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The 17-year-old boy was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct. A Sandusky officer responded to a call from Cedar Point police at about 4:20 p.m. about riders being hit by hot sauce, according to a Sandusky police report. Seven Steel Vengeance riders were treated by Cedar Point EMS, the report states.
Magnum XL-200, colloquially known as simply Magnum, is a steel roller coaster built by Arrow Dynamics at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio.When it opened in 1989, it was the tallest, fastest, and steepest complete-circuit roller coaster in the world as well as the first hypercoaster – a roller coaster that exceeds 200 feet (61 m) in height. [1]
A wooden roller coaster with a height of 25 feet (7.6 m) and a speed of 10 miles per hour (16 km/h). Switchback Railway was Cedar Point's first roller coaster. It was different in that it did not have a powered lift hill so the cars needed to be pulled back to the station by hand. [15] Three-Way Figure Eight Roller Toboggan 1902 1909
Cedar Point also removed WildCat for the 2012 season to make room for Luminosity. [57] This was the first time since 1978 that a roller coaster was removed from Cedar Point. [27] Cedar Point's renovated entrance for 2013, featuring GateKeeper. On July 13, 2012, Cedar Point announced the removal of Disaster Transport and Space Spiral. [58]
On August 19, 1993, Cedar Fair Entertainment Company filed a trademark for the name Raptor. [4] Raptor was then announced on September 1, 1993 during a press conference. Regarding the design of the attraction, Cedar Point management said: "Raptor will be the most exciting and ambitious project ever ... a project that will challenge the boundaries of imagination and change the Sandusky, Ohio ...
A Saturday afternoon at the amusement park quickly turned to tragedy for one Omaha family when 11-year-old Elizabeth "Lulu" Gilreath's long hair got caught in a moving mechanism on a spinning ride ...
The crash happened at Cedar and Nevada avenues.
The world's first hypercoaster, Magnum XL-200 at Cedar Point A hypercoaster is a roller coaster with a height or drop measuring at least 200 feet (61 m). [1] [2] The term was first coined by Arrow Dynamics and Cedar Point in 1989 with the opening of the world's first hypercoaster, Magnum XL-200, which features a height of 205 feet (62 meters).