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The Crypt was an indoor Giant Top Spin thrill ride located at Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio. Originally constructed by former owners Paramount Parks, the ride officially opened as ''Tomb Raider: The Ride'' on April 5, 2002. It featured numerous special effects in relation to the theme of the 2001 Paramount film, ''Lara Croft: Tomb Raider''. Following the 2007 season, new park owner Cedar Fair removed all references to the film from both the ride and its indoor queue line. The name was also changed to ''The Crypt''. An outdoor, smaller version of the ride opened at sister park Kings Dominion in Virginia in 2005 as Tomb Raider: FireFall. Its name was also changed to The Crypt prior to the 2008 season. ==History== For the 2001 season, Kenton's Cove Keelboat Canal, a log-flume water ride, gave its last ride. On April 24, 2001, the area around Kenton's Cove Keelboat Canal was fenced in, with the phrase, "An exciting new adventure is coming in 2002" written along the fence. Kings Island officially announced Tomb Raider: The Ride on July 2, 2001 by placing the Hindu goddess Brahma prop used in the first movie (and later, in the ride's preshow) in front of the park's Eiffel Tower and Royal Fountains. After the Paramount Parks were sold to Cedar Fair and all licensing rights were dropped, the rides within the park continued to operate with the Paramount movie names for the 2007 season. However, on January 21, 2008, Kings Island's main web site replaced the name Tomb Raider: The Ride, with the new Cedar Fair name "The Crypt". The ride gave its last ride October 30, 2011; and was announced via the parks official Twitter Wednesday February 15, "The Crypt has reached the end of its service life. Will be replaced by an all-new Halloween Haunt experience." As of February, the Top Spin has been dismantled leaving the ride as one of the most short lived attractions in the parks history. At $20,000,000 it is also one of the costliest rides the park has ever built. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Crypt (Kings Island)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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