Millennium Force when it opened?

Just wondering, but how long were lines when Millennium Force opened? Was it a crazy seane?

I heard it was indeed very very long wait wise.

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The longest I remember were 3 hours or so. It was a line that would probably take most other parks 5 hours or more to dispatch though.

I believe there were reports of up four and a half hours if I remember correctly - with lines stretching all the way down Frontier Trail to back near the water rides.

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I waited close to 3 hours in 2000. I was inside the queue, however, not on the frontier trail.

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when MF opened there were actually 6 hour waits. the lines went accross the railroad tracks and all the way down to the dodgems!

Craziness!

I waited 4 hours in 2000 for my first ride.

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I also waited 4 hours my first ride in 2000.

I was just looking through my CP pictures, and look what i found: http://members.accesstoledo.com/bwiatrak/mfline.jpg

The longest I waited was 2 and a half hours in 2000. I guess we hit the right days in the middle of June. The only bummer was the fact that they would not allow you to wait for the front or back seats.

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In opening season I experienced it all....from walk on rides to yes...a 6 hour wait.

6 Hours is the longest I have ever had to wait. I was with my cousin who had to ride it no matter what. Sign posted said a 3 1/2 hour wait. Extended ques were filled. Extra line outside was filled. And the line still went back down frontier trail. That wasn't the problem. It was mainly 1 train operation. When train just wasn't on, because the crews were still learning and couldn't do 3 train operation. And not to mention the wheels melting. Every 10 min...I kid you not they were switching trains...sometimes they just held both trains. The average dispatch...if it was fast was one train every 7min...more like 10min though. Somtimes the line did start to move though...but then a wheel had to be pulled. This was before the mechanics could fly on the changing the wheels. Later in the season they got it down (of course this is before the new wheels). So yes, there was a 6+ hour wait. I think it has happened on at least 3 days I know of in 2000.

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I waited 15 minutes on the Sunday before Memorial Day, 2000. I picked a rainy day to go :)

I have a policy of not waiting for more than 30 minutes or so for a ride

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I started out with nothing and still have most of it left.

On the Longaberger Basket Co.'s buyout in 2000, only one train was running because of the problem with the anti-rollbacks not disengaging. I waited very nearly three hours, but it was probably one of the most memorable coaster moments I've ever had. Having "grown up" with the ride in the off season it was like watching the birth of a child (OK, maybe not that special, but you get the idea).

Once the kinks were worked out most waits were two hours or less that year.

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Why would you wait 6 hours for that!!! I waited 3 hours and felt like i couldve gotten on mangnum about 15 times in the time i wasted.

Jeff, can you write some sort of script that will automatically put in a negative post from HurricaneGeauga anytime CP is mentioned, and a positive post anytime SFWoA is mentioned? It would probably save him a lot of time.

I waited a little over three hours in June of that year, and I would do it again. Hopefully, with the crowds flocking to the new coaster next year, there will be Magnum-type waits for MF and WT, so I can ride them both all day long :)

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When I was there on Opening Day in 2000 I waited around 3 1/2 hours but as the day wore on I heard that the line got upwards of 5 or 6 hours.

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We went to Cedar Point for July 25 and 26th 2000.
We went straight for it at opening from the Sandcastle Suites and found the line back in the Frontier Trail. However, that was just because they had not opened the queue yet. We got on in about 40 mins that morning and got on again in about 40 mins that night too! That was one of my best trips to CP ever. For a late July weekend the park was not crowded at all. The weather was beautiful, not too hot, and almost every coaster but MF and Magnum were about 10-15 wait max.

Unlike this year where I went midweek and it was packed!

I went on the AAA buyout day (the day after the Longenberger Day) in 2000 and waited over 2 hours. It was fun though, we brought breakfast and the line is in a pleasant location (on the water, trains roaring by). Nothing like waiting for, say, Magnum, where you're bored out of your gourd.

*!* I just realized that that ride was my *only* ride on MF, and that I haven't been to CP (except for the WT media day) since then! AHH!

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I guess I was pretty lucky. I waited an hour an fifteen minutes on a weekday in May. I think that during other parts of the day, the like was longer.

what helped with the lines though, that year, was the ticket to ride policy. That helped end alot of the normal 2, 3 hour waits.

I think the average line is about 1hr 30 min. Because that's usually how long the line is for me. Longest I've had to wait was 2 hours, and the shortest was, well, second train of the day, in the opening season! Other than that, prolly 45 minutes just this past year.