Gordon Bombay

You know you cant do any of the tours or special activities without purchasing the meal ticket and receiving a lainyard right?

I wouldn't be surprised if we saw something like that at KI next year, with the way things have been going for GL maybe we'll see that exact one in the picture

Well guests with dissabilities dont just get to "cut line". On a recent visit to the park one of the guests in our party was wheel chair bound and our group had a disability guide. The policy outlined in the handbook is that if the line is over a half an hour long like say 45 minutes, we would be given a time written on our guide to come back to that ride 45 minutes later then would get to pick our seats. While we had a time for that ride we werent able to get times for other rides unless their lines were under 15 minutes to half an hour then they would just let us on after waiting a few trains. I think thats a fair policy as most of the times the guests with dissabilities wait just as long as other guests. As for Gold Pass holders its not like they get to cut all day every day, they get to use the speed lane once per gold pass and the speedlane is only open for part of the day, only two days a week, and only part of the season. They also did pay extra to use that perk and each hour only a small number of tickets can be used, there are time frames outlined on the tickets.

Which is still attributed to new ownership. And the fact that Six Flags ran the park into the ground and gave it a very sour reputation among tourists and locals and Cedar Fair has done very little to improve that reputation. New at Geauga Lake in 2009: "Purchase a nice lakeside condo here at Geauga Acres right across the lake from Cedar Fair's wildwater Kingdom"

This would be a good idea, however TRTR makes some of the most hideous sounds (or at least it used to) when it runs that would probably turn guests away rather than excite them enough to ride it. This nice thing about it being in a building is that the music could easily cover these sounds up. Although it sounds like the music isn't even working now. Very True, and by no means is the word "hideous" an overstatement. Every time the brake calipers lock for about the first 2 hours every morning they screech, not to mention the violent shacking of the entire structure every cycle. And thats when the ride is running correctly... If the ride ran a new program and didnt have to hang over the lava scene and such would some of these noises dissapear?

You bring up an interesting point. If the steel used was substandard compared to US steel, why would they even try and sell the ride knowing it would not last? Everyone in the industry would have to know the same information as yourself, and others. If this is to be correct, Paramount had a serious integrity issue. Well Interpreter did say... According to some sources they were trying to sell it as a ride and according to others they were trying to sell it as scrap metal. So Paramount wasn't neccesarily trying to screw anyone over.

Gabriel, glad to hear from you, awesome pictures and update! Glad to see everything is going good. Thats so awesome you get to take such a meaningful trip. Hope to see you soon! Have a safe trip home, and enjoy the rest of your trip. Please share more pictures soon! -Ronny Oh, and what Ryan said about number 4!

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Welcome to Cedar Fair Entertainment company! On most of the major recent additions at CP like TTD and MF they make you put your stuff in a locker before riding and up there its no very cheap at all, i believe its 2 dollars, luckily at KI its only 75 cents. However on CP's newest ride: Maverick, they have bins like on the other rides and no lockers are needed so maybe theyre getting out of the locker scam phase. Great TR, not too long at all, its nice to be seeing mroe TR's on here about families with kids. The lockers were put there before the pouches were in place and if you bring a bag, stuffed animal, or basketball in you can hand it to a ride op. and pick up at the rendezvous point.

What evidence do you have to support that most buy their tickets that way than at the ticket booths?

I think it be cool if they dropped Wings and utilized the former old time photo and rivertown mining company buildings that were used for fearfest last year to create some kind of western themed coaster in that area and really give Rivertown a western feel again. I really wish they still had the water running on Beast still on the old gold sleuth.

No chef, the steel coaster is in the parking lot.

Sorry to hear about the luck on your truck fan of beast, but I'm glad you still got to have a good trip. Yes, a lot of CP rides are not friendly to larger people, but I'm glad to see that despite the aggrivation of the truck problems and not being able to ride some of the rides that you still had a good time. I've met a lot of good ride ops at CP esp on my last trip this past June, but there were a few who had no idea what guest service was. I think its great that they offer a test seat our front of the queue lines for guests to try but when they judge guests before they enter a queue line and flat out tell them "you cant fit" without even offering the test seat I lose a lot of respect for that employee. This happened to me while attempting to get in line for MF last year, I had a ride op blatently tell me that I wouldnt be able to fit on the ride, even after I had ridden it earlier in the day. I was told to "not even bother to wait in line" and then after I did I was not only able to fit but had room to spare, I should have bough an on ride photo and given a copy to that ride op. Hope you have a safe and good work trip to philly and get to try Dorney soon!

