I was at Westfield Shopping Center at Belden Village today and outside of the Sears store they have a group of kiddie rides. One of the rides had on-ride footage of Blue Streak and Gemini. The screen even had the logos for both rides and for Cedar Point on it. The seat was complete with lap bar for the kids to hold onto. I have never seen one of these before. Has anybody here seen this? Great way to get the young ones hooked before they are really tall enough to ride the real thing.
P.S. Making my first trip in 4 years to the park on the 21st of this month.
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Yes. At our nearest mall, we used to have one. Ours also had Blue Streak & Gemini on it. Ours did not have a lapbar. It just had a seatbelt. They are pretty cool!!!
Southpark near Cleveland has the sameone with Blue Streak and Gemini but I don't remember a lapbar. I rode Magnum in Maryland once, on one of the big models. They had pretty much all of CP's big coasters like Raptor, MS, MF and Magnum and the Beast (KI). I think Southpark had a big model at one point.
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Yea i took my two young boys to Chucky Cheeses a few months ago they had one there. there was enough room for me too! :) my youngest was a little scared at first so i rode with him. They have been to Cedar Point before so they knew the Cedar Point logo and wanted to go right then and there. They are my little ride warriors!
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There was also one of those at the Rochester Mall in Rochester NY. I'm originally from MI, but I lived in NY for a couple years 2007/2008. It was in the food court with a few other children's games. I was suprised to see it there 2 states away from OH. Funny thing is I wanted to ride it so bad, but on the last quarter I put in (I think it used four), the coin slot jammed and I wasn't able to get a ride!
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The Lima Mall had a full sized one last year. It had Magnum, Meanstreak, Bluestreak, Gemini, and a few from KI.
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They're all over the place. I saw one in the aquarium at Mall of America.
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The one here in South Bend (actually Mishawaka) has Magnum, Gemini, Mean Streak, Blue Streak, Iron Dragon, and Mantis.
The one time I rode it a few years back I took a spin Magnum... the airtime wasn't quite how I remembered it on the real coaster ;)
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The Chuck E Cheese in Erie has one. No Lap bars or Seat Belts I hear the state wants it shut down due to lack of saftey lol.
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The Chuckee Cheese and mall both have them here in Sterling Heights. It's Blue Streak and Gemini. My son didn't like it too much. Let's hope that that changes when it comes to the real thing. ;)
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Wasn't, or isn't, there one inside one of the parks arcades? Kinda stupid to pay for the simulation when you could go ride the real coaster for no extra charge. :)
There's one at the Solomon Pond Mall in Marlborough, Ma. I think it just has a seatbelt. It's been there for many years.
There is also(can you believe it) one in disneyland at the arcade in the space mountain exit.
Also there is one at lakeside mall and in chucky cheese in sterling heights mi.
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