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08-21-2002, 08:23 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Re: Cedar Point - It\'s a Giant Pop Up Book!
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Originally posted by iloverags2:
Great coasters, and great pics. I love the one where you can see the beach...how cool is that! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Ooops...I better give credit where credit is due - these aren't my photos, I took them off the Cedar Point site! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] But they are cool, eh?! |
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08-21-2002, 09:11 AM
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Yeti Chaser
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Way down south
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Re: Cedar Point - It\'s a Giant Pop Up Book!
Definitely lots of "blow your hair back" rides at Cedar Point! Waiting to hear more!
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08-21-2002, 09:33 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Re: Cedar Point - It\'s a Giant Pop Up Book!
Thoughts on a few more of the coasters...
Mean Streak - this is a TALL wooden coaster - one of the tallest in the nation, I believe.
And it is one mean ride - the name suits it well. It’s a rough and tumbly ride and you’re
certain it’s about to collapse upon itself any minute. It certainly lets you know who is in
charge while you are on it, that is for sure. The queue winds through the wooden
structure and the wood is so thick that at some points you can barely see through it!
Susan chose to pass on this one after we told her just how rough of a ride this was, but
certainly a wild experience!
Blue Streak - a smaller wooden coaster located near the front of the park behind Raptor -
it’s a classic coaster that’s been around since the early 1900’s, but we thought it was one
of the funnest in the park! You pop out of your seat at every crest and it’s speedy,
smooth, but bumpy ride - not all at rough like Mean Streak - it’s just what a coaster
should be!
The Mean Streak tearing it up!
Gemini - this is the park’s racing coaster! It’s built upon wooden scaffolding, but has
tubular rails that give it an ultra smooth ride! It’s got a stomach-wrenching first drop (at
least from the back seat!) and some great “airtime” and curves. Not at all too wild and
another great coaster to work up to the really big ones!
The racing Gemini!
Disaster Transport - this is an enclosed bobsled coaster. The queue is highly themed, but
the coaster ride itself it mainly in the dark. Another “big ride” my youngest son could ride
so we hit it quite a few times. It’s very speedy and being in the dark really enhances the
experience. The queue is really cool - it’s in black light and you can use 3-D glasses to
enhance the experience of the queue, which the kids LOVED! A fun ride, worth seeing!
Corkscrew - a “training wheels” looping coaster - I remember seeing this one on the cover
of Newsweek when it was built in 1976 as the worlds biggest multiple looping coaster and
being scared then! HA! It has a very small drop, a loop, and 2 corkscrew maneuvers that
go head over heels right over the midway - so it has a really cool placement as you can
literally look right up into the corkscrews from below! Thumbs up, it’s held the test of
time.
Flipping over the midway!
Wildcat - this is a small “galaxy” or “carnival” style coaster with a few drops and lots of
curves! You ride in 4 man vehicles and it’s surprisingly speedy and fun.
Cedar Creek Mine Ride - a runaway mine train coaster similar to Big Thunder Mountain,
but not nearly as themed. It’s a fun little ride with a few small drops and lots of curves.
Woodstock Express - a junior coaster for the whole family - it’s very similar to the
Barnstormer at The Magic Kingdom, but it’s got an extended layout for a longer ride. It’s
themed to The Peanuts (Woodstock, Snoopy’s friend), which makes it very cute!
Jr. Gemini - the smallest coaster in the park, really only for small kids but parents can ride
with them. Don’t - it’s painful for anyone over 10 years old! HA! Seriously, it’s better to
watch the kids on this one - my youngest thought it was so cool to ride without an adult!
It’s a cute little ride.
Coming up: You mean they actually do have more than just coasters here?!?
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08-21-2002, 10:07 AM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Tioga County, PA
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Re: Cedar Point - It\'s a Giant Pop Up Book!
We were there in 1999. The only coaster I remember doing was Disaster Transport. I'm not into coasters so I stayed on the ground most of the time. Cedar Point is a great family park. Glad you had a great time.
