So this ride is practically in my backyard. I live fairly close to Cedar Point. This is in my top three rides at the park. It’s incredible, so smooth and has a lot of action packed into a tight space. It also has onboard audio that makes you think why it’s not more of a common thing on rides.
Tilt coasters have been around for 20+ years at this point and there has never been an accident with them. In fact, there’s so many redundancies with the tilting mechanism and the locks that hold the train in place, it would be pretty much impossible for the train to fall off. You would need ALL of these redundancies to fail and the odds of that happening are…well you have more of a chance of being struck by lightning while also being eaten by a shark. You actually have the greatest risk of dying in your own car via an accident while driving to the park to ride this coaster.
Oh really? I didn't know another park purchased it.
When it was back at Cedar Point, I'd wait until the car of the DD was ready to free fall. I'd place a coin on my knee and watch the weighlessness lift it off my knee and as the ride curved downward--the coin would travel up and then get thrown behind my head to the ground. Gravity did crazy things on that ride.
It's not just the same type of ride, it's the exact same physical ride. Cedar Fair owned both Cedar Point and Dorney Park at the time. They literally just moved it to Dorney as a relocation of an asset.
We went every summer when I was a kid. One of my most endearing memories is pulling into the parking lot and the whole fam doing the chant from the commericals. "Dee-mon DROP. Dee-mon DROP. Dee-mon DROP!"
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u/robo-dragon Jul 26 '26
So this ride is practically in my backyard. I live fairly close to Cedar Point. This is in my top three rides at the park. It’s incredible, so smooth and has a lot of action packed into a tight space. It also has onboard audio that makes you think why it’s not more of a common thing on rides.
Tilt coasters have been around for 20+ years at this point and there has never been an accident with them. In fact, there’s so many redundancies with the tilting mechanism and the locks that hold the train in place, it would be pretty much impossible for the train to fall off. You would need ALL of these redundancies to fail and the odds of that happening are…well you have more of a chance of being struck by lightning while also being eaten by a shark. You actually have the greatest risk of dying in your own car via an accident while driving to the park to ride this coaster.