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 Review of Top Thrill Dragster @ Cedar Point
4 Rating Posted by: cpbrother on 11/2/2003 2:31:00 PM
Top Thriller is easily one of the best rides in the world, if not the best. When Cedar Point annonced this ride I was shocked, just plain shocked. How can a theme park build another coaster in only 3 years that is 110 feet taller than the record breaker before it. I was totally hooked. I called up a few of my friends and told then about it. We all drove 10 hours from mn to oh just to get to this place. Adding another high profile coaster to their already powerful arsenal seemed hard to believe. Where would they put the thing I thought. Of course, put it in the heart of the park. That is where it is and it doesnt really matter where it would have been because you could see this thing for miles anyway. Lets start with the stats. The pure speed of 120 mph and the height of 420 ft are mesmorising. The theming and decorations around the ride are simply perfect. I loved reading the interesting facts of the ride comparing to real drag racers in the que lines. Did you know that "A real drag racer has about 2,500 horsepower while Top Thrill Dragster trains have about 10,000 to get them moving" one of the signs announced. The line can be very long for this ride. It took me and a friend of mine about 4 hours to get on the ride. That basically was because the ride had broken down a few times. So it probably would have been about 2 1/2 hours if that wasnt a problem. But the beautiful thing about this ride is that a 4 hour wait is worth it. When we finally we ready to get onto the ride, I loved hearing the "Baby Im Ready To Go" song by Republica explaining that YES you are ready to go! You sit down in your seat and watch ahead as the train infront of you blasts off into speed. Then your train pulls up and the best theming comes into play. You hear an engine start to rev up like you are really in a dragster and it scares the hell out of you. I remember shaking before the train was launched due to the excitement my body was building up. While the engine is reving and the smoke is coming out of your exhaust pipe you watch as the christmas tree racing lights start to countdown. Yellow, yellow, yellow, green, and you are on your way with your face flaping the in the wind and the best pleasure you could ever have is experienced, and I do mean the BEST PLEASURE you could ever experience! The view uptop is astonding if you can actually wipe the tears out of your eyes to do so. Then you spin down a 270* turn to the finish. I have yet to see a dissatisfied face coming off of the ride so far. This is a peoples ride. All your emotions are spread so wide while riding this ride that you cant really explain it. Being bored for 4 hours is definently worth the 45 seconds of pure exilaration. Ride this thing and ride it again.

Ratings based on RCT rating system:

Excitement: 10
Intensity: 10
Nausea: 5
 

Review Comments

sfo1 on 11/2/2003 2:40:50 PM said:
Great review, cant wait to ride it! Welcome to the site.
tacoking on 11/8/2003 2:32:11 PM said:
IEverything is great except your rating system it would be more like 20, 20, 6.5.
BuffMan on 5/3/2004 8:58:20 PM said:
You sure know how to hook someone on a coaster. Got ta ride this thing LOL
dtrov06 on 6/17/2004 11:34:53 AM said:
only problem with this review: i was at the park just this tuesday. the sign says a real dragster has 6000 horsepower. otherwise, fantastic review. very acurate. almost exactly the way i felt while riding.
adriahna on 6/17/2004 3:59:52 PM said:
Sweet review.
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