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Restraint types: Captain Coaster. History, incidents and awards: Wikipedia. Height requirement: Cedar Point. Specifications and status: Coasterpedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Also read: Captain Coaster (converted to feet and mph). Rider sentiment and performance scores: rider reviews on Captain Coaster, insidersofthepoint.com, incrediblecoasters.com, coastercritic.com, read and scored by AirtimeFever.
Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: Gregory Varnum (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://www.flickr.com/photos/a_d_y_a/ (CC BY-SA 2.0), Matt Dempsey from Lorain, Ohio, United States of America (CC BY-SA 2.0), Phoenix-Five (CC BY-SA 4.0), Eric Marshall (CC BY 3.0), https://www.flickr.com/photos/juggernautco/ (CC BY 2.0), Jeremy Thompson (CC BY 2.0), daveynin from United States (CC BY 2.0). Video thumbnails remain the property of their channels and link back to them.
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What riders love, by theme (themes in the order riders pick them most on Captain Coaster): Zach Payne, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The first two hills give blissful floater air, and…”; 100DollarHeadache, rider review on Captain Coaster: “The old-school Arrow triangular hills deliver airtime unlike that…”; Millan B., rider review on Captain Coaster: “Best raw airtime you can find on a coaster.”; Aron Bloch, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Other than that, I highly recommend as you really…”; MapleFlakes, rider review on Captain Coaster: “It is the strongest airtime I have ever experienced…”; Jack L, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Those final bunny hills is my favorite finale of…”; Nicolas Mattioli, rider review on Captain Coaster: “My favorite part of the ride is the finale…”; Ryan Armstrong, rider review on Captain Coaster: “I rode it around the middle, and the first…”; I'm NotHere, rider review on Captain Coaster: “And it is because of the slowness that one…”; Thunderbolt, rider review on Captain Coaster: “When I rode it in 2026 I could see…”; Seraphim S., rider review on Captain Coaster: “Also, it’s beautiful at night - it’s positioned right…”; Gavin, rider review on Captain Coaster: “What a view when you begin cresting the lift…”; Eric Esty, rider review on Captain Coaster: “Though it is janky in some parts of the…”.
The photo slider at the top and the fading stills: Theme Park POV's back row POV, 2022 Magnum XL 200 Roller Coaster On Ride Back Seat 4K POV Cedar Point (YouTube), and the page's Wikimedia Commons photographs.