What else to say for Sunday of our Cedar Point Halloweekends trip ... well, we got a ride on Magnum, the last of the roller coasters we'd needed for the trip. Also to ride on Calypso, a twirling ride much like a Scrambler but on a tilted platform, and from a vantage point where we could see the Skeleton Crew doing their acrobatics routine from the side, making it look novel again.
Also we got to see whatever the heck was the Peanuts show, the one cancelled for want of a Snoopy understudy(?) the other day. It was something about trick-or-treating and Snoopy's wild candy mania and the scary house at the end of the block with the Legally Distinct From Willy Wonka And Besides She's A Woman So There.
Also we saw something we'd have expected never to see: Derby Dogs, a hot dog and walking taco stand next to the Derby Racer, was open. Cedar Point, like any big amusement park, has more refreshment stands than it has staff for on any day, but I couldn't swear that I had ever seen it open before, and word on the forums is that no, it's just like never open. Given the staffing shortages they seem to be enduring, I don't know why Derby Dogs was open this of all days, but there it was. We didn't eat there --- nothing vegetarian even if we hadn't just had lunch --- but my photos of the phenomenon also show nobody in line.
Another thing we finally did was get to a show, this one at the Jack Aldrich Theater which we hadn't seen used for Halloweekends shows in a couple years. The theme this year was something about mutants putting on a rave, and they opened with a couple great tricks of the performers interacting with the screen and lighting effects --- like, having a bubble appear around them and swinging a hand to crack it --- and then otherwise carrying on as if it were a furry convention's dance. The only strange thing was not clearing the theater to the tune of Toto's ``Africa''.
I've conveyed already the sad news of breaking my Angel kigurumi; after we dealt with that we got a ride on the Antique Autos, and Blue Streak again, and even saw one of the other live performances, an extremely loud skeleton-themed band on the Bonewalk. These the sign explained were The Ska-Letons, a name I know ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger didn't see because she would have groaned at the wordplay.
For our last ride of the night, and of Halloweekends, we went back to Siren's Curse for another night ride, again beautiful especially in the settling evening, as most everything else in the park closed up. My photograph timer suggests we wrapped up about 8:30, a half-hour past close, and we did sadly have to hustle our way back to the car so we could drive home in time for our work the next morning.
Meanwhile, Sunday at Motor City Furry Con 2025, after closing ceremonies. Surely a bunch of average, calm, slightly-sad-for-the-parting-moments pictures with nothing remarkable to share, right? We'll just see ...
Some kind of robot-y creation that I saw a couple times during the convention. After closing ceremonies was the best view I ever got. What the reason for it is, I know not.
It folds up pretty easily into one of those strollers people use to carry loads of stuff around amusement parks, though.
Afterward, fursuiters wait eagerly for people to take pictures of them.
Here the fursuit's handler poses the Sims cursor above their head.
Over in the bar we see the results of a veritable tail'splosion.
And here's a picture of a piece of the post-closing-ceremonies schedule which was about to get blasted to smithereens.
Trivia: Around 1815 Joseph Henry, future pioneer of electromagnetism and first chancellor of the Smithsonian Institute, was a well-regarded member of Albany's Green Street Theatre, with the manager offering him a permanent, salaried engagement. Joseph had, according to his recollections, just discovered Professor George Gregory's 1808 Popular Lectures on Experimental Philosophy, Astronomy, and Chemistry, turning his interests to science. Source: Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist, Albert E Moyer.
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