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Another Cedar Point Opening Weekend

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It was back to Cedar Point for opening weekend. I'll try and keep the written portion short, but there are some things worth mentioning.

I guess the state was certifying rides until almost midnight on Friday night, so a lot of rides were constantly breaking and some rides weren't even opened. Cedar Creek Mine Ride never opened and Chaos didn't even have seats on it.

A small section of Mean Streak's track has been rebuilt, but there is only about 5 seconds of somewhat smooth track before jackhammering starts again.

Mantis rolled back sometime Sunday morning before the corkscrew.

Top Thrill Dragster's gold and red trains were nowhere to be seen. Mean Streak's green train was also missing. Maverick's dark gray train was also sitting on the transfer track all day Saturday.

Shoot the Rapids looks very nice. They repainted Snake River Falls to a brown color to match, so the area looks new but rustic. The park even did a good job on the fake rocks and waterfalls on the path side of the ride.

Enough talk, here's pics. I was trying to focus on close up shots and taking advantage of my 10x optical:

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Interesting water dummy:
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Some good expressions in the following four:
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This turkey was verbally abusing PLCP:

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Shoot the Rapids:
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Snake River Falls:
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New view of Millennium Force:
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Where Demon Drop was:
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One of the nicer pics I took because of how much is going on in the photo:
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Night photos:
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Another one of my friends decided to buy a season pass, so while we waited, I messed around taking photos and ended up with a lot of nice ones:

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That's all. Enjoy!
 
SINCE WHEN WAS DEMON DROP GONE AND HOW THE HELL WAS I NOT AWARE OF THIS? That midway will never look the same!

Anyway, nice report. Shoot the Rapids looks decently themed I guess, though I'm still not overly excited by it. I don't get why they would paint Snake River Falls when it's rumoured to be torn down in the near future..
 
Honestly Taylor?!?!?!

Snake River Falls was repainted because it's right next to Shoot the Rapids. They don't want it looking ugly when they have a brand new ride right next to it.
 
The only reason SRF was rumor to be torn down was because some thought they would replace it with a newer version.. which we now know is pointless.
 
And you call yourself a CP fan? Of course, you DO think maXair is a good ride. For shame..
 
Ok, so what's the difference between Shoot the Rapids and Snake River Falls? That seems a bit pointless to me.
 
Some really nice photos Marc! Looking forward to Coastermania with the sexy beast!
 
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