Real ride names

Rotunda_Chillin

Friday, April 9, 2004 10:02 AM
I've never been go Geauga Lake before and I wasn't familiar with the former ride names, so I pulled up the Six Flags WOA site and compared the pictures to the Geauga Lake site. I can't figure out what the new name of the old Batman coaster is. Is it even on the new site?...or is Cedar Fair not going to be running it in the near future?
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GregLeg1

Friday, April 9, 2004 10:14 AM
Don't go by the pictures on Six Flags' site -- they use generic pictures. The Batman at Geauga Lake is the floorless, Dominator, not an inverted as pictured on the Six Flags site.

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kylepark

Friday, April 9, 2004 10:21 AM
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Not only is CF guilty of recycling names, but also logos and grahpics as well: http://www.worldsoffun.org/pictures/detonatorlogo.gif
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Avalanche Sam

Friday, April 9, 2004 10:40 AM
Is it me, or is the photo of Thunderhawk reversed? I doubt it being a picture of another SLC, since this is CF's first.

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Pete

Friday, April 9, 2004 10:43 AM
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I'm glad to see the Serial Thriller name gone. I know it was supposed to be a play on words, but the subject made the name questionable for use in a family park in my opinion. Thunderhawk is a much better name for the ride.

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CP_bound

Friday, April 9, 2004 11:05 AM
Rob, the reason I said relatively little work to do is because relative to what they had to do with Geauga Lake, I'm sure there was substantially less work to do in that office. I didn't mean to come off sounding like the marketing department just sits around all day with nothing to do.
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rogue kielbasa

Friday, April 9, 2004 11:56 AM
Beaver Land Mine Ride?!?! HAWHAT!!! That ride is going to be the butt of so many jokes this year it's gonna be unbelieveable. And Dominator? No thatnk you, I really don't like that name too much. And Cedar Fair now recycling names? Sigh, I'm not for that either

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Red Garter Rob

Friday, April 9, 2004 12:13 PM
I know.. just ribbin' ya.. hehehe

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CoasterKaiser

Friday, April 9, 2004 3:25 PM
If you hate the names so bad, don't ride the rides! I think a few of the rides could have used better names, but wow, they're only names. A couple of them still give good experiences.

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Tim McKinley

Friday, April 9, 2004 4:32 PM
I think the new names are OK but am kind of disappointed they didn't come up with more original names. I like Head Spin for the Boomerang. Mind Eraser was never really that great of name anyway. same for Serial Thriller.

Beaver Land Mine Ride- NO COMMENT. I think that is the safest thing to say.

I am surprised that Shipwreck Falls did not get renamed. I think that name is used at other SF parks. I am surprided they didn't rename X-Flight but that neame is OK.

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Spin and Puke

Saturday, April 10, 2004 9:18 AM
Let the dominatrix jokes begin......

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Coasterzak

Saturday, April 10, 2004 4:00 PM
Oh gosh, that was about the first thing I thought of when I heard it too.
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newt

Monday, April 12, 2004 2:42 PM
Hurricane Hannah does seem lame but they might change it in a couple of years. I see the park this season as a transition state for what CF wants to do with it. So the "Hurricane" name might keep it familiar enough for the peeps and still close enough to the original name to get business from the Travel Channel show viewers. Since the new waterslides were featured. This is just a guess, because ultimately it could just be a bad name decision. But they do have an excuse to change it in a couple of years!:)

On a second note, I'm glad they brought back Turtle Beach. Some of those names are actually clever such as Snapper run, and Tortoise tube. Playing off the turtle theme. However Rad Reef I'm not so sure of! :)

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Lee

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 1:12 PM
"Rad Reef"? I really don't want to criticize other people's attempts at creativity, but that reminds me of those Ovaltine commercials (or any other commercial where the scriptwriters failed miserably in understanding what sort of slang words are still in popular use...)

Bodacious, dude!

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Dutchman

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 6:50 PM
Does the water in the Cuyahoga River Logging Co. catch fire after the final drop?
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crazy horse

Sunday, April 18, 2004 11:57 PM
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Snapper run huh.

Nevermind, ill get my mind out of the gutter.

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Gemini

Monday, April 19, 2004 6:41 AM
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Dutchman: 1969 called. They want their joke back.

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LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

Monday, April 19, 2004 8:53 AM
Haha Gemini. I love that you used that as a joke!!!

It still rears it's head at college campuses. I love it!!

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JuggaLotus

Monday, April 19, 2004 10:53 AM
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Tim McKinley said:


Beaver Land Mine Ride- NO COMMENT. I think that is the safest thing to say.


What about I-75 exit #69 in Michigan?? Big Beaver Road.....Sometimes I wonder who comes up with these ideas....

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joe

Monday, April 19, 2004 12:57 PM
Yeah, they PLANNED for that to happen. Milemarkers and coincidence had NOTHING to do with it.

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