Geauga Lake - It's Gonna Be Fun! (2004)
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NOTE: Due to some strong comments, including on the border of personal attacks, comments have been removed. This video is for documentary purposes, and not for stirring debates as to who is to blame for Geauga Lake's demise and closure."The Fun is Back!" The television commercial from 2004, the park's first season under its ownership by Cedar Fair. Geauga Lake was bought by Premier Parks in 1996, who later went on to buy the Six Flags theme parks. To compete with Cedar Point, the traditional park added five coasters over two years, and renamed the park Six Flags Ohio in 2000. In 2001, Six Flags bought the adjacent Sea World property from Busch, and combined the two into one gate as Six Flags Worlds of Adventure. But faltering attendance and reports of poor customer service tainted the park's reputation, and was sold to Cedar Fair, L.P., the owner of competitor Cedar Point prior to the start of the 2004 season.Cedar Fair changed the park's name back to Geauga Lake, and marketed it as a family amusement park. The wildlife section was closed, and was redeveloped into a large new water park, Wildwater Kingdom for 2005. Since attendance has been stagnant and disappointing recently, one of the large coasters, X-Flight, was dismantled after the 2006 season, and was relocated to Kings Island, near Cincinnati, which Cedar Fair acquired as part of the Paramount Parks chain from CBS in June 2006. The coaster was repainted and renamed Firehawk, and is located next to Flight of Fear. Also removed after 2006 was the Bellaire Express monorail, and the Steel Venom roller coaster. SV is rumored to be relocated to Dorney Park in Allentown, PA in 2008.After four years of ownership, and declining attendance, Cedar Fair pulled the plug on this amusement park after the 2007 season, while continuing to operate the Wildwater Kingdom water park. Many rides were relocated to other Cedar Fair properties, others sold, others demolished. Many are still wondering what will become of the historic Big Dipper, which remains on site.
Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: CoastersNSich
Length: 00:32
Rating: 4.04
Views: 18140
Video Comments
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crazzypixstix (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I sooooo Fucking mad that they closed this park, it sounds like it was alot of fun!!! :[
MyLifeRules76 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
go cry somewhere else!
makeshiftperfection (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Please realize that there's a reason that Six Flags sold it to Cedar Fair in the first place. Geauga Lake could never compete with mega-sized parks like Cedar Point, but Six Flags didn't notice that until it was too late. They dumped WAY too much money into the park at once, and not even the large crowds could make up for it. Did Cedar Fair make bad decisions? Hell yes. But you can't lay all of the blame on them alone.
mp33122 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
So your saying you liked the park when the people that took out all the fun owned it. Six Flags actually TRIED to compete with bigger parks. Cedar Fair ripped all the joy out of the park when they took over. They just wanted to destroy it, Six Flags wanted to let it grow.
pack1833 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
acally sisflags because when i went six flags owned it it was worse than cedarfair owned it
pack1833 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I am dissapointed when they cloesed guaga lake it was a very good park
ajnxbonez (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
the fun is back? more like the fun is GONE. CEDAR FAIR MADE THIS DAMN PARK JUST SO WE COULD GET ED AND BE FORCED TO GO TO SOME OTHER PARK.
mp33122 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
disliked the commercials, HATE cedar fair
mp33122 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
six flags put all the good stuff in. Cedar Fair screwed everything up. If SF hadnt been there, there wouldn't have been no Batman (Dominator), no Superman (Steel Venom), no X-Flight, or no Thunderhawk. Cedar Fair are the people responsible for the closing of this great park not SF. When it was under Six Flags, the attendance was 2 million in '03 when it was under Cedar Fair in '04-attendance dropped to 700,000
makeshiftperfection (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This is the only park they've actually closed, dude. |
