The Crypt (Kings Island)
| The Crypt | |
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The sign outside The Crypt at Kings Island.
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| Kings Island | |
| Name |
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| Area | Rivertown |
| Coordinates | 39°20′24″N 84°16′01″W / 39.340135°N 84.267063°WCoordinates: 39°20′24″N 84°16′01″W / 39.340135°N 84.267063°W |
| Status | Removed |
| Cost | Approx $20,000,000 |
| Opening date | April 5, 2002 |
| Closing date | October 30, 2011 |
| General statistics | |
| Attraction type | Giant Top Spin |
| Manufacturer | HUSS Park Attractions |
| Height | 80 ft (24 m) |
| Drop | 70 ft (21 m) |
| Speed | 13 rpm |
| G-force | 4.3 |
| Participants per group | 77 (2002-06) 47 (2007-2011) |
| Duration | Approximately 1 minute and 10 seconds |
| Height restriction | 54 in (137 cm) |
The Crypt was an indoor Giant Top Spin flat ride located at Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio. Originally constructed by former owners Paramount Parks, the ride officially opened as Tomb Raider: The Ride on April 5, 2002. It featured numerous special effects in relation to the theme of the 2001 Paramount film, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Following the 2007 season, new park owner Cedar Fair removed all references to the film from both the ride and its indoor queue line. The name was also changed to The Crypt.
An outdoor, smaller version of the ride opened at sister park Kings Dominion in Virginia in 2005 as Tomb Raider: FireFall. Its name was also changed to The Crypt prior to the 2008 season.
For the 2001 season, Kenton's Cove Keelboat Canal, a log-flume water ride, gave its last ride. On April 24, 2001, the area around Kenton's Cove Keelboat Canal was fenced in, with the phrase, "An exciting new adventure is coming in 2002" written along the fence. Kings Island officially announced Tomb Raider: The Ride on July 2, 2001, by placing the 17-foot-tall (5.2 m) Hindu goddess Brahma prop used in the first movie (and later, in the ride's preshow) in front of the park's Eiffel Tower and Royal Fountains. After the Paramount Parks were sold to Cedar Fair and all licensing rights were dropped, the rides within the park continued to operate with the Paramount movie names for the 2007 season. However, on January 21, 2008, Kings Island's main web site replaced the name Tomb Raider: The Ride, with the new Cedar Fair name "The Crypt".
The cost to construct the ride was approximately $20 million, making it one of the most expensive rides the park has ever built. The Crypt was the world's only Giant Top Spin, and performed two inversions on a cycle that lasted about 1:10.
In the attraction's Tomb Raider: The Ride incarnation, the attraction's entry plaza contained a special edition Land Rover Defender parked by the tunnel's entrance to represent Lara Croft's presence at the site. Atmospheric music (some sampling the movie's score) played throughout the plaza and into the queue. A large antechamber sectioned off one cycle's worth of guests and played a pre-show video in which guests learned the story of Lara Croft. There, too, was established the storyline of the Triangle of Light, an ancient powerful artifact sought by Croft in the film.
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