couple years ago, woth the exception of Panda Express.

Got a popup for this, and came over to see the fun on TPR. I am not disappointed. The coaster looks fun, I mean not enough fun to get me on board a Carnival ship, but I can see this being a decision factor for some families.

Wow, that looks really fun! Some great character costumes and makeup. Nice touches all over the place. Cracked up at Falala llama.

Half off tickets are in park only and you have to show your SDC season pass to get it. SDC can replace your pass at guest services, but obviously for you that's a bit far. I'd give SDC guest services a call; they may be able to mail you one. 1-800-888-7277

Dolly's brother Floyd Parton has died. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/12/10/dolly-parton-brother-floyd-dead-obituary/2273088002/

That is a good deal, they had a similar one last year which I used for my trip in August.

Wow, that's great news! Glad to see they're staying up with the current trends. This is a very smart purchase for them.

This is very true. What the park wants is people like us, a family of 5 that go about 5 times a year and have the dining plan and occasionally buy souvenir giant plush snakes because my kids are awesome like that. Sorry, enthusiasts, the park doesn't care about you.