Cedar Point announces Boardwalk with Wild Mouse roller coaster
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From the press release:
The excitement and nostalgia of Cedar Point’s classic lakeside experience will be celebrated in a whole new way in 2023 when the park opens The Boardwalk, a new themed area just steps away from the very Lake Erie shoreline that made Cedar Point famous. The Boardwalk is a modern interpretation of the Cedar Point of yesteryear. New ride, dining and entertainment experiences for the entire family will round out the improvements coming to the former Lakeside Midway.
More than an amusement park, Cedar Point continues to expand its attractions, signature events and festivals, year-round overnight accommodations and multi-day offerings, giving families so many reasons to explore the park and create new memories while solidifying their annual traditions.
“The Boardwalk is our vision of what the classic Cedar Point Boardwalk would have felt like long ago: the sights, the sounds, the electricity of the experience – this new area captures it all,” said Carrie Boldman, vice president and general manager of Cedar Point. “Lakeside attractions have always been a part of Cedar Point’s 153-year history, and that tradition lives on. We can’t wait for our guests to enjoy this stunning new centerpiece of summertime fun.”
Wild Mouse Roller Coaster
Cedar Point’s legacy of roller coaster thrills continues with the addition of the Wild Mouse roller coaster. A nod to the park’s original Wild Mouse coaster, the modern version will provide a ride experience the original couldn’t – its cars will spin 360 degrees as they navigate the ride’s 1,312 feet of bright orange track.
The spins, dips, drops and hairpin turns of Wild Mouse will thrill coaster lovers young and young-at-heart. Standing 52 feet tall, the Wild Mouse ride experience is an unpredictable game of “cat and mouse,” complete with six mouse-themed cars and one cheese-themed car. The coaster’s free-form spinning action changes with the number of riders aboard each car, providing one-of-a-kind experiences with no two rides being exactly the same.
Riders must be at least 42” tall to ride with a supervising companion, or 48” tall to ride alone. Wild Mouse is manufactured by Zamperla® and joins Cedar Point’s unmatched ride collection as the 18th roller coaster at America’s Roller Coast.
Cedar Point’s Grand Pavilion
Serving as the anchor to The Boardwalk, Cedar Point’s Grand Pavilion commemorates the park’s original Grand Pavilion entertainment space, which made its debut back in 1888.
In 2023, Cedar Point’s Grand Pavilion will take many cues from the original. The bi-level complex will be home to a new restaurant featuring culinary items not found anywhere else in the park (plus many traditional favorites), a lake view bar for relaxation and conversation, indoor and outdoor seating plus viewing decks with unparalleled panoramas of Cedar Point, the Cedar Point Beach and the Lake Erie shoreline.
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hambone:
If it's the twin of the ride at Coney Island, that's a really fun ride (helps if you arrange passengers so the car is unbalanced). The artwork doesn't suggest that, but the artwork also prominently says "artist concept rendering only." I also would have preferred a Mauer, but the whole area looks like a really good project.
Which coaster are you referring to at Coney Island?
The Tickler. But it's clearly not the twin of that - it's something new from Zamperla.
(Zamperla's use of Luna Park as a kind of showcase for their rides seems to be effective. Also, they're building some pretty cool rides.)
Cedar Point posted a few photos of the coaster bits prior to shipping:
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Schwarzkopf76:
^Perhaps the first time they're using 4-across seating on the non-standard mouse layout? Cool!
No, it's not. There's one in Turkey:
It's a really good ride. Modern Zamperla isn't quite Modern Vekoma, but it's definitely a few steps forward over the Zamperla of yore.
I develop Superior Solitaire when not riding coasters.
Cedar Point's new coaster is the first of its kind (that is, of that precise layout), though clearly intended to be a production layout, using the ride system developed by Reverchon for the Crazy Mouse. Zamperla updated the cars a little to individual lap bars, but other than that it's pretty much the Exterminator with a custom track design.
Someone said it looked like the Zamperla Freeform...well, there's a good reason for that...!
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Which is all good news. I have always loved the Reverchon mouse, and don't mind if there's one in every park. I was pretty sad when they took out the twins at Animal Kingdom. I know they have one at Fun Spot America, but, Fun Spot.
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Jeff:
I was pretty sad when they took out the twins at Animal Kingdom.
You are still the only person I know of that was sad about this :)
Make it two (plus my daughter, which I guess is three.) That thing was a hoot.
Yep... makes a huge difference if you have kids. I don't care what the internal research showed, that thing was a hit for kids just ramping up on coasters. I did it a half-dozen times with mine one slow evening. It's one of the best days I've ever had with him at a park.
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My daughter was probably a college undergraduate the last time she rode it, so"kid" might not necessarily apply, but we tended to unbalance the car to see what we could get it to do. That by itself was fun.
I rode Fun Spot’s mouse when it was new at Cypress. It was a blast, the car seemed well lubed and it spun like crazy. Not so at Fun Spot. The cars barely turn and the ride is braked here and there slowing it down considerably.
This new Zamperla ride will have features that many of us haven’t experienced on similar rides of theirs that appear elsewhere. I think it will somewhat emulate the Mauer rides found at Waldameer, Hershey, Lagoon, and Seabreeze. But smaller, shorter, and likely cheaper.
At least they didn’t go with that ridiculously tiny ride that Jungle Jack’s Landing, Columbus Zoo, put in.
I'm kind of "whatever" about the Reverchon/Zamperla off the shelf spinning mouse, but Animal Kingdom needs more to do and removing Whirl without a replacement or addition doesn't help.
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RCMAC:
At least they didn’t go with that ridiculously tiny ride that Jungle Jack’s Landing, Columbus Zoo, put in.
The theming on that thing makes Pantheon's look elaborate.
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