Is Cedar Point Keeping the Top Thrill Dragster?

Cedar Point unveils plans for new coaster to replace Top Thrill Dragster. SANDUSKY — Anticipation was in the air Tuesday when Cedar Point unveiled 2024 plans for its “boldest and most advanced roller coaster,” the Top Thrill 2, to replace the iconic Top Thrill Dragster.



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Earlier this year, Cedar Point confirmed their reimagined Top Thrill Dragster would open for the 2024 season after announcing in September the current ride experience was being retired after 19 seasons.

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An update was released on social media in September 2022 stating, Top Thrill Dragster, as you know it, is being retired. Officials provided limited details but confirmed that the roller coaster would reopen as a new and reimagined ride experience. The injured guest's family sued Cedar Point in mid-2023.

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Cedar Point announces its 'reimagined' Top Thrill Dragster will not open until 2024. Roller coaster fans will have to wait another year to ride what was once the tallest roller coaster in the world. Cedar Point announced Monday that its famed Top Thrill Dragster will not reopen until 2024.

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Cedar Point announced Tuesday morning that they will be bringing back the Top Thrill Dragster in a redesigned way. The Top Thrill 2 will be the world's tallest and fastest triple-launch strata roller coaster, according to a news release from Cedar Point. The ride will have two 420-foot-tall track towers.

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A new video released by Cedar Point this week teases what's ahead for the amusement park's popular Top Thrill Dragster, three years after it was shut down after a park patron was severely injured by a piece of metal that fell from the ride.

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Wild Mouse features six mouse-themed cars and one cheese-themed car. You become part of the adventure as you play the role of mouse or cheese. Each 4-passenger car will climb 52 feet, crest the lift hill and begin a twisting, spinning and WILD journey along 1,312 feet of orange track.

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SANDUSKY, Ohio (Aug. 1, 2023) – Cedar Point, The Roller Coaster Capital of the World®, will once again redefine roller coaster innovation in 2024 with the debut of Top Thrill 2, the world's tallest and fastest triple-launch strata roller coaster.

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Kingda Ka, billed as the world's tallest roller coaster, was closed on June 5 after operators reported a mechanical failure of a component of the launch system, Department of Community Affairs spokeswoman Tammori Petty-Dixon said in an email.

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Rachel Hawes is suing Cedar Point after suffering a traumatic brain injury from being struck by a metal plate that detached from a roller coaster.

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SANDUSKY, Ohio — Riders on Cedar Point's Magnum XL-200 roller coaster were forced to walk down much of the coaster's 205-foot hill after the ride became stuck near the top, reports say.

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