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One Cedar Point Drive
Sandusky, OH 44870-5259
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Cedar Fair's 364-acre flagship park is constantly recognized as the number one amusement park in the world by numerous industry publications. Located on a sandy peninsula jutting out into Lake Erie, the park is home to over 69 rides including 17 rollercoasters. Travel Info:
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erikjc
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This park is truly by far the absolute best most fun amusement park on Earth. They have 16 roller coaster, more than any other park, and have the tallest and fastest coaster Top Thrill Dragster. What more could you ask for?? And I'm baffled at the Top 5 park list here, Cedar Point should be #1 on the park list with a 5-Star rating!
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bear9151
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I totally agree.
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Sir Willow
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This is an old TR from a trip that was most definitly the exception rather than the rule. But I still have people ask about it and refer to it, hence why I'm posting it here. You will notice that I also posted another TR for the park that is much more typical of it.
October 5, 2001
Josh, Nate, and Brian (AFLAC!) can all verify this one since they were with me, along with a couple of other guys. This was our pre-PPP park, and my one opportunity to visit Cedar Point, so I was extremely excited. Boy did they let me down. Talk about unbelievable! In addition to the complaints, I'll get into the rides a little bit too.
We arrived at Cedar Point Friday night, when it was supposed to be open from six to midnight. When we left Wadsworth, OH (near Akron), weather was a little rainy but not bad. We got up to Cedar Point at about 6:15. Challenge Park is closed, but there are no signs saying anything about closed rides, the weather, or anything. I went up and paid my $24, and they certainly gave me the impression that everything should be open, even though it's raining.
We started to walk around and realized that absolutely everything we are walking by was closed. Everything. We stopped at the Cedar Creek Mine Ride, which they were cycling, but still was closed. One of the ride operators got our attention and shook his head - closed and not going to open. That very quickly became the pattern of the night.
After a bunch of walking, we finally found an open ride - the swings! We were so desperate already for a ride that we all hoped on. Afterwards we made our way around the park and finally found a coaster open!
IRON DRAGON- Arrow steel inverted coaster.
At this point I was happy for any coasters at all, which may be one reason that I liked this some. There are two lift hills - one in the beginning of the ride and one in the middle. Otherwise it's pretty similar to Ninja at Six Flags Magic Mountain, which has the second lift at the end. Iron Dragon shuffled more than Ninja, definitely. And while the one swoop around the water was nice, there wasn't much to it. I like Ninja at night much better, just because you are swooping through trees that it looks like you are going to hit, then over the water. Iron Dragon just didn't seem to have as much to it. While it's a nice family coaster, it wasn't anything great.
We then walked around a little more and found one other ride open: Power Tower. I love these things, and we took a couple of rides on each side - both the turbo drop and the space shot. But at this point, I was also starting to get a bit upset, as were some of the other guys. By seven we realized they weren't opening much of anything. Power Tower, Iron Dragon, Cedar Downs, and the swings were the only rides that we saw open besides some kiddie rides. Only two of their haunted houses opened, which I couldn't care less about anyway. Otherwise, absolutely nothing was opened. Thirteen coasters all closed!!
So, after a quick ride on the incredibly fun Cedar Downs (like a merry-go-round, but the horses go forwards and backwards, too) I go to park ops to complain. First thing out of their mouth when I walked in the door: "No refunds or rain checks." Excuse me? Then while I'm standing there they make the decision to close at 9pm instead of midnight. They absolutely refused to offer me any compensation in any way at all, in spite of the fact that there were no warnings posted on the outside, no indications that everything would be closed, and in short ripped me off my $24. Worse, at 7:30 as we're walking out the park, they are still charging people $24 to go into a closed park for an hour and half. Talk about ripping people off!
Just to contrast, we went to Six Flags Worlds of Adventure Sunday, and just missed them being open. They closed two hours early due to weather, light crowds, and I'm betting due to our attacks taking place, though they didn?t' say that. So they lost two hours out of a 12-hour operating day that had everything running (we could see coasters running as we pulled in). Every single person that walked out of the gates was given a pass for a free admission. Every single one! For losing only two hours and having had every ride open. Cedar Point couldn't do that for 1/2 their day and no rides open.
