Jarrett
Most Obnoxious Member 2016
2 YEARS AGO...
After spending a whole offseason fangirling over construction pictures of GateKeeper (which looked totally awesome), I got off work, hopped in the car with my cousin, and went off to my very first CoasterForce Live in hopes of getting this new cred! Well we get up there and wind's shut EVERYTHING down, and I'm acting like a sleep-deprived idiot. I ended up going off with my cousin and her husband when the rest of CF left. My very first CoasterForce Live, it was dreadful, and I thought there would never be another US Live again...
PRESENT DAY...
At the beginning of the season, after I had made my choice to make Coaster Crew my paid club, Rougarou Hullabaloo was announced. While I was still able to get into CoasterMania with the ACE membership my girlfriend (now ex) got me, Coaster Crew had been one of a few clubs cut from the CoasterMania list. As unfortunate as this was, we weren't going to let this ruin our fun at America's Roller Coast, and this event was born! I considered it seeing as it looked like fun (though it took me a few times to say the name correctly) and I wanted to get back to CP on a day when it wasn't windy and spiteful like my first trip there and CoasterMania evening.
...and then we decided to have our first US Live in two years the day after! I was sold!
Connor picked me up early that morning (despite my having overslept) and we headed up stupid early in order to meet the early check-in time.
This looks to be the line!
And we were in!
While Cedar Point no longer recognizes Coaster Crew as a valid club for this, they did allow us to do their famous Millennium Force walkback that morning, so we walked around the peninsula to the marina entrance...probably for the last time it'll look like this.
It took them a while to let everyone in...and while we were waiting they had a bunch of goons clustered around an area where they've been doing work. I don't even have to say how this ended.
Calling it now, this doesn't look the same next year. On that note...anybody know the story behind the naked guy with the funny hat chilling by this entrance? I don't foresee him sticking around another season and I'd like to know why he was chilling out in all his pan pipes/weird headgear/public indecency glory in the first place...
I selfie sticked over the construction walls but nothing was new. As Brad says, "they're doing a great job constructing that grassy field."
All in! Let's hurry to Millennium, the future is riding on it!
This was my second Millennium Walkback and they take a picture before each one. I'm dead center between the O and the R in the sign.
Here we are!
While waiting in line, Connor and I ended up meeting someone...in the most unlikely place! Jarred, the other KIFansite admin for Coaster Crew, was in line in front of us and we were able to meet for the first time and discuss social media! Two dudes running a Kings Island Facebook page and we meet at Cedar Point. #seemslegit
I'll spare you all because you all know how much I can gush over this gorgeous, gorgeous machine... <3 But it was still really intense on the drop, the overbank was sick, and the airtime was phenomenal. It doesn't quite feel like it has the life of its own that Cheetah, Voyage, and Fury do but it's still a fantastic ride. And for this reason, because I just loved the drop-overbank combination that day, it's swapped Cheetah Hunt yet again in my top ten!
After that, it was off to being the first (don't want me to go there? REALLY don't want me to go there? Sucks to be you, I'm going there!) Rougariders of the day! Connor was excited to ride it because when he rode Mantis in 2012, he even said they should convert it to a floorless without even knowing of the rumors.
And he loved it! Mantis was, in his opinion, the worst coaster he'd ever ridden and he had it below KI Vortex, Carowinds Vortex, Legend, Mean Streak, Nighthawk, Flight of Fear, Son of Beast, and some of the other most universally loathed coasters on the planet. That went from that to being one of his favorites at the park. As I said, Rougarou isn't an RMC conversion. You're not taking the worst coaster in the world and making it the best, you're taking one of the worst coasters in the world and making it enjoyable. Not phenomenal, enjoyable.
After that, we went with Chris and Sam (who we met waiting with Tim for Fast Lane buyers that didn't show up) for a spin on Raptor to see the park gates open to the GP and watch the midway descend into madness of tripping, punching, biting, and clawing to get back to the big ones. After that, we went to Dragster before the line got long and got a phenomenal ride on it.
After that we went for a casual lunch at Midway Market as Chris and Sam went back to their hotel to check in. And I have to say, while my photo didn't turn out well, it's the best deal in the park. Great atmosphere, unlimited buffet food and Coke Freestyle, and it's only $16! Don't miss this if you go on a budget!
Connor needed his Blue Streak credit next so we got that out of the way.
After that, it was time for FLAPPY BIRD (aka Skyhawk) TAKEOVER!!!! We MOBBED Skyhawk and the whole club rode together, it was so much fun!
And then we went to Gemini for some more Coaster Crew tomfoolery, Money Train!
