SANDUSKY, Ohio - Cedar Point unveiled a new "hyper-hybrid" roller-coaster Wednesday. The Steel Vengeance will open in FrontierTown in the spring of 2018. 

Vengeance is being touted as the tallest, fastest and longest hybrid roller coaster in the world.

At more than 200 feet tall, the new hybrid design combines a steel running track on a massive wooden structure- it allows for an extremely smooth and comfortable ride while enabling the coaster’s trains to perform maneuvers previously unheard of on a wooden roller coaster.

Riders will board one of three trains and climb 205 feet above FrontierTown. Once they reach the top of the hill, they’ll be staring straight down a 90-degree initial drop.

Several hills follow, including the world’s fastest airtime hill ever created on a hybrid roller coaster, and a 116-foot-tall outer-banked hill placing riders on an outward tilt while moving forward.

The entire ride lasts about two and a half minutes. Cedar Point released this computer animated footage to give everyone a glimpse of what riding Steel Vengeance will be like :

With the addition of Steel Vengeance, Cedar Point will once again break both roller coaster and amusement park records. These records include:

  • World’s tallest hybrid roller coaster (205 feet)
  • World’s fastest hybrid roller coaster (74 mph)
  • World’s steepest drop on a hybrid roller coaster (90 degrees)
  • World’s longest drop on a hybrid roller coaster (200 feet)
  • World’s longest hybrid roller coaster (5,740 feet)
  • Most inversions on a hybrid roller coaster (4)
  • Fastest airtime hill on a hybrid roller coaster (73 mph)
  • Most airtime on a hybrid roller coaster (27.2 seconds)
  • Most airtime on any roller coaster (27.2 seconds)
  • World’s first “hyper-hybrid” roller coaster
  • Most roller coaster track at one amusement park (60,423 feet/11.4 miles)
  • Most steel roller coaster track at one amusement park (57,865 feet/11 miles)
  • Most roller coasters over 200 feet tall at one amusement park (6)
  • Most rides at one amusement park (71)
  • Most roller coasters with a first drop of 90 degrees or more at one amusement park (5)

The story of Steel Vengeance will be told through three new outlaws who have banded together to “unsaddle” the reign of Maverick, FrontierTown’s low-to-the-ground, double-launching roller coaster.

Throughout the winter months, guests will learn more about Jackson “Blackjack” Chamberlain, Chess “Wild One” Watkins and Wyatt “Digger” Dempsey.

More information about the park, and season tickets, can be found here.