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 17-foot-tall (5.2 m) 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.
Read more about this topic: The Crypt (Kings Island)
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