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Opening Day: 15 April
Closing Day: 29 October
Adult All-Day Ride Pass: $28.95
Parking: $5
Attendance: ~1,200,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the world was celebrating the transition into a new millennium, Lagoon was going through its own changes. The year 2000 was the last season for the 40-year-old Speedway, Sr., as well as the first season of Double Thunder Raceway, which was intended as a replacement to the Speedway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View of Double Thunder from Sky Scraper, 2014. Photo: B. Miskin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Double Thunder Raceway opened with the rest of the park in April. The dual go-kart tracks added a third up-charge attraction to Lagoon. Beginning with Sky Coaster five years earlier, Lagoon added a few lower capacity attractions that required an additional fee to ride. With the introduction of Double Thunder in 2000, these rides became known collectively as the X-Venture Zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That wasn’t the only new ride that year, though. For the first time since 1987, two rides opened at Lagoon in the same year. Samurai opened in July as a replacement of the Flying Carpet, which was a favorite of many since it opened in 1986, but was increasingly difficult to maintain. Samurai offered a much wilder experience, flinging riders in several different, unpredictable directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Samurai as seen from the Sky Scraper, 2014. Photo: B. Miskin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It would also be the final season of the Prize Center on the Midway where tickets from various games could be redeemed. In the following season, it would be replaced by a gift shop and a new, smaller prize center would open inside the Game Time arcade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other notable events in 2000 occurred when the park was closed. In October, the old Opera House, which had been closed to the public since 1989, was used for training exercises for the Davis County Sheriff’s Office Citizens Academy. Apparently the building’s complex layout made it just right for practicing an “extremely difficult” search scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also in the fall, a major scene of the Disney Channel movie, Luck Of The Irish<\/em> was filmed at the park. The scene features a St. Patrick’s Day festival and uses Lagoon’s North Midway as the backdrop. It debuted on cable TV the following spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Luck Of The Irish<\/em> scene filmed at Lagoon in fall of 2000.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

GALLERY<\/h4>\n\n\n