"One More Ride"--where has it worked for you?

While supervising Wildcat at Hersheypark, I used to let my ride ops hop on the last train with the guests and send it around a few times. Not really legal as it is a "two operator ride."

All you have to do is take a lap bar release tool and thread it through the holes in the dispatch button sheath. This held the button down while I went and pressed the other dispatch button. ;-)Kinda funny, if you did that on both dispatch buttons, the ride would just keep dispatching trains. Of course, we never did that!

About four years ago 5 of my friends and I got to ride shockwave(sfgam) 25 times in a row. I puked on the counter of the on ride photo stall.

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I almost always try on the beast but most of the time its the last ride on saturday night and the workers are all ready to go home. I don't blame them either considering they are the best crew in the park and they work hard all day. There was also a time when this one ride op asked if we wanted to go again and everyone cheered and then she was like come back tommorow at 10 then. I thought it was kind of mean but then again kind of funny

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Three consecutive rides on Xcelerator at closing on a Sunday night in July. Our last ride was going to be the front seat and afterwards the ride sup recognized me from the Xcelerator opening and auction event and had the ride op invite us for a re-ride in the last car. When we came back into the station, it was going to be the last cycle of the night and they let us ride again.

A Few Storys I guess

I managed 2 consecutive rides on Nemesis earlier this year, It was right at the end of the day when the park was due to close and I was on one of the last rides of the day, anyway when we came back into the station we saw there was still a few people waiting for a ride but obviously not enough to fill a whole train, so Me and a couple of other friends very nicely asked if we could stay on for an extra ride, and the ride Op allowed us.
This actually shocked us all, because Alton Towers actually have a very strict rule that no one stays on any ride at the park, not even if its at the end of the day, or if there is no queue. So we were quite delighted when this ride op allowed us to stay on, of course there was no way we were gonna say no :)

I have also managed to stay on Ramesis Revenge at Chessington(Top Spin) for a further 2 Extra Rides at the end of the day, that was excellent, and the staff put it on Absolutly insane Setting ;)

Also Managed what you could call a Mini ERS on Monte at Knotts Berry Farm earlier this year. Although it was'nt actually at the end of the day, the park was really quiet, and when I was on the ride, there was absolutly no one in the queue, so the Guy operating the ride said that you could stay on for AS LONG AS YOU WISH just as long as no one came on wanting to go on your row, so there I am on the ride with only a select few people(About 6 other people I would say) taking about 5-6 rides non stop, It was amazing, I could have easily stayed on for more, but I had enough at that point, GREAT FUN.

Snake River Falls at Cedar Point. Okay, it's not a coaster, but there was nobody waiting in line as we came around, so we all wanted to go again, and the ride-up just let us run through the station without even stopping. It rocked :-)

On Dragon's Decent at Funtown USA, I got three more rides after the "official" closing time. I love small parks just as much as the large ones!
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Lets see... The first time for me was on Raptor its opeaning year. The line for it was 2 plus hours (it was proubly longer) and I just rode it with my dad and brother. Then we did a rider switch and I rode it with my mom in the front row. After that, the train overshot the sation and the floor couldn't be raised so I got to go agin. Another time I got re-rides was on Primal whirl at Animal Kingdom. I was allowed to ride on any car that didn't have 4 people. I got 7 rides durring the buissest (sp?) part of the day when the line was 30 min long (BTW those ride-ops were great and loved to talk about coasters). After Primal whirl, I went over to the raft ride and rode around in the same boat 15 times.

Blue Streak - Cedar Point (there was no line)
Mantis - Cedar Point (again, no line at all)
Raging Bull - Six Flags Great America (BIG line; ride got stuck though)
Shockwave x6 - Six Flags Great America (no line)
American Eagle - SFGA (no line)
Viper - SFGA (ride got stuck)
Demon x4 - SFGA (no line, ever...)
Magnum - Cedar Point (rainy, no line)

That concludes my list. I have been to other parks but these are my two most frequent stops (live in chicago). No joke on any of these. I've been very lucky in my "one more time" chants. Many a time have I attempted but failed to get another ride. Depends on the day i guess. The Cedar Points were either rainy days or late at night. Same with Six Flags.

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Wild Thing at VF when it got stuck in the safety brakes and Bamboozler at WOF

Oh and Millenium Force....we were allowed to test ride it before the park opened

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Boulder Dash, school day, not for me though, 18 laps i na row without leaving the trains. Since every ride at the park was a walk on that day, he didn't make me get out. Lake Compounce has pretty light crowds on a normal day, and on a school day....HEAVEN!!! Oh, there were only about say around 150 people max. there that day.

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Back when I was the foreman at SFOG's GASM, I would always let the last couple of trains get double trips.. the requirement being that everyone had to stay on the train so I wouldn't need to recheck the restraints.

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Deja Vu at SFGAm, I have got 2 rerides this year at the end of the night.

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To: the ride ops who do this for us: WE LOVE YOU GUYS! Seriously, it is appreciated more than you can know and I'm willing to wager that the gift shops nearby see a *spike* in sales immediately afterwards...when I have a GREAT time at a park/on a ride, I'm much more likely to pick up some "merchandise" to show my appreciation....I don't think I'm the only one here.....

edit: to the parks that allow "doubles" at closing or on empty rides: ditto. The impact of going the "extra mile" to make customers happy WAY outstrips the negative impact on employees, IF they're *happy* employees to start with....;)

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Sea Dragon at Wyndot Lake on a cold drizzly day in August last year. The park was dead and a friend and I rode for over an hour without getting off.

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215 different coasters since May 3rd, 2002 and counting!

It used to work regularly when SFNE was Riverside. The Cyclone would empty out about an hour or so before closing, and since the old trains needed a full load to run, they'd always let us stay on.

Now that it's SFNE, it never works, no matter how empty the train is. I've also had empty trains on B:TDK that we had to walk around to re-ride. I don't blame the ride-ops, though. I'm sure they get in a lot of trouble if the mgmt. finds out now that it's a SF park.

American Eagle, August 2002. School had started for everyone else and me and my friends rode it twice without getting off. In the backwards AND front!

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Take it up a notch, Mr. Operator! I wanna feel my brains in my feet!

Villain in 2000 and BKF in 2001

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I have 2 Millenium Force here is how I managed to accomplish this on a very crowed day. When you enter the park go through the Beach entrance the closest to the force. When you "RUN" over there there is a stand next door, get your hand stamped it says a time on it then get in line wait 10 minutes and see the test riders go and the fog at the top of the hill!(Quite a site) The time that it says on you hand is the time to go back get there and you wait nothing you get in this side line it takes you right to the station! And the other was Steel Phantom(1) I rode it 25 times set the record there!!!!!

On Silver Comet at MFI the lady didn't hold the brake button down long enough (1 train = no censors) so the train stopped 1/2 way out of the station so they went again.

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