Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point 5/1/03

Does this mean the running of the bulls goes in the other direction?!

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YOUNGSTOWN 2010

You have yet to commit on the issue of whether it is better than Millenium Force.

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Buy "Stereotype Be" from Kevin Max at Amazon.com

Our local Fox affiliate showed the first part of that rollback from yesterday. It made it almost all the way up and you could just tell it wasnt going to go all the way and just as it was stopping and starting to reverse they cut away...

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Bob Hansen

Operation Wicked Twister
Goal: Lose enough weight (50lbs) to ride Wicked Twister in 2K3
Progress: 25 pounds since 1-1-2003

I would never say "it" is better than MF because I haven't ridden "it" yet. Even after I do get the chance to experience "it" I would never say which is better (No vs. threads allowed). I'm just saying since TTD is a new ride, it will most likely take the majority of guests. -Then the other attractions that typically have longer lines, won't be so long! :-)

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YOUNGSTOWN 2010
*** This post was edited by jkpark 5/2/2003 11:15:35 AM ***

jkpark: I don't think Kevin Max was responding to you

Kevin Max: Don't turn this into a vs. thread. Jeff already stated his opinion indirectly (the most intense ride anywhere), so don't go fishing for a yes/no answer.

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Be polite and ignore the idiots. - rollergator
"It's not a Toomer" - Arnold Schwartzenkoph

I don't think I could pick between the two anyway (not to mention I've had three rides on Dragster, at least 60 on MF). Dragster is kind of a cross between a coaster and a drop ride.

On the short ride time, consider this. After an experience that intense and incredible, what could possibly follow it up? No thanks... I smile for a good 15 minutes straight after each ride. It doesn't need anything else.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com - Sillynonsense.com
"Pray that your country undergoes recovery!" - KMFDM

I think Jeff makes a solid point there. Why add more ride when what is there already got your adrenaline pumping. A lot of people have criticized the ride without having riden it for being launch-tophat-brakes, but from what I have been hearing from everyone that has riden it, including those in the press, that short ride is nothing short of amazing and gets your adrenaline to the point where your heart is beating hard and you feel on top of the world. Why ruin that with a few overbanked turns?

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Bob Hansen

Operation Wicked Twister
Goal: Lose enough weight (50lbs) to ride Wicked Twister in 2K3
Progress: 25 pounds since 1-1-2003

I think the same rule of riding Magnmu after MF will need to be used for riding MF after TTD, just make sure you ride another coaster before the second ride and Im sure you will love MF just as much as you used to. As for TTD, dont get me wrong I cant wait to ride it, but I am a little bit disapointed that CP rolled out yet another "gimick" or "one trick" coaster. Granted it is one hell of a gimick but do you see TTD gracing the #1 coaster spot ten years from now like Magnum did? Heres hoping that after WT and TTD CP gives us a tradional 2+ min ride next time around, and I cant wait to ride TTD in late June!

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Summer 03-CP, HP, Canobie, SFNE, SFWOA, and SFGAm.

So what else do you want them to do? Build another Millennium Force? Another Magnum? We all agree they could build another smaller wood coaster (in enthusiast circles, anyway), but you can't market off that the way you can on something like this.

The only thing left for them to really go for is the inversion record. Seeing how they've been working with Intamin, who has built a 10-inversion ride... ;)

But I won't go there. This ride gets the spotlight now and it very much deserves it.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com - Sillynonsense.com
"Pray that your country undergoes recovery!" - KMFDM

God I wanna go opening day so bad! :(

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Corey
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Intamin, the cadillac of roller coasters.
MF-19

I HEART OHIO

Jeff, what a nice way to get all the kids saying CP will build a coaster with 20 inversions next year ;)

This ride is GREAT the way it is. Even after 4 hours of waiting, I have nothing but good things to say about this ride. If people are complaining that it does nothing else but launch, go up and over, and come back, let us not forget that PLENTY of coaster enthusiasts said that MF should have the first drop, and then go right back to the station (I'm not one of those enthusiasts). Perhaps CP actually heard those enthusiasts and were trying to make them happy this time.

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Goccvp1

TTD -- worth the wait.
*** This post was edited by Goccvp1 5/3/2003 8:10:01 AM ***

Goccvp1,

Was that you talking with Mangino this morning on 570?

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YOUNGSTOWN 2010

In the famous words of Eric Cartman, "Sweeeeeeet."

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Well, I used to be able to see TTD from my house, then I moved.
Life's not fair.

So will Mantis be painted by May 4?
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Intelligence is a God given gift: Know how to use it.

Mantis was being painted while we stood in line for TTD on Thurs. There are only a very few small parts of the ride unfinished (the rails at the top of the lift). The guy painted the supports on Thurs was getting purple paint on everyone waiting in line, too! Quite funny, because well, I didn't get any on me. ;)

My TTD report will be coming later!

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Top Thrill Dragster -- The most intense, unbelievable, and spectacular fifteen seconds on any coaster, anywhere, ever.

jkpark:

Yep.

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Goccvp1

0 - 120 in 4 seconds. Biggest rush of my life so far (with apologies to my wife...and a few former girlfriends).
*** This post was edited by Goccvp1 5/3/2003 8:10:26 AM ***

Did anyone hear anything on whether or not the trains will eventually recieve the removed cars? Were the airgates for the removed car roped off or completely removed?

Yes, for the millionth time, the short trains are a temporary phenomenon.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com - Sillynonsense.com
"Pray that your country undergoes recovery!" - KMFDM

Do yuo get to choose your seat or do they assign you a seat?