Fascination

I think I have about 15.

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Brandon Sorc
Millennium Force count:67
www.spiritofthepoint.com

Maybe around 20 or so, but for the first few years we were employees and weren't allowed to play!

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I had a delivery to the park the other day and I was wondering if anyone knows why the Fascination Building has been "GUTTED"? The inside is COMPLETELY EMPTY, the Fascination tables are sitting OUTSIDE and the floor and walls have all ben scraped down. I hope they put Fascination back in, but from what I seen it doesn't look like it!?!?!?

Also I forgot to say even the SIGN has been taken off the building. *** This post was edited by Lake54321 on 3/3/2001. ***

I'm sitting at about a 100 myself... and basically they were all earned after LONG nights in the dorms over the years in the early hours of the morning when my stomach had about as much will to ride Jr. Gemini as it had to just sit there...

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MF 2000 - 269 laps

MF 2001 - ??????? *** This post was edited by Red Garter Rob on 3/3/2001. ***

Fascination is in fact gone as of this year. I found out last weekend while at Cedar Point. They are turning it into a restaurant called Johnny Rockets. It's kind of sad because I had a lot of memories working in there. Because they are changing it though, that means they will have to change the big neon lights above it. I wonder if they will just redo all the lights above the games then. I remember last season when a piece fell of and smashed on the ground.

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John
Games Host - 2000
Fascination Host - 2000
Camp Snoopy Ride Op 2000
www.shoewee.tripod.com

Great... what am I supposed to do with all these darn tickets now???

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MF 2000 - 269 laps

MF 2001 - ???????

I can't imagine it being gone. It did kind of out live itself, but it was still fun. There are not that many games that are $.25. We have a Johnny Rockets in Southfield, MI. I used to eat lunch there. It like a 50's burger joint. It's similar to the Coaster resturant already in the park. I'm not sure why they would add another resturant like the one they already have......

yeah how about we wait until it has been "officially announced"

i'm just saying that is what i heard from a campus recruiter who trained me last weekend. i am an ambassador for my college and i asked him what i could tell my interviewees what is new for 2001. that was one of the things he said, everything else we know, lighthouse, new dorm, etc.

Believe me or not, i really don't care.

A quick call to CP resorts, where we have reservations, has confirmed that Fascination is indeed another piece of Cedar Point history. The attendent has claimed the park had to make the decision based on the fact they can no longer get replacement components from the manufacturer.

Obselence

I am so bummed that this great game is lost.i have a lot of memories of playing fascination.

And suddenly it hits ya!!!! I wish it wasn't so!!! More of my childhood memories gone!! Why can't it just be moved somewhere else! How about in the stadium games, since there is already way too many arcades!!!

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"Say it isn't so!!!"

Little did I know what this thread would turn into when I started it...

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

A Few things that were mentioned by the park in my wifes inquiry....

The park is encouraging letters of complaints about the closing of Fascination....

They are encouraging some feedback on a replacement type game.....

If those things are true, then it is likely a symptom of obselence in the Fascination game...

---- My wife is really bummed, this one of her highlights to the visit. I could always coax her into going to CP because of her love of Fascination. She could play while I took the kids to Kiddy kingdom. She cant walk much due to a hip injury, this worked well for us.....It truly is a shame.....

They should just create their own Fascination. The technology can't be that difficult.

Then again, what do I know?

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VirtualMidway
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I agree, Gemini - rolling balls, a few lights, a ramp, some plexiglass, there you go. This stinks.

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Present CP Poll: Games. Let's get out one last vote for FASCINATION!

Personally, I don't buy that "we can't find replacement parts" the Mr. Keller is speaking of. I not that familiar with the innards of the game, but I don't think it that complex. If you can't find the parts, get someone t make them.

Keller said "Because of its popularity, we explored several options to relocate the game, but cannot efficiently operate it without a source of material." So what Keller is saying is that most of the tables are broken and need parts, or otherwise they would relocate the game. This is most likely not even the case. They cannot all be broken.

Lets say most of them are broken. Take the parts out of some and put them in others to make them functional. Take out Pac Man and some of his friends from the 80's and move the functional tables along a wall in the arcade.

How many tables are there anyway? They should just find 15 or 20 tables at put them in somewhere. Not only do you keep the game but it makes people happy. It's won't be as good as the original but hey, its better than nothing.

I never played the came that much because I was more fascinated with other things in the park, but still it was a fun game (better than all those others) and should be kept for history.

Here is the problem as I see it....The Technology is antiquated....Hence, very untypical of what todays mechanics are taught...Its my feeling that a current technician could not figure out the system of switches, etc....Likely an older technician would understand it, but as these people retire and become unavailable - you cant find people to understand the general principles of the game....

Probably tough to find anyone who takes parts from one to another table....

Although, the technology is older, it is likely more complicated than anything you would find today....Now, this is just an opinion - I know next to nothing on the subject itself...But, it is a reasonable explaination I *could* swallow....likely a product of my optimism in CP itself...

Frontierman, you make a really good point. While mechanical switches and lights might not seem that complicated - might SEEM downright simple - many technicians today would be taught about electronic sensors and stuff like that. But that begs the question, why can't CP -- given the enormous popularity of the game -- recreate a more technologically updated version, using sensors and such? It's terrible to lose such a landmark of the CP Midway.

Just a question: How many people, when vacationing with friends and family, had Fascination as their meeting place? I know we did.

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Current Poll: Games. Let's get out one more vote for FASCINATION!

It may be old technology but it's just basic electricity. I'm sure CP's electricians understand how the game works. It's just a bunch of mechanical switches, light bulbs and sockets, wires and probably some type of simple, relay driven, logic system to determine the winner. I don't see why switches and relays made today can't be fitted to the game. It doesn't make sense to me.