Cedar Fair buys SFWoA

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ShiveringTim said:
Any comparison between a Disney complex and CP/GL is just silly, IMHO. Disney built those parks close for a reason - to create a complete one-stop resort. CP/GL is nothing like that, that is unless a monorail is going to be built between Sandusky and Aurora (and wouldn't that be cool!! :) )

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That would be GREAT for you, wouldn't it?! :)

How about one of those TransRapid things like the one they just built in Shanghai?

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Monster Ride Op said:
...The only bad things that might happen is if they redo Big Dipper and Raging Wolf Bobs like they redid Blue Streak. New air brakes, seat cushions, seat dividers, and operational changes would ruin those two coasters. Leave those two as they are and change everything else and I would be happy.

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Too late. Last year, Raging Wolf Bobs got squeeze brakes to go along with the Gerstlauer train (it already had the computer). A couple of years ago, Big Dipper got a computer, and a control system that does a lousy job of parking the trains in the station as it crashes them together.

Data point: Valleyfair!'s High Roller has an IAD train on it with seat belts and drop-down lap bars, but no seat dividers. Big Dipper's train is similar to an IAD train.

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Vanessa wrote:
As far as the enterprise ride possibly not opening, I am guessing it has to do with the release handle on the cage/car door. At cp unless you have VERY long arms it would be incredibly difficult to open your own car. At some parks the same ride has a handle which is much more easily accessed and could possibly be opened by a rider. That's just my guess though.

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Cedar Point's Enterprise had that type of tubs on it, with no safety strap, until just a couple of years ago. What I know about Geauga Lake's Enterprise is that when I visited last September, the Enterprise had been almost totally dismantled, probably for the same kind of rehab that the Top Spin got last year. I know that the Enterprise is a high-pressure hydraulic system which has a special safety valve in it that has to be replaced at some regular interval, and plumbing that must be +certified by Huss at some regular interval. I suspect that has more to do with the ride's closure than anything else. I wonder if Cedar Fair will simply remove the Enterprise and move one of the rides from the other side of the lake into its place. That would be a quick fix.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Even though I do like the idea of CF cleaning up the park cause that is what they do good. There are gonna be some things I am gonna miss. The laid backness of SFWoA was kinda cool. I mean you can never go to a cedar fair park and have the ride ops slap the hands of the guests as the coaster leaves the station. Also I dont think at CP I would ever see a weave hanging from a station and the ride op at controls sitting there making constant jokes over the intercom. I thought that was great. I think that cedar point is really strict when it comes to their rides. Oh well I do think that x-flight is a great ride contrary to popular belief. However I also think that capacity sucked at SFWoA and CF will definatly do something about that. I really could care less about the disney and DC theming throughout most of the park. Yes batman looks cool but its not nessesary for the ride. If it was called floorless I would still like it just as much. I also dont know why they retracked RWB that ride was great it wasnt extremely rough it was just right and with the buzz bars that makes it better. I know that CF is into safty but I hope to god that they leave the buzz bars on RWB and Big Dipper. Anyway thoes are my thoughts on this new changeover. Oh and I am also gonna miss the fast track thing that they had at SFWoA.

-Doug-

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