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Not every ride is supposed to push your body to its limits. Family coasters are an essential category for parks.

Here's your new thrill ride, bro.

That's not even including the Lion Country Safari land that's all grown over. (image courtesy of Bansheeback)

It is pretty strange how they're treating The Vortex removal with such secrecy while the disastrous pile of lumber, Son of Beast, got a royal fanfare. I'm sure they have their reasons.

You certainly aren't the only one. Stand-ups are notorious for putting severe strain on the lower half of peoples' bodies.

Probably because they're going to topple it sideways like they did with Firehawk and Son of Beast.

I just hate that final brake run. My skull can only take so much trauma.

I honestly can't see FoF leaving any time soon. I could see a revamp though.

After losing rights to the Paramount IPs Cedar Fair had to make a lot of its newly purchased rides as generic as possible. Being heavily based on its theming, Tomb Raider suffered the most acute changes. The Crypt just couldn't live up to its predecessor and dropped hard in popularity.

I wonder if it's still there after 14 years. Can't say there's any reason for them to get rid of it as it's not a protected IP.

If I'm not mistaken, it's the park's crowning jewel as of now. It's a perfect ride for a small local park like that.

It's sad that they never found a buyer. However, its legacy does live on with Freestyle (SkyRider) in Italy. It's a perfect clone of King Cobra. I do have to wonder how they keep a TOGO coaster that old running though.

Here's the King Cobra segment of the old Coastermania VHS. It sort of shows the station/queue line.

What makes you so sure?

What I'm really wondering is what kind of flat ride is going there.

It has a good chance of being one of the last Arrow suspended coasters left. Not only was it the last one built, but it's also not particularly intense. Only time will tell though.

I'd love an alien themed Rotor or something of that nature.

Makes me wonder why they've selected to keep the SoB station standing for so long. With Orion taking up such a large plot of land nearby, I'm not sure what they would do with it. I suppose they could expand into the old Lion Country Safari area.

The primary factor is that most people don't care about an old station. We're the outliers. Vortex's throughput no doubt suffered due to the station's design in some way. They probably want to build something that abides by modern standards that eats people more safely and efficiently.

I'm not sure if it's been suggested yet, but I do think the plot is prime real estate for a themed log flume.

Vortex was definitely gonna be one of the first to go, seeing how large and intense it is. Eventually the only Arrow coasters we'll have will be mine trains, which I'm happy with I guess.

I mean, we kinda know how the story ends at this point. That being said, I do wonder what they're going to do to make that land aesthetically pleasing if anything.

I'd wager that throughput and modern fire safety standards made it a poor candidate for being used again. It's definitely upsetting that we lost the station for both a record breaking custom looper and the very first suspended coaster all at once, but I can see why they did it. It's just too outdated.

That's kind of the idea.

The main reasons for keeping it would have been how close it was to the path and how iconic that portion was.