I rode every coaster at Cedar Point in the summer of 2010 when I was last there with my daughter I was kind of disappointed. Top Thill was OK but it was over too fast. Millennium Force was fun after dark. The coaster that is now named Rougarou is a puke machine because of the 3D G-forces. You're fine as long as you can keep an eye on the horizon.
It rained for an hour or so the evening that we went. Just after it stopped raining they opened the coasters and nobody wanted to ride, so they were empty. The nightly fireworks were happening when we rode Millenium Force which added a new level of thrill because we could not get a good fix on where the horizon was after dark and the fireworks going off around us made it fun.Spend a good chunk of my youth in a lower middle class suburb-like area close to Cincinnati, reasonably close to King's Island.
The Vortex and The Beast were my favorite. The Vortex because it had the best drops. The beast, because it was an old coaster with a wooden frame. Very well designed, but something about the fact that it was wood caused feelings of uneasiness, even if they shouldn't have.
They later built one that was entirely indoors, in a barely-lit room. No horizon to keep your eye on, and the thing ran so fast. It wasn't all that much fun. Not because it was 'too scary' or even a puke machine, but because it was all these really fast tight turns. Your head is slamming around the place. It's more like getting picked up by a giant and shaken than a ride.
For now, I'm not sure I want to deal with the lines. 30-120m for some of them, depending on day/time. I'm sure I'll deal with it when kiddo is old enough to want to go....
My absolute favorite day was after a tragedy had occurred. A woman's harness didn't lock properly on The Vortex and she died. My friend and I went shortly after re-opening. Nobody in line. Half-full cars on each ride. So we rode it for several hours, until we absolutely had to eat something.
Wow, sad but fortuitous.Spend a good chunk of my youth in a lower middle class suburb-like area close to Cincinnati, reasonably close to King's Island.
The Vortex and The Beast were my favorite. The Vortex because it had the best drops. The beast, because it was an old coaster with a wooden frame. Very well designed, but something about the fact that it was wood caused feelings of uneasiness, even if they shouldn't have.
They later built one that was entirely indoors, in a barely-lit room. No horizon to keep your eye on, and the thing ran so fast. It wasn't all that much fun. Not because it was 'too scary' or even a puke machine, but because it was all these really fast tight turns. Your head is slamming around the place. It's more like getting picked up by a giant and shaken than a ride.
For now, I'm not sure I want to deal with the lines. 30-120m for some of them, depending on day/time. I'm sure I'll deal with it when kiddo is old enough to want to go....
My absolute favorite day was after a tragedy had occurred. A woman's harness didn't lock properly on The Vortex and she died. My friend and I went shortly after re-opening. Nobody in line. Half-full cars on each ride. So we rode it for several hours, until we absolutely had to eat something.
Those pics they take of you are so telling.I love stuff like that. My dad and I spent an entire day in Vegas, he was in his 60s, 40s for me, doing every extreme ride, including a tandem bungee jump.
My mom, with a bad shoulder, mostly watched. So each time we'd get in line for a ride, we'd empty our pockets of change, hand her sunglasses, my purse, etc and go.
We had a blast and the pics showed us having a great time. By the end, down at the Stratosphere where it blasts you straight up...it showed us laughing and the 2 strangers next to us terrified out of their minds. It didnt even faze us by that point, lol.
By the end, my mom said she was just there waiting to identify our remains.