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/ August 10, 2023
How tall, how steep and how fast Steel Vengeance's first drop really is, whether it is beyond vertical, and how it compares to Fury 325 and Millennium Force.
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/ August 6, 2023
The High Roller at The LINQ Promenade stands 550 feet above the Las Vegas Strip — nearly the height of the Washington Monument — and gives riders a slow, unhurried panorama of one of the most illuminated cities on earth. This is not the thrill…
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/ August 5, 2023
A roller coaster drop gets all the glory, but the turns are where a ride truly earns its reputation. The right banked curve — arching high, tilting hard, holding speed — can deliver a sustained rush that no vertical plunge ever matches. Some of the…
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/ August 3, 2023
Banshee at Kings Island doesn’t pause at the top of the lift hill. The train crests 167 feet and immediately pitches into a 150-foot, steeply banked dive loop, with inversions starting before riders have time to brace. What follows is 2 minutes and 40 seconds…
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/ August 3, 2023
Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio has always been a proving ground for roller-coaster extremes, but nothing prepared the coaster world for what arrived in May 2003. Top Thrill Dragster did not ease you in — it sat motionless for a heartbeat, then a wall of…
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/ August 1, 2023
Top Thrill 2 is Cedar Point‘s rebuilt, triple-launch version of the legendary Top Thrill Dragster — a 420-foot strata coaster that launches riders forward, then backward up a brand-new second tower, then forward again at 120 mph into the original top hat and a 270-degree…
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/ July 31, 2023
The train stops. You are tilted forward, hanging face-down over 214 feet of open air, staring at the ground far below. It holds that way — one second, two, three, four — long enough that your brain stops waiting for the drop and starts to…
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/ July 31, 2023
The Beast: A Legend Among Coasters The Beast at Kings Island is not just a roller coaster. It is a journey. Opened in 1979, this legendary wooden coaster holds a special place in the hearts of enthusiasts worldwide. At 7,359 feet long, it was the…
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/ July 31, 2023
The lift hill crests at 223 feet, the train rolls to the brink, and then — nothing happens. For roughly four seconds you’re face-down above Lake Erie, dangling over the midway, watching the ground below do absolutely nothing to reassure you. That pause is the…
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/ July 26, 2023
What Rougarou at Cedar Point actually feels like: how intense the four floorless inversions are, which row to pick, when the line is shortest, and whether the base Fast Lane covers it.
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/ July 24, 2023
Orion is Kings Island’s giga coaster — and one of only seven in the world. It stands 287 feet tall, drops 300 feet at a near-vertical 85-degree angle, and hits 91 mph before tearing through seven more hills of sustained airtime. Since opening on July…
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/ July 24, 2023
Manta at SeaWorld Orlando is the ride that makes you forget you’re on a roller coaster at all. Instead of sitting, you’re flipped forward into a face-down, arms-out flying position before the train dives 113 feet, threads four inversions, and skims low over a lagoon…
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/ July 24, 2023
The moment Diamondback’s train hooks the chain at the base of the hill, the clock starts. For the next several seconds, a steady mechanical clatter hauls 32 riders — seated in open, stadium-style rows with nothing but a T-bar across the lap — up 230…
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/ July 22, 2023
Few moments in a theme park day stop foot traffic like Diamondback’s splashdown. A 32-passenger train crests a 230-foot lift, hurtles down a 215-foot drop at 74 degrees, tears through airtime hills at 80 mph — and then, in its final seconds, skims a water…
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/ July 22, 2023
Water rides bring a different kind of energy to a theme park. Coasters deliver speed and height, but a water ride adds the one thing no coaster can: not knowing how wet you’re about to get. Whether the payoff is a light mist or a…
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/ July 22, 2023
Why Steel Vengeance has more airtime than any coaster on Earth, what its G-forces feel like, whether it goes upside down, and the zero-G stall that defines the ride.
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/ July 21, 2023
On August 15, 2021, a small L-shaped metal bracket came loose from a passing train on Top Thrill Dragster and struck a guest waiting in the queue line below. Cedar Point closed the 420-foot coaster the same day, and the ride never reopened in its…
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/ July 21, 2023
The entrance to a theme park is the first chapter of your story there. Before you have ridden a single attraction, tasted the food, or heard a character speak, the entrance has already set your emotional tone for the day, or failed to. Great parks…
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/ July 21, 2023
When Millennium Force crested its 310-foot lift hill for the first time on May 13, 2000, it didn’t just open a new ride — it opened a new category. Cedar Point and manufacturer Intamin coined the term “giga coaster” for any complete-circuit coaster topping 300…
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/ July 21, 2023
Steel Vengeance element by element, why it is a hybrid and not a wooden coaster, how the restraints work, which row to ride, and tips for the day.
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