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CEDAR POINT
Sandusky, Ohio (Abbreviation: CP)
Six Flags Entertainment
---- THE LATEST NEWS ----
(5/14/2026) Cedar Point Cancels Morning Rush Plans and Brings Back CoasterMania!
(5/13/2026) A Disturbing Issue With Millennium Force Has Been Pointed Out
(5/12/2026) Cedar Point Fans Are Not Happy About CoasterMania's Replacement
(4/7/2026) Cedar Point Confirms A Classic Ride Has Been Retired
(3/28/2026) Cedar Point and Kings Island To Reclassify Their Disk'O Coasters
 Park News - (4/14/2026) Consider me shocked, but only a day or so after the announcement of the Morning Rush early entry promotion coming to Cedar Point as a replacement for CoasterMania… the park has now officially canceled it entirely due to fan outcry!
According to a social media post by The Point’s own Tony Clark, they heard the message loud and clear! Teams are now hard and work on the details to bring back a proper CoasterMania experience to the park in time to hold it still on June 5th. I was going to say, stay tuned for the details, but the park actually just released them a few minutes ago.
According to the updated website, admission to CoasterMania AND full Park Admission for the day will cost you $109.99. If you are a season passholder, you can add CoasterMania for $75.00. The revised itinerary for the day includes some breakfast treats at 7am, ERT on Millennium Force, Siren’s Curse, Iron Dragon and GateKeeper from 7:30am to 9am, then ERT on Blue Streak, Valravn and Raptor from 8:30am to 10am. A special access photo op at Maverick from 1-2pm, group mealtime from 3 to 4:30pm, and in the evening more ERT on Magnum, Gemini and Wilderness Run from 10-11pm, and from 10:30pm until Midnight ERT on Steel Vengeance, Top Thrill 2 and Maverick.
Now THIS sounds like CoasterMania… and it was really amazing to see Cedar Point make such a quick about-face on the previously announced Morning Rush plans in favor of bringing back a proper CoasterMania style event. I’m sure the fan backlash put a lot of CP staff in for some overtime to bring about this rapid transformation so quickly, but from the sound of things, this was very much needed, so well done to all involved in making this course-correction happen so quickly. (Now... how about those seat belts on Millennium Force?)
(5/13/2026) I’ve been sent a little news that will be disturbing to Cedar Point fans. According to various reports from guests who have visited the park already this season, the seat belts on Millennium Force have either shrunk or been replaced by new shorter belts. As a result, many guests who may have ridden Millennium Force in the past are finding that they are no longer able to latch the seat belt. The extra frustration is also slowing down the loading proceeedures, as guests struggle and take longer to fasten their belts, or staff trying to help far more riders than normal are preventing fast dispatches. Combine this problem with reports that there are fewer ride ops in the station working to check the train than normal, and this is becoming a problem. Even worse, the reports are saying that the belt on the test seat outside of the queue is still the old length… so riders are testing and fitting… only to wait in a long line and discover that they are unable to ride.
A video from El Toro Ryan details the current issues rather well…
(5/12/2026) Cedar Point fans are NOT happy this week, as the park announced that instead of holding the annual CoasterMania event at the park on June 5th… they were going to instead try something new called “Morning Rush”. Essentially, buying a Morning Rush pass for $95 will get you into the park 2-hours early that morning for “private access to some of the park’s biggest and baddest roller coasters.” And by private… what they really mean is that ticket sales to the event will be “extremely limited”, but they’re not giving out any numbers.
The interesting thing however is that Cedar Point says that this may not be the only “Morning Rush” event of the season. Depending on how well it goes for them, they may ”offer even more Morning Rush events with new ride lineups throughout the season.” So… this is starting to sound more like an upcharge “early entry” kind of thing… which is what I think the park used to offer to their hotel guests as a special incentive once upon a time. Oh wait… they still do offer an Early Entry perk for hotel guests and some passholders… Hmmm…
So… just to make sure you are aware… the $95 Morning Rush ticket is ONLY good for those two hours of Morning Rush time. You are still going to need to buy a ticket (or have a season pass) for regular park admission for the rest of the day. Keeping in mind that regular admission to Cedar Point for the WHOLE DAY is as low as $52 right now when you buy online (prices flux based on the day you want to visit) or $75 for a ticket good for any day you like… asking $95 for an extra 2-hours in the morning is a bit high in my opinion. Maybe $95 if it included admission for the whole day… but this does not.
For those who want to go anyway, the list of rides being offered is:
Siren’s Curse, Millennium Force and Iron Dragon from 7:30am to 9am… and then you also will get special access to Rougarou from 9:30am to 11am too apparently.
But for longtime Cedar Point fans who have been enjoying the day-long CoasterMania event that offered full park admission and random extra perks and events throughout the morning, day and night… the more expensive Morning Rush event seems to be more of an insult. Almost as if those running Six Flags were not previously part of Cedar Fair, or aware of their own park’s past history.
Cedar Point can and should do better and make this right… but of course the best thing you can do to show how you feel about it, other than to send constructive feedback to the park, is to vote with your wallet and not attend. Nothing gets a message through faster to a company than financial failure.
(4/7/2026) According to a local news report, Cedar Point has announced that they have decided to retire The Monster after more than 50 years at the park. The Monster, located near the park’s Gemini roller coaster, first opened back in 1970, and is said to have “reached the end of its serviceable life.”
Replacement parts are difficult to locate and the difficult decision was made to remove it ahead of the 2026 season. The Monster will not be relocated to another park, and currently there are no plans for the site at this time.
