How’s this for a fun fact? There were FIVE drop towers themed to John Badham’s forgotten 1994 Wesley Snipes thriller, “Drop Zone,” in various Paramount parks around the country. This is your classic drop tower attraction (built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin) but loosely themed to the Snipes movie somehow.
Clearly, this was just Paramount trying to inject its parks with some much-needed IP (more on that in a minute), but stands as one of the more bizarre movie-based attractions ever. Also, not-so-fun bonus fact: after a horrifying incident at a Six Flags Kentucky park (we’ll let you look it up), all of the Cedar Fair-operated drop rides were decommissioned and inspected. But now everything is hunky dory in the four remaining Cedar Fair drop towers!
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