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@CPFoodBlog posted a picture of a new teaser up at Cedar Point that references Great America/Yankee Harbor. I feel like the prevailing wisdom points to a water park expansion for 2019 and I think I've heard talk about a re-theme for Boomerang Bay, so do you think next year we see Boomerang Bay turn into Yankee Harbor? It would make sense since they've demolished pretty much everything that was in Yankee Harbor and they'll certainly be using that land for the water park.

I didn't notice an official single rider line when I was there, they were just asking for single riders out of the standby line. Where were you doing Single Rider? Fastlane line. How does that exactly work though? In my experience, while single riders and Fast Lane holders share the same line, people with Fast Lane are given priority. I had Fast Lane and they were consistently seating me before the single riders ahead of me in line and also asking which row I wanted. It appears they just use the single riders to fill in the gaps... which is how a single rider line should work.

I'm watching too. Looks like it's just employees. Not quite open to the public yet.

Not sure what it means it terms of a potential opening date, but it looks like they're training ride ops on Railblazer tonight.

This article says Cal-OSHA ordered all similar rides in the state to close temporarily including La Revolucion, Fire Ball at SCBB and Delirium at CGA. http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/26/santa-cruz-beach-boardwalk-closes-fire-ball-after-deadly-malfunction/

The park has filed plans with the city for "Archictural Review of new 100' tall roller coaster". http://smartpermit.santaclaraca.gov/tm_bin/tmw_cmd.pl?tmw_cmd=StatusViewCase&shl_caseno=PLN2017-12662 That seems to indicate that it wouldn't be a standard Intamin Impulse.

Spotted a couple surveyors out in front of White Water Falls. They were just packing up as I walked by, but I don't see any new stakes or surveying markers.

Yep, this seems right.

Heads up for those of you looking to ride Vortex one last time: I saw it testing this morning, but now it's closed with maintenance working on the section just before the lift.

Man, these Christmas displays go up earlier and earlier every year. That was right in front of the fried chicken restaurant, but most of the decorations were in Celebration Plaza. According to the signs, they were setting up to film some commercials for Winterfest tonight. They put up a big tree and a few wreaths around the carousel and they added lights to a some of the trees in Celebration Plaza. It also looked like they were filming inside the little pink shop between Flight Deck and Delta Flyer. The door was open for a bit and I could see some Christmas trees lit up inside. A while later I saw a woman dressed as Ms. Claus standing around outside.

There is a theater in the middle of Flight Deck. I imagine they'll just repurpose that.

I got them back! Kinda surprised I only had to wait a half hour after the park closed.

Anyone have experience with the Lost and Found? My keys flew out of my pocket during Tatsu's pretzel loop. Think I have any chance of getting them back?

Unfortunately, the fireworks are so close to Flight Deck that the whole ride area has to be evacuated before the show. No way they would delay their investigation for the fireworks.

Two trains today. Orange and purple. They've been dispatching fairly quickly so the majority of cycles are dueling once. Edit: Scratch that. Watching right now and they seem pretty out of sync. A lot of non-dueling cycles.

I should have also mentioned that VERY RARELY did the Fast Lane line at Flight Deck ever exceed 10-15 people. The vast majority of the time Fast Lane is empty and people just walk on. On the weekends in an average hour on Flight Deck we would do about 24 cycles with about 600 riders, 20-30 of whom were Fast Lane. The most Fast Lane riders I ever got in an hour was somewhere around 60-70. I think there was a promotion where Gold Pass/Season Pass holders were given Fast Lane vouchers. Oh man, having to tell people they can't ride because they can't fit was my least favorite part of working there. I worked on Vortex and Delirum my first year and we had to kick people off all the time. Delirium is the worst, not only because it's very restrictive, but also because everyone else watches as you push to try to fit larger guests in.

I've worked a CGA the past two summers and the only real instructions we got when working the Fast Lane lines was to alternate between the Fast Lane line and the standard line. We weren't instructed to have them wait for any amount of time, simply "if there's Fast Lane riders, let them on". If there's a ton of people in the Fast Lane, I would only allow about 1/3 to a 1/2 train of Fast Lanes per cycle. If there's no line for Fast Lane I would just let them on the next cycle. I'm not saying that's the right or wrong way of doing things, that's just what we're instructed to do. Just from my experience at Flight Deck, assuming there's no line for Fast Lane, you could get in about 8 or 9 rides per hour with a Fast Lane pass if you kept getting back in line.

^ I have no idea why they have two different names for the skyride. It's always seemed unnecessary to me. As for the Grizzly, I'm fairly sure that the height restrictions are set by the ride manufacturer and not the parks. So I would assume that the Grizzly has been 48" since it opened. The classification as a "Family Ride" is most likely a Cedar Fair thing.

Hey guys, CGA rides employee here. First off, I don't wan't to get in trouble, so I don't want to get too specific on anything I've heard about what's wrong with Gold Striker. Besides, I don't work at Gold Striker, so all I know are rumors from Gold Striker operators that may or may not know what they're talking about. From my experience at other rides, I would guess it's very possible that the frequent downtimes prior to this could be completely unrelated and could continue after the ride is re-opened. I know that at Eagle's Flight/Delta Flyer, the ride has fairly frequent down times for an issue that is easily-fixed, but results from a situation that pops up ALL. THE. TIME. Yeah, they all still show up for their scheduled shifts. A couple people stick around to operate Star Tower and some (if not all) of the rest are sent to other rides to help out.