One of the biggest losses in park history. A truly special experience. Dream come true if this ride were possible again. Privileged to have been able to ride AND remember the ride despite being so young

This ride has fascinated me for years. I was born in 01 so I never got to experience it. I never thought in my wildest dreams I would find footage of that dang pre-show video. Thank you so much for sharing this footage of this fascinating dark ride adventure

To experience a Top Spin of this magnitude, nonetheless fully themed and enclosed, must have been absolutely incredible. I envy those who took the journey!

In its original form, this ride was my all time favorite. It was perfect.

Actually a great top spin ride due to the really great theming. One of the few good things Paramount did for the park.

Is it a RoLLaR CoAsTeR?!? NOooO0O!!! I love this! I never rode Tomb Raider, but I appreciate just what a magnificent thing it was when it was operating. That THEMING! 🤩

This was still in operation while I was a ride op and I had the absolute privilege of being able to both work it AND ride it many times during my time KI and it is EASILY my absolute favorite ride. Working Antechamber and Pre-Show was sometimes more fun than working the actually ride because you got to interact with the guests. Seeing first time riders was always fun, especially when they didn't know what they were getting into!! Some of the best memories I have come from that ride. Kings Island had a total gem on their hands. I just hope they do something more with the building.

This ride looked so cool and I wish I could’ve ridden it… I’m glad that we have this video to get a taste of what it was like to experience this thrilling attraction!

You cannot capture the feeling of 60+ people all being hung upside down, dropping down slowly into the lava shooting up and misting your face on video, some things just have to be experienced.

This and Phantom Theater are the two defunct attractions that have intrigued me the most, while I was too young to experience them.

This deserves way more views and appreciation. Whoever put in the work digging through the archives to edit and put together all this footage even including the original main theme and such, this is really a great showcase of what once was for those like myself who never got to experience it. Thank you so much!

I rode this several times and there's nothing like it. One time, at a point when everyone was hanging upside down, this dude yelled "MY VAS DEFERENS!"😂

BRING IT BACK!

Best attraction the park ever had and then Paramount and Cedar Fair let it go to pot. I was a full-time employee at Kings Island when TRTD was opened. I remember being in a photo shoot for the ride, they sat about a dozen of us in the middle section to make it look full and a photographer was on the ride with us and he had a camera duct taped to his hand so it would not fall off. We were on the ride for like 2 hours straight, not always in motion, many times they stopped it in certain positions or upside down to get photos. I was in the photo used in several travel magazines and the poster that was used in the Larosas pizza restaurants around town. It was fun. Was sorry to see such an amazing themed attraction gutted like it was just a few short years after opening.

this is so cool! love seeing the construction and work that goes into making these rides.

Being held upside down over that lava was always an exhilarating experience.

I loved working this ride as a supervisor! so much fun

At one time, this was my favorite thing at KI. I didn't even know what it was the first time I rode it. LOL. Truly immersive!

I really hope they reopen something awesome in this queue

I'm also fascinated by this amazing ride, and the fact that it only operated for 3 years as TR before becoming the Crypt. I know the giant top spin is long gone, but what exactly is still in the building? The goddess statue? The stalactite/icicles? The fire pit? Does anyone have pictures of it as it is now? I would love to just be able to go inside that building and take a look around.

I love this! I've never seen this footage before. This was an amazing ride! I miss it so much! ❤️

Bring it back!!! Bring it back!!!

My all time favorite flat ride. There was nothing like it. Its first couple of years when the effects worked. It was just sooo amazing. Sad my friends could never understand the love I havd for the greatest flat ride experience ever to have existed.

The "Jeffrey Siebert" era of Kings Island. The best PR person that park has ever had!

Miss that ride

I loved this ride! Thank you for sharing this footage!

We need some son of beast archive videos! POV and behind the scenes construction!

Once it became The Crypt, it lost all of it's excitement. It was just a shell of it's original self. Sad too. The theming was excellent. Now, it just sits there all abandoned, relegated to a Haunt attraction a couple months out of the season. What a waste. I'd love to see something done with that building/space.

it's so cool to still be able to go in there futing haunt and actually still see the big statue on the wall when in the actual haunt

This used to be one of my favorite rides. Nothing like it!!!

The Giant Topspin is gone, but the Madhouse is wild.

This is AMAZING.

