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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 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
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 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 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
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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/ August 16, 2019
Breaking Down Orion’s Giga Coaster Layout Orion at Kings Island is a B&M giga coaster that opened in 2020, standing 287 feet tall and reaching a top speed of 91 mph. Its layout was designed to maximize speed and airtime while working with the terrain…
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