Money Train MUN-ee TRANE- 1.) The act of holding a dollar bill out between two trains of a racing coaster, enticing the general public in the other train to reach out and grab it only to be teased, often played at coaster club events 2.) The greatest thing ever 3. Something Jarrett hopes to do on Racer at Kennywood in a few weeks.
So we held the dollar bill out and they were reaching for it like crazy only to be disappointed, and it was hilarious! XD My favorite part of this was that this game seems like something that wouldn't fly with the park. Well, to my surprise, on our first game, the ride op dispatched us and told us, "the money train is rolling."
Have you hugged your coaster today?
This has exploded over social media lately, but CoasterDynamix (company that makes model roller coasters) has recently come out with these little "nanocoasters." Only a few inches tall, these models are composed of sheet metal cutouts of sections of a coaster stuck into an acrylic base, secured by metal tabs bent at the bottom. In addition to a few generic designs, CoasterDynamix has been working on models of real rides for parks to sell, having been working with Cedar Fair to sell little metal cutouts of Fury 325, GateKeeper, Thunder Road, and the one I wanted, Millennium Force. Well we went up to Pagoda to check to see if they had them (as they said they would on social media) for the third time that day and when I saw the cashier stocking these I BOLTED down the midway to get one!
Leaving Pagoda I ran into Carsten from CPRundown who had just gotten done with a Tweetup and told me to go over to get it, so I did. I ended up with two line skippies for Connor and I (you'll see those later) as well as a Cedar Point 2015 coin.
After that it was dinner time! In the really nice pavilions where we ate at CoasterMania!
I love this mural!
Quite a nice place to eat, especially for a park...
Jarrett and Jarred from KIFansite!
And the table of stuff Tim planned to give away...
Tim usually just has people dump their lanyards into a hat and calls them out but this time it was different. We instead played Cedar Point trivia!
Because I knew Windseeker's height, I took home this really awesome GCI bag!
After that it was across Breakers back to Magnum XL-200 for another takeover!
On the way we came to the conclusion that it seems like seagulls never **** all over Rougarou like they do Raptor because it looks like a seagull from this angle and therefore they think it's one of their own.
I see my favorite Arrow and what I believe has been the most innovative coaster in the industry to date!
And it was sick as always! Didn't get my favorite seat since we were synching rides but it was still awesome! I had been considering naming my Battlebot after this coaster, this ride sold me on it, and I'm in the process of buying stuff to build Magnum RPM!
After that we kind of messed around the Gemini midway waiting for ERT to start. Didn't do much, but we did do the Tilt A Whirl I've heard so much about and I can safely agree that it's sick, as I've been told. And Pipe Scream got stuck in this position.
And then we went off to GateKeeper to meet some friends of Tim's!
My first night ride on this phenomenal coaster!
And it was awesome! Intense on the drop as always, I actually got some airtime going over the camelback, and the keyholes remained awesome! I love this coaster, and I have another seat I really like! Can't decide between it and front right (front right is more floaty and better conveys the flying sensation these wing coasters can provide, back left where I rode that time is where you want to ride if you want this coaster to have some aggression and intensity to it). I had a bit of a scare thinking my lanyard fell off but I later found that I pocketed it instead of tucking it in like I did.
And then we had a line skippy to use on Dragster...AT NIGHT!!!!!!!
I wore my insanely goony engineering glasses with a glasses strap because I didn't want to get hit in the eye with a bug like I did on GateKeeper. And it was much needed, it felt like I was getting shot at with an airsoft pistol on the launch. That being said, this ride is amazing at night! Launching as the lights of the midway blur in your peripherals, shooting up to the dark, isolated lake skies, cresting, and then spiraling down onto the colorful, lighted peninsula full of coasters is incredible! I still think Millennium's the best night ride at this park, but this is a close third behind Magnum.
We then headed back to Maverick for ERT past the most amazing coaster in Ohio at night.
Frontiertown is beautiful at night!
I so wish the new camera I bought the day before came a bit more charged...
We stuck around here and waited for ERT to start. After they cleared the GP out at 12:45, we got started! We ended up with a total of 12 rides on that awesome coaster without getting off (except for a few exceptions of wanting to switch up seats, but we never left the station). It was amazing, as painful as it was! It took me three days for my shoulders to completely stop being sore!
After that Connor and I headed to CoasterForce Cabin back at Lighthouse Point. While all my electronics were dead by then, I'm sure some members have pictures I can post before Day 2. But all you need to know...
*I played my first game of beer pong
*I pulled my rotator cuff spanking my **** trying to distract Youngster Joey playing beer pong
*Snoo and I lost the game by one cup
*Youngster Joey and I got into good bants conflict that left Connor mortified because he'd never seen me around CF and had no idea I was capable of such comebacks
*Most of the people in the cabin were drunk. REALLY drunk...
