Demon Drop staying?

With all the hoopla about White Water landing's sad demise not much has been said about this rides possibly being sold to another park. If it stays for 2006 will they keep trying to sell or keep it for good?

Keep it for "good"? From what I hear, the upkeep is extensive and ridership is down. Maybe something better can go in it's space. (I actually thought Skyhawk was going in there.)

MrScott

my idea is with wwl gone,I think that waveswinger is going to be moved up to where demon drop is for 07, and possibly antique cars will also be removed, to clear room for the impending record breaker that we all know is going there.

Whether or not they remove other rides like Antique Cars or Wave Swinger remains to be seen. But, they certainly don't have to. With the WWL site alone, there is a *huge* area to work with.

They are still trying to sell Demon Drop. Like MrScott said, it's a headache to maintain and ridership is down. My last ride was on Sunday and it was essentially a walk-on.

No one knows if it will sell or not. They may have a buyer who is really close to getting it, they might have to make the offer more attractive, or they might just decide to keep it for another summer. If I had to make a guess, I'd say the odds of its return in 2006 are less than 50-50. Either way, long term, it's going away.

I rode Demon Drop twice on Saturday and I will miss that ride once it is gone. It's one of those "man that was fun" ride's. WWL had its time, DD is DD. What would CP look like without it? I still can't get it in my head. Must be a CP ethusiast thing.

I rode DD on Saturday. Told the ride op they should put a for sale sign up. He told me that Cedar Fair has sold DD and Mr. Hydes Nasty Fall to someone overseas.

I'd personally keep it, move it to frontier town, repaint it brown/tan and rename it "mine shaft" or something.

I always thought Goofy Golf should have bought it.

I have heard it was sold to a park in Italy, and I have heard that it was not sold....so who knows.

Cool thing is that I have the press kit for the ride.

Unofficialy stating, a ride op informed me on 10/30/05 that the Demon Drop was sold and it was being removed. It was sold to a park in Japan. Again, I don't know how true this is...

I was informed by Tony/Tyler Sunday night on WWL that the ride was still for sale and had not been sold yet.

Its almost kinda sad thought, every single person from Kenzel to Hildebrandt was at WWL, plus all of the media and talk is on that ride while Demon Drop just seems to slowly pass away and nobody cares. *** Edited 11/1/2005 9:30:50 PM UTC by ejh1701***

Don't worry, I have a Demon Drop tribute lined up for when it sells. Lots of cool stuff. Of course, if it stays, we'll put it up anyway and just call it a celebration. :)

I had the unlucky chance to work DD for the early part of the 2005 season. The ride constantly breaks donw and the entire time i was at the ride we had a maintince person babysitting the ride so it could get back up as fast as possible. Climbing that tower is a nice work out though.

Yeah I noticed the babysitting mechanic as well. Still if they could fix the kinks I would love for it to stay.

It was the first ride I ever went on at CP.
*** Edited 11/2/2005 1:28:07 AM UTC by CP4eva'04***

I was told on Saturday that it was staying till it sells and a cool $250,000 will sell the thing. If it is not bought, a junkyard might be in good luck. :)

Kyle Dersch said: "I'd personally keep it, move it to frontier town, repaint it brown/tan and rename it "mine shaft" or something."

That would require theming, something that hasn't been done at CP for thirty years.............

I still wish I had $250k. It would make an awesome Amateur radio tower that doubles as a fun amusement ride ;)

I find it interesting that the price on the Ital Int. site for Demon Drop (http://www.italintl.com/detail_page.php?record_id=565) no longer says $250,000 but rather "call." *** Edited 11/2/2005 4:04:53 AM UTC by DBCP***

Sounds good Walt!

How about this. If they are having trouble selling the thing just auction off peices of the ride to enthusiasts. Im sure some one would pay a nice sum of money to have one of the cars sitting in their family room. Have small crew dismantling it and spread the peices out on the parking lot. Give the peices numbers and just auction the thing off. This would eliminate the cost of transporting the peices of the ride. They would probably make even more money off the ride that way then selling the ride to some other park. Even donate the money you recieve to a noteable charity so it can be a tax write off. This is what I would do if I was Cedar Fair. I used this example in my business management class and the professor gave me the only A in the class because it was so creative.