Millennium Force officially announced!

Thursday, 22 July 1999

Cedar Point announces Millennium Force:

  • 310 feet tall.
  • 300 foot first drop.
  • 80-degree drop.
  • Approximately 92 mph top speed.
  • 6,595 feet long.
  • 2 Tunnels.
  • Unique "elevator" cable lift, incline of 45-degrees.
  • Made by Intamin.
  • Ride time: 2:45.
  • Trains similar to Darien Lake's Superman: Ride of Steel (i.e., "Cinema seating."
  • 36 riders per train.
  • Magnetic braking.
  • The layout: as described by the press release:
    "Following the first drop, the train enters a 169-foot-tall turn that overbanks (extremely banked, but not quite inverted) at a dramatic 122-degree angle, dive into a tunnel, cross the lagoon, scale a hill that stands 182 feet tall and plunge into a small wooded island. On the island, the coaster will race into an 87-foot-high turn, zoom into a curve 100 feet in the air at an overbanked 122-degree angle, then travel back across the lagoon through a second tunnel. After emerging from the tunnel, riders will experience "air-time" before flying into a final 68-foot-tall overbanked turn then return to the station."
  • Blue track with silver support structure.
  • 1,600 riders per hour.
  • Three trains.
  • Giant Wheel will be relocated next to Disaster Transport.

      New Cedar Point records:

      • Tallest roller coaster.
      • Fastest roller coaster.
      • Longest drop.
      • Most coasters anywhere (14... PKI's Racer does not count as two no matter how hard their marketing people want to think otherwise).
      • The most rides anywhere (68).
      • First coaster to break 300 feet.
      • Most steel coasters (12... See, Gemini is counted as steel).
      • Most coaster track anywhere: 44,013 feet.
      • First coaster to use an elevator cable system.
      • Steepest non-inversion banked turn on a roller coaster at 122-degrees.