4. Patriot

Famously, only one B&M roller coaster has ever permanently closed and sent to the scrap heap: Universal's Dueling Dragons. But if we're being honest, it's probably time for Patriot to bite the dust. The 1991 ride was actually the second B&M ever (coincidentally, the first opened at estranged sister park Six Flags Great America in 1990) and like the other Great America's Iron Wolf, it was a stand-up. The seven stand-up coasters B&M produced are largely known as outliers from the manufacturer's normal tradition of smooth, delightful rides, and Great America's – originally called Vortex – was no exception.

In 2017, Vortex benefitted from an initiative across several parks that saw B&M stand-ups have their standing trains swapped for raised, floorless, seated trains. It's fine, and it helps, but there's no question that one of the problems with B&M's stand-up line is the physical layout itself. For whatever reason, B&M stand-ups contain layouts of seemingly random track sections and inversions stapled together like a wayward Roller Coaster Tycoon design.

SEND IT TO: The scrap pile

Sure, it's nice that the rebranded Patriot isn't a stand-up. But it's also still not a stand-out. And given that the cost of relocating and reinstalling it would likely surpass the initial price of the ride in 1991, it might be time to hang up the hat on this B&M. 

5. Psycho Mouse

Though Great America's ups the ante from wild to psycho, the fact is that Wild Mouse coasters are an absolute staple of amusement parks. Low-capacity as they may be, these off-the-shelf rides serve as nice step-ups from kiddie coasters to big thrills, meaning they can easily bolster a park's coaster count, balance its offerings, and generally become nicely-engrained rides with small footprints not worth the cost to demolish.

Psycho Mouse happens to be Arrow's take on the genre – the same model that Valley Fair and Michigan's Adventure already offer (both under the name "Mad Mouse"). And that's not all. In fact, nearly every Cedar Fair park already has a wild mouse-style roller coaster. At Canada's Wonderland, it's The Fly; at Carowinds, Ricochet; at Dorney Park, Wild Mouse; at Kings Dominion, Apple Zapple; at Knott's, Coast Rider; and at Worlds of Fun, Spinning Dragons. Even Cedar Point opened a new Wild Mouse in 2023! Process of elimination suggests there's just one Cedar Fair park without a wild mouse. Have you figured out which...?

SEND IT TO: Kings Island

Yep, technically, Kings Island is the only one of Cedar Fair's eleven parks without a Wild Mouse. Does it need one? Eh, not necessarily. But online discussion boards have long "Blue Sky"ed the idea of putting a wild mouse inside the giant, empty soundstage that once housed the Lost Legend: TOMB RAIDER - The Ride (even though that would take significant expansion of the building). At least that would allow Kings Island to incorporate a family ride like Psycho Mouse in a compelling, interesting way.

6. RailBlazer

Now we arrive at the pièce de résistance... Clearly, Cedar Fair didn't expect that they'd be selling the land Great America sits on when they opened RailBlazer in 2018. Positioned right at the cutting edge of the coaster industry, this single-rail RMC prototype ride is a doozy. Like all RMC single rails, it is lightning fast and absolutely relentless as it dives and twists through an ultra-compact layout of fluid maneuvers and wild elements. 

It's a great ride. But like all RMC single rails, it's also got a fairly limited capacity. (On this rides, guests ride in single-file, inline seating with their legs literally straddling the track, facilitating only eight riders at a time.) That means that this ride needs to go to one of Cedar Fair's more major parks, but not one where its capacity could be overwhelmed. Our vote?

SEND IT TO: Kings Dominion

Located in Doswell, Virginia (where it draws from both Richmond and Washington, D.C.), Kings Dominion is Kings Island's little sister. Though the two parks share some DNA (for example, Eiffel Towers at their centers), they have diverged in very different ways over their half-centuries of life. Kings Dominion is definitely a major park, but it's not one of Cedar Fair's flagships. 

More to the point, a ride like RailBlazer seems like it could fit perfectly into the park's forested location. We could easily see it sliding into the park's newest themed "land" – Jungle X-pedition – which we recently celebrated in a feature here on Theme Park Tourist. Especially themed as the trial of a serpent temple (opposite the zany, swinging, monkey-themed S&S Free Spin, Tumbili), the ride would seem like a great fit... and an important step toward replacing the Lost Legend: VOLCANO with an equally-personality-filled prototype ride...

What do you think? Did we "misplace" any of Great America's thrills? Is there a Cedar Fair park that needs one of these soon-to-be-parkless rides more than the ones we listed? Do you think Cedar Fair might sell some of these rides rather than relocate them within their own chain? Or more to the point, will they end up in the scrap heap? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!