The Evolution of Cedar Point's Roller Coasters

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  @ThemeParkCrazy · 5 years ago · pinned

  NOTE: I am aware that Banshee opened in 2014. Small mistake, but I will edit it out as soon as possible without reuploading.

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  @sollamander2206 · 5 years ago

  The image of Steel Vengeance still boggles my mind to some extent. It looks like a roller coaster from a cartoon episode with comically intimidating and physically impossible rides. It's this massive wooden and steel behemoth with seemingly impossible angles and elements and I want to ride it so badly.

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  @ThemeParkAvenue · 5 years ago

  This is such an ambitious project, but it was worth the wait. Fantastic work, Peter.

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  @AndrewKapish · 5 years ago

  Thanks for this video!<br><br>I’m northeast Ohio born and raised. Growing up here, Cedar Point is just something you naturally take for granted. <br>Borderline every single person regularly goes with their parents/grandparents when they’re young, then their friend group when they’re teens and up, and eventually with their own kids. Roller coasters have been nothing but fun for me since my first ride as an 8 year old. The notion that people out there find coasters terrifying or particularly exhilarating is such an interesting concept to me. Everyone I know just thinks they’re pure dumb, silly, amazing fun. It’s just what you do with your friends in the summer and again for Halloweekends.<br><br>The older you get the more your realize how special this place is. I’ve yet to encounter another park that can even pretend to hold a candle to “America’s Rockin’ RollerCoast”.<br>Ride On!

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  @CallaLily69 · 1 year ago

  Love how he said Top Thrill Dragster wouldn&apos;t be going anywhere. Sike

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  @BluesCoasters · 5 years ago

  When Peter is silent for a while on YouTube you just know he’s making something outstanding!

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  @MicrowavedBurrito1 · 5 years ago

  I clicked faster than an s&amp;s compressed air launch

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  @IGuessIDoThings · 3 years ago

  Oh boy, the statement about Dragster aged well

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  @kescmslcs · 2 years ago

  Little did he know, Dragster was ready to go

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  @bigman6957 · 3 years ago

  Okay but the fact that Top Thrill Dragster closed 3 DAYS after this video uploaded is a crazy coincidence.

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  @sikkygames · 3 years ago

  I grew up in Detroit, and Cedar Point was basically our summer home. No matter how much we were struggling, my mom and dad made it so we could go at least twice a summer. I remember there was a water ride of sorts where Raptor now stands, and I was about an inch too short. My dad said not to worry, we would ride it together the next summer. We come back next summer, it&apos;s gone and there&apos;s Raptor... and I was an inch too short. A core memory is my mom having to hold seven year old me back, screaming and crying, as I watched my dad get into the line to ride it. Up until my dad got sick in 2011, we were still going at least once a year, the final time in July of 2011 (didn&apos;t know it would be the final trip anywhere with my dad at the time). I wish he could see the videos you make, especially on somewhere so close to our home. I know he would have loved them. Keep doing what you do, you are doing it well.

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  @IRDeady · 4 years ago

  I don&apos;t care what anyone says, I loved disaster transport as a kid. It was my favorite thing at the park even after Raptor got built. One of my friends told me that the trains &quot;jumped off the track&quot; and it wasn&apos;t until much later in life that I realized what he actually meant, I had no idea how it worked until I was an adult but the feel of it was always my favorite. Glad I was too young to ever notice or care that it was considered a flop.

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