Additionally, I was given a free return pass at Six Flags Marine World when I visited and V2 wasn't running. A free return for one coaster being closed. CP couldn't do it for twelve being closed.
Sorry, but it's sad when Six Flags customer relations makes Cedar Point look like it really bites the big one! I'm sending in complaints and letters, but after that crap I got there, I doubt they'll do anything. They almost seemed like they enjoyed sticking it to the people that walked in the gate. I was extremely disappointed after hoping to get in rides on what are often called some of the top coasters around. Looks like I'll never know for sure now.
Thanks, Cedar Point, for a lousy way to start the trip.
UPDATE: October 13, 2001
I received a call today from Bill Spain (I hope I spelled his name right) and talked to him about the situation. After talking with him for about 15 minutes (a very nice guy), he's agreed to send me a check refunding my admission money, which will take a week or two to get to me.
Now if only the poor guys in park ops had the discretion to do that in the first place. Oh well, it was nice getting the phone call, knowing my voice was heard, and having them do what they could to make it right. At least now if I ever manage to get out there again I'll consider visiting Cedar Point :-) Hehe.
Further update- I never did receive that check, or any other form of contact from the park. Further emails, phone calls, and letters were pretty much ignored, as I never received any response at all from them. Maybe a rare lapse, but even so it was a very bad one.
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Sir Willow
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Cedar Point- Wednesday, May 29th, 2002
The people- Me, Brian (AFLAC!), and Josh
Weather- partially cloudy for most of the day, though we did have a few
brief showers. Nothing bad though.
Crowds- very light. Almost everything was a walk on.
Scoring- I'm going to use a 1-10 scale with 0's being really bad and
negatives meaning "taer is down now!"
I arrived on a red eye flight at Cleveland at about 7am, where Brian
picked me up from the airport. We headed out to Sandusky, arriving
shortly after the park was opened. Paid our $8 parking (not far off of
Six Flags prices, and more than at some of them), flashed our passes at
the gates and walked on in for my return to CP and see if it's really
what people said it is and if they could make up for my "lovely
experience" last October.
Our first stop was Wicked Twister where we took a couple of rides,
including one in the AFLAC seat (next to last row, right side). This
was my first impulse (S:UE would have been but I got bumped on my
planned flight the night before) and it was a great, fun ride. Going up
and looking down at the beach spinning below you was a neat sensation.
However I do think that my lack of sleep affected me some as I didn't
find it as thrilling as I thought I would, and actually felt like I
enjoyed the straight climbs on the other 2 impulses that I rode later on
in the trip. But based on how I was feeling at the time I rode it would
get a score of around 7. Who knows, if a chance for a reride ever comes
up that might climb, but for now...
From there we walked next door to Disaster Transport, which as luck
would have it turned out to be coaster number 100 for me. Josh loaned
me a pair of the 3d glasses that he had found, which did make the empty
queue more interesting to see. We got up to the front and hoped right
on to a sled waiting for us and took off for the trip. The glasses came
off shortly after the first hill and I didn't' wear them the rest of the
way, but they did make for some interesting visuals. I never did hear
the "welcome to Alaska" spiel that is supposedly part of the ride, but
it sure wouldn't have made sense as it feels much more like a space
themed ride. In any case, CP obviously has some learning to do on how
to theme a ride. DT is a moderately fun ride, but seemed very short.
It also didn't seem to have the fun that I recall having on the other 2
bobsled rides I've been on (SFMM an SFoT), and even had different types
of seating than those did. While it's not a bad ride by any means, I
wouldn't call is a great one either, so it hit a nice solid 5.
We took a quick ride on the Schwabinchen (trabant), which is one simple
flat that I've always enjoyed, then began walking around the park a bit
more, eventually making our way to our next coaster and getting ready
for our run of Arrows.
Corkscrew was next, and is a typical Arrow loopscrew with one loop.
Short, to the point, and I'm still enjoying the arrow corkscrew
elements. There was a little banging, but not a lot, and nowhere near
the complaints that I hear so many give (something I found true of
almost every arrow on the trip, with one notable exception at PKI). But
once again a middle of the roader- nothing bad, but nothing great
either. So another 5. We then took a break at the troika (another of
my favorite flats from when I was a kid) and headed to the next coaster.
