I don’t know if I’m missing something here, having never been to Ohio, but surely a 420ft coaster that’s the tallest & fastest in the park, the tallest & fastest in Ohio, and still the 2nd tallest & 3rd fastest worldwide will still be one of Cedar Point’s most popular and iconic attractions among the general visitor? It’s hardly like Wicked Twister, where a lot of other things at Cedar Point dwarfed it stats-wise and it arguably became somewhat second-tier within the lineup.
I admittedly don’t know what the attitude to records is like in Ohio, but here in the UK, our parks’ record breakers are often still the most popular rides, even in cases where they’re not the newest (Big One opened in 1994, 9 years before TTD, and I’d say it’s still far and away Blackpool’s most popular coaster), so if TTD, a regional record breaker in both height & speed, truly is seen as irrelevant within Cedar Point’s current lineup, that’s truly interesting, and arguably a testament to the strength of CP’s coaster lineup. If you plonked TTD in any other park in the world, I reckon people would flock to it, and I’ll admit to being very surprised if they don’t at Cedar Point. Yes, the ride might not hold any world records anymore, but to still hold regional records, and still be the second tallest & third fastest in the world, 19 years on from opening is pretty impressive, for my money, and I’ll admit to being surprised if those impressive stats don’t make the ride appealing to your average CP visitor.
TTD is certainly one of the attractions I’m most looking forward to at Cedar Point, anyway!