I never understand why people get so blown away by Cedar Point. There's just so much in that park that doesn't live up to the hype that it gets. All they are on the map for are roller coasters, and more than half of them are meh at best.
Really the only 3 rides that left a good mark on me were Maverick, Magnum, and Blue Streak. Maverick has huge reliability issues and is only outstanding in the front row, everywhere else you get jabbed in the neck at any hint of a turn and you can't do anything about it. But sitting in the front row for a good 3-4 times was enough to make me totally blow off the rest of the seats I went on. Magnum actually has good air time for a first of its kind ride, and definitely is overall #1 in the park (only cause I'm counting the 10 horrible seats on Maverick). Blue Streak by far outclassed everything else in that park bar Front row Maverick and Magnum, and I'm glad I rode it on a good running day because it definitely made up for the lackluster day 1 I had in the park.
Now everything else, either didn't leave me impressed or I flat out hated. Raptor has the least amount of force for any invert I've been on, which is just sad considering that helix at the end of the ride looks like it packs a lot of force. Disaster Transport is a derelict bobsled with a renovation on it, and I'm usually bananas for a bobsled of any kind; I'm glad it's going at the end of this year. Wicked Twister had little action on it considering the fact that you're supposed to be launching back and forth and twisting, I guess it's just because I don't like LIMs or something, but really the lone spike where I got good force and a high enough twist was the last one before they started to slow the train down (you only cycle like 4 times and the train is a good 30-40 feet from the top of the tower). Iron Wolf is laughably tame, and you waste half the ride getting to the second lift hill, which after that things get rather meh even for a swinging coaster. Corkscrew is a rather bland Arrow, the only good thing about it is how photogenic the corkscrews are. Top Thrill Dragster is only slightly better than Kingda Ka, only because of the lap bar, and really neither have anything going for them other than going fast for 5-10 seconds and then shooting you 400 feet in the air, kind of like a glorified power tower. Mean Streak deserves to be firewood just for how rough it is, I'm surprised CP hasn't been sued by someone for back issues while riding it. Mantis is rough and is especially unkind when it decides to jerk left or right and basically crush any chance at having children, although it does have force when the trim doesn't activate. Millennium Force, imo, is just a total waste of potential and definitely takes the cake as intamin's tamest coaster. In the span of 6,000 feet there's only 3 hills total and none of them have air time, heck you can't even feel the last one; none of its 4 overbanks have any force in them, which while you're speeding around at about 65 mph avg. is just pathetic. I sat in the front, the back, and even the middle on it and I still didn't feel anything. Really the only thing the ride has going for it is its speed, and as TTD and Kingda Ka show don't make for a great roller coaster overall. I don't know how I could spend 7 days in that park let alone two. I got on every ride in CP in two days (yes the flats, too) and even the water park to boot, which with the abysmal experience of most of the rides I probably would end up riding Magnum all day for 5 days straight since the GP there think it's too rough and are more interested in Millennium Forceless, Maverick and TTD.
Cedar Point, and pretty much any major corporate park, are not known for good food; they're known for overly inflated prices and pitiful proportions of food I spent $9 on a Chicken Parm where the whole meal was smaller than my hand, and I can't even palm a basketball :\. They charge an insane $4 for a soda which isn't even mixed properly, they use way too much water and not enough syrup which absolutely ruins a soda. While they did have plenty of different foods around the park the sheer expense of eating a meal would make me opt to bring a cooler 100% of the time. Which I was grateful they even allowed it in the first place.
I don't know if they went crazy and added a ton of shows in the last two years, but when I went in 2010 the only show I noticed was their lazer show at night. Which has been expanded with the tearing out of Wildcat this year. Beyond that I haven't seen nor heard anything about shows in that park.
Overall my experience with CP ride, food, and show-wise from 2 years ago was rather lackluster, and there has been nothing ground breaking with them in the last two years that will make me willing to go back at any point in the future. Maybe I'll go as a ACE member to ride their wing rider for the credit, or use a Plat. pass to get in for a few hours to ride Magnum again, and then go straight down to King's Island and ride what they have to offer instead.
Don't even get me started with the overall atmosphere, my experiences with the park's employees, and the GP, because I could easily double the length of this post about them.
