Where Are Cedar Fair's Defunct Roller Coasters? | Cedar Far's Amusement Parks Former Coasters
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Cedar Fair has recently been removing a lot of roller coasters in their amusement parks over the last few years. Getting rid of thrill rides that were always a beloved classic for the parks. We have seen coasters that have been around in the park for decades disappear like they were nothing. Kings Dominion has been very unfortunate with this by removing Hurler, Shockwave, and Volcano the blast coaster which was regarded as one of the most unique launch coasters in the world. The defunct coasters don't just start there, Vortex at Kings Island was the latest ride to be removed from a Cedar Fair park. An Arrow coaster that was a replacement after The Bat, has left the park as soon as the year was over. It is always depressing to see our childhood favorites leave, but what happens they were still out there today. Cedar Fair and most amusement park chains will try and sell their older attractions to another park. Relocating the ride somewhere else so the coaster can still live on someplace else. Almost every Cedar Fair park has done this to sell off an old ride. Cedar Point, Kings Dominion, Knotts Berry Farm, these are all parks that have golden ticket winning coasters and they all have defunct former coasters that may still exist in the world. Nothing lasts forever, but hopefully, these world-class roller coasters will live on as long as possible.
Just to clear up the confusion with Laser at Dorney Park, after it left Dorney it traveled europe as a temporary coaster at fairs and events until it reach Wiener Prater. I forgot to mention that because RCDB didn't include every Temporary relocation. Also Geauga lake was Cedar Fairs in 2004 not 2006. Just wanted to clear that misunderstanding! :)
I was gonna say, I worked at Cedar Point in 2004 & 2005, and we could visit Geauga Lake for free since Cedar Fair owned it, which I did a couple times in 2005 as I didn't have my own car the first summer I worked there.
- Gary
@@CoastingwithCulture How was it?
@@ilikecheese.316 It had potential to be a really nice park! The problem was that where Cedar Fair has seen thought the cleaning up of the old Paramount Parks after making the transition, Geauga Lake didn't seem to get to that point. Granted I went in Year Two of Cedar Fair's ownership, and thus I don't know what it was like in 2006 or 2007. The best example of this I can remember is that you could see that they just scraped off the Batman Logo from the Dominator headrests, seeming to have no intent to replace them to make it look better.
That being said, I really enjoyed Big Dipper. It was probably one of my favorite wooden coasters at the time when I rode it, and loosing it was probably the worst part of the park's closure.
- Gary
Night Hawk was called "The Borg Assemilator" while it was owned by Paramount at Carowinds. It actually had great theming with this GIANT deathstaf looking ball in the water
Yeah it was moved before CF took control of the parks too.
Actually it was first known as stealth when it opened as the prototype flying Dutchman coaster 20 years ago at CGA. Paramount as part of a contract with vekoma had originally planned to add two additional units in their parks,one at KD,the other at KI but when the prototype proved to be less than reliable at CGA they scrapped the contract resulting in six flags picking up the two units for the 2001 season. Originally CGA was supposed to get hypersonic but lost it to KD that year so they got a mouse coaster instead.
@@michaezell4607 And our Arrow Psycho Mouse is still running better than ever today, whereas hypersonic is long gone. ;)
Teststrecke was a travelling coaster at german fairs after it closed as Lazer at Dorney Park ;)
Super interesting stuff
Thanks for the visit
It sure is, Chris
It's funny, I was just at Cavallino Matto earlier this week.
Freestyle right now is fitting well into its new home, and it's a surprisingly good coaster, but unfortunately it wasn't the big hit the park had hoped it would be. Cavallino Matto had the misfortune of debuting the ride on the same year that Gardaland debut Oblivion - The Black Hole, and of course Gardaland stole the limelight with a far more aggressive marketing campaign, so Freestyle ended up unnoticed by the vast majority of the Italian GP, only exception being those living in its immediate vicinity.
I miss hypersonic and volcano :(
Thanks for making this video! Some of these have always intrigued me! I just had to stop and think about how crazy it was when you brought up that Kings Dominion's two newer launch coasters just completely bit the dust while thier original one, now over forty years old, is still operating! Should have kept King Kobra!
Glad you enjoyed it!
CF King's Dominion: Please Rebuild King Kobra!!
Thats the genius of Anton Schwarzkopf
G.A.C: Where do extinct cedar fair coaster go?
Me: Coaster Heaven
I never got a chance to ride jumbo jet at Cedar Point, as I was too young. But I do remember seeing it at the front of the park in its final year. The one thing I remember most, was the train getting stuck on the spiral lift, and a ride attendant actually pushing and assisting the train up the lift hill. I know this sounds crazy, but I saw it. I was 7, and I remember! Maybe the trains had just enough juice and just needed a little help. I dunno. But it was such a strange sight, I never forgot it.
