Cedar Point

wow...the rides there are AMAZING!!! my favorites list for the rides i rode would have to be:

1. Millennium Force
2. Maverick
3. Magnum XL-200
4. Corkscrew
5. Mantis
6. Raptor
7. Top Thrill Dragster (I didn't like it because it gave me a headache...)

Corkscrew>Raptor? [confused]

Originally posted by Supercell

Corkscrew>Raptor? [confused]

well, it is a classic.

Millennium Force > Anything? [confused]

I was wondering when someone would point that out...
Anyway, first I would like to welcome you to coastercrazy, smartone.
Second, you need to re-ride TTD. Most people in their right mind would have that very near the top. Also, I agree completely with the two posts above me!

No his TTD position is about correct.

Correct in the eyes of your opinion.

AKA false.

Well, my CP list goes as such:

Maverick
Raptor
Magnum
TTD
Gemini
Wicked Twister
Blue Streak
Mantis
Millennium Force
Corkscrew
Wildcat
Mean Streak
Cedar Creek Mine Ride
Woodstock Express
Disaster Transport
Iron Dragon
Jr. Gemini

^[lol] What a coincidence. Mine is the exact same, remove any new rides from Wicked Twister onward.

...Actually I might've moved CCMR closer to Blue Streak. Definitely better than MF and Mantis IMO.

I think Mantis owns in the back, you just have to watch your head on some transitions.

And I know not everyone thinks Millenium isn't amazing, but it delivers an amazing ride in the backseat.

yeah, i think MF is fun in back or front. i dont see how people dont like it. people dislike it for wrong reasons. its a different type of ride thats meant for speed, not crazy inversions and transitions. but oh well.

*I included some of the other rides in my list, too:
Maverick
Millennium Force
Wicked Twister
Skyhawk*
Demon Drop*
Raptor
Power Tower (Blue)*
Top Thrill Dragster
MaxAir*
Blue Streak
Magnum XL-200
Gemini (Both sides)
Snake River Falls*
Thunder Canyon*
Wildcat
Power Tower (Red)*
Space Spiral*
Chaos*
Mantis
Cedar Creek Mine Ride
Woodstock Express
Disaster Transport
Iron Dragon
Corkscrew
Mean Streak

The 'good' list is coasters that have good features.
The 'bad' list is coasters that have bad features.
The 'painful' list is all coasters that hurt.
Arranged from best-worst in all lists.

Good:
Top Thrill Dragster (Greatest thrill in the world)
Corkscrew (Wonderful g's on drop)
Raptor (Smoothness, location)
Wicked Twister (Seeing the twist from the back, on the beach)
Mantis (Love the stand-up feeling, great pre-drop, over water)
Iron Dragon (Location, trees, over water, swinging)
Blue Streak (Great airtime, cool colors)
Wildcat (How fun it is for it's compact size)
Maverick (Drop and launches are fun)
Magnum (Location, Tunnels)

Bad:
Millennium Force (No great g's, bugs and rain sting face)
Disaster Transport (Lame theming)
Mean Streak (Oh, the pain)
Gemini (Boring, both trains almost never run together)
Cedar Creek Mine Ride (I'd rather be on the barnstormer at Disneyworld)

Painful:
Maverick (New Intamin restraints kill thighs on turns)
Mantis (Head bangs on turns in second block)
Magnum (Bunny hops hurt like hell)
Mean Streak (Fun, but backbreaking)
Cedar Creek Mine Ride (Boring, flat-to-bank transitions hurt)
Gemini (Drops are painful)

^ total wimp

MY list.

Maverick (its the best ride in the world!!!)
Millennium Force (I unlike everyone else love that ride)
Raptor (Cool smooth invert)
Top Thrill Dragster (gotta love that launch)
Wicked Twister (the ride from the back is best)
Magnum (classic)
Corkscrew (small but has good g's)
Blue Streak (a fairly smooth classic woodie with good airtime)
Disaster Transport (kinda dumb but still a fun indoors coaster)
Mantis (good inversions but hurts ya head)
Cedar Creek Mine Ride (really boring and rough)
Wildcat (its had some pretty bad tech difficulties like two cars crashing on drop- you wont find me riding it)
Iron Dragon (i think i felt a lowercase "g")
Mean Streak (lets burn it [devilish])

There ya go.

Yeah I love Millennium Force, and it's definitely my favorite ride there.

I did kinda think mavericks restraints werent to comfy either.

Here's Mine:

1. Millennium Force
2. Top Thrill Dragster
3. Maverick
4. Magnum
5. Raptor
6. Gemini
7. Mantis

I don't ride anything else, I just like heights and speed

LUCKY! I live in California so I can't go to Cedar Point. Is Milleneum Force amazing?

Originally posted by BananaMasta

LUCKY! I live in California so I can't go to Cedar Point. Is Milleneum Force amazing?

Define amazing.

I was at the park last month. I didn't have time to ride everything, but of what I could squeeze in, my list would run like this:

Millenium Force
Magnum
Maverick
Raptor
Mean Streak
Blue Streak
Gemini
Disaster Transport
Corkscrew

Let me start from the bottom up to explain.

There's nothing wrong with Corkscrew other than it's an old design, meaning that when it was new it was radical and thrilling, but everything about it has been done better by some later ride. Some later rides do everything about it much, much, better.

