Is Top Thrill Dragster being retired?

Officials for the Sandusky, Ohio-based amusement park announced the closure Tuesday on Twitter. After 19 seasons in operation with 18 million riders experiencing the world's first strata coaster, Top Thrill Dragster, as you know it, is being retired, the tweet said.



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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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The Top Thrill Dragster is back next year, redesigned and renamed as Top Thrill 2. The new design will be the world's tallest and fastest triple-launch strata roller coaster. The term strata roller coaster refers to any coaster that tops the 400-foot mark.

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(WOOD) — One of Cedar Point's most popular rides will be resurrected. The amusement park teased that Top Thrill Dragster will return with “a new formula” in 2024. The video was posted to social media on Monday, 20 years to the day of the ride's first announcement in 2003.

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The Top Thrill 2 will make its debut during the summer season in 2024, replacing the Top Thrill Dragster which closed in August 2021.

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SANDUSKY, Ohio -- After more than a year of speculation, Cedar Point has made it official. Top Thrill Dragster, at least in its current form, is closing permanently.

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The decision by Cedar Point comes a year after a small metal object flew off the 420-foot (128-meter) tall Top Thrill Dragster coaster and struck a woman in the head at the park in Sandusky. A state investigation found no evidence that the park acted illegally or had reason to believe the ride was unsafe.

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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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New Coaster Opening in 2024 at Cedar Point. 2024 Season Passes On Sale Now! Drive an entire season of unlimited adrenaline with the all-new Top Thrill 2 in 2024 with a Gold Pass.

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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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Metal bracket flies off train of Top Thrill Dragster The object was an L-shaped bracket roughly the size of a man's hand that had been attached to the back of a train car, state investigators said.

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Wicked Twister was removed after the 2021 season to make room for future development at Cedar Point. SANDUSKY, Ohio — Editor's note: Video in the player above features a front-seat ride from the Wicked Twister roller coaster, which has been demolished at Cedar Point.

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(This was something of a Cedar Point tradition. Top Thrill Dragster was the fourth coaster in the park's history to claim those two feats.) Built by roller coaster manufacturer Intamin, Top Thrill Dragster cost $25 million (about $42 million in today's currency).

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Record-breaking Top Thrill Dragster is being retired a year after the roller coaster seriously injured a woman waiting in line, Cedar Point announced yesterday.

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Top Thrill Dragster accident The roller coaster was immediately closed after the August 2021 mishap, and has never reopened.

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Over the years, Mantis became known as a rough ride and its popularity began to decline. On September 2, 2014, after weeks of leaking clues that a major announcement was forthcoming, Cedar Point released a statement that Mantis would close on October 19, 2014.

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