4 year old boy drowns in 2ft. section of Paramount's Great America's Great Barrier Reef wave pool: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289161,00.html Certainly not good publicity for Cedar Fair when they are trying to put themselves up for sale with such a demand as keeping current management. A very tragic and unfrotuanate event, my thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the young boy and those park employees and paramedics who did what they could to try and save his life.

Having been working with Ryan and Dane and watching them and the rest of the staff work very hard to get this event put together and now see it become a reality over the past few months I was greatly, greatly looking forward to it. When I saw the itinerary last week while talking with Ryan at the park I was even more psyched, unfortuanently the event came to fall on the day I leave for South Carolina and those plans are set and can not be changed. So I'll be there in spirit.

Cedar Fair is one park that does listen to the people so by signing this it will get noticed by the powers that be! Thanks Interpeter for your support.I want to make sure they get the message load and clear! Cedar Fair is in debt, Cedar Fair doesnt listen to their guests or employees, Cedar Fair is not the company it was even 5 years ago. Cedar Fair needs money and Cedar Fair will not listen to an internet petition to just lower food prices, theyll keep raising them untill eventually people stop eating in the parks. like KIBeast said, a more effective protest would be not buying or eating in park food.

Read the first comment on that page, what a rube.

Could any buyer be this naieve or want to take this risk? The reason theyre selling is because they took on too much at one time, and the reason they took on too much was because of the decisions the current mangement made and now the company has problems that the current mangement has yet to fix. Typical Dick Kinzel and Cedar Fair's arrogant attitude. I think anyone considering buying the chain and thinking about keeping the current mangement should talk to those lower on the totem pole and see what they think of Cedar Fair management. -Gordon Bombay, who is hoping that with hearing the news of CF's woe's, Fort Kinzel may once again become Fort Cooper!

Amen woofer, amen! Although wouldnt it be more fitting to say "Cedar Fair.....the new old six flags". THe current Six Flags seems to be making quite a turn around!

Who cares. It's not worth telling somone and it's just a ride.... Most people do care, especially the honest ones who waited in line, why should anyone get to cut? When the lines are over half an hour at the park even groups with dissabilities have booklets and are given times and wait just as long as the guests in the entrance queues.

I know these two coasters have similar layouts with a few different changes and differnt dips and such but how do the two coasters compare? I really wish Park River wouldve held onto Americana/Lesourdsville or that they would do something to bring the screechin eagle to Coney or atleast some other good coaster or a nice small woodie.

Robbie, I know you had been showing me some of your progress as you went along but I am very overly impressed with the final product. I think I may check out Coney this year to ride the Python, coney needs a wood coaster.

Well said Interpreter! I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Helbig and his family many times back in 2005 not only at KI but at Mighty Ducks hockey games, when I first heard the news I was over joyed. Welcome aboard Don and welcome back to Cincy! Best of luck to you! -Ronny

Now by they, do you mean Paramount, or Cedar Fair? Because up until CF bought the parks, Tomb Raider still had a majority of their effects intact....you know, save the broken door and some of the lights on the Durma statue not working. Heck, even the FOG was still working last year, even with CBS at the helm. Dont give CBS that much credit (granted Cedar Fair does suck with theming more than them), the last time the fog worked was in 2005. In 2006 the fog worked at the beginning of the season and eventually they stopped having the ante-chamber show and stopped staffing an employee there as well as the door, music, and lights no longer worked in the ante-chamber. The pre-show room still played the movie but also lost its fog in 2006. This year in 2007, the flames outside of the ride cave stopped working as well as the spot lights hidden in the trees above the rides. The sound no longer works on the ride and the water in the lava pit scene just bubbles and no longer shoots up. With how bad the theming has gotten on that ride I will give the park credit for one thing, the kids working there have always been the nicest when I've ridden. I remember being able to look into the lava pit or after the final scene when you slowly come back down when the rides almost over and seeing shoes and trash everywhere, the past few years its always been clean as has all of the ride. Last month while waiting in line I saw a few of them and another employee in a tie cleaning change out of the queue line coverings. Great crew at that ride, right up there with those kids at The Beast!

Glad to see you and your girlfriend had a good time, I agree with you, I love that area in front of the waterfall over at the former paramount story and hope that CF tidys it up a little and keeps it as a nice garden area. That clanking before the drop on Son of Beast was probably just the train going over a set of anti-rollbacks just like the ones you hear before entering the second lift on The Beast or cresting over the hills before the divide on Racer. Im glad SOB is testing and I hope to ride it again but I dislike that the have a blue train, I liked hte old trains color scheme cause it was a throw back to The Beast's trains original paint scheme, its Son of Beast, not Son Of Racer.