COMING SOON: Day 2://The First US CoasterForce Live in years!
After spending a whole offseason fangirling over construction pictures of GateKeeper (which looked totally awesome), I got off work, hopped in the car with my cousin, and went off to my very first CoasterForce Live in hopes of getting this new cred! Well we get up there and wind's shut EVERYTHING down, and I'm acting like a sleep-deprived idiot. I ended up going off with my cousin and her husband when the rest of CF left. My very first CoasterForce Live, it was dreadful, and I thought there would never be another US Live again...
PRESENT DAY...
At the beginning of the season, after I had made my choice to make Coaster Crew my paid club, Rougarou Hullabaloo was announced. While I was still able to get into CoasterMania with the ACE membership my girlfriend (now ex) got me, Coaster Crew had been one of a few clubs cut from the CoasterMania list. As unfortunate as this was, we weren't going to let this ruin our fun at America's Roller Coast, and this event was born! I considered it seeing as it looked like fun (though it took me a few times to say the name correctly) and I wanted to get back to CP on a day when it wasn't windy and spiteful like my first trip there and CoasterMania evening.
...and then we decided to have our first US Live in two years the day after! I was sold!
Connor picked me up early that morning (despite my having overslept) and we headed up stupid early in order to meet the early check-in time.
This looks to be the line!
And we were in!
While Cedar Point no longer recognizes Coaster Crew as a valid club for this, they did allow us to do their famous Millennium Force walkback that morning, so we walked around the peninsula to the marina entrance...probably for the last time it'll look like this.
It took them a while to let everyone in...and while we were waiting they had a bunch of goons clustered around an area where they've been doing work. I don't even have to say how this ended.
Calling it now, this doesn't look the same next year. On that note...anybody know the story behind the naked guy with the funny hat chilling by this entrance? I don't foresee him sticking around another season and I'd like to know why he was chilling out in all his pan pipes/weird headgear/public indecency glory in the first place...
I selfie sticked over the construction walls but nothing was new. As Brad says, "they're doing a great job constructing that grassy field."
All in! Let's hurry to Millennium, the future is riding on it!
This was my second Millennium Walkback and they take a picture before each one. I'm dead center between the O and the R in the sign.
Here we are!
While waiting in line, Connor and I ended up meeting someone...in the most unlikely place! Jarred, the other KIFansite admin for Coaster Crew, was in line in front of us and we were able to meet for the first time and discuss social media! Two dudes running a Kings Island Facebook page and we meet at Cedar Point. #seemslegit
I'll spare you all because you all know how much I can gush over this gorgeous, gorgeous machine... <3 But it was still really intense on the drop, the overbank was sick, and the airtime was phenomenal. It doesn't quite feel like it has the life of its own that Cheetah, Voyage, and Fury do but it's still a fantastic ride. And for this reason, because I just loved the drop-overbank combination that day, it's swapped Cheetah Hunt yet again in my top ten!
After that, it was off to being the first (don't want me to go there? REALLY don't want me to go there? Sucks to be you, I'm going there!) Rougariders of the day! Connor was excited to ride it because when he rode Mantis in 2012, he even said they should convert it to a floorless without even knowing of the rumors.
And he loved it! Mantis was, in his opinion, the worst coaster he'd ever ridden and he had it below KI Vortex, Carowinds Vortex, Legend, Mean Streak, Nighthawk, Flight of Fear, Son of Beast, and some of the other most universally loathed coasters on the planet. That went from that to being one of his favorites at the park. As I said, Rougarou isn't an RMC conversion. You're not taking the worst coaster in the world and making it the best, you're taking one of the worst coasters in the world and making it enjoyable. Not phenomenal, enjoyable.
After that, we went with Chris and Sam (who we met waiting with Tim for Fast Lane buyers that didn't show up) for a spin on Raptor to see the park gates open to the GP and watch the midway descend into madness of tripping, punching, biting, and clawing to get back to the big ones. After that, we went to Dragster before the line got long and got a phenomenal ride on it.
After that we went for a casual lunch at Midway Market as Chris and Sam went back to their hotel to check in. And I have to say, while my photo didn't turn out well, it's the best deal in the park. Great atmosphere, unlimited buffet food and Coke Freestyle, and it's only $16! Don't miss this if you go on a budget!
Connor needed his Blue Streak credit next so we got that out of the way.
After that, it was time for FLAPPY BIRD (aka Skyhawk) TAKEOVER!!!! We MOBBED Skyhawk and the whole club rode together, it was so much fun!
And then we went to Gemini for some more Coaster Crew tomfoolery, Money Train!
Money Train MUN-ee TRANE- 1.) The act of holding a dollar bill out between two trains of a racing coaster, enticing the general public in the other train to reach out and grab it only to be teased, often played at coaster club events 2.) The greatest thing ever 3. Something Jarrett hopes to do on Racer at Kennywood in a few weeks.
