thrillrider Posted July 22, 2010 Author Posted July 22, 2010 Most parks have smoking areas. You just can't smoke outside of those areas. As a non smoking father of a 4yo, I love that parks are doing this now.
thrillrider Posted July 23, 2010 Author Posted July 23, 2010 Today we have a few shots of the disaster transport and corkscrew ride operations book, and a special treat. I can't say what it is from, but your more than welcome to guess. Enjoy... The disaster transport s.o.p guide One of the pages inside. This page shows the ridership of the ride over the years. The layout of the ride. The corkscrew s.o.p book. Ride diogram. The corkscrews ridership. Now what I have here is a blueprint. What the blueprint is for, is anyones guess.....execept for me because I know...lol
coaster-crazy Posted July 23, 2010 Posted July 23, 2010 Hmm... is it some kind of dark ride? I notice special effects lighting on there... Random guess but... the San Francisco Earthquake Ride ? ..heh, no idea here. I've never been to Cedar. ~Nicholas
thrillrider Posted July 23, 2010 Author Posted July 23, 2010 Hmm... is it some kind of dark ride? I notice special effects lighting on there... Random guess but... the San Francisco Earthquake Ride ? ..heh, no idea here. I've never been to Cedar. ~Nicholas Kinda close.....but no.
cprocks22 Posted July 24, 2010 Posted July 24, 2010 Is it a blueprint for one of the haunted houses? If I had to guess which one I would say the vampire one near the front of the park.
thrillrider Posted July 24, 2010 Author Posted July 24, 2010 It is a haunted house, but not the vampire haunt. It's actualy the haunted house inside of disaster transport.
dammie16@vt.edu Posted July 24, 2010 Posted July 24, 2010 I was gonna guess Boeklings, guess not! Is that Toy Factory or Pharoah?
John Peck Posted July 24, 2010 Posted July 24, 2010 After looking at those Corkscrew rider numbers (ending in 2001) I have to ask... Has the fact that Dragster is located next to it now done anything to increase ridership?
Solid Gold Posted July 25, 2010 Posted July 25, 2010 What's up with all those women as team leaders? Cedar Point is Sexist.
Skramp Posted July 25, 2010 Posted July 25, 2010 Ok, so as I'm getting older, my mind is starting to fail, but for some reason I remember racing log fumes at CP. I want to say they were on the main midway, but could be mistaken. Am I just imagining things or was it real? Seems like they were down by the carousel or something. I think I'm just old.
dandaman Posted July 25, 2010 Posted July 25, 2010 Well, Mill Race was on the spot now occupied by Raptor, though I'm not sure as to its "racing" aspect...
Pingu1651 Posted July 25, 2010 Posted July 25, 2010 I think he means the old StR. It looks double tracked according to this map: http://www.themeparkbrochures.net/maps/1980/cp1980.html
C.Diesel Posted July 25, 2010 Posted July 25, 2010 It was the old Shoot The Rapids in frontier land. If you go into the TPR Park Index at the top of the page and then go to the Cedar Point link you can find pictures of it if you look through the souvenir books.
RCFreak Posted July 25, 2010 Posted July 25, 2010 What's up with all those women as team leaders? Cedar Point is Sexist. Actually they were, before 1999 (or sometime around that I think) the crews were one sex or the other (Raptor for instance was an all male crew when it opened) so Disaster Transport and Corkscrew were all female crews hence the all female leads on the rides.
pianojohn Posted July 25, 2010 Posted July 25, 2010 What's up with all those women as team leaders? Cedar Point is Sexist. I think the old operating model was put in place for two reasons: 1) The all male crews usually worked on rides where they would manually have to move the trains requiring a lot of physical strength (Demon Drop, Blue Streak, Sky Ride) whereas the female crews would run the more high tech rides that could be moved with the computer (Magnum, Corkscrew) 2) It cut down on flirting during the work day (though I tend to disagree with that mentality). That's how it was when I worked there 1986-1990.
thrillrider Posted July 25, 2010 Author Posted July 25, 2010 I was gonna guess Boeklings, guess not! Is that Toy Factory or Pharoah? It was pharaoh. I have the complete blueprint, but it is huge so I can't scan it. As far as 2 log flumes, if you look back a page or two, there are some pictures of an old map from 1971. In the pictures, you can see shoot the rapids and mill race. Mill race did not have the biggest hills, but it was a fun ride. Shoot the rapids was a duel flume ride. I don't remember much about the ride, but I know I was on it when I was a kid.
thrillrider Posted July 25, 2010 Author Posted July 25, 2010 Here is a set of "samples" from a company that produces coaster wheels. Each color is a differant hardness.
cprocks22 Posted July 25, 2010 Posted July 25, 2010 ^Do you know what the different hardnesses are used for on coaster wheels? I'm sure its something to do with the speed/make of the coaster, but is there anything to go by that you know of?
thrillrider Posted July 25, 2010 Author Posted July 25, 2010 I am not 100% sure, but I think it has to do with temp/ weather, and type of coaster train.
thrillrider Posted July 25, 2010 Author Posted July 25, 2010 I was just told that it has something to do with the speed of the coaster as well.
thrillrider Posted July 26, 2010 Author Posted July 26, 2010 Anyone remember "coaster cards"? I have the first (and maybe only) set of cards from 2001. There are 81 cards in the set, a index card, and a motion card of magnum xl 200 at cedar point. I have looked for a 2002 to 2010 sets, but had no luck finding them. I have included a few cards from the set. The box that the set of cards came in. A few cards. Back side. Front of the list. Back of the list.
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