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08-21-2002, 01:06 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Re: Cedar Point - It\'s a Giant Pop Up Book!
Oh yeah! I almost forgot about this! Cedar Point has pins! My oldest son went crazy and started a new Cedar Point collection. Now, they only have maybe 10-15 to choose from - the major coasters, a Cedar Point one and one for the Power Tower, but we just thought it was the coolest thing!
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08-21-2002, 01:10 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: VERMONT
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Re: Cedar Point - It\'s a Giant Pop Up Book!
Thanks for the report! Wonder how many hours it would take us to drive there? Going to go find out.
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08-21-2002, 01:54 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: East Haven, CT, USA
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Re: Cedar Point - It\'s a Giant Pop Up Book!
Thanks for the report, Steve. Hopefully it will make our planning a little easier. I was checking out the website last night for lodging but couldn't get any availabilty to come up. It looks like the Breakers Express is within our budget. I was reading about the Great Bear Lodge in the AAA book and told DH I wanted to stay there until I looked at the rates [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
Glad you enjoyed your trip and got your son hooked on pin collecting too!
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08-21-2002, 02:09 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: jacksonville, fl usa
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Re: Cedar Point - It\'s a Giant Pop Up Book!
Very cool report! Love hearing about all the coasters...now hopefully someday I can experience them! And how cool is that, they have pins! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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08-21-2002, 03:06 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Northern Virginia
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Re: Cedar Point - It\'s a Giant Pop Up Book!
Oh my goodness! And to think last night I was drooling over the Travel Channel program on California cosaters with X and Goliath! Now I want to go to Ohio, too! Anybody here ridden these, especially X? What is it like?
Great mini report, Steve.
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08-21-2002, 03:18 PM
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Yeti Chaser
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Way down south
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Re: Cedar Point - It\'s a Giant Pop Up Book!
That picture of the Monster brings back memories of visiting Six Flags over GA when I was a kid. They had a ride just like it called MoMo the Monster. Does anybody remember that?
And the Witches Wheel is just like the Wheelie, which was still there as of my last visit.
Sounds like you guys had a blast!
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08-21-2002, 04:14 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Durham,NC
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Re: Cedar Point - It\'s a Giant Pop Up Book!
Alright Steve, I just rode every single one of those rides the other week and they ROCK!!!
Great report! I felt like I was riding the rides all over again [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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08-21-2002, 04:23 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Massachusetts
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Re: Cedar Point - It\'s a Giant Pop Up Book!
Thanks for the report Steve! This is one place my DH really wants to go.
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08-21-2002, 06:21 PM
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Community Rank: Navigator
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Tioga County, PA
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Re: Cedar Point - It\'s a Giant Pop Up Book!
Steve
Do they still have the after dark laser show? They had a nice one 3 years ago.
If memory serves the park was started as sorta a Coney Island type park in the 1890's. I think I got that info from the Travel Channel.
A little trivia. Cedar Point parent co. owns Dorney Park, Pa and Knotts Berry Farm in Calif.
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08-21-2002, 08:26 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: Cedar Point - It\'s a Giant Pop Up Book!
Quote:
Originally posted by Dumbo:
Steve
Do they still have the after dark laser show? They had a nice one 3 years ago.
If memory serves the park was started as sorta a Coney Island type park in the 1890's. I think I got that info from the Travel Channel.
A little trivia. Cedar Point parent co. owns Dorney Park, Pa and Knotts Berry Farm in Calif.
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">They sure do have the laser/fireworks show and it's pretty neat. The park really is very Coney Island-esque - very much a seaside resort! And Cedar Fair, the parent company also operates Valleyfair in MN and Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, MO! |
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08-22-2002, 12:37 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bozrah, CT USA
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Re: Cedar Point - It\'s a Giant Pop Up Book!
Steve,
Great report. If i wasn't such a chicken [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] I would be there in a minute. I would probably only get up the courage to ride 2 or 3 of the coasters you described. [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]
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