So we held the dollar bill out and they were reaching for it like crazy only to be disappointed, and it was hilarious! XD My favorite part of this was that this game seems like something that wouldn't fly with the park. Well, to my surprise, on our first game, the ride op dispatched us and told us, "the money train is rolling."
Have you hugged your coaster today?
This has exploded over social media lately, but CoasterDynamix (company that makes model roller coasters) has recently come out with these little "nanocoasters." Only a few inches tall, these models are composed of sheet metal cutouts of sections of a coaster stuck into an acrylic base, secured by metal tabs bent at the bottom. In addition to a few generic designs, CoasterDynamix has been working on models of real rides for parks to sell, having been working with Cedar Fair to sell little metal cutouts of Fury 325, GateKeeper, Thunder Road, and the one I wanted, Millennium Force. Well we went up to Pagoda to check to see if they had them (as they said they would on social media) for the third time that day and when I saw the cashier stocking these I BOLTED down the midway to get one!
Leaving Pagoda I ran into Carsten from CPRundown who had just gotten done with a Tweetup and told me to go over to get it, so I did. I ended up with two line skippies for Connor and I (you'll see those later) as well as a Cedar Point 2015 coin.
After that it was dinner time! In the really nice pavilions where we ate at CoasterMania!
I love this mural!
Quite a nice place to eat, especially for a park...
Jarrett and Jarred from KIFansite!
And the table of stuff Tim planned to give away...
Tim usually just has people dump their lanyards into a hat and calls them out but this time it was different. We instead played Cedar Point trivia!
Because I knew Windseeker's height, I took home this really awesome GCI bag!
After that it was across Breakers back to Magnum XL-200 for another takeover!
On the way we came to the conclusion that it seems like seagulls never **** all over Rougarou like they do Raptor because it looks like a seagull from this angle and therefore they think it's one of their own.
I see my favorite Arrow and what I believe has been the most innovative coaster in the industry to date!
And it was sick as always! Didn't get my favorite seat since we were synching rides but it was still awesome! I had been considering naming my Battlebot after this coaster, this ride sold me on it, and I'm in the process of buying stuff to build Magnum RPM!
After that we kind of messed around the Gemini midway waiting for ERT to start. Didn't do much, but we did do the Tilt A Whirl I've heard so much about and I can safely agree that it's sick, as I've been told. And Pipe Scream got stuck in this position.
And then we went off to GateKeeper to meet some friends of Tim's!
My first night ride on this phenomenal coaster!
And it was awesome! Intense on the drop as always, I actually got some airtime going over the camelback, and the keyholes remained awesome! I love this coaster, and I have another seat I really like! Can't decide between it and front right (front right is more floaty and better conveys the flying sensation these wing coasters can provide, back left where I rode that time is where you want to ride if you want this coaster to have some aggression and intensity to it). I had a bit of a scare thinking my lanyard fell off but I later found that I pocketed it instead of tucking it in like I did.
And then we had a line skippy to use on Dragster...AT NIGHT!!!!!!!
I wore my insanely goony engineering glasses with a glasses strap because I didn't want to get hit in the eye with a bug like I did on GateKeeper. And it was much needed, it felt like I was getting shot at with an airsoft pistol on the launch. That being said, this ride is amazing at night! Launching as the lights of the midway blur in your peripherals, shooting up to the dark, isolated lake skies, cresting, and then spiraling down onto the colorful, lighted peninsula full of coasters is incredible! I still think Millennium's the best night ride at this park, but this is a close third behind Magnum.
We then headed back to Maverick for ERT past the most amazing coaster in Ohio at night.
Frontiertown is beautiful at night!
I so wish the new camera I bought the day before came a bit more charged...
We stuck around here and waited for ERT to start. After they cleared the GP out at 12:45, we got started! We ended up with a total of 12 rides on that awesome coaster without getting off (except for a few exceptions of wanting to switch up seats, but we never left the station). It was amazing, as painful as it was! It took me three days for my shoulders to completely stop being sore!
After that Connor and I headed to CoasterForce Cabin back at Lighthouse Point. While all my electronics were dead by then, I'm sure some members have pictures I can post before Day 2. But all you need to know...
*I played my first game of beer pong
*I pulled my rotator cuff spanking my **** trying to distract Youngster Joey playing beer pong
*Snoo and I lost the game by one cup
*Youngster Joey and I got into good bants conflict that left Connor mortified because he'd never seen me around CF and had no idea I was capable of such comebacks
*Most of the people in the cabin were drunk. REALLY drunk...
COMING SOON: Day 2://The First US CoasterForce Live in years!
