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Power Tower at Cedar Point is a multi-tower attraction featuring a pair of Space Shot rides and a pair of Turbo Drop rides, arranged in a square-footprint with a crowning marquee and crisscrossed arches joining the four rides at their peaks. Power Tower is the only four-towered drop tower ride in the world to date, devoting two towers to each ...
A wooden roller coaster with a height of 25 feet (7.6 m) and a speed of 10 miles per hour (16 km/h). Switchback Railway was Cedar Point's first roller coaster. It was different in that it did not have a powered lift hill so the cars needed to be pulled back to the station by hand. [15] Three-Way Figure Eight Roller Toboggan 1902 1909
An artificial mountain was originally planned to sit underneath the highest point of the track, but the idea was later abandoned. [3] From the ride's opening in 1993 until the 2012 season, Snake River Falls was sponsored by Pepsi. [4] After Cedar Point switched to Coca-Cola in 2013, the ride operated without a sponsor. [5]
Cedar Point says riders on the coaster will hear this mournful music as they ascend a lift hill themed to an old 160-foot-tall Lake Erie shipping crane tower. At the top, riders will encounter a ...
Cedar Point's Top Thrill 2 is the world's fastest triple-launch strata coaster. It features two 420-foot-tall towers and launches riders three times at 74 miles per hour, 101 mph and finally 120 mph.
A view from the top of Cedar Point's second 420-foot tower for the Top Thrill 2 roller coaster. ... It will feature two 420-foot-tall towers and launch riders three times at 74 miles per hour, 101 ...
As a part of Cedar Point's preventative maintenance program, the VertiGo ride vehicle was removed and placed in storage for the offseason. [3] On January 14, 2002, one of the 265-foot-tall (81 m) towers suffered a structural failure approximately 65 feet (20 m) up the tower, causing a 200-foot (61 m) section of the tower to fall to the ground. [4]
Cedar Point also removed WildCat for the 2012 season to make room for Luminosity. [57] This was the first time since 1978 that a roller coaster was removed from Cedar Point. [27] Cedar Point's renovated entrance for 2013, featuring GateKeeper. On July 13, 2012, Cedar Point announced the removal of Disaster Transport and Space Spiral. [58]