The Crypt (Kings Island) - The Crypt (2008 - 2011)

2011)

In June 2007, Cedar Fair Entertainment Company purchased all five Paramount Parks from Viacom. After the 2007 season, the parks had the "Paramount's" prefix removed from their names and references to the licensed film properties within the parks were removed. At Kings Island specifically, The Italian Job: Stunt Track was renamed Backlot Stunt Coaster; Top Gun became Flight Deck; Drop Zone: Stunt Tower was renamed Drop Tower: Scream Zone; FACE/OFF was renamed Invertigo and Tomb Raider: The Ride became The Crypt.

The change in name was met with a change in theme, as many aspects of the original ride were removed to cut ties with the film. The Durga goddess statue in the Heart of the Tomb was painted over, with the ride's water and fog effects removed. The 77-seat gondola specific to the Giant Top Spin was reduced in size by removing the first of its three rows, thus reducing the capacity by one third, but theoretically allowing the ride to perform a more "thrilling" ride experience to compensate for the removed special effects. The ride performed a nine-inversion cycle like its sister ride at Kings Dominion for the 2008 season and for a month of the 2009 season. Beginning in 2009, the ride was reprogrammed to perform a more tame cycle with only two inversions (half the number performed during the Tomb Raider: The Ride era).

The Crypt has consistently been changed and updated thematically, having originally operated in 2008 with a techno soundtrack in pitch black darkness which was quickly replaced with howling wind and beating drums. Gradually, more of the theatrical lighting used on Tomb Raider: The Ride returned to the ride, as well. The queue line (which had had a specifically-composed musical score during the Tomb Raider: The Ride era) played an album of atmospheric music from the Midnight Syndicate until 2011, when both the queue and ride were outfitted with music from the score of the film Inception. 2011 also saw the addition of new lighting and props in the queue line, and manual doors used to separate the queue line from the ride where the rising "vault door" once stood, again preventing riders from seeing the ride in action - or even seeing what type of ride it was - until they are seated. In the middle of the season, the red, amber, and yellow underwater lights that formerly illuminated the "lava pit" were turned back on, and stay illuminated throughout the ride cycle (though there is no water in the pool). As well, blue lights were positioned on the goddess statue which flash as the gondola reverses direction halfway through the course.

On January 20, 2012, The Crypt was removed from the park's website, though no official mention of its closure had been made. Then on February 14, Kings Island confirmed via Twitter that The Crypt would be removed for the 2012 season. It was confirmed that an all new Halloween Haunt attraction would take its place.

At its closure, The Crypt was the world's only Giant Top Spin, and performed two inversions on a cycle that lasted about 1:10.