Laser was my favorite coaster at Dorney. Fantastic, intense, smooth ride
Cedar Point's wilcat is still pretty smooth for its age.
I rode the Wildcat at Cedar Point and at Jolly Rodger! If you look in the background of the video when it was at Jolly Rodger you can see the Dunes Manor Hotel (the tan hotel with the 4 peaks). We used to stay at that hotel :-) Also, I grew up in Allentown, PA and my first EVER roller coaster was the Laser at Dorney Park. In 2008 I was the Wiener Prater on my backpacking trip through Europe...but i think that was the last year at Dorney. Anyway, great video!
As a kid I think I was only one inch too short to ride the Zambi-zi-zinger, right before it was closed at WoF, that memory stings.
I was very much of a fan of the video and the topic. Only thing I have to mention is the Laser at Dorney Park was NOT in storage it was sold to German traveling Fair in 2008 and renamed TestStrecke and still can be ridden to this day. If you stop the video at 2:05 you can see the TestStrecke name on top of the loop. Overall good video keep up the good work.
Great video! Geauga Lake was a Cedar Fair park for four seasons though, not one. They acquired it in 2004 and closed it at the end of 2007. But I do agree that they don’t belong on this list because quite a few went on to other CF parks (while some were sold off). Keep up the good work!!
Yeah I know, I was slapping myself for making a mistake on the date.
Great American Coasters It happens. A minor mistake in a great video. Doesn’t detract from the content at all. Keep up the good work (and I still wish Laser was stateside)
Vortex was my very first coaster and I miss it :/
"it will be the only flying dutchman in the world"
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I have Hopi Hari as my home park here in Brazil, and rode Katapul, former King Kobra, lots of times. Hopi Hari is themed as a fictional country and Katapul actually means "catapult" in its fictional language. The DC theming was added nearly 10 years after it opened at Hopi Hari, but the name didn't change. It seems that the DC theming will be removed until next year.
Last week I had the chance to ride "Freestyle" (Togo Stand-Up) and I have to say that it is fun. The helix and the other fast curve aren't that confortable, same as the restraintsystem, while the rest of the ride is crazy and intense, especially in the back (the first drop is amazing) and with the new paintjob and stationbuilding it looks decent too. Worth the trip to Cavallino Matto if you find yourself near by. Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪
Why is my favorite coaster on the other side of the world now.
Which one?
do a Six Flags version
9:27
Yeah, Taylor did a video where he went to the guy who has the car's house
GAC why did you have to do it to me? I thought either volcano or hypersonic would be somewhere else 🤣🤣 I was hoping sooo hard..loved the video though 👍🏾
I wish I could’ve ridden Thunderlooper when it was at Alton Towers
My dad rode Zambizee Zinger because he grew up going to Worlds of Fun in the 70s.
I rode King Cobra at Jolly Roger in 1988 or 89. That’s Ocean City, MD
Why can't cedar fair stop removing my favorite coasters
I've ridden Nighthawk and Valleyfairs kiddie coaster, but I didn't ride any of these before their relocations. Great video! I always find this kind of info interesting.
I loved Orient Express, but never rode the Zambezi Zinger. One of my biggest regrers.
Did anyone else notice that the Silverwood corkscrew is the same paint scheme as the boomerang at Knotts?
For me it's both Volcano and Dragon Challenge which unfortunately I never got the chance to ride any of these
the first inverting roller coaster was Wiener Looping at Wiener Prater which was a wooden coaster with a loop opened around 1900. But Corkscrew was the first modern imverting roller coaster.
CW really has a LOT of coasters that needs a removal, especially Flight Deck and Time Warp
Randy West Rode Wildcat EST. 1979-2011 at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio USA 🇺🇲.
Wow. I never knew jolly roger was that intense in the coaster business. So I guess I can say as well I have ridden a coaster from cedar point, wildcat was actually pretty fun, and since its their only major coaster and I go every year, go on it every time
I think you can see my hotel too. The hilton
Edit: You can
I rode Wildcat but at the Orange County fair. I got a rare Schwarzkopf credit.
I had no idea Knotts' boomerang got relocated. I thought it got scrapped, but I also heard that it got sent to China at one point, but I guess thats not true. Im just so sad because I never got to experience it, especially because by the time I finally overcame my fear of coasters I had one chance in December of 2017, but was still a little nervous of it, and once I heard about its removal for Hangtime I regretted my decision so much. It honestly had (a) nice color scheme(s) in its time of running and it was one of the last original attractions in the boardwalk section of the park
Theres still a boomerang at Discovery Kingdom
I feel sorry that Michigan's Adventure (which is the bastard stepchild of the Cedar Fair family) got an SLC :(
I also feel bad that Thunder Road got taken out for a water park expansion.
