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*** Edited 12/5/2007 9:03:56 PM UTC by Walt***

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8 Halloweekends next year! I've known for a while that there would be 8 weekends, but it's exciting to finally see it in print.

-Chris Woodard
2004 Screamsters, 2005 & 2006 Screamsters and Admissions
2007 Screamsters, Admissions, Corkscrew, Millennium Force, Monster Midway Invasion
2008 Ripcord

Great! Also, later Saturday nights in June/July/August!

Dragster Rides=440 (RB=18) / Maverick Rides=121 (My 200th coaster)

I thought they were done with closing at 7 PM in May??

Next CP trip: Sometime in June

CP in November? Wicked

Mark
Webmaster ~ http://www.Pointolia.com

You think crowds were heavy for this years Halloweekends? Wait until the park is actually open ON Halloween. Yikes.

I am surprised to see the 2 weeks of 7PM closings again. When they changed their schedule this year, I thought that was the last of those. Oh well.

Magnum - 295 / MF - 158 / Dragster - 39 (4 RB) / Skyhawk - 60 / Maverick - 39
Ripcord Crew 2002 / MF Crew 2004
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I was gonna edit, but a lot of people posted. I just noticed Sundays during Halloweekends won't open until 11 AM now instead of 10 AM. That makes me very very happy, as a night of Screamsters until 1 AM, then going out for food and being at work at 8:30 (for resort guests) really sucked.

-Chris Woodard
2004 Screamsters, 2005 & 2006 Screamsters and Admissions
2007 Screamsters, Admissions, Corkscrew, Millennium Force, Monster Midway Invasion
2008 Ripcord

CP was open on Halloween a couple years ago.

Ben Holcomb
SevereStudios

November is gonna rock!!

Millennium Force - 18 trips
22.48295miles!!

Next Trip: 05.10.2008!

While it looks strange with the park being open in November, there's nothing really different about it. October 31 lands on a Friday.

-Craig-
2008:Magnum XL-200 | 2007:Corkscrew/Magnum XL-200/Maverick
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Yay, I can't wait. Only 157 days till opening :P.

Top Rides-#1.Maverick #2.Millennium #3.Magnum #4.Raptor #5.Dragster

Coaster Lover Forever

Mark Small said:
Great! Also, later Saturday nights in June/July/August!

Actually, the parked closed at 11 on Saturdays this season as well.

I'm surprised that the first two weeks are still 7 o'clock closings. The weekend in November, will be pretty cool and the 11am openings on Sundays during HalloWeekends will be good for employees.

With that being said, I'm a little disappointed. There was a lot flying around about the return of 11 o'clock closings during the week and midnight closings on Saturdays during peak summer. Obviously, that's not happening this season, and my hopes about some rumors of pay have kinda gone out the window with it.

*** Edited 12/5/2007 11:15:27 PM UTC by DBCP***

Thanks Doug. I realized that after I posted it.

Dragster Rides=440 (RB=18) / Maverick Rides=121 (My 200th coaster)

Ran some quick numbers to compare 2007 to 2008...

Total Operating Hours in 2007 (Excluding Joe Cool): 1543
Total Operating Hours in 2008 (Excluding Joe Cool): 1580

Total Operating Days in 2007: 139
Total Operating Days in 2008: 142

Average Number of Operating Hours per Day in 2007: 11.1007
Average Number of Operating Hours per Day in 2008: 11.1267

When just looking at the Operating Days that existed in 2007 (minus the November weekend), the park added 10 hours to it's operating schedule.

Edit: Changed date to satisfy Tim. *** Edited 12/5/2007 11:55:17 PM UTC by DBCP***

^Wow, want some of my homework to do?

Cedar Point, Americas rip- rockin', high flyin', sky defyin', record breakin' roller coast

That's alright, with finals next week, I have more than enough of my own...

I sure hope you did that with a perl script or with a MySQL database or something cool like that.

Ben Holcomb
SevereStudios

DBCP said:
Total Operating Days in 2007: 139
Total Operating Days in 2007: 142

Well, which is it? 139 or 142? Make up your mind.

Wow I'm definately excited about the Saturdays being open until 11 starting in June. That's really exciting!! ROLLING ROLLING RAWHIDE!!

Next Cedar Point Trip - Sometime In May again!

The nerd-ometer is off the charts haha. But that's pretty interesting. It just has to do with what dates fall on what day of the week, though, in my opinion. Seems like CP likes to open on the 2nd weekend in May and close before halloween, unless Halloween falls on a weekend, as is the case in 2008. So basically this is a good year for CP fans!!!

Millennium Force Laps: 51!
Maverick Laps: 7
TTD Rollbacks: 2 :D
NEXT TRIP: Sometime this summer...
MF Still reigns #1