The Death of Mantis

He's dead Jim!



WHEW! Work>Cedar Point>Back to work

Yesterday was a long day X___X

Luckily I got off early so before I crash into a slumber coma.. DAS PICS!!!

Cedar Point had team members lined up the entire day passing out boxes of Mantis Merch for free to all who got their last stand in. The best of which was this button pin! All free!!!





May you enjoy your new life as a French Werewolf

For those that haven't been on one, it's hard to describe the set up for a stand-up coaster. And the internet images make it hard to tell how the seats look so I snagged a few shots

if you look close your can see the whole seat arrangement slides up and down along the orangish-reddish-melonish spine to adjust for height. Thi makes it take forever to load as they have to keep locking and relocking them to adjust for rider comforts and silliness.



Man I'm going to miss ever hearing that roar again Oh wait...
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Looking quite sexy with da new colors
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For most of it




Whatever they did to that third train... I'm sure it wished it had a rape whistle :X


wonder how many drums of paint they used...


Way to environment btw

Wonder how much the fish ate...


More to come after a spot of rest. 14hrs of work divided by Cedar Point equals exhaustion!

[afro85]

Great report! I wish one day I'll have a chance to travel overseas to visit CP!

Great report

[Coasterkidmwm]

That pond under the ride is full of an incredible amount of snails/fish, and yes the fish probably ate some red paint at some point. The wildlife seems to do well in that lagoon, probably because of the sheer volume of insects in that area. The whole ride is riddled with spiders also. I killed 200+ spiders one morning (seriously). While it's being mentioned, the elusive third train also had different wider seats in it and curious when they made the switch. Perhaps an incident happened in the late 90's that made B&M paranoid about ejecting people, since the seatbelts on Mantis pretty much function as a fat-checking device, and I doubt they were designed to serve as a backup.

Also regarding your loading times issue, life would be easier if the ride had no bins and people actually tried to stand up. This is a problem with Raptor apparently, and Magnum had its bins taken away because people are too stupid. It's not hard to get in, and if you're a fatass who is mad you just waited "all that time and have to stand up" (less than 30 minutes for 99% of the whole season), nobody cares.

Insect to werewolf, quite a metamorphosis. Perhaps Darwin was right.

[TTD03]

Great report! Will make the homepage later today!