Disaster Transport seems to be everybody's favorite whipping boy. It's certainly no worse than most portable coasters, and the special effects don't hurt. If you want to argue that the park could have done something more intersting with that amount of money, I won't complain.

Gemini shows why woodies with steel structures > steel coasters with wood structures. It's not a bad coaster, but it just doesn't have that scary, out of control feeling that a good woodie has when it's lurching around the track, and it feels weird flying through all those wooden bents without having those sensations.

I have a soft spot in my heart for old woodies, so I can't say anything bad about the Blue Streak, either. In my mind, this was part of a set along with the Big Dipper at Geauga Lake, the Wildcat at Idora Park, and the Blue Streak at Conneaut Lake Park. At one time, if you said "roller coaster" to someone living in the area, those are the machines that came to mind. And being at the "big park", Blue Streak had the rep, at least with the locals. But having ridden the Wildcat before it burned, I have to rate this as a good old woodie but not a great one.

I can't help but feel that most of the reviews I've read on Mean Streak must have been written by aliens or something. My perspective was that the ride was just starting to get interesting when we hit the mid-course brakes, and after that...boooring! I couldn't comprehend why people would complain that it was a rough ride. Admittedly, it was just starting to get a little rough before those brakes, but after that...no way. I've been on much rougher rides than this one.

Raptor deserves it's rep as one of the best suspended coasters of its generation. It's easy to see what the flaws in the ride are...like the poor transition into and out of the mid-course brakes that just screams, "Brakes! Brakes! This ride was going TOO FAST for old folks and little children, and we're going to slow it down now!" Still, it's just such a well-put together ride with such good pacing otherwise that you just don't care. It's like forgiving your best friend for having one really annoying habit. I did get the famous head-whack just before entering the station, but it wasn't bad and I got the feeling that if I would have anticipated it better, I could have avoided even the discomfort that I had.

I must have been living under a rock because I hadn't read all that much about Maverick, and looking at the ride, I sort of wondered what the big deal and the enormous line was all about. I really like all the innovations on the ride (tandem dispatch, uphill launch, midcourse launch, etc.), and thought it was very well thought out. Good pacing, nice special effects (the fountains were a nice touch). I now understand what all the fuss is over this ride!

Magnum proves that you don't need every trick in the book to pull off a world-class ride. I was a little surprised when I heard people rating Maverick over Magnum. Don't get me wrong, I love Maverick's many varied elements, but comparing the two is like comparing this year's biggest hit with a classic tune that you love so much that you turn up the radio every time you hear it, even though you've heard it hundreds of times. Magnum is distilled airtime perfection. I like to think that coasters have personalities, and that you can best determine those personalities by the emotion you feel at arriving at the station. Well, when I ride Magnum, my emotions are best summed up as, "I love being alive!" Really, what more do you need?

And then there's Millenium Force. Yes, I rode in the front seat after dark, and didn't get a single bug hit (my fellow front seater got a couple, but nothing major). Sometimes more really is better. I've raced cars at several venues, and have experienced the thrill of power-sliding a turn at nearly 130 mph. The experience of speed on this ride is comparable to some of the top 4 or 5 experiences I've had racing cars. In fact, I feel like MF has crossed some sort of threshold, in that there's absolutely no point in trying to improve the ride experience by going faster and that it's time to concentrate on other aspects of the experience. This is because it's such an amazing ride with practically no fancy elements (save the one overbanked turn), relatively little airtime (only twice on my ride, not even on the bunny hop), and practically no sense of being out of control. In this case, more would simply mean more wind in your face to distract you from the experience, more bugs, and getting to the station quicker. After my ride, I spent some time thinking about what would be the most important thing to improve about it (and I'm sure everyone has a list, there are so many aspects that could be done better). But of all the improvements I would make, if I could make only one it would be to increase the ride capacity!

If I got a chance to go back to the park and could only ride one ride that I hadn't already, it would be TTD. If I could add a second, it would be Wildcat, as I'm partial to both wild mice and to Schwartzkof. But this is still THE park for coaster fans, very deserving of it's rep.

Hello
I love cedar point i like the new ride Shoot The Rapids

Magnum XL-200 would be my favorite ride in the park if I didn't get bruises from those horrible lap bars.

magnum is too old! TTD forever!

^ What the hell are you talking about? Too old? Just because a ride is old doesn't mean it's bad. And there are rides that are a lot better then TTD. Yes it's fun, don't get me wrong, but it's not the best ride there. You're missing out if you think that. I think I'd classify this as a noob post, he just wanted his 5 posts...

My list:

1. Maverick (Best steel coaster I've ever been on.)
2. Millennium Force (Say all you want about it, but it still has the world's best first drop.)
3. Magnum X-L 200 (Yay, insane ejector air!)
4. Top Thrill Dragster (Insane, but just way too short.)
5. Raptor (I do really like it, but that dead spot between the first and second corkscrews still bothers me.)
6. Blue Streak (pure classic woodie fun)
7. Gemini (more pure classic fun, and one-of-a-kind.)
8. Wicked Twister (Used to be so much better before they cut the backwards launches)

And the rest, I really don't care. Wildcat is just a standard model, Corkscrew headbangs too much, Mantis might as well be called "the vasectomy coaster," CCMR, Iron Dragon, and the kiddie coasters are just generally dull, Disaster Transport is somewhat fun but odd, and Mean Streak just plain blows.