Magnum XL 200 Cedar Point First Ride Inches Off The Track Under Construction

[@GuyT-z7o]

This was magnum as it was originally designed and clearly some one of its earliest runs. No padding on the seats. Up stop skids instead of wheels. Zero trims. A much deeper start into the pretzel. Wow. Not many got to experience it like it was those first few weeks in May 1989. How they got a film running video recorded mounted that steady that close to the track is mind blowing as well.

[@kellytimmerman9248]

I remember it well! Nine years old on opening day 1989!

[@albertapathy7900]

Just got back from the point and the Magnum still holds up in 2023! Love it!!

[@robynsnest8668]

1989, Graduation 🎓, senior trip to the Point and ride the newest Roller Coaster, the Great Mag X. 2024, grandson is finally tall enough to ride....Riding Magnum XL200. Thank you for a life lived. Has it really been 35 years?

[@rfi-cryptolab4251]

I rode this when I was 12 years old. Yesterday I took my 12 year old son on it.

[@theunknown0887]

Good luck 👍🏾

[@Letshavefunwithcheetah]

This video is 12 years old now at the time of this comment posted

[@brycefourn2001]

This POV is similar to the former Magnum POV I saw on the Cedar Point website back in 2008...

[@mAthew118]

If you want a trimless ride, be one of the first trains of the day. The trims are turned off if trains are less then half full. Weather conditions can also cause Magnum rides to be trimless. It's so much fun! This video shows the old pretzel design. During the 93 - 94 off season the pretzel was replaced with a track with a thicker track spine to increase durability and decrease stress . The drop leading into the pretzel was also raised and the trim brake was added.

[@visionist7]

Did the thicker pretzel spine possibly neuter Arrow's famous "slingshot effect" felt when whipping around their turnarounds on this and other rides like Viper at Magic Mountain? Before Viper's turnaround support columns after the drop were reinforced, the sensation was of the columns bending out and elastically forcing the train round the curve, almost like the train wanting to leave the track but the columns slingshot pushing it back again. I guess with the added pretzel trims Magnum wouldn't feel this way regardless...

[@donwilsonsr.5238]

this is the coaster that changed the way we ride coasters today i remember when it opened i was there the first day it was cold 52 degrees in 89

[@SteelRiderCarl]

Wow! It looks so shiny and new, and all the surrounding areas... boy, how they have CHANGED!

[@danielarmstrong2467]

Wow, before the trim brakes were added midway. I think that lasted about 1 year, maybe two.

[@WthrLdy]

Test riding that beast before it opened to the public was brutal. Then we still had to ride it several times every morning. OH the bruises !

[@paullawicki2604]

Yes this was promo footage that ch. 13 got in fall of 89 when i was interning there. This was originally a umatic 3/4" dubbed to 1/2" vhs and then I transferred to dvd along with the damien footage.

[@lynndemartini9379]

Less than 40 days WOOHOO 🙌

[@Meekimotosyoutubechannel]

Smooth at the tunnels.. unlike now

[@mikefm4]

was never more afraid as a child then when my family dragged me on this beast that first hill...oh lord how it took forever. i just revisited cedar point a few days ago after 15 years or so away and felt like that scared kid again when i saw this thing again in person. beautiful ride...but to the milder coaster lover like me...scarier then shit. and dont even mention millenium force or top thrill...aint happenin lol

[@visionist7]

Did you ride Steel Vengeance yet lol

[@lynndemartini9379]

LOL

[@donwilsonsr.5238]

oh and the tunnels had strobe lights and smoke (the 2nd and 3rd one) coming out of it

[@visionist7]

Does it still pause so deliciously at the top of the first couple hills? This will be my first ride of the day if I ever visit CP

[@tylerlovett6242]

Felice Graziano if you haven’t been or ridden Magnum yet, DO NOT ride in the back half of the train. Will be a very unpleasant experience, at least it was for me.

[@RodknockRhett]

Tyler Lovett First row of the back most car was very good for me.

[@ryanhorvath4476]

Rhett Krecic I always ride in the back row on Magnum. You get whipped down the first hill!! With that said it does a real number on your thighs. You do pay for it but you feel better in a few hours lol!!

[@firewalk13]

I second this, trimless rides are quite possible. I'm rather glad they fixed the drop before the pretzel because that does look a bit brutal in the original video. Really I love that you get some weightlessness and major ejector air on the same ride. Where you sit makes a big difference. I prefer the 3rd row of the first car. whee!

[@woodencoasterfan]

Wow! I wonder how different the ride experience was without the trims before the pretzel turnaround.

[@thecagekeeper9938]

Man that video was probably taken in the 80s

[@danielarmstrong2467]

Um, you should read the description. It was taken during testing. 1989.

[@agoo7581]

And you probably don't read before commenting

[@nancymarkiewick3557]

Can someone help? What is G force?? NM. St.ClairShores,Mi.(Detroit)

[@schief419]

yes it was a test for the news they did a report and this is what they used

[@vonniebeth]

Magnum, or as I like to call it, Magnesium because it gets the heart pumping. Also, IT KILLS MY THIGHS! The station looks so spooky.

[@CoasterChannel-fb8ee]

Vonnie Sweeney GP

[@DorneyPark5]

Okay compare this to the one today. First on your left is a part of the challenge park and the other half of soak city. coming back is the other part of the challenge park. It looks so different if you compare. But again awesome video.

[@Automcanic]

What no camera?

[@amusement420]

Sweet! I have it on good authority they've had to replace parts of the pretzel turn because trim breaks being off too many times when they should've been on. I rode it (13) times in a row during an ERT with them off. Probably (18) times total. It is shall we say faster : I don't remember it being too violent on the bunny hills if you tighten the seat belt and leave the lap bar loose. You have to press your feet against the front and lean back going into the brakes after the tunnel. I do that on Gemini's helix. If you don't ride it often it can be brutal. I crushed a pair of cheap sunglasses in cargo pocket once. We had a Pepsi cup thrown at us from under the camera. There's an on-ride pic of a lady almost hit by a seagull :

[@nancymarkiewick3557]

Can you tell me what G force is,please? You seem Coaster smart. NM. St.ClairShores,Mi. (Detroit)

[@samanthabreedlove4399]

Geez how long does it take just to go up XP

[@lynndemartini9379]

Fooreeevveeerrr Beautiful views - love looking around!!!

[@ppipowerclass]

I've been jammed to a stop by those trim brakes after the last tunnel. NOT a fun experience.

[@3ny5]

Same here. Happened the first time I went on magnum too lol

[@MarioMonte13]

First test run was apparently the Saturday before the park opened. April 29th, 1989.

[@Biz2872]

construction of the magnum... nice

[@GigaG11]

So this was the first test run? It has no trims on the 3rd hill OR the pretzel.

[@donwilsonsr.5238]

it was awesome without the trim breaks but if you sat in the back seat when you came down from the 3rd hill the lap bar hurt your thighs but still it was great

[@MarioMonte13]

Those poor up-stop pads...

[@visionist7]

At night you could see them sparking

[@bjoe385]

“SSKKKRRRRR”

[@DorneyPark5]

Cool.

[@CapnNuggets]

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