Help Blast go to CP!

Yup! You’d maybe have found out when you checked in, but if you didn’t check in until 5:30 then that wouldn’t be much use!

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Lol, I’m looking forward to it… I had several surveys asking about which, out of several general descriptions, I would prefer. I picked this as my second choice in all of them… the other options were a very different kind of tower coaster (my first choice), a long family coaster, or a water coaster.

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Well, I have several issues. First, it is a Vekoma. I just don’t think Vekoma makes very exciting coasters. (There are a few exceptions.)

Second, it is a tilt coaster. This is a gimmick. A gimmick that doesn’t really add much to the coaster experience. And all it does is make ride capacity quite low.

Third, it is themed to a water concept (Siren!), and even the teaser for it was filled with water references. But the animation for the coaster has NO WATER whatsoever. Has nothing to do with water.

Fourth, this coaster was a complete afterthought not even intended for CP to begin with. I fear it is a preview of the kind of generic fare we can expect from CP now that Six Flags own them. (Hope I wrong about that.) Which means it wasn’t even designed to be something on par with CP expectations.

Anyhow, we’ll see how it is when it opens. I don’t know…some of the more recent coasters for CP haven’t been the best. Valravn is a bore. Gatekeeper is visually stunning, but the on-ride experience is slightly above mediocre. (X-Flight at Six Flags Great America was a more more thrilling wing coaster experience.) Rougarou is a joke.

I guess there is a reason I’m falling more in love with King’s Island over CP.

Given that crowds will be at their lowest Thursday we will absolutely be there in time for 5 pm early entry! Will we be ok leaving the hotel 4:30 pm to walk to the side entrance? Do we need to be earlier than that?

I totally agree with it being gimmicky and low-capacity, and I pretty much said those exact things in my surveys, but I think it will be higher capacity than what it’s replacing and I don’t think the park really needs more than one water ride. You can only reliably ride them there for half the season, and they really only get long lines when it’s a billion degrees out. They’re high maintenance, they require a bigger crew, and statistically speaking, water rides are far more likely to cause serious injury. They also have a whole water park and a free beach if people want to cool off. It’s weird about the naming, but CP has never been good with theming… I mean, TT2 has zero to do with racing (you don’t go backwards in the middle of the race!), but they made that the entire marketing scheme.

When it comes to recent builds, Rougarou isn’t recent… even with a different train it’s still the same boring ride from 1996, and you conveniently left Steel Vengeance off your list! TT2 is also really great when it’s running. As far as it not being groundbreaking, I think they need something that’s tried and tested after TT2, and there’s just not a lot out there that hasn’t been done… Velocicoaster wasn’t really anything innovative, but it’s still one of the best. Also, this will be 3 coasters opening in 4 years, and who can complain about that?

Oh that’s plenty of time… I think we got there in 30ish minutes even with a stop at Starbucks a few weeks ago. You also will likely be one of the only ones going in there, so it’s not like it will really change anything if you’re not there until 5:10.

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It’s not replacing anything. It is going in a location where there are currently no rides. This is unrelated to the Snake River Falls demolition.

I said SOME.

Mantis was 1996. But rather than build a new coaster, they just turned it floorless. Hence it being a joke.

That’s what I said… even with a different train it’s still the same ride.

So it’s not a SDD rope drop situation :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

I’m super optimistic about Thursday night. The Halloween stuff is very low priority for me (this just ended up being the time of year we could go) and I’d love to get on a handful of coasters that night!

Not at all. Even at the main gate, where passholders, Castaway Bay, Sawmill Creek, and Express hotel guests go in for early entry it gets like, maybe 100 people in line before opening even on a Saturday. Last time I lined up there I think I got there 10 minutes before EE and I was around the 20th person in line. I was on the first Gatekeeper train and rode it 2 more times as a walk on before I decided to go get breakfast!

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I get that. My point is that it was supposed to be a new coaster experience, basically. But instead it gave us something that used to be unique, but rough…to just boring…rather than give us a truly new ride experience. I would consider 2015 to be recent.

Got an upsell email from Breakers…sure I’ll pay $8/night to change to lake view. We’re barely going to be in the room so yeah, I’m the target audience for these kinds of “deals” :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Aw, man. You should have done it. Because you TOTALLY can’t just walk outside on the beach itself and see the water. :nerd_face:

Life has taken a very wacky turn, and I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

You guys will appreciate that it looks like I’m going to finish my workup, make it to CP with DH for our anniversary, come home and start chemo. The oncologist thinks its a great idea to get away before starting chemo.

Given the situation, I may just go ahead and be a line princess for Friday and buy the Fast Lane Plus. It’s gonna be a bit before I can go to a theme park again (and I have several Disney trips that are going to be postponed) so it feels…justified.

I’m majorly excited to ride some coasters and take a break from everything for a couple days.

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:frowning: So sorry to hear this.

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I saw your post in chat. So sorry to hear this.

I hope you can relax and enjoy cedar point. :people_hugging:

Sending you a lot of positive vibes.

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Sending :people_hugging: and wishes for strength and healing.

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When my DW was diagnosed, the timing for our first family Disney trip was just too close so we had to cancel very near the travel date - but we had a terrific trip the following year; was so nice to just think about that and enjoy it. :slight_smile:

Hope this is a great trip for you! I’ve always wanted to ride the coasters there.

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I’m sorry to hear about your diagnosis. I’m glad to read that you are taking a trip before chemo!

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