Back to photos. In mid-May we went to Cedar Point, which would have set a record for earliest visit to Cedar Point if it weren't for Eclipse Day. Here's how it looked, with the park fully open and every ride ready to run:
... Well, not every ride. Although we were only like two weeks into the season we had already missed the six operating days Top Thrill 2 would have for 2024.
But the park's looking lovely and you can see here the Midway Carousel without its Total Eclipse of the Point banners covering it. I wonder what they've done with that.
Sun as seen from the top of the Raptor lift hill.
I'm not sure how old this 'Greetings from Cedar Point' banner is. It's got the new Boardwalk area on it so it can't be from earlier than 2022. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger would later take a picture of me in front of it for her photography class.
Looking up at the sun here, as seen above the second spire added to make Top Thrill 2.
Here's a nice view of the main midway, with Iron Dragon on the left, Top Thrill 2's new spire in the middle, and way in the distance Rougarou. I'm not sure what that blur is; I think it's got to be a bird who just happened to be doing bird stuff in the middle of all this.
But here's the Iron Dragon cars doing their thing, too.
Beside Top Thrill they've now set up the area to showcase Top Thrill 2 racing, which would make more sense of Top Thrill 2 were a racing coaster, which it would make no sense for it to be.
Part of the theming is this checkerboard paint on the ground that's surely not going to age badly.
Here's the main drag of Top Thrill 2, along with the old Top Hat that made the original ride what it was.
Fancy new TT2 racing sign to let you know you were in for an experience once they figured out how to deliver it.
That oval frame is where you're supposed to enter the queue for Top Thrill 2. It's an appealing bit of design to make just entering the ride more of an experience, but as you can see it's closed off.
Trivia: In the 1920s Hoover Airport (serving Washington, DC) added a public swimming pool which was twice as large as the terminal. Also more profitable. Source: Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure, Alastair Gordon. Wikipedia notes that children would cross the runway to get to the swimming pool. Also that Arlington Beach amusement park was next to the field. Also there was a landfill fire on the other side of the field. All things considered it's not surprising it was decommissioned in 1941 (the site is now the Pentagon).
Currently Reading: Poincaré and the Three-Body Problem, June Barrow-Green.
