Summer is already here, and I'm going vacation with good group of friends for holiday weekend - Cedar Point: The Roller Coaster Capital of the World in Sandusky, Ohio. I have been to Cedar Point for my seventh time, four years in a row. We will be sleeping in Cedar Point resort: HotelBreakers 100th anniversary. This place is just least five minutes to walk down the park gate.
I know July 4th weekend is going to be hell at Cedar Point: too crowded and long quere lines. Thanks to Cedar Point, the gates and some major rides open at 9:30am in the morning for Cedar Point resort residents ONLY. The public gate opens at 10:00am for everyone. We have to catch up the most few popular coaster: Millennium Force and Top Thrill Dragster before the crowd take over!
Cedar Point holds the record number of 68 for most different amusement rides in the world, included the sixteen roller coasters: tied with Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA for having most roller coasters in a park.
Cedar Point is most recognizing symbol with bigger and badder record breaking tradition with roller coasters since debuted in 1989:
Magnum XL 200 (1989) - opened as the tallest (205 feet), fastest (72 mph), and steepest steel coaster. It also broke the 200 feet barrier called hypercoaster. One year later, Steel Phantom from Kennywood in West Miffin, PA narrow beat Magnum XL 200 by 15 feet and 3 MPH.
Mean Streak (1991) - opened as tallest and fastest wooden coaster. 9 years later, Son of Beast in Kings Island, Ohio knocked off their records with speed (78.4 MPH) and height and tall (218 FT) along with world's first wooden loop coaster.
Raptor (1994) - tallest (137 feet), fastest (57 MPH) and longest inverted roller coaster in world until Alpengeist in Busch Gardens Williamsburg take over in 1997 for 67 MPH and 170 feet drop.
Mantis (1996) - tallest (145 feet), fastest (60 MPH) and longest stand-up roller coaster. One year later, Chang from Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom takes over a year later and another year after, Riddler's Revenge from Six Flags Magic Mountain records still stand with 65 MPH and 156 feet tall today.
Millennium Force (2000) - tallest (310 feet), and fastest (93 MPH) steel coaster. It also broke the 300 feet barrier as giga-coaster. Three months later, Steel Dragon 2000 in Japan wins with 95 MPH and 318 feet tall.
Wicked Twister (2002) - tallest (215 feet) and fastest (72 MPH) inverted launch coaster. The record still stands today.
Top Thrill Dragster (2003) - tallest (420 FT) and fastest (120 MPH) steel coaster. It is the first coaster to break 400 feet barrier as strata-coaster [via my Flickr]. Two years later today (2005), this coaster lost its tallest and fastest when Kingda Ka in Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey topped 456 feet tall and 128 MPH.
And finally, Cedar Point holds the most awards [via my Flickr] than any park in two decades (1990s - 2000s), its has been voted "Best Amusement Park in the World" for seven years running by Amusement Today newspaper, and currently retains three of the top five roller coasters (in terms of height and speed) in USA.
If you are lucky ones who live least 300-mile radius away from Cedar Point, you can afford your day and time to go there with your family/friends and spend some experience with coaster thrills for once in your lifetime.
Reference via: Roller Coaster DataBase.
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