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Cedar Point | Top Thrill 2 | Triple Launch Renovation | 2024

Green light appears to have been given:

www.cleveland.com

Ready to go: Cedar Point’s Top Thrill 2 will open today ‘weather permitting’

The Ohio Department of Agriculture last night certified the ride to open this morning, which is opening day at Cedar Point.
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(It reportedly still hasn’t opened due to poor weather, though)

Edit: Did operate for brief intervals on Saturday and even had a double rollback happen. Tuned mass dampers have also been added to the supports on the pull-up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rollercoasters/comments/1ke3f27/tuned_mass_dampers_on_tt2_at_cedar_point
 
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After a year back at the drawing board, glad to report in on two rides aboard TT2 for CP opening day! Weather was awful to start, but TT2 gratefully came online after weather cleared later in the afternoon. In no particular order of thought:
  • The overall ride is noticeably smoother than last year. Considering that seemed the fault of the coaster, tearing itself apart, the new rigidity is welcome! Everything from launch track sway to train jostling is either noticeably absent or much more firm. The tuned mass dampers as reported can be visibly spotted on the Top Hat supports too.
  • The trains themselves are visibly identical to the original – all intel points to improvements of chassis and an entirely rebuilt train, but maintaining all the same aesthetic and riding experience. I was especially pleased at this as the trees are honestly some of the best looking in the biz, and bring a great Non-seatbelt OTSR and near-zero entry that makes for very comfortable, easy riding.
  • It was pretty cold and windy today (TR inbound for more) which could have affected TT2 rollbacks and undershoot today. Only time will tell if the ride is “neutered” and not launching at original speeds, whatever that means for a coaster that just completed its fifth operational day in two seasons. 😅
 
Question for the more engineering savvy people... With those dampers that were installed... would it have been cost prohibitive to manufacture/install lateral supports on the supports that received the dampers? Or is this a short term solution and new/different support structures may come during the next off season?
 
Aaron Smith said:
Question for the more engineering savvy people... With those dampers that were installed... would it have been cost prohibitive to manufacture/install lateral supports on the supports that received the dampers? Or is this a short term solution and new/different support structures may come during the next off season?
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It really depends how much any additional supports would change the response frequency and natural damping of the tower structure. I would imagine with fabrication, design iteration and installation (steel costs are very high just now), the tuned mass dampers are a much quicker and easier solution to damp the vibration down for the next train.
 
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Coastersbricks on Instagram: "Top Thrill 2 has reopened at Cedar Point with some noticeable changes. The wheel bogies have been completely redesigned for increased rigidity. The rear wheel covers have been fully reworked, and additional covers have b

161 likes, 0 comments - coastersbricks on May 6, 2025: "Top Thrill 2 has reopened at Cedar Point with some noticeable changes. The wheel bogies have been completely redesigned for increased rigidity. The rear wheel covers have been fully reworked, and additional covers have been added to the...
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A more detailed look at and explanation of the differences of new the trains/wheel assemblies.
 
Random worthless thing to notice but I was looking at my toothpaste tube today, has anybody mentioned yet that the Top Thrill 2 CP Racing logo (on the front of the trains etc) looks like Colgate-Palmolive's logo?


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Now whenever I see the coaster I think of toothpaste and soap.
 
Boodangy said:
Random worthless thing to notice but I was looking at my toothpaste tube today, has anybody mentioned yet that the Top Thrill 2 CP Racing logo (on the front of the trains etc) looks like Colgate-Palmolive's logo?


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Now whenever I see the coaster I think of toothpaste and soap.
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Aerie Force 1 reminds me of classic Colgate toothpaste too
 

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Any reports on the reliability of the ride? I haven't much about downtime, which seems promising. I'll be going in later July, so I'm hoping it'll still be fine
 
Broke down several times for me Mon/Tue this week - they always got it going again though after 1/2 hour or so (not so much fun when you are deep into the queue line 😜). Running blue and black trains only too.
 
For a new ride of this scale, and especially in light of what happened when it originally opened, that doesn't actually strike me as that bad.
 
Not even a week before I go there. Maybe Zamperla wasn’t the best for the job? Nah, their sub-par Family coasters prove that they can do a 420ft ride.
 
… and just like that CP said TT2 is expected to open tomorrow: https://www.wkyc.com/article/entert...-ohio/95-8ec3cfd5-3541-4dbe-8534-1f4ea2adeecf

To also paraphrase some convo on TT2's retched weekend I've had with other coaster friends: Call it what it is. Intamin sucked balls the first few years of TTD, Zamperla also sucking balls. Coasters above 100 MPH speeds are a really bad idea, reliability-wise. Truly, I only got to ride original TTD 2 or 3 times in the first three years of the ride operation; it was constant downtime with cable fraying, hydraulic system glitch, sensor errors. The fact I've ridden TT2 eight times already is astonishing lol. If helpful, historic framing for how OG TTD was doing ~ a year and a half into operations: https://www.toledoblade.com/frontpa...int-shuts-down-coaster-after-riders-hurt.html

I offer a simple hypothesis (to the why Zamperla and not Intamin question): it’s been a while since Intamin commissioned a large, record-breaking roller coaster. Recency bias makes it easier to forget how hard these types of new launch systems are, with no coaster manufacturer actually being the obvious choice.
 
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I offer a simple hypothesis (to the why Zamperla and not Intamin question): it’s been a while since Intamin commissioned a large, record-breaking roller coaster. Recency bias makes it easier to forget how hard these types of new launch systems are, with no coaster manufacturer actually being the obvious choice.
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Whilst I agree with this, I offer the rebuttal of "it's been even longer [read: ever] that Zampera have commissioned a large, record-breaking roller coaster." ;)

I do take your general point though, it's easy to forget how troublesome these huge coasters are.
 
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