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Postby GreatAmericanfox on April 14th, 2025, 9:08 pm
Makes sense Imagine going to CGA Demon and you can;t ride it even though you can SFGAm demon
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Postby Goku1910 on April 14th, 2025, 11:08 pm
Random thought, wonder if that removal of Demon from the Flash pass website is just temporary or permanent.
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Postby GreatAmericanfox on April 14th, 2025, 11:17 pm
Goku1910 wrote:Random thought, wonder if that removal of Demon from the Flash pass website is just temporary or permanent.


Most likely temp as they're reworking the queue
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Postby lettuce on April 15th, 2025, 4:42 am
Goku1910 wrote:Random thought, wonder if that removal of Demon from the Flash pass website is just temporary or permanent.
In the site plans demon only has an entrance and exit lane, no flash pass. That’s not to say they don’t have a plan to still squeeze it in somehow but just saying…
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Postby GreatAmericanfox on April 15th, 2025, 8:20 am
lettuce wrote:
Goku1910 wrote:Random thought, wonder if that removal of Demon from the Flash pass website is just temporary or permanent.
In the site plans demon only has an entrance and exit lane, no flash pass. That’s not to say they don’t have a plan to still squeeze it in somehow but just saying…


the path was wide enough for both so they might, the only thing gone is the overflow queue
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Postby Dan The Coaster Man on April 15th, 2025, 2:43 pm
lettuce wrote:Yes multiple height requirements have changed. Updated height requirements (from the website) are:

Condor: 54" to ride alone, under 54" must ride with an adult
Crazy Bus: 36" to ride alone, under 36" must ride with an adult
Demon: 48"
Little Dipper: 44" to ride alone, under 44" must ride with an adult
Scenic Railway: 42" to ride alone, under 42" must ride with an adult
Sky Trek Tower: 42" to ride alone, under 42" must ride with an adult
Sprocket Rockets: 42" to ride alone, 36"-42" must ride with an adult
The Flash V2: 52"
Lobster: 42" to ride alone, under 42" must ride with an adult
Winner's Circle: 58" to drive, 40" to be a passenger.

Not thrilled to see the huge jump for Demon, it was really valuable at 42 inches. I was also hoping to see Winner's Circle just disappear from the app and be SBNO this year, darn :lol:
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Postby GreatAmericanfox on April 15th, 2025, 2:44 pm
Dan The Coaster Man wrote:
lettuce wrote:Yes multiple height requirements have changed. Updated height requirements (from the website) are:

Condor: 54" to ride alone, under 54" must ride with an adult
Crazy Bus: 36" to ride alone, under 36" must ride with an adult
Demon: 48"
Little Dipper: 44" to ride alone, under 44" must ride with an adult
Scenic Railway: 42" to ride alone, under 42" must ride with an adult
Sky Trek Tower: 42" to ride alone, under 42" must ride with an adult
Sprocket Rockets: 42" to ride alone, 36"-42" must ride with an adult
The Flash V2: 52"
Lobster: 42" to ride alone, under 42" must ride with an adult
Winner's Circle: 58" to drive, 40" to be a passenger.

Not thrilled to see the huge jump for Demon, it was really valuable at 42 inches. I was also hoping to see Winner's Circle just disappear from the app and be SBNO this year, darn :lol:


Complain to Guest Relations and they'll do it lmao
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Postby Tidal_Waver on April 15th, 2025, 5:22 pm
Have employees been told they can’t smoke or vape backstage as well?
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Postby GreatAmericanfox on April 15th, 2025, 5:23 pm
Tidal_Waver wrote:Have employees been told they can’t smoke or vape backstage as well?


Beats me, gotta find one and ask
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Postby lettuce on April 15th, 2025, 5:29 pm
Tidal_Waver wrote:Have employees been told they can’t smoke or vape backstage as well?
I believe I heard there’s a few employee smoking areas in the park but way less than there was last year.
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Postby Tidal_Waver on April 15th, 2025, 10:30 pm
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Tidal_Waver wrote:Have employees been told they can’t smoke or vape backstage as well?
I believe I heard there’s a few employee smoking areas in the park but way less than there was last year.


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Postby coasterfanatic on April 16th, 2025, 12:21 pm
Park posted a link to park policies for 2025 with a focus on the no smoking. Of note; no chaperone policy. It’s “strongly recommended that anyone under 18 be accompanied by an adult but at this time, there is no chaperone policy in place.


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Postby Tidal_Waver on April 16th, 2025, 12:25 pm
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Tidal_Waver wrote:The weather is going to be awesome next weekend! Six more days!!


It's gonna rain on friday :skull:

I’ve been checking the weather forecast and there is a zero percent chance of rain from 10AM until 4PM when the chance increases to 5 percent. With the temperature to be in the 60s and 70s, I’d wager the weather is going to be near perfect for opening day. Of course the rain could shift earlier, but as it stands the rain is not supposed to arrive until after the park closes. Awesome stuff!
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Postby GreatAmericanfox on April 16th, 2025, 1:27 pm
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GreatAmericanfox wrote:
Tidal_Waver wrote:The weather is going to be awesome next weekend! Six more days!!


It's gonna rain on friday :skull:

I’ve been checking the weather forecast and there is a zero percent chance of rain from 10AM until 4PM when the chance increases to 5 percent. With the temperature to be in the 60s and 70s, I’d wager the weather is going to be near perfect for opening day. Of course the rain could shift earlier, but as it stands the rain is not supposed to arrive until after the park closes. Awesome stuff!


