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Cedar Creek Park - Hard Hat area! - BlazingEmpireHD - Jul 24, 2020
Remember that old park called Cedar Creek I was making? due to several factors, that project was entirely lost. So now, many years later, Cedar Creek Park is now here and will be the replacement park to that, as well as my newest project to go up on RCTgo, and NE.
It's roughly 35% done at the moment, and I am considering recruiting a fellow NCSO'er who made a Knotts Berry Farm inspired park....
Let's get into it!!
Main Entrance:
Main street home to several attractions and many food places and shops!
Cobra, built in 1978 by Arrow, was the first park to feature four inversions!
Parking Lot:
It's a parking lot with a big ol' B&M hyper built in 2004 by Cedar Fair after the Paramount buyover from then "Paramount's Carolina Adventure" (in SC) named Starfire.Â
Americana, a PTC woodie from the 1970s is acclaimed for its wacky layout.
More Parking Lot:
A bit more of Starfire, and it shows the track for the tram system that CCP has.
Trams were added along with the redone entrance, parking lot and of course, Starfire in 2004 and 2005.
Aeronaut and Airplanes:
Cedar Fair's next big investment for Cedar Creek Park came in 2007, in the form of the massive B&M Inverted Coaster, one year after the hit, Patriot at Worlds of Fun, and the last CF Invert until Banshee debuted at Kings Island in 2014.Â
This hit in a time where Cedar Fair was putting a LOT of focus in Cedar Creek Park, which would last up until the relocated Impulse in 2011 before a (possible) 10 year gap in coasters followed.
Rebel, a GCI followed in 2009 and is the latest wooden coaster in the park. Reveled for its large amount of airtime, it is easily in the top 5 coasters at the park, behind Starfire (#2), Caution (#1), and Aeronaut (#3).
Old Town:
Old town is home to Starfire, the B&M hyper mentioned earlier, but it is also home to the Rock N' Roll diner also found at Kings Island, Cedar Point, and Carowinds. It is also home to the currently unoperating Hurler, which will become Twisted Timbers in 2021 as an RMC.
Twisted Timbers is said to have a fourth inversion than its predecesor Twisted Timbers at Kings Dominion. Why the CF chain named these coasters the same is confusing. There is rumours that the name will change, however. Would TT be #1 at this CF park?
Caution Zone:
(impending story)
Caution is the attraction that set Paramount's Carolina Adventure onto get the "gold" of sorts. This MONSTEROUS B&M Sit Down looper was originally supposed to open as a duelling coaster in the soon to fail Universal Virginia, to combat the rumours of Disney making name in Virginia. However, BOTH parks failed. During the building phase of Universal Studios Virginia, the company building USV fell into bankruptcy killing the chance for Universal to continue their build there. Universal unsuccessfully tried to sell USV. It sat dormant for 12 years before Herschend bought over the park and began a new park there. Universal fans were extremely worried that the three B&Ms they were building would be scrapped, however, the three B&Ms they had were auctioned off. The B&M invert went to Busch Gardens Europe in 1997, and it took Caution considerably longer to be sold, because of the fact that Caution's tracks shared supports and couldn't be separated. Whoever had to buy Caution had to buy both. Eventually, Caution finally sold in middle August of 1998 for a significantly reduced price of 15 million for both. Caution would be purchased by Paramount for PCA in 1997, and not being built until 1999. However, a delay pushed back the opening of Caution until 2000, much to the shagrin of excited fans and CF.
As it would turn out, Caution turned out to be a massive hit at the park, attracting record attendance, over 2.8 million guests in just nine months. This massive attendance spike brought in a massive amount of money for PCA, allowing them to expand PCA rapidly.
However, even with the attendance spike (over 1.2 million over the highest attendance prior, 1967 (park opening, 1970 with Americauna, and with Cobra in 1978), PCA's decisions following would end up costing the park considerably. They did not add anything but a katapult ride in 2002, and generally, the park's attendance and upkeep suffered majorly. Eventually, the final Paramount park filed for bankruptcy, and guests immediately knew a CF grab was coming. And boy they were right. Cedar Fair bought PCA and renamed it to "Cedar Creek Park" after the college of creeks named Cedar running through the park.
Immediately, Cedar Fair added many additions. 2004 saw Starfire and a redone parking lot, and a redone 50s area, as well as 2005, a brand new entrance and more parking lot changes. 2007 saw Aeronaut, 2009 saw Rebel, 2011 saw Firehawk and Stinger, a Vekoma Inverted Boomerang (removed in 2019).
Removed in the CF era:
-2005: The park's boomerang
-2009: Their Demon drop
-2011: Shockwave (the standup)
-2012: Recoil (the Schwarzkopf Launched Loop; relocated to somewhere in Argentina)
-2019: Stinger
-2020: HurlerÂ
Let me know your thoughts and any critiques!