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/ July 22, 2023
Riding the Tides: Water Rides at Theme Parks Water rides bring a completely different energy to the theme park experience. While coasters deliver adrenaline through speed and height, water rides add the unpredictable element of getting drenched. The anticipation of wondering just how wet you
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tz
/ July 22, 2023
Ask veteran coaster enthusiasts to name the most complete roller coaster ever built, and Cedar Point’s Steel Vengeance comes up again and again. This Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC) hybrid opened on May 5, 2018, layering steel I-Box track over the bones of the old Mean
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tz
/ 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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tz
/ July 21, 2023
The entrance to a theme park is the first chapter of your story there. Before you’ve 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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tz
/ July 21, 2023
When Millennium Force crested its 310-foot cable 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” to describe any complete-circuit roller
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tz
/ July 21, 2023
Steel Vengeance at Cedar Point is the roller coaster that rewrote the record books. Standing 205 feet tall with a perfectly vertical 90-degree first drop, four inversions, and 27.2 seconds of airtime — more than any other coaster on Earth — it has topped enthusiast
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