But Canada's Wonderland losing a TOGO standup in exchange for a Dive Coaster; fuck yeah I support that! Now if only CW would lose Flight Deck, Time Warp, Dragon Fire .....
As for Volcano at King's Dominion; well it had two things going against it
1. Maintenance issues (LSM was still relatively new in '98 and I've read that workers actually had to rappel down the volcano opening to do work on the track. That and it being a prototype and the only one of it's kind built meant getting parts was a pain).
2. An ambitious project from Intamin.
Actually that’s not the knotts boonerang on top of that building, there’s two trans studios and the ones that’s being built rn named trans studio action park I think is going to have knotts boomerang so I can only assume it’s been sitting in storage for the past four years and is gonna open later this year
I rode the Boomerang at Knott's 4 years ago in 2016. I hadn't ridden one before (I didn't get out of So Cal much and for a period of time I didn't go to Magic Mountain so I missed the inverted Deja Vu). I was pretty unimpressed. It felt really old and short. I think it got a good replacement with the Gerstlauer coaster, Hang Time. Though I haven't ridden that yet.
Silverwood is my home park and I just gotta say, the footage you're rolling while talking about Corkscrew, isn't Corkscrew or even from Silverwood. That's just some other Arrow coaster with corkscrew inversions from somewhere else.
I know, couldn't get any non-copyright footage at the time.
It's never ridden a roller coaster that's gone defunct yet
Me neither
Same
Randy West Rode Mean Streak EST. 1991-2016 at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio USA 🇺🇲.
If you've ridden the sit down version of sky rider at Brazilian high land in Japan you would know that it's really good, it has really good airtime, you would love the sit down version!
9:36 isn't that the park that now houses plopsaland's defunct 'vleermuis' roller coaster?
I liked sky rider... first standup I ever rode.
Randy West Rode Laser at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania USA 🇺🇲.
I rode corkscrew at Knott's in 1976.
I rode mean streak if that counts, unfortunately haven't been back yet to ride steel vengence
There is still a flying Dutchmen coaster at six flags America 😉
When they said it was torn down the same year it was built at Weiner Prater I assume it’s travelling as all rides that operate or have operated at Weiner Prater are owned by showmen but the way they worded made it sound like it’s was destroyed
Parque del Cafe is, unfortunately, my home park, and its like a 4-hour drive from where I live, so I'm very familiar with Montaña Rusa and the other two coasters, a Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter and a Gerstlauer family coaster.
Is it a good park?
Will you do six flags next
if the video does well
The only coaster on this list I've ridden is Boomerang. HangTime is light years better... making that replacement is one of the best decision Knott's has ever made.
Cedar Point took Jumbo Jet out before I was tall enough to ride it. I would love to ride any Jumbo Jet now. it doesn't have to be that very one on the other side of the world. I'll take any one that may be closer. I have ridden the second Wildcat at CP. was sad to see that one go. And I've been on every coaster that Geauga Lake had except the boomerang. no way I was riding that janky ass thing
I am for Brazil só i route “katapul”(the Schwartzcof suttle looping coaster)
Before Stealth became Nighthawk it was a Star Trek-themed coaster called Borg Assimilator.
Yep! I was gonna say that
if only vortex could have been saved
nah, i didn't like that ride
Yes, my favorite Arrow looper. I miss it already
why did cedar point build the same coaster twice, how unoriginal!
IKR it’s so dumb
Laser was never in storage, it traveled the German fair circuit so rcdb didn’t count it
yeah I forgot to mention that, thanks for putting your input on it :)
Great American Coasters no problem
I only know where Minsk is because of Friends.
I freaking miss vortex
Just need to but in, the boomerang at trans studio was acctually from pleasure island cleethorpes in the uk, not Dorney park.
its knotts berry
@@GreatAmericanCoaster that was my mistake, but still, it’s from pleasure island as we have proof of that. As they purchased that boomerang from the defunct pleasure island cleethropes auction a few years ago, sent back to vekoma for refurbishment and out to Indonesia
When he mentions kings dominion coasters removed n barely replaced i cringe.
Stealth at Great America
Why aren’t more people watching
i ride montaña rusa beacuse im from colombia
Knotts boomerang went to indonisia, wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who wants to see invertigo go away!!!!!!
To be honest I didn't like volcano, to short and ugly looking!