No Coasterbuzz Club for Coastermania?

Just looked at the Cedar Point website's Coastermania page and Coasterbuzz is not listed as an included club. I don't really want to join ACE.

Just a mistake, right?

That page lists a club that hasn't existed for some time. I'm guessing it to be boilerplate.

It is the same list as early last year. Coasterbuzz was added later.

I'll ask, but yeah, it was omitted by mistake last year as well.

Pretty sure the list was peer reviewed before it was published. Sorry Jeff :(

They fixed the list, FYI.

I only went once but they didn't confirm a club membership at any point.

^ How long ago since you attended? We have gone every year that it has been a ticketed event (I think it is 5 years), and someone always checks our club membership card before entry.

Let me make the usual statement that waiting until the last minute to join is a bad idea because your cards do have to be delivered via US Mail.

May have to offer 2 year memberships just so people can get membership cards in time for Coastermania 2022. Amazing how slow the Post Office still is at this point.

I would like to do electronic membership, if I can get the parks to buy-in (I don't imagine it's not easy to forge a card with a laser printer), and make them scan verifiable. I want to see the membership rebound though before investing that time, since it took a huge dump last year with Covid.

As much as I fully subscribe to the "amusement parks are safer than the grocery store" theory and have spent plenty of time in parks in a COVID-19 world, I can't see myself returning to an event like Coastermania (or in my case, Coasterstock at Kings Island, which was my go-to event in 2018 and 2019 as a weekend getaway out of Orlando) until things like full coaster trains and sitting in pavilions or amphitheaters in a group can be a thing again. I'll go to parks and ride rides, but the value of an event that includes ride time, nerd Q&A, and a gravy buffet is dependent on crowds being able to be a thing.

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Its is listed 4th on list below.

CoasterMania!
Friday, June 4, 2021
The first Friday in June always means CoasterMania! It's our annual gathering of coaster crazies from all over the world.

Participation is limited to the following roller coaster fan clubs:

American Coaster Enthusiasts
Club de Fans de Montanas Rusas
Club TPR
CoasterBuzz Club
European Coaster Club
Great Ohio Coaster Club
Roller Coaster Club of Great Britain

Jeff said:

I would like to do electronic membership, if I can get the parks to buy-in (I don't imagine it's not easy to forge a card with a laser printer), and make them scan verifiable. I want to see the membership rebound though before investing that time, since it took a huge dump last year with Covid.

Apple Wallet and whatever the Android equivalent is?

No... I wouldn't tie into those proprietary things that change. I'd probably just surface a QR code in a web page that someone else can use to verify it's real.

I actually miss the Coasterbuzz exclusive events. The '09 Fall Affair was epic with those amazing shower rides on The Voyage at the end of the night! Although busier, BooBuzz was nicely organized as well. Many great memories from those events!