Join Cedar Point as they celebrate anniversaries of some of our biggest and best coasters on Monday thru Friday, July 27-31, 2009.
Cedar Point Press Release
SANDUSKY, Ohio, — With 75 rides including 17 roller coasters, Cedar Point is known around the world for having more rides and more roller coasters than any park in the world. This summer six of the Sandusky, Ohio, amusement park/resort’s roller coasters are celebrating special anniversaries. To commemorate this special occasion, Cedar Point will be honoring each of the six classic coasters with its own special day during “Roller Coaster Anniversary Week.”
Celebrating special anniversaries this summer are: Blue Streak (45 years); Cedar Creek Mine Ride (40 years); Jr. Gemini (30 years); Magnum XL-200 (20 years); Raptor (15 years); and Woodstock Express (10 years).
Beginning Monday, July 27 through Friday, July 31, “Roller Coaster Anniversary Week” will honor a different coaster each day with a short ceremony held at the entrance of the featured coaster at 10 a.m. Following the ceremony, a commemorative ride pin will be given out to the lucky riders in line. At the exit, the first 250 riders will also receive free birthday ice cream, courtesy of Toft Dairy, Sandusky. In addition, guests can enjoy trivia from the year the rides were built at the coaster queue.
The schedule for “Roller Coaster Anniversary Week” will be: Monday, July 27: Jr. Gemini and Woodstock Express; Tuesday, July 28: Blue Streak; Wednesday, July 29: Cedar Creek Mine Ride; Thursday, July 30: Magnum XL-200; and Friday, July 31: Raptor.
For more about the coasters of Cedar Point, as well as Roller Coaster Anniversary Week, guests can log on to cedarpoint.com or call the Cedar Point Information line at 419.627.2350.
I was there yesterday for the Mine Ride and I got in line around 9:30am and only a few people were there, but by 10am there was a decently SMALL line that fit into the first two trains of the day. Of course that’s the mine ride in early morning. For some reason the Mine Ride didn’t get a ceremony and I got a sweet sixteen pin. The sweet sixteen means 16 rollercoasters, that’s what the people handing them out said. I guess because there old they need to get rid of them. Also, there were so few people, they gave the ice cream and pins to people as they got off the SkyHawk. 😀