Cedar Point Winter Chill Out 2017

Whats up guys! Saturday I was fortunate enough to attend Chill Out for the first time and i plan on attending this again and many more events (Coastermania, Coasterstock..... and so forth).

So here's how my tour went (after my stupid Siri decided to route me to North Carolina's Cedar Point and took a ever so slight detour):

1. Maintenance Shop with glimpses of Maverick/Dragster car's disassembled and a slight Millennium Red train lead car waiting to join the others on the track.
2. Cedar Point Shore's: Great photo op's of Magnum, Breaker's new skytower, Point Plummet, New ticket window and overall, Cedar Point Shores!
3. Gemini Photo Op! a no picture clause was in effect after we left Gemini (you can probably guess why) until we reached Mine Ride
4. We learned about Professor Dilbert's Frontier Fling, as well as a Millennium/Dragon train photo op on the way to.................................
5.LUNCH!
6.Merchandise tour and then we where done and heading home

So here are some interesting things I gathered from the Q/A's:
-Scrambler tear down occurs ever five years, and other rides are based upon what the manufacturer recommends
-A mixture of suits and standard rooms in the new Breaker's skytower
-A new walkway will connect the new Breaker's skytwoer to the current parking lot.
-Fast lane system for cedar point shores has not been determined yet.
-Boardwalk will stay the same.
-Discharge portion of Magnum's exit will be re route to accommodate the new Entrance to Cedar Point.
-The markers in the dirt on the Gemini side of Magnum's lift will be for the new entrance and preferred parking.
-The maximum height for the drop slides on Point Plummet are 42" supposedly
-Parking lot and exterior for cedar point shores will be completed before may 6th when the main park opens, while work walls will go up around Cedar Point Shores until the park is complete
-The old kids area will be reused for Lemmy's Lagoon
-In the petting zoo a new camel will be wit the one at the park already, along with Emu's and a couple new Yak's. Also At the blacksmith shop.A hand led pony ride will be new this year. An up charge attraction. Maximum height for this has not been determined yet.
-Animals from Kings Island, Cedar Point and some from Michigan's adventure go back down to the Honey Hill's Farm in Kentucky during the off season and some go to the Columbus location of Honey Hill's Farm.
-Cost will be similar for Ripcord when it was at challenge park. Season pass discounts will probably be available.
-When planning expansions for the park, full timer's usually look as far as 3,4,5 years.
-There where many possible locations for ripcord.
-Coastermania tickets will go on sale on March 9th.
-The park did tease about RMC mean streak and a bunny hill is at the bottom of the supposedly first drop
-An All new cup program where you can choose between a disposable cup OR a souvenir cup.
-Iron dragon VR will be coming back for good. I believe if I remember correctly it'll will be June through august. VR ONLY AFTER 6 PM
-For all electric car owners. The park has contacted TESLA and discussed charging stations coming
-MELT will be coming to the point at Joe Cool's Cafe but WILL NOT AS OF RIGHT NOW BE ON THE DINING PLAN
-All merchandise goes through Cedar point ware houses and then is delivered to the designated park except for Canada's Wonderland, Knott's Berry Farm and California's great America

Anyways I'll shut up now and share some of my favorite of the pics that i took (i had to do a lot of editing from 245 pictures and 135 Videos)

[Coasterkidmwm]

Thanks for the TR! So that bunny hill, are you saying it's between the first drop and turn that is currently built or are you saying it's a separate track segment behind it?

Coasterkidmwm wrote:

Thanks for the TR! So that bunny hill, are you saying it's between the first drop and turn that is currently built or are you saying it's a separate track segment behind it?

From what we saw, it is between the first drop and the turn currently built. AND for the turn that is currently built, on the way down, from the ledgers that are placed you will bank left (like an outerbank) and then you'll even out. ledgers coming up into the next hill have been placed but i couldnt tell what all it would do.

I love how there's 3 or 4 different projects going on.

[mkingy]

Great trip report I love seeing all the trains ect. in storage and whilst they're doing maintenance.