Let's be honest.. they won't. This is Cedar Point after all. They haven't made anything of quality since 2007. I have severely tempered expectations for this, even with it being an RMC.
Do you realise how spoilt you seem when you say that considering the :emoji_poop: we get?!
I agree with Snoo, though.
I dunno what it is about CP. It's easy to say they have a bunch of mediocrity and not a lot of quality, but... That's a description of
every most parks.
CP has a very monotonous blah feel to it. It's a nice park layout wise and operations are outstanding if you ignore their rain policy, but like... MF for example, regardless of what anyone thinks of the ride experience itself, doesn't seem tall or dramatic because it's planted in a sea of "I'm tall for the sake of being tall!" rides. Almost every noteworthy ride there has the same core concept - be tall. And that height before substance thing leads to some real mediocrity. The problem is, that anything really tall should be seen as
major and any major coaster
should be good, if not great or outstanding. There's no excuse for CP in the position it is, with the ability it has to turn out quality, to be building anything less than outstanding.
SFGadv and SFMM demonstrate that you can have a large number of great rides. At MM in particular, it's easier to list the rides which aren't great than it is to list the highlights. So what's the deal with CP?
I've just always thought it ironic that back in 2010 when I visited, I thought Maverick was the
only outstanding ride there. One of their shortest coasters in terms of height. MF, TTD and Magnum are all good, yeah, but the funny thing is I think they'd all be better if they were at other parks not overshadowing each other. Maverick is outstanding not only because it's actually critically undeniably good, but it's also just different in CP's otherwise rather samey lineup. Not samey in ride type, but in... Mood? It's like at Merlin parks how
everything is dark and dingy themed? Maverick is just conceptually different, even it's name flat out tells you that.
I get CP's need to build more people eaters over rides with capacity issues like Maverick - but Fury 325 exists, so that's the end of that argument. People eaters can be outstanding! (And the fact that Fury 325 exists frankly causes me issues in all kinds of ways, because really how dare B&M for waiting that long to make a Hyper style coaster outstanding. **** you B&M. I no longer believe you have a clue what you're doing.)
I have no hope for whatever this Mean Streak thing is being any good. But it should be. It ****ing better be, because it's at mother ****ing Cedar Point - America's roller coast! But it probably won't be. Ya know? Ya know.