(3/28/2026) I’m not sure who else really categorized these attractions as roller coasters on their own, but according to this news article, Cedar Point and Kings Island will not longer claim that their Pipe Scream / Surf Dog rides are roller coasters going forward. Within the industry, these attractions were technically known as Zamperla Disk’o Coasters, a variant of Zamperla’s popular Disk’o flat ride that features a longer track with a coaster-like hump in the middle of the two ends. There was always a bit of controversy as those parks choose to claim that the attractions were part of their coaster line-ups, while other parks with similar rides classified them as flat rides.
So now these two parks will fall in line with the rest, and re-classify the attractions as simply thrill rides and not roller coasters. This also falls in line with the general fan consensus as well as the fact that neither attraction has even been listed on the globally respected RCDB (Roller Coaster DataBase) website.
(1/2/2026) I think we’ve mentioned in the past that the Cedar Point Causeway will go under construction in Fall 2026 for a project to widen it to allow for an extra lane of traffic as well as a bike/pedestrian lane. That project is expected to take a few years to complete, so traffic in and out of The Point may be a little congested for a while once it starts.
However, it seems a second project is also expected to begin within the same timeframe that will also affect your drive in and out of America’s Roller Coast. The city just awarded a construction contract last month to build a “Roundabout” as a replacement for the current three-way intersection at Cedar Point Drive and Cleveland Road, (between Thirsty Pony Restaurant and Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que) which virtually everyone who comes and goes from the amusement park travels through each way.
They have not said exactly when construction will begin, only that the project is expected to take about 18 months to complete, and you know how those always go longer than expected. So this will definitely have an impact on the area, and likely require the use of a detour for awhile, so expect things to get a little complicated for the next few years.
(12/13/2025) According to the local news, Cedar Point itself had a pretty banger of a season in 2025. This goes against a trend of attendance decline saw at many other parks in the Six Flags chain, but then again Cedar Point isn’t your typical Six Flags theme park, so bucking the trend doesn’t surprise me. This goes doubly so since Cedar Point also successfully opened two major new roller coasters for the season… Siren’s Curse as well as successfully opening Top Thrill 2 for the entire season after being forced to close it down after a little over a week after it first opened in 2024 to address design issues with the new trains and wheel assemblies. With a successful redesign deployed at the start of the 2025 season along with the opening of Siren’s Curse, it comes as no surprise that the coaster-faithful flocked back to The Point over the 2025 season.
According to Cleveland.com Cedar Point actually came within 5,000 guests of breaking the park’s top attendance record of 3.617 million guests that was set way back in 1994, the year the park opened Raptor.
While they don’t really go into what’s in development for the park itself, attraction-wise, they do mention that there is a plan in the design stage to actually rebuild and widen the 2-mile causeway road that connects Cedar Point to the mainland, with construction actually set to begin sometime in 2026.
(11/6/2025) Believe it or not, but it seems Cedar Point was being scouted by terrorists to determine if it could be used as the site for an attack. A group of suspected terrorists were arrested in Michigan before they could carry out another planned attack on a LGBTQ+ club in Detroit were under FBI surveillance and arrested before they could strike. Though it was confirmed that the group had arrived to scout Cedar Point back in mid-September search history data on a seized computer asking about crowd levels at the park during the Halloweekend event.
Kind of scary to think about what could have happened.
(8/16/2025) I missed posting this story last week as my home was without internet for several days, but apparently a cable broke on Power Tower at Cedar Point on Sunday evening last weekend. The ride did exactly as it was designed to do, and came to an immediate stop and then slowly returned the riders down to the bottom to be unloaded, so there was no chance of an injury.
Power Tower features four ride towers, each able to operate independently from each other, two run in Space Shot mode and the other two operate in Turbo Drop mode at any given time, but currently it has been said that the entire Power Tower (all four towers) have been closed since the cable break as a precaution, and likely to allow for all the other cables to undergo inspection before reopening the attraction. I’m not sure of the timeline required to replace the cables on a tower, but in theory it is likely that we’ll see Power Tower reopen with 3 of the four towers running until they have the time and equipment needed to replace the broken cable, possibly after the park begins to close on most weekdays after Labor Day weekend.
2026 - Nothing is known at this point in time...
???? - New Attraction Guest Survey Concepts - (10/18/2025) Six Flags has begun sending out surveys to select guests to get feedback about possible future addition concepts that may be in the works. Keep in mind that not every concept they pitch for any given park may actually be intended for that particular park, as sometimes the chains will pitch ride concepts to other markets as well to gain some broader feedback on certain concepts. With that said… let’s dig into what is currently being pitched for the various parks.
The survey for Cedar Point proposed something no one expected… a Vekoma Suspended Thrill Glider coaster. Yes, this seems to be the very coaster that everyone has been waiting to see pop up at Six Flags Magic Mountain. It was first expected for the 2025 season, then semi-pitched by corporate as coming in 2026 instead, only all work on the site in California came to a haunt as the clearing was finished. The big issue against this going to Cedar Point is that the Ohio park just added two back to back major coasters, Top Thrill 2 which opened briefly in 2024 only to complications forcing a relaunch in 2025 alongside Siren’s Curse in 2025. With that in mind, it may be a couple more years until Cedar Point really needs a new coaster.
Other attractions proposed include a Vekoma Multi-Launch Family Coaster, a family friendly coaster and proposals for new shows such as a Nighttime Spectacular or daytime Stunt Spectacular.
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