Troika

Troika
1976

Troika is a classic family ride that has been at Cedar Point since 1976.

In the 1960's and 1970's Cedar Point was on its road to become a modern amusement park. Over that time Cedar Point began to have an aggressive expansion. In 1966 Cedar Point added Pirate Ride, a dark ride that took guest back in time to when pirates ransacked the high seas. In 1967 Cedar Point opened its first themed section, Frontiertown. Sky Slide opened in 1968. In 1969 Cedar Creek Mine Ride opened when Frontiertown was expanded. In 1970 Cedar Point Celebrated its 100th anniversary! Frontier Trail opened in 1971 taking guest back in time to when people made things by hand. In 1972 Giant Wheel opened. Cedar Point Cinema opened in 1975 as the world's largest IMAX Theatre.

WIth all of these rides being added, Cedar Point was becoming a really good park to take the whole family to!

In 1976 the area that was home to Jungle Larry was re-designed and an entire new midway was included on that land. 2 new rides were added. Corkscrew and Troika. Troika was added a little past Corkscrew.

With the introduction of Troika, it gave a ride on the new midway the entire family could enjoy together. It was joined by Dodgem 1 in 1977. Dodgem 1 was in the park until 2001.

Troika instantly become a very popular ride.

Over the next 26 years the area around Troika would changed. Jungle Larry's was removed in 1994. Chaos was built in 1997. In 1998 Power Tower was added. Dodgem 1 saw its last season in 2001.

In 2003, Troika was moved to a new location on the Beach Midway by Disaster Transport and Space Spiral to make way for the addition of Top Thrill Dragster. Over the years to come, the area around the new location would completely change as well.

Troika is a very family friendly ride. It is a similar to the Scrambler only it rises up into the air.

Troika was built by Huss. Troika was one of 4 rides at Cedar Point built by Huss of Berman, Germany. The other rides are: Witches' Wheel (1979-2018), Ocean Motion (1981) and maXair (2005). These rides are really fun for Cedar Point and help make the park's collection of rides unique.

The Troika ride concept was developed sometime in the mid 1970's. There were many different parks that had this ride at one point or another. The ride also was made to travel around. There are currently 10 parks in the United States that have a Troika ride. There are at least 24 known rides in the world.

Troika is a very popular ride that can often draw lines of up to 15 to 20 minutes.

Ride Experience

Riders on Troika are loaded on a flat platform into one of 24 cars that hold 2 people. The cars are Yellow, Purple and Orange.

Riders are held into their seat with a seat-belt and a lap bar that locks into place.

Troika is a very conferable ride.

When the ride turns on, it starts spinning in a clockwise rotation.

While the ride is spinning the cars tilt a bit to the side facing the inside of the ride.

The tilting is caused by the rides cars being suspended and the spinning of the ride. The ride does have a bit of speed as it goes around.

Troika is a great ride for families! It isn't the tamest ride but its not as thrilling as rides like maXair and Skyhawk. It is an in between ride.

After spinning around the ride quickly lifts riders and spins them around 25 feet in the air! It gives a really cool view of the midway and the beach.

The ride puts it's riders high enough that you can look around.

The ride offers a good amount of airtime!

After spinning around for about a minute or so the ride starts to lower to the ground!

The ride slowly spins to a stop and riders exit the ride.

POV's

With Standing The Test Of Time

Troika has a very nice entrance that is very well themed. The ride is located on the Beach midway that has lots of rides for the entire family to enjoy and some big roller coasters as well.

For 44 years Troika has been a very popular ride at Cedar Point .Troika is a very fun ride and is great to take the entire family on!

Troika was a fun ride for Cedar Point. It gave that were in between height of Kiddy Kingdom and the bigger coasters something else to do. Over the years Cedar Point would add: Witches' Wheel (1977-2018), Gemini (1978), Gemini Children's Area (1979-2013), WildCat (1979-2011), Oceana (1980-1998), Ocean Motion (1981), White Water landing (1982-2005), Demon Drop (1983-2009), Avalanche Run (1985-1989), Thunder Canyon (1986), Iron Dragon (1987), Soak City Water Park (1988-2016), Magnum XL-200 (1989), Disaster Transport (1990-2012), Mean Streak (1991-2016), Challenge Park (1992-2016), Snake River Falls (1993), Raptor (1994), Cedar Point's 100th Anniversary Celebration (1995), Mantis (1996-2014), Chaos (1997-2010), Power Tower (1998), Camp Snoopy (1999), Millennium Force (2000), Wicked Twister (2002), Top Thrill Dragster (2003), maXair (2005), Skyhawk (2006), Maverick (2007), Planet Snoopy (2008), Shoot The Rapids (2010-2015), WindSeeker (2011), Dinosaurs Alive on Adventure Island (2012-2018), GateKeeper (2013), New Gemini Midway (2014), Rougarou (2015), Valravn (2016), Cedar Point Shores Water Park (2017), Steel Vengeance (2018), Forbidden Frontier on Adventure Island (2019), and Cedar Point's 150th Anniversary Celebration (2020). Over the years these new attractions have helped make the park what it is today!