Starlight Experience Open

MavCoaster14 · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 10:42 am Post subject: Starlight Experience Open

Yesterday I was at the park, and I got to check out Starlight Experience. It was a lot more than what I was expecting! There are a lot more lights than I noticed during the day, and it was very bright at night. There was fog in the Millennium Tunnel, and everything was really colorful. There was even falling snow! This was something I will probably always go through at night to get to the other side of the park, and I would recommend that anyone should walk through. Did anyone else get to see it yet?

jakems1990 · Member Joined: 01 Apr 2009 Posts: 120 Location: Michigan

Yeah, it was sweet! I was eating dippin' dots and the snow fell in my cup D:
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MavCoaster14 · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 3:54 pm Post subject:

^Yeah, one got in my eye and my contact was blurry Laughing

MForce1984 · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 3:59 pm Post subject:

It sounds awesome! I cannot wait to experience it!

brandon · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 4:02 pm Post subject:

I saw part of it on Friday while on Millennium. The blue lights looked amazing and I can not wait to walk through it.

Mike · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 4:06 pm Post subject:

I'll be there tonight taking photos (and hopefully video), so I'll get things posted tomorrow.
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RonAnnArbor · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 6:12 pm Post subject:

Saw it last night too -- took lots of photos -- I have no idea how to post them here...This is a link to all of my CP 2009 photos so far, which includes photos from the Starlight Experience...

http://ronannarbor.smugmug.com/gallery/8317795_cRqWb#544890321_gq756

My thoughts? It started way too late -- CP's idea of opening at "dusk" was 9:15 pm...it took them a long time to set up, I was standing right in front of the MF tunnel, and there was lots of grumbling from people trying to get from Millenium Force to Maverick and vice versa when they weren't allowed to pass through the Trail for a half hour. The security guards at the MF tunnel were having trouble holding people back -- they had half the tunnel chained off, the other half open from the many people passing through the other way. Eventually, they got tired of the harassing they were getting from the teens who wanted to pass through and resorted to lines like "Take it up with management, not me" and "Go around, there's nothing I can do about it, I just work here"...

It will definately change the "tour plan" for people incorporating MF or Maverick late at night -- you'll have to take the train from one to the other.

For those who don't want to brave the crowds and walk after they have been walking all over the park all day and just want to go home, can ride the train -- you will see 80 percent of the lights from the train between Frontiertown and the Midway (Note: you can only see them on the return trip, not the trip TO Frontiertown). You can see the floats that they use for the Peanuts characters from the train under MF in the storage area on the way to Frontiertown.

The lights are pretty. It's worth a walk through, but I'm not sure once you've seen it you are going to go out of your way to go see it again on a return visit. It's pretty similar to the types of displays you see at zoos across America at Christmas time. I did like that the lights were themed to the different seasonal holidays (blue and white for winter; orange for fall; Green and Purple for spring, etc...)

My overall reaction -- it's pretty. I've seen it, don't need to see it again...and more importantly, they need to find a way to set it up in less than 10 minutes, not 30 minutes; and they need to start it a good hour earlier at the same time all the other park lights come up.

MavCoaster14 · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 6:52 pm Post subject:

I do think that it could be set up in less time, but I think that things will get a little bit better later in the year. I was riding another ride when they were setting it up, so it wasn't a problem for me. But the chaos you described was surprising for me... I didn't think it would be that bad. I really liked the fog in the tunnel too... that had to be my favorite part. I walked through the tunnel like eight times Very Happy

Brought back a lot of nice memories from last year!

CFCPKI 1 · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 7:25 pm Post subject:

Sounds pretty fun and I can't wait to experience it myself. Hopefully I'll be able to go in 2 weeks.
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RonAnnArbor · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 8:51 pm Post subject:

I'm sure the grumbling will go down as people learn the new system -- not for nothing, I saw nothing written anywhere that the Frontier Trail would close down for a half hour prior to the opening each evening -- although I did eventually find it tucked away in the "Show Brochure" for the day, the blue brochure they print every week that they don't include with the map, and that you have to look for if you are interested.

From that point of view, Cedar Point did a bad job explaining how the process works. But once word of mouth is out, it should go more smoothly from night to night.

Mike · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 10:26 pm Post subject:

Starlight Experience is amazing! Everyone needs to check it out when they visit.

The experience is still not at 100%, as several of the more 'technical' effects are not fully functional, but will be shortly. I hope to get photos up tonight.
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Mike · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 12:01 am Post subject:

Full coverage at www.thepointol.com

I'll have a review posted tomorrow afternoon hopefully.
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Cameron · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 12:24 am Post subject:

It looks very good. I'll be sure to check it out when I go in a few weeks.
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SteveDePoy · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 6:32 am Post subject:

It was very different from what I had expected. They did a great job with this and this is going to keep the trail and the back of the park busier than it has been in past years.
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bp · Member Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Posts: 1066

Where'd the $1M dollars go? Did they go to Target for all the LED lights they had in stock Smile

I'll have to wait for the full SFX. But I really wasn't blown away. It was interesting. It opened too late. The Snoopy Winter display seemed to be the most popular. The music was OK low key so as not to ruin the quietness of the Frontier Trail. The snow SFX was small but kind of fun. They need a fog machine for the Great Pumpkin display. Some gobos focused on the ground would be good.