Next up was the big mama Arrow, also known as Magnum, and that somehow
made it's way on the Discovery top 10 (I don't know how except for the
CP'ers that can't think). For all those with strong views about Maggie,
I'm not in either camp- I neither hate it nor love it. You could tell
that when it opened it was one awesome coaster. But you could also tell
that it has deteriorated some (maybe it's due to that sinking. ;-) )
The airtime hills on the return run did hurt, but not as bad as some
say. But the description of them being shaped like /\ /\ /\ is pretty
appropriate. But once again Maggie managed to hit a solid 5 for me
(anyone seeing a pattern here yet)
Next we popped our way over to Gemini, where they were only running one
side all day. Being a racer, it would have been nice if they had been
racing. Let's see, hows that line go- "If you're going to build a
racing coaster Six Flags, then stinking race it!" Oh, whoops, wait.
It's not Six Flags. My bad. :-)
Anyways, Gemini is a fun coaster with a couple of great drops mixed in
with some very boring track moments that would be much more fun with a
train next to you racing along. While I'm sure it would get higher
ratings if it was racing, there was enough bumping and boredom to place
Gemini with a solid... can you guess.... wait for it.... 5!
After this we took our break from Arrowdom with a quick trip on the
woodstock express, a custom Vekoma roller skater that while longer still
rides like a typical skater. A great ride for the kids, and one that my
kids would love (you knew that was coming!) but for me gets a big fat 4.
Then it was back to Arrow once again for the Cedar Creek Mine ride. I
didn't realize that it used to be blocked for 6 trains, but now only
runs 3 (nudge), but it's pretty typical of an Arrow mine train. It
delivered a performance pretty equal with that of it's counterpart in CA
in terms of ride thrills, but without the landscaping you see around the
hills of SFMM. And with a lot more trims. But once again CP pulled out
all the stops and scored a 5.
However, after this it was finally time for CP to break out of it's
scoring slump and we headed over to that bid pile of wood nearby known
as Mean Squeak, er, Streak. MS was squeaking away real bad, and it's
real obvious where it gets its nickname from. We hopped on and
proceeded to head up the lift hill and started down it only to
encounter a trim right on the drop. Now if you know me, trims on drops
are one of my biggest beefs, and CP and Dorney are the only parks I've
encountered that. Not a points winner in my book. We then proceeded to
slam, bang, jackhammer, and squeak our way through the course and
several more trims. When I say this coaster is a pile, I mean pretty
much that. It scores a big 0 from me (for those interested, Psyclone
out west is a -1, yes it was that close) Or in RRC terms, taer it down!
ugggggg. (sorry, that last comment just popped to mind)
At this point we were gettting pretty hungry, and I was hoping for
something beside mediocrity, so we decided to grab a bite to eat.
Looking at the map we decided to try Dastardly Dan's with it's BBQ
ribs, chicken and Pulled Pork. Closed. Well, forget the pulled pork
then. Instead we headed out to the Midway Market where we ate at the
buffet for $10 each. With a big selection on the buffet (tacos,
burgers, pasta, pizza, ice cream, CHEESECAKE, and a lot more, and all of
it tasting good, I can say that it was definately in teh good park food
category there. So score one for CP in the food department.
Next up was one of those coasters that everyone talks about- Raptor! We
took a few rides on it, since the lines were low. Raptor has some great
spots, with the drop off the midcourse being one of my favorites along
with a great helix. But it has one major problem that just kills this
ride- the snapping brake turn into the final breaks. If it didn't knock
you out during the ride, it sure tries to physically knock you out here.
It would be a great coaster without that neck snapping, head smashing
moment. But because of it it drops down a bunch in my book.
Additionally, even as good as the rest is, even if they fixed that spot
I don't think I'd enjoy it as well at Batman: The Ride. Without that
horrible brake it'd probably be an 8. With it I'm not sure whether to
put it in the 4 or 5 range. To put it simply, that brake bit hard.
So we decided to try to rest my head and hit up what may have actually
turned out to be one of my favorite 2 coasters in the park: Blue Streak.
We were Schmecking all over this John Allen coaster (meaning we rode in
seat 1.3) and I absolutely loved all it's great moments of airtime,
including a couple of great big shots on the return trip. We got in a
bunch of rides here in two different shifts and I just loved this old
piece of wood. Please, Schmeck me some more and pop me back in and out
of that seat! Definately one of the highlights and one earning a 9.