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Postby briphotoguy on April 17th, 2025, 9:06 pm
I haven’t been to the park except for one lap on Maxx Force a few years back. Excited to go tomorrow for a bit. I’m assuming operations might be not that great as I’m assuming one train operations on multiple rides and nice weather for the most part. Hopefully we are pleasantly surprised but who knows.


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Postby GreatAmericanfox on April 17th, 2025, 9:44 pm
briphotoguy wrote:I haven’t been to the park except for one lap on Maxx Force a few years back. Excited to go tomorrow for a bit. I’m assuming operations might be not that great as I’m assuming one train operations on multiple rides and nice weather for the most part. Hopefully we are pleasantly surprised but who knows.


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As long as the operators got it in the bag then it probably won't be as bad
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Postby CoasterRiderSC on April 18th, 2025, 8:05 am
briphotoguy wrote:I haven’t been to the park except for one lap on Maxx Force a few years back. Excited to go tomorrow for a bit. I’m assuming operations might be not that great as I’m assuming one train operations on multiple rides and nice weather for the most part. Hopefully we are pleasantly surprised but who knows.


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But Weather is NOT going to be nice. Windy and chance of T-Storms. I"m going too despite that! Hoping to set a new PR on Batman (currently at 10 consecutive rides, done 12/2019 during Holiday in the Park)


Update: I got a new PR on Batman with 15 consecutive rides (4 waits in line: 6, 4, 1, 4). This was with only a single train!
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Postby Tidal_Waver on April 18th, 2025, 9:30 am
CoasterRiderSC wrote:
briphotoguy wrote:I haven’t been to the park except for one lap on Maxx Force a few years back. Excited to go tomorrow for a bit. I’m assuming operations might be not that great as I’m assuming one train operations on multiple rides and nice weather for the most part. Hopefully we are pleasantly surprised but who knows.


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But Weather is NOT going to be nice. Windy and chance of T-Storms. )


No real chance of rain until after the park closes. With temperatures in the 70s today, I appreciate the wind. The weather is beautiful today!!

Enjoy it!!
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Postby briphotoguy on April 18th, 2025, 10:21 am
Tidal_Waver wrote:
CoasterRiderSC wrote:
briphotoguy wrote:I haven’t been to the park except for one lap on Maxx Force a few years back. Excited to go tomorrow for a bit. I’m assuming operations might be not that great as I’m assuming one train operations on multiple rides and nice weather for the most part. Hopefully we are pleasantly surprised but who knows.


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But Weather is NOT going to be nice. Windy and chance of T-Storms. )


No real chance of rain until after the park closes. With temperatures in the 70s today, I appreciate the wind. The weather is beautiful today!!

Enjoy it!!
Great weather! Gonna be busy! The whole not letting people in the park until 10:30 is a little bogus, right? I thought they started like 15 prior.


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Postby coasterfanatic on April 18th, 2025, 10:23 am
briphotoguy wrote:
Tidal_Waver wrote:
CoasterRiderSC wrote:[quote="briphotoguy"]I haven’t been to the park except for one lap on Maxx Force a few years back. Excited to go tomorrow for a bit. I’m assuming operations might be not that great as I’m assuming one train operations on multiple rides and nice weather for the most part. Hopefully we are pleasantly surprised but who knows.


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But Weather is NOT going to be nice. Windy and chance of T-Storms. )


No real chance of rain until after the park closes. With temperatures in the 70s today, I appreciate the wind. The weather is beautiful today!!

Enjoy it!!
Great weather! Gonna be busy! The whole not letting people in the park until 10:30 is a little bogus, right? I thought they started like 15 prior.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk[/quote]It creates a mob rushing to rides if you hold everyone at Carousel Plaza. The solution would be to just open the park early but not open rides til 10:30.


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Postby Goku1910 on April 18th, 2025, 10:26 am
They actually used to do that. I assume they are not today?
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Postby briphotoguy on April 18th, 2025, 10:28 am
Goku1910 wrote:They actually used to do that. I assume they are not today?
They are not. I’m all the way by the hurricane harbor entrance. And the line is going all the way down wrapping the preferred parking.


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Postby Tidal_Waver on April 18th, 2025, 10:28 am
It rained on my drive up. Jinxed it lol
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Postby briphotoguy on April 18th, 2025, 10:29 am
Tidal_Waver wrote:It rained on my drive up. Jinxed it lol
Still perfect weather…. The rain has mostly stopped.


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Postby Dan The Coaster Man on April 18th, 2025, 10:59 am
I could not talk about this until 10:30am today but the time has come.

I attended the Junkies F&B Dry Run last Saturday and Thrill Burger in the food court has a new cheeseburger. It is the “diner burger” that Cedar Fair has rolled out in recent years.

I was working behind the scenes for F&B at Cedar Point in 2021 when they introduced this burger there. I’ve had my fair share of them over the years and I think they are fantastic. The one I had on Saturday at SFGAm was just as good, they even put the burger in one of those insulated foil bags to keep it warm.

I don’t believe this diner burger is replacing other burgers in the park (Windy City, Johnny Rockets). They can churn these out quickly, it should be a faster moving food line in the park.
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