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Woodstock Express (Cedar Point)

steel children's roller coaster at Cedar Point

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ8033426 ↗
Source-derived summary

Woodstock Express is a steel junior roller coaster located in Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. It was built in 1999 by Vekoma.

Woodstock Express has a 540-degree downward helix and a 270-degree downward helix. Its height is listed as 38 feet and top speed at 25mph.

Riders must be taller than 36 inches (910 mm) to ride with an adult and 48 inches (1,200 mm) tall to ride alone.

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“Woodstock Express (Cedar Point)” enters the record as steel children's roller coaster at Cedar Point. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Woodstock, Express and Cedar can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Woodstock, Express and Cedar.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q8033426. Authority coordinates are 41.485, -82.689. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Woodstock Express (Cedar Point)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.