From here we hit up Wildcat, which is a pretty typical model, running
well, and fun, but with a hard shot in the brakes at the end. If they
would extend the braking and let you get off in the same spot where you
get on instead of having an "unload" area, it would probably help it a
lot. But as it is, it scores a 4
Finally we made it around for the one that everyone talks about, and my
110'th coaster- Millenium Force. Throughout the day we managed to get 3
rides on MF, including one using their new Freeway system (which works
exactly like Disney's Fastpass except that they stamp your hands instead
of giving you a piece of paper). With 2 rides in back and one ride in
the second row, I can say that MF is one great coaster. It's got a
great pullover in the back that can give you a big pop coming down, and
after that it's all speed. In fact that's pretty much all that MF is,
is speed. There's one little speedbump by the queue line that gives you
a brief burst of air, but that's about all that it does. Ideally, being
the airtime monger that I am, I would have liked a lot more air on it.
Perhaps if they'd extended the end of the coaster enough to put in an
airtime shot or two before the brakes? If you're looking to go fast,
MF is your coaster, but if you're looking for something else, you
probably won't find it here. As it is, it still gets a 9 just for being
the awesome piece that it is. But in the grand scheme of things, I rate it about the same as Goliath because of the differences in elements.
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Sir Willow
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Part 2 of the 5/29/02 trip:
The last coaster we hit was one right accross the way- Mantis. My first
problem here was with the operator who was busy gabbing away on his
microphone (shut up already!). My normal routine on standups is to put
my toes on the lip of the car so I have room to move without being
emasculated. However that wasn't good for the op who had me move my
feet back. Ok, not a problem and I stood up in a normal fashion for
him. Not good enough. He wants my feet so far back that I'm falling
forward and keeps waving at them (actually hitting my leg a couple of
times) until I finally growl at him that if they go any further back I'm
going to fall over. So then he pulls up on the seat. Great, thanks.
Good think I already have kids. He was the only employee I had any
problems with at all during the day though.
Anyways, back to the ride. Having now been on at least 6 stand up
coasters, I can easily say that Mantis is far and away the worst of
them. From the lousy trim on teh drop to headbanging that is far worse
than any Arrow I've ever been on (shame B&M), Mantis is from begining to
end one of the biggest piles I've ever been on. It easily earned the
dubious -1 and falls pretty easily among the worst coasters I've ever
riden. Just ask the sore head and neck I had afterwards. ouch.
We walked around some more, checked out the museum, and closed out the
night with another ride on MF before heading out. We didn't ride Iron
Dragon or Power Tower since I caught them on my last visit back in Oct.
(don't leave, I'm not done yet. now comes the important part!)
OTHER THOUGHTS, CONCLUSIONS, ETC.
Things I liked:
The food. Chost (cheese on a stick) was good, well at least when it
didn't take them 4 tries to cook it right. :-)
The park has a great selection of flat rides and things to see and
do. Very easy to keep entertained.
PEPSI instead of that blasted coke-a-cola pop.
Clean park with efficient staff. They weren't the incredible
outstanding people that some make them out to be, but there certainly
wasn't anything wrong here either. Not outstanding in any way- good or
bad- which is still good.
Things I didn't like:
That stupid op on Mantis.
The headsets that they've got someone yakking away into on almost
every coaster. At first it was kinda neat to hear someone describing
the coaster. But most of the time they're reciting facts that would fit
just as well on a plaque somewhere, and they do it non-stop. I don't
need to hear on every ride how they're going to "send you up to a height
of ** then zooming down at a speed of ** while you experience a
thrilling ** G's on your way thorugh a course that is ** feet long"
Blah blah blah, non-stop. I honestly wondered if they could breathe.
It would be ok I guess if they could show a little originality in what
they said and maybe interact with people in line, but as it was it just
got real old real stinking quick.
Speaking of interaction, do they really have to scream at the end of
so many coasters, "how did you like your ride?" Especially the crappy
ones. Yep, always nice to hear people get off of Magnum and respond
with, "uggg, I didn't".
