Cedar Point, the self-proclaimed Roller Coaster Capital of the World, just closed for the 2017 season. It was a great season with the new Cedar Point Shores water park expansion successfully opening in May. Along with the water park opening there was something going on all season at the site of the former Mean Streak wooden coaster. That turned out to be the new coaster for 2018. 

In May 2017, Cedar Point officially opened Cedar Point Shores.  This is an expansion to the former Soak City Water Park. With this expansion came a new slide complex, Point Plummet and other various park improvements.  However, all the speculation was on what was happening with the former Mean Streak structure.  A steel track was starting to be placed on the former structure. 

In September of 2016 Cedar Point officially closed Mean Streak, the parks 25-year old rugged wooden coaster. Speculation was already increasing about a manufacturer named Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC) coming in and putting steel track on the coaster thus making it a hybrid.  RMC has already completed this hybrid conversion on several other coasters across the US.

Come August 2017 Cedar Point and RMC announced they would do just that.

After months of construction, Cedar Point officially announced Steel Vengeance, the RMC re-do of Mean Steak. The coaster is going to break ten coaster records including tallest hybrid coaster at 205 feet, fastest hybrid at 73 mph, and longest hybrid coaster at 5,740 feet.  

The coaster also features the most airtime on any coaster in the world with 27 seconds, just to add more to an already impressive coaster. 

Also, Cedar Point announced the park would remove the All Wheels Extreme Sports     Stadium and Sandcastle Suites for future expansion.

So that is what is coming in 2018, will you be able to make it out and ride Steel Vengeance in 2018?