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Gemini (roller coaster)

Racing coaster at Cedar Point

Summary

Racing coaster at Cedar Point

Field	Value
name	Gemini
logo	Gemini Logo.png
image	Gemini Cedar Point.JPG
caption	Two trains race to the finish on Gemini
location	Cedar Point
section	Gemini Midway
coordinates
type	Steel
type2	Dueling
type3	Racing
status	Operating
opened
closed
manufacturer	Arrow Dynamics
designer	Ron Toomer
model	Special Coaster Systems/Hybrid
lift	Chain
name1	Red
name2	Blue
height1_ft	125
height2_ft	125
drop1_ft	118
drop2_ft	118
length1_ft	3935
length2_ft	3935
speed1_mph	60
speed2_mph	60
inversions1	0
inversions2	0
duration1	2:40
duration2	2:40
angle1	55
angle2	55
capacity	3,300
cost	$3.4 million
restriction_in	48
trains	4
carspertrain	5
rowspercar	3
ridersperrow	2
virtual_queue_name	Fast Lane
virtual_queue_image	Cedar Fair Fast Lane availibility.svg
virtual_queue_status	available
single_rider
accessible
transfer_accessible
rcdb_number	14

Gemini is a racing roller coaster with a wooden structure and steel track located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. Built in 1978 by Arrow Dynamics and designed by Ron Toomer, it is one of the oldest roller coasters still operating at the park, with only Blue Streak, Cedar Creek Mine Ride, and Corkscrew being older. Cedar Point marketed the ride as the tallest, fastest, and steepest roller coaster in the world, despite taller and faster coasters that had opened earlier.

Ride experience

View of Gemini tracks from rear parking lot

The ride is considered a steel-tracked hybrid due to the track's use of tubular steel which sits on a wooden support structure. Two trains, red and blue, are dispatched on two tracks that run side-by-side throughout most of the ride until briefly diverging into separate helices and coming back together to finish the ride. It is common for riders on each train to give high fives through curves. The coaster's 125 ft lift hill sends riders down a 118 ft drop at a 55-degree angle up to 60 mph. The layout consists mostly of a series of elevated turns connected by stretches of airtime hills, with the finale consisting of a banked upward helix into the brake run.

Gemini has one of the highest capacities of any ride in the park. Gemini's station previously featured a double-sided entry, allowing guests to enter the station from both the front and the back. Eventually modified to have guests only enter from the back of the station, the stairway formerly used for the queue at the front of the station still remains, and was later adapted to become the Fast Lane entrance.

Originally, Gemini operated 3 trains on each side of the roller coaster for a total of 6 trains. Gemini currently operates with 4 trains (2 on each side).

Record claims

Cedar Point claimed Gemini was the tallest, fastest, and steepest roller coaster in the world during its marketing campaign. However, the taller Loch Ness Monster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia opened earlier the same year, featuring the same drop angle and maximum speed but a slightly shorter drop length. Screamin' Eagle at Six Flags St. Louis opened two years earlier in 1976 and was marketed with a faster top speed of 62 mph, although its height and drop are smaller than Gemini.

Incidents

Main article: Incidents at Six Flags parks

On June 22, 1986, four riders suffered minor injuries when two trains collided. They were taken to a nearby hospital and released.

References

"Gemini". The Point Online.
"One of Cedar Point's Weakest Coasters Could Get an Upgrade".
(July 15, 2011). "Top 10 roller coasters at Cedar Point". [[Los Angeles Times]].
"Gemini". Cedar Point.
David Shutt. (May 11, 1978). "Cedar Point To Go Round And Round". Toledo Blade.
(June 9, 1978). "2 Parks Claim Roller Coaster World Record". Toledo Blade.
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(1986-06-23). "Four persons injured as coaster cars collide". News Herald.

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