Do you wish the Jumbo Jet was still around?

In the early 1970s this was the king of all Cedar Point thrill rides but din't last long enough to see the 1980s. If I remember correctly the Jumbo Jet had a very high height limit something like 60 inches because I was never tall enough to ride it. Both my father and mother rode it when it was new and I am sure my brother rode it. The jumbo jet pretty much ended my mom's desire to ride any other coaster. My dad liked it but he was never very much into rides.
The Jumbo Jet and Jr. Gemini are 2 coasters I never got on as by 1979 I was well tall enough for JJ but it was gone and way to big for Jr. Gemini.
BTW, Coney Island in New York had the last remaining Jumbo Jet model and it was dismantled recently. SF Great America still has the Whizzer, which is a similar type ride but a but different and I did go on it.

I'd rather ride the Jet than Wildcat.

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Jes
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It actually looked like a really fun ride. I would definantly ride it if it were still around. Never been on an inline seating coaster before, so I'd like to try that out.

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2003 - Gemini Crew

Any coaster is worth Having around to ride. The Jumbo Jet was before my time. What Did CP do with the ride? That is something I know very little on.

Jumbo Jet was a very exhilarating ride and kind of scary. The thing would make all kind of noises as the cars ascended the spiral. The speed, the turns, and the location made it. I remember the station at night being just totally covered with muffleheads clinging to everything under the glow of the flourescent lights with the cool early summer breezes coming in off the lake.

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tambo

I loved the Jumbo Jet. Sitting in-line was one of the features that made it fun, not to mention it was one of my first coasters so I have fond memories of it.

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of course i wish a coaster was still around! i was not yet in this world when Jumbo Jet was around, so i wanna see it back at the Point!

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***This post was edited by rogue kielbasa 5/4/2003 10:02:47 AM***

Jumbo Jet was way before my time but it is the one roller coaster that interests me the most. What where the restraints like? It seemed like a very fun ride. It's just too bad it didn't last longer.

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Feel the Beat

i am to understand that there were NO RESTRAINTS for the Jumbo Jet. please, any one in the know on his subject?

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***This post was edited by rogue kielbasa 5/4/2003 10:02:47 AM***

Jumbo Jet happened to be my very 1st roller coaster as a kid, besides the one at Coney, there was this little amusement park in Queens NY that had one also. My Dad spent tons of $$ on those little tickets and watched me ride it many times. The seats were very long, (I do believe 2 people could fit in each seat) each train had 3 seats and there were no restaints basically cause there was no real hills or anything, nothing that would make you come out of the seat. There were these metal bars on both sides of the seats you could hold on to. It took you around the loading platform, around the "inside" of the ride, then dropped you down the hill where you made tons of turns basically. It was pretty smooth and of course back in the day it felt like you were going 100mph and was going to come flying off the track. The sound of Wildcat (vibrating metal) is VERY simular to the way JJ sounded. I rode JJ last summer and the summer before at Coney, and was rather disappointed when I saw was horrid shape it was in. (Not that CI itself is in any great shape but it hasn't looked good (or clean) since the '70s) I was even more sad when I read here they dismantled JJ there?? :(
I wouldn't say it was more fun than Wildcat but it would be a good coaster for the kids, and for people less apt to ride the bigger coasters.
I have a couple pics of JJ @ Coney so if anyone wants me to email it to them LMK and I will.

Jo
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It's all about getting around the barrels, or over the fences, right leads, no faults, fastest time and looking pretty when done. What's so hard about that? :)

Personally, I found the Jumbo Jet to be a boring rollercoaster.

Jumbo Jet appeared to be a great little rollercoaster. To see pictures and information check out the defunct rides in the history section at http://www.virtualmidway.com

It was one of my first coasters, too. I have fond memories of it. Motor driven trains are what made all the noise on the way up - they must be fairly hard to maintain, although there's still a few of them running.

There only original Jumbo Jet I've ridden recently is the one at Coney, and as mentioned earlier, it's in pretty rough shape. Well worth a ride for nostalga, however.

Cedar Point's is still running somewhere in Russia, I believe.

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I loved the Jumbo Jet, it was pretty impressive opposite the Blue Streak at the front of the park. Very fast and smooth, fun banked turns. It was fun sitting in a row too, like a log flume. I don't remember any restraints, and the handle bars were on the sides of the cars. There was a big radar on the top that rotated and was very bright at night. Tracer lights coiled around with the spiral lift. I remember them stopping it and welding it in the middle of the day a couple times. Can't say how frequently it was down since back then I only went once or twice a year. It would be a great family ride now.

Yup, the Jumbo Jet is in Russia. This is what I found on the Roller Coaster Database:

Went to a park in Massachusetts after leaving Cedar Point. The Jumbo Jet has been refurbished and will open on May 1, 2001 at Beoland, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

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-Kyle

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The one at CI is going to go get SARS in china. it is being removed. i belive alton towers has a jumbo jets ride if i am not mistaken it is in england. just incase someone didn't know.

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Besides the great rides and being the best of everything, the best part about Cedar Point is that it isn't Six Flags! YAY!

i dont really think Alton Towers has a Jumbo Jet ride at their park.

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***This post was edited by rogue kielbasa 5/4/2003 10:02:47 AM***

Do I wish Jumbo Jet was still at CP? Nahhhhh. I wish they had packed it up and shipped it to VF like Schwabinchen and tbeir previous Wild Mouse.

Of course, they would have probably retired it by now just like the aforementioned rides...but had it been there I woulda been snapping up season passes years and years earlier.

-'Playa

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My Dad rode it and says that it was really bumpy and shaky. He said it was too rough a ride and didn't like it at all. Looking at CP nowadays, the Jet doesn't look like CP quality anymore. It would just take up space.

I wish the Jumbo Jet was still there, it was a fun ride. It would be a lot better to have the Jumbo Jet than the Disaster Transport which now sits in its place