I miss Cedar Point. My husband doesn’t go on roller coasters and there’s no one else to go with me. The Raptor is my favorite.
The same company that designed and built Raptor, designed and built Gatekeeper. I’m just dying to ride it.
I had always ignored the waterpark, but, while playing Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, we checked out some google views of the Cedar Point water park and were like, “wow, that actually looks sweet.” It has a ton of different elements. Now I’m rather eager to try it out.
One last CP fond memory - I love the Cedar Point Museum for its display of past park maps and coaster scale models. I like the Mean Streak scale model about 100 times more than I like the ride. try to stop in every visit.
I’ve never been to Cedar Point, but I have plenty of great memories of Kings Island. I first rode The Beast in the summer of '79, when I was 12. I was terrified, then exhilarated, and a fan of roller coasters ever since.
I miss that place; I live on the west coast now and haven’t been to KI in about 25 years.
My mom rode that with me on the Racers when I was about four years old. She was holding onto me by my shorts as we went over the bumps near the end of the ride.
I loved going to Cedar Point as a kid. Alas, the last time I was there was about 30 years ago.
I imagine it’s changed a bit.
I haven’t been in about 5 or 6 years. I also live in Columbus, but grew up in the Akron/Canton area, and we made a trek to CP usually once a year when I was a kid. I’ve ridden Magnum probably 40 times, Millennium Force at least 10-20 times, and Gemini, well, probably 200+ (I’ve done 15 in a single day on Gemini since there’s no line.) I LOVE Maverick…awesome ride. I probably won’t make it up there this year to try Gatekeeper, but I think we’re going to take my daughter for her first trip there next summer. She’s super short, so probably won’t be able to ride any coasters except Woodstock Express and a few flat rides (she’s 5, but just shy of 40" now…will probably be 42 or 43" next year.)
This thread is all kinds of win! I have two sons, the oldest is eleven and he is a roller coaster junkie just like me. We live on the outskirts of Cincinnati in SE Indiana and so we are fortunate to be about just under an hour’s drive from King’s Island. And we go there…A LOT. The Beast is still one of my favorite roller coasters. Any of you that live nearby and haven’t been in awhile need to check out their newest ride Diamondback. It’s a silky smooth, steel coaster that gets into the mid-80mph range. Lots of air on that one.
We are trying to get the ducats together to make a trip up to Cedar Point as its essentially the roller coaster mecca of the USA, and possibly the Earth. I so badly want to ride Millenium Force! My son and I have watched countless YouTube videos of people riding various roller coasters from all over we’re such junkies.
My only issue now is that I am divorced and my youngest son is only 7 and not big enough for the “big boy” rides yet, so when it’s just the three of us I can’t ride the coasters with my oldest and he has to go on them alone.
I remember Cedar Point from back when you paid from each individual ride. Then the year you had the option for an all-day pass, and they put a colored thread around your wrist with a metal clasp. You couldn’t use the pass two days in a row, because they changed the color of the thread every day.
I miss the San Francisco Earthquake Ride and old-fashioned rides like that, but I love love love the Raptor. Any coaster that goes upside down is fine by me, too!
I remember going to King’s Island in about 7th grade…up until then, I was scared of serious coasters, but I decided to try one (peer pressure) and ended up loving them.
Cedar Point is the greatest place to ride coasters. My first time on Millenium Force, we waited in line, got to the front, and saw it was only an extra 10 minutes or so for the front car. We waited this long, why not? Then we decided that if we waited all this time for the front car, why not go “no hands” on the entire coaster?
It was at dusk, and I remember thinking “it didn’t look like it was going to rain.” Then I realized I was being pelted with bugs.
Love Raptor and Mantis and all the others at Cedar Point too – although I haven’t been back since they built Top Thrill Dragster. Definitely need to go again!
Sigh… I’ll try one more time… the roller coaster is called the RACER. There are two trains… called Red and Blue.
I guess it is unique that two trains run at once, but it just reads so wrong to me… you don’t ride the Beasts, or the Millenniums, nor do you ride the Racers…that was a Hockey team from Indy way back when (now that I think of it I may have known a girl or two who DID ride the Racers… but that’s another thread).
I’ve ridden the Racer well over 100 times. Last time I was there I rode it around 10 times (private company event… rode 3 or more times each without getting off of the ride).
I haven’t tried the Racers yet, but I share others’ enthusiasm for the Millennium Falcon.
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Y’all are doing this on purpose aren’t you? That’s ok I haven’t ridden the Millennium Falcons.
Sorry, Spuds.
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The Racer is a great old school, Coney-Island style coaster. I love it.