Cedar Point, the popular amusement park in northern Ohio, announced Tuesday morning that a reimagined version of its iconic Top Thrill Dragster ride will debut to thrill seekers next summer after the ride was forced to close.
It’s been two years since roller coaster fanatics have been able to ride Top Thrill Dragster, which sent riders in the air at 120 mph in just 3.8 seconds. Cedar Point, located in Sandusky, Ohio, shut down the ride in 2021 when a mishap led to a woman being seriously injured by a metal bracket that flew off the coaster.
The big reveal of the revamped ride, however, had already been spoiled by an early accidental release during the weekend: Yes, the new ride at the park would be called “Top Thrill 2.” And yes, the three “V”s in “revvved” represented something significant: a ride with three launches.
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Featuring a second 420-foot-tall tower and reaching a top speed of 120 mph, the Top Thrill 2 − a hydraulically-launched steel roller coaster − will be the world’s tallest and fastest triple-launch strata roller coaster, Cedar Point claimed in a news release.
“Top Thrill 2 will be the boldest and most advanced roller coaster Cedar Point has ever introduced,” Carrie Boldman, the park’s vice president and general manager, said. “It’s another one-of-a-kind that could only be built at Cedar Point.”
The news had roller coaster enthusiasts buzzing on social media, with some Cedar Park fans expressing excitement and others claiming to be unimpressed.
Unlike its predecessor, Top Thrill 2 will deliberately do something that previously would be a sign of the ride’s failure: It will perform a “rollback,” a seemingly weightless backwards fall from 420 feet above the ground.
World record holder, again
Opened in 2003, the original Top Thrill Dragster was the first strata coaster, known as any roller coaster eclipsing a height of 400 feet.
The second one…
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