More on Discovery Channel

The Discovery Channel crew has actually been at the Point for the entire week. They are filming a 1-hour special called "Cedar Point - The World's Largest Amusement Park". Now I sure hope they're saying "largest" meaning the most rides, because Disney World's 47 square miles beats the *heck* out of our 364 acres. Anyways, its going to show off everything about the park and rides kind of like the "Scream Parks" special about Six Flags Magic Mountain. "CP-TWLAP" will air in Spring 2001.
So there I was minding my own business in my humble little booth at work when I notice a big shadow and suddenly--yes--there is a huge camera in my face. I turned around to ask my supervisor a question and the Discovery Channel got it all on film! So watch...maybe you'll see me!!!!

Sounds awesome, I'll have to remember to tape it!

Maybe they are counting the vertical space. :)

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Dispatch Master, This is Transport one! I'm losing control, I'm losing control!

But Cedar Point is larger in acreage than any one of the individual Disney parks.

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Cedar Point Virtual Midway
http://www.schmidty.com/cpvirtual

You are wrong about that one. The safari area at Animal Kingdom alone is probobly
bigger than CP. AK is BIG!!! There is a lot there that you don't see.

I got on the camera too, friday morning. They filmed us leaving the station, going up the hill, and they got me getting in line, I made a face into the camera. I hope they get me in it, and I can't wait to see this special. DC does a nice job with their shows, for the most part.

I know that the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and MGM are around 100 acres each. Much smaller than CP. I'm not sure about Animal Kingdom, but if it is bigger most of that acerage is probably devoted to roaming space for the animals. Does that really count?

Why wouldn't it count?

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How dare you vanquish the Steel Phantom without his consent? Fear the Phantom's Revenge.

Well, I'm thinking that if the guests can't walk on the land, only the animals, than it really doesn't matter. Anyway, in looking at the Animal Kingdom map in the Disney web site, even that park looks to be smaller than CP.

Upon further research, Animal Kingdom is 500 acres. Like Pete said, though, we're talking apples and oranges.

Example: Six Flags Great Adventure and their safari take up 475 acres. But in their annual report, they called Great Adventure "the 10th largest theme park in North America."

I don't think there is a industry definition of the word "large" :)

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Cedar Point Virtual Midway
http://www.schmidty.com/cpvirtual

I see your point(s) about Animal Kingdom and all that, but I try to look at amusement parks like buildings. If you look at a city's skyline, many times the tallest building is only the tallest because of a lightning rod or some type of tower. To me, no matter if you can get to/be in that part of the building, it's still the tallest.

Hope you can follow that! My screwy logic ;)

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How dare you vanquish the Steel Phantom without his consent? Fear the Phantom's Revenge.