Want to see more of Cedar Point on one miscellaneous Sunday in July? Me too.
Another version of the CP Racing logo. Are you ready to join the team, 2024? Well? Because the park can do without 2024 if it needs to.
View of the coming attraction sign, the top hat, and the waning sun all at once.
Here's the part of Top Thrill Under Renovation where the track just ends. But it's less endy than it had been earlier in the season!
Ready to twist again, like we did last summer? Corkscrew train going over the midway, the way that's exciting and fun and that Cedar Point would probably never dream of doing anymore. (I say facetiously, even though, well, a part falling off of Top Thrill Dragster and hitting a person underneath did destroy their life.)
While the Coliseum no longer has pinball or mechanical attractions, it does now have a miniature golf course. We went inside to examine just what was there. It looks ... not bad. Might play someday.
I mean, who's going to turn down the chance to hang around a fiberglass toucan?
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We did look around a little at the rides they have, such as this take on the coin-op merry-go-round.
And here's a coin-op horse, just like this were a Meijer's or something. Well, not actually coin, since they use tap cards for everything, but the idea is there.
And now, out back behind the Coliseum, is the new Boardwalk area. Atomic Scrambler's a relocated and renamed Scrambler and doesn't that sign look fun? It does not in fact scramble your atoms. It is, however, the oldest thrill ride operating at Cedar Point, dating to 1960 [*], and so from just about the era the Boardwalk styling is meant to evoke.
[*] Unless you count Cedar Downs, which was manufactured in 1920, although the racing carousel only came to Cedar Point in 1967.
From the Atomic Scrambler queue you get this nice view of the Matterhorn, also relocated to be part of the Boardwalk area and given a new sign, although it's got the same paint job and decoration and mostly working lights. Matterhorn arrived at Cedar Point in 1972; these kinds of ride were first made in the 60s.
Back to looking at the Atomic Scrambler in its new livery. And the Wild Mouse in the background. If you look closely you can see the cheese car ascending the lift hill!
Trivia: Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, and South Dakota are all (approximately) seven degrees longitude in width. Source: How The States Got Their Shapes, Mark Stein.
Currently Reading: Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (In a Big Way), Roma Agrawal.
