Specific Type: Junior Coaster
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Cedar Point is a park well known for its high thrill rides and dramatic coasters, but in 1999 the park turned its attention to a new area Camp Snoopy. This would help provide more family oriented attractions and ride for children to their ride line up. The focal point of Camp Snoopy is Woodstock Express, a junior coaster manufactured by Vekoma. With a height restriction of only 36” Woodstock Express is a fun ride filled with swooping helices the whole family can ride together. It gives kids a chance to ride a bigger coaster than Wilderness Run, a kiddy coaster, without having to brave more extreme heights. Gemini is another family favorite of Cedar Point, but with a height over 125 feet it might be too intimidating for younger guests or even their parents. Woodstock Express offers many of the same experiences, but at less than half the height and speed.
Guests enter the station and are greeted by a whimsically colorful train, made to look like an actual train, complete with a locomotive as the lead car. The single train has six cars, each accommodating two guests in a single row. Once your seatbelt is buckled and the lap bar is locked the train departs the station with a tight right hand turn to line up with the 42.7 foot tall booster wheel lift hill. At the top of the lift, riders take a sweeping leftward curve down, and then continue left as the ride ascends on a shallow gradient. The ride then dips underneath the lift hill and makes a 270 degree right upwards helix maneuver after a brief ascension. It passes above the station and then above where it entered the turn, and after a quick bunny hill, it begins another sweeping right helix, this time descending instead of ascending. At the bottom of the downward helix it transitions into a banked, 180 degree left turn, where it heads straight into the brake run, parallel to the station. After riders hit the brakes, they make a sharp right to return to the station. It has completed the 1,099.1 foot long circuit with the train’s bell ringing as it wound around the graceful layout. Kids depart with smiles dreaming of more thrills, and parents depart with dread. If my young daredevil loves this will I have to ride Millennium Force? |
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