First X-Flight and now Steel Venom?

I still don't understand why they would take away the monorail is they want "family" atmosphere.

Very costly to opperate. It ran through the dumpiest part of the park, and any parts they needed for it had to be custom made. There are probably additional reasons.
*** Edited 2/24/2007 7:02:45 PM UTC by Jason Hammond***

^It was a constant maintenance headace when i was there. I can't imagine that it got any better in the last five years.

^^^I always thought that the best place to put a hyper was along 43 for a variety of reasons. Now there's one ride that could have a big impact when the time comes. First they need a product to warrent that kind of exposure.

I honestly don't think GL will see a huge coaster in YEARS, if ever. At least if CF still owns them.

oh please guys shut up about Dominator was going to be moved in '08 its not going nowere like cedar point.

do you have one of those new keyboards that dont have punctuation marks I am a big fan of those because of their size it sure would be nice to have one myself do you think so

You're right, its not going nowhere. It's going somewhere. And I can only hope its to Michigan's Adventure.

And before anyone jumps on that, I know its a long shot, that doesn't mean I can't hope.

EDIT
Dj, he did have a '.' at the end of his post. I just think he needs to call geek squad and have them check it out.

*** Edited 3/6/2007 4:22:44 PM UTC by JuggaLotus***

There's also an apostrophe before the "08".

I'm thinking that it's an intermittent issue and Jugga may be right about Geek Squad. I'd have them check the Shift key also.

That section:
"Dominator was going to be moved in '08"
had been copied from Jo's post. Which has disappeared. So any keyboard functionality attributed to that area of the post is voided.

I highly doubt Dominator will go anywhere. Dominator and Thunderhawk are the best steel coasters Geauga Lake has. It would be foolish for them to get rid of Dominator. Now I could understand Steel Venom, and the Monorail, but I didn't understand the move of X-Flight. That's ok though, I'm planning on going to Kings Island this year anyway. I honestly cannot see them moving Dominator anywhere.

If they remove dominator, I think that will be the nail in the coffin.

Besides, it would be next to imposable to move the ride due to it's uniqe footprint and footers. They would have to rebuild half of the rides supports.

Not sure what they are planing on doing I live close to Geauga Lake and dont see them even doing anything to the Steel Venom. So they could be waiting till later maybe.

I would assume that X-Flight is currently more of a priority since they are trying to have it open at KI by Memorial Day. I would say that once they have everything for X-Flight shipped that is possible to reuse, then they will start on Steel Venom. Because, it is probably the same company doing the work for both rides.

The dismantling of SV has begun!

There's nothing unique about Dominator's footings. If they wanted to, that ride could easily be relocated. If you want to talk about difficult rides to relocate, look at rides like Tatsu or Nemesis, not Dominator.

^^ I'm not sure that called for an exclamation mark. :(

^^ But I am so excited to see another ride being removed, arent you? :-)

halltd said:
There's nothing unique about Dominator's footings. If they wanted to, that ride could easily be relocated. If you want to talk about difficult rides to relocate, look at rides like Tatsu or Nemesis, not Dominator.

With the terrain Dominator is built on it might be difficult or cost prohibitive to move it. But hey, they might just take it out because they can.

Got some more pics today.
http://rollercoasterfreak.com/Geauga_Lake_Home.html

Also saw some fellow enthusiasts walking Rt. 43 getting their shots in. Was one of them you coasterdad?

I have a new slogan for GL: "Geauga Lake, the Chop Shop of amusement parks!"

Aw, come on Mike, they really do have the best interest in mind when dealing with the park.

At least I hope they do.