Got to ride it once and I definitely didn't truly appreciate it then. So sad that the building has just been sitting there.

I’ve always been fascinated by the history of kings island and one of my favorite memory’s of kings island is when I did the holoTween event for Madam Fatals cavern of terror. If you don’t know this is the Haunt that is in the show building for the Tomb Rader Ride. Anyways during the HoloTween event they had the lights on in the show building and I was shocked to see that most of the theming was still there! I was exploding with Excitement I may have pulled back a few Curtains to see some more of the theming, sorry kings island. I wish I could have experienced Kings island when It was ran by Paramount so I could have rode this and Backlot stunt coaster when It was Italian Job stunt track. Buy the way you should do a video just like this but with Italian Job stunt track. :D.

Such a shame this ride got removed it was so fun

Loved this ride. First time coming to kings island and I think a few years later it was gone ☹️

I wish there was more footage of the actual top spin itself!!!! That thing is big. Also the rarest credit I have.

Oh heck yes! Tomb Raider the Ride. The ride, that is based on the movie, which is based on the Game Franchise. I did enjoy this ride. X3 It is one of the best things to come in the time that Kings Island was under ownership by Paramount. X3

What a sad empty building

FYI, the music from this ride now plays at Adventure Express.

Great ride.

I got to ride this in 2011 after the Tomb Raider theming was removed and the ride cycle was gutted. Was still pretty thrilling, can’t imagine what it would have been like with all the theming.

One of my biggest regrets was never riding this ride. Tomb Raider was my most favorite game ever and i loved the movie. Im glad I got to see the outside set at least.

Why not bring this back and call it something else? It's so sad that the building is just sitting there and only used during Haunt.

I wish I could have ridden that. Heavy theming is really cool like Flight of fear and Backlot.

I felt something pill in my side the second time I rode this

That is cool

I rode this when it first opened. Scared me to death. I was 8

Wish theyd adapt this and bring it back. Now its just sitting there empty like an actual tomb lol

I remember this being my sister favorite ride and one time she took me on it when I was young but they should bring it back or one like it!!!

wish it didn’t get token down

I rode this ride many times. It was cool but had lots of maintenance issues.

I really wish you guys would bring this back. I appreciate the additions of Banshee & Mystic Timbers but Cedar Fair is slowly stripping away all of the unique rides that used to make kings island a one of a kind destination park. Tomb Raider, Vortex, Firehawk, Backwards Racer, Son of Beast... Please reopen this, it doesn't even have to themed, I just desperatly want the enclosed ride to reopen.

I have an idea request for you. You could use the crypt building for an interactive roller coaster experience by triotech. The crypt unsealed.

Buy the rights from paramount and bring this back. It was my favorite ride 😢

3:27 I'm really annoyed and upset that, that person's t shirt label is sticking up. If only I could travel back in time to tell him.

Are you gonna upload Nickelodeon Splat City next? Also cool ride!

A Disney quality ride is abandoned in the building next to the beast entrance

Such an awesome attraction! And I hate Top Spin rides.

Why did it close?

Impressive theming is it still there today? As in for haunt

this is triggering LOL....in a good way.....this was my first job at Kings Island.....We were training for a ride they wouldnt tell us what it was LOL.....All we knew was it went upside down. That was it LOL.....

Those Who Want A Rmc Son Of Beast 👇

What the heck is up with that intro narration?

It would be bad ads if you could put the Pirate ship ride in here for a uniquely awesome experience with the lighting, sound, and acoustics. Or put a scrambler in there with lighting and the umf umf music you hear at the nightclubs with the poppers. Please don't regulate this architectural gem with just a seasonal haunted house ♥️♥️♥️

Hiiiii

Strobe warning on that opening sequence filter!!!! Seriously

This ride made so many people puke. Lotsa cleanup delays.

That is sounds good on paper right?

Lost a great flume ride for this heap. Really, kids, it was all foreplay, no climax.

I wish you had more of the offride footage like you had at the end!

tfw 2002 was 50 years ago

Screw you Cedar Fair for destroying one of the best rides on Earth.

I did have an idea for Kings Island like a storyline that would bring back rides from the past but in a modern take to them such as: this ride/the Crypt, phantom theater, Son of Beast, Vortex and Firehawk but dont know if they would do something like that with the direction they are going.