WindSeeker (original) (raw)

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WindSeeker (known as SteelHawk at Worlds of Fun) is a 301-foot-tall (92 m) swing ride at several Cedar Fair parks. The rides are Wind Seeker models manufactured by Mondial. They opened for the 2011 season at Canada's Wonderland in Ontario, Cedar Point and Kings Island in Ohio, and Knott's Berry Farm in California. Carowinds in North Carolina and Kings Dominion in Virginia opened their WindSeekers in 2012. The first four each cost US$5 million, and the next two each cost $6.5 million. Cedar Fair relocated the Knott's Berry Farm WindSeeker to Worlds of Fun in 2014, where it is known as SteelHawk. The three-minute ride features 32 suspended twin seats (64 seats altogether) spinning around a central tower. A lighting package was installed on all four WindSeekers, consisting of strips of LED lights mounted on the arms that support the swings and (except at Knott's Berry Farm) colored floodlights to illuminate towers from above. Canada's Wonderland was the first of the four parks to open its WindSeeker in 2011. On May 24, 2011, the ride was only open for a brief time before problems caused it to be closed for repairs; it reopened the week of June 10. The second WindSeeker was opened to the public at Cedar Point on June 14, 2011, the third on June 21, 2011, at Kings Island, the fourth in mid-August 2011 at Knott's Berry Farm, the fifth WindSeeker to open was Carowinds' model which soft-opened on March 30, 2012 and officially opened to the public on March 31, 2012 and the latest one to open was the sixth WindSeeker at Kings Dominion which officially opened to the public on April 6, 2012. On September 21, 2012, Cedar Fair announced the temporary closure of all WindSeekers in response to two incidents at Knott's Berry Farm. All the installations, excluding Knott's Berry Farm, later reopened. The Knott's Berry Farm installation remained closed for 11 months until it was announced it would be relocated to Worlds of Fun. (en)

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Breakdown of the structure of WindSeeker at Kings Island. (en)
Kings Island WindSeeker Sign (en)
Knott's Berry Farm WindSeeker Sign (en)
Zoomed look at the top of WindSeeker's structure at Kings Island. (en)
A close-up shot of the hydraulic dampers on Cedar Point's version of the ride. (en)
A close-up shot of the hydraulic dampers on Kings Island's version of the ride. (en)

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WindSeeker at Cedar Point (en)

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180.0

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Different dampers on two WindSeekers: Cedar Point's former hydraulic dampers and Kings Island's long-rod dampers , which are used on all models in the 2012 season. (en)
Different WindSeeker signs . (en)
A breakdown of the structure of WindSeeker at Kings Island, including both a full-length shot of the tower ' and a close-up of the ride carriage and the top of the tower '. (en)

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Cedar_Point_WindSeeker_Hydraulic_Dampers.jpg (en)
Kings Island WindSeeker sign at Sunset.jpg (en)
Knott's WindSeeker Sign.jpg (en)
WindSeeker tower with annotations.jpg (en)
WindSeeker upper structure with annotations.jpg (en)
New hydraulic dampers on WindSeeker Kings Island.jpg (en)

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Canada's Wonderland (en)
Carowinds (en)
Cedar Point (en)
Kings Dominion (en)
Kings Island (en)
Knott's Berry Farm (en)
Worlds of Fun (en)

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WindSeeker Logo.svg (en)

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Mondial Mondial (en)

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Wind Seeker (en)

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WindSeeker (en)

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Mid-August 2011 (en)

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El Dorado (en)
Hypersonic XLC (en)
Jet Scream (en)
Fiesta BBQ (en)
Ocean Motion (en)

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Operating (en)
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available at all parks (en)

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WindSeeker (known as SteelHawk at Worlds of Fun) is a 301-foot-tall (92 m) swing ride at several Cedar Fair parks. The rides are Wind Seeker models manufactured by Mondial. They opened for the 2011 season at Canada's Wonderland in Ontario, Cedar Point and Kings Island in Ohio, and Knott's Berry Farm in California. Carowinds in North Carolina and Kings Dominion in Virginia opened their WindSeekers in 2012. The first four each cost US$5 million, and the next two each cost $6.5 million. Cedar Fair relocated the Knott's Berry Farm WindSeeker to Worlds of Fun in 2014, where it is known as SteelHawk. (en)

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