Oh, and Cedar Points peevishness with not crossing yellow lines,
even where there are loading gates, was really kinda silly. Magnum has
loading gates, but you can't cross the yellow line that's 3 feet behind
the gate either. Isn't that a bit ridiculous?
Not a big beef, but I'm not to keen on how often they assign seats
and don't let you line up for a specific seat other than the front and
back. I understand that it helps keep the station from being
congested, but I like feeling like I have a choice of seats, not that
I'm being herded like cattle.
And since so many will want to know, how does it compare vs. SFMM?
Here I would call it a tie.
SFMM has more outstanding coasters than CP does. CP has a huge edge
on mediocre ones though. :-)
But on flats CP wins there hands down (even though they run their
Chaos at the slowest speed I think I've ever seen).
Staffing and cleanliness I would call it dead even. Though CP does
have a little edge in food selection to.
I would love to be able to compare shows, but didn't have time to
catch any of CP's.
So that's my report. Thanks for reading this big long monster.
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spcleddy
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I have no idea why America's RollerCoast isn't rated a five-star park. I also don't know why I don't hear that catchy nickname anymore. Anyway the point is, get to the Point! If you've never been and you fancy yourself an enthusiast, don't tell anybody that you've never been to this coaster mecha. It's one of those things you should just keep to yourself. Before you do go, be sure not to build up your expectations too much that the Point can't deliver. Sure, it's as close to coaster nirvana as we have out there right now, but hopefully they'll keep expanding (creatively, since they're land-locked) in the years to come.
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rollacoastaluva
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I totally agree erikjc. THIS PARK DESERVES A #1 RATING!! I have been going to Cedar Point since I was five years old and I have enjoyed every visit! 5 STAR RATING ALL THE WAY!
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| 6-22-04 21:17:42 |
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SFOG Freak
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Cedar Point is almost too great. There is absolutely nothing I can say bad about it. It's simply awesome.
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DEJA-VU RULES
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CP is heaven for anyone who likes to ride roller coasters and it is my heaven on earth.
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| 7-1-04 18:02:37 |
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Terry K
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I have been going to this park for years now, and by far it is the best that I have ever gone to. I will continue to go back year after year. The rides are awesome. Top Thrill Dragster was the best ever this year
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| 8-3-04 11:30:03 |
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EastCoastn07
Joined: Jan 2004
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This is by far the greatest amusement park on the face of the planet. There is just no way you can only visit this park once in your lifetime. Along with being the best amusement park in the world, I would also rate it one of the most beautiful. With all the great views you get on the coaster and just the overall landscaping of the park, theres just no way you cant appreciate everything that sits in the park. Two thumbs up.
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| 8-27-04 4:17:04 |
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RLLrCoastrLover
Joined: Mar 2004
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Best Park in the World.
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| 9-21-04 17:15:23 |
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RllrCoasterFan
Joined: Mar 2004
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This is the best park. It tops Six Flags Megic Mountain by too much. They care about customers sadisfaction. The rides are some of the best. Dragster is so musch fun.
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| 9-22-04 13:34:14 |
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ericwh2827
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All I have to say is this ''best park ever''
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| 10-7-04 21:09:59 |
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slakerx
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I just got back from CP and was very dissapointed with MF... the ride has no air time. Why is it always #1? Yes, its fast, and the first drop is cool, but the lack of air time (except for the little hill towards the end) brings this ride down.
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| 10-18-04 21:17:02 |
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mforceaddict
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Quote (originally posted by SFOG Freak): Cedar Point is almost too great. There is absolutely nothing I can say bad about it. It's simply awesome. End Quote.
Exactly. Right down to the periods.
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| 12-5-04 8:46:55 |
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sfft_2108
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This has to be the greatest park ever.
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| 1-4-05 13:38:11 |
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Universal Freak
Joined: Feb 2005
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I went to this park with my cousin
didnt really have a good time
the top thrill dragster didn't even work
OVER RATED
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| 2-5-05 21:55:09 |
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sfne stinks
Joined: Sep 2001
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CP is a nice park. But I find it really overrated. I mean the coasters are good and all..... But thats about all CP has..... coasters..
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| 2-7-05 23:49:00 |
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Fatguy
Joined: Feb 2005
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Wow,this park is just simply amazing!Everything about it is just great!
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