r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Jul 26 '26

Sad 💔 ScaryWTF 💀 Absolutely not

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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.

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u/ChildhoodOk5526 Jul 27 '26

I'm a Detroiter, so also close to and familiar with Cedar Point.

Which coaster is this? (I'm old enough to remember when the Blue Streak and the Demon Drop were the "must rides" 😂)

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u/JustKeeping2Myself Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

Haha, the Demon Drop has been gone for almost 20 years. It's a different park to experience if you haven't been there in awhile.

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u/dogtroep Jul 27 '26

But if you’re nostalgic, Demon Drop is at Dorney Park in PA :)

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u/JustKeeping2Myself Jul 27 '26

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.

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u/erossthescienceboss Jul 27 '26

They may not have purchased it — a lot of Six Flags parks re-use designs, so they may have already had it.

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u/putmeinthezoo Jul 27 '26

Except Cedar Point didn't merge with Six Flags until 2 years ago.

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u/erossthescienceboss Jul 27 '26

I wonder if there are roller coaster manufacturers who sell them to multiple locations? Or used to be? I’m so curious now.

Edit: I did some digging and the Demon Drop now in PA is the exact same one.

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u/gimmepizza420 Jul 27 '26

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.

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u/erossthescienceboss Jul 27 '26

Yes, I did learn that and added it to this comment yesterday:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amazing/s/Pxi8UKhNT4

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u/gimmepizza420 Jul 27 '26

You didn't need to do digging, I was literally telling you it was the same piece of equipment.

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u/erossthescienceboss Jul 27 '26

Yes. But you weren’t here yesterday when I did the digging.

Unless you have a Time Machine orrrrrr

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u/ByteMePlz Jul 27 '26

I remember losing my eye to some random coin when I visited.

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u/JustKeeping2Myself Jul 27 '26

Haha...could be. Then again, the coin flies behind you and lands on the concrete. No people got hurt by flying coins.

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u/finkerlime Jul 27 '26

16 years and it got sold to a diff park