Geauga Lake & Wildwater Kingdom Announces Numerous New Offerings

Rihard 2000 said:It's still weird to me that they'll show a motion base film in a non-motion theater.

SimEx/Iwerks (The company who distributes the films) has several titles available in both motion and large screen theater formats. The motion films are usually 4 or 5 minutes long, and the theater films are usually 11-12 minutes.

Hey honey, wanna go to Geauga Lake and play cornhole today.

I'm sorry. I'm easily amused by fart jokes, but it is an amusement park. I guess they're doing their job.

Jason Hammond said:

I know for sure that Cedar Point is. But, IIRC, all Cedar Fair Proporties will be going Smoke Free this year. Other than designated areas of course.

Well, then I sure picked the right time to quit smoking. *pats self on back*

Congratulations. :)

Yay, dj! :)

I like the smoke free environment. Nothing bugs me more than when your sitting on a bench and somebody with a cigarette comes and sits next to you. Especially if they aren't courteous about keeping the smoke away from me. I do agree with the designated smoking areas.

Also, I would bet that most of the trash that gets swept up is cigarette butts.

As much as I don't LIKE the decision, Cedar Point is a private business and can determine its own rules. If they've determined that this is worth it, then more power to them. I'm just glad this isn't a BS law being passed.

How can you not like a smoke free enviroment?

I think there should be a "BS" law passed for no smoking in ALL public places, especialy if there are kids around.

I am all for designated smoking cancer areas, but parks dont enforce it as they should. Just because smokers dont care about there lungs, does not mean that others don't.

Not to start the never ending debate again, but no one is forcing those "others" to go where there may be smokers who may harm their lungs.

Not to mention that CP is not a public place. The method John describes above is the most effective - and the most American - solution.
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Sometimes reading this site feels like being in a Vacation movie. "Look kids, Big Ben! Parliament!"

Yea, but we ARE being forced to inhale smokers 2'nd hand smoke. Like I said, I think its great that they will have areas where smokers can go and destroy there lungs without harming others. But most smoke free parks that I have been to, dont enforce it much.

Why should non smokers have to stay away from public places? Why should he have to "just learn to deal with it"? A park with smoking areas fixes this problem somewhat. There will always be that rebelious smoker that has the attitude " Nobady is going to tell me where I can smoke" and does not care about anyone but them-selfs.

Shoulden't people have the right to go somewhere without being subject to harmfull fumes?

Enough ranting for now, But I think this is a great move on cedarfair.

Well, hopefully they also add designated fat people areas. I'm tired of my eyes being subjected to their offensive sight.

If a private business wants to allow its patrons to consume LEGAL materials, it is their right and not the right of government to limit that. If you don't like that a place allows smoking, then don't go there, its not up to government to change that. If attendance drops enough because people don't like the half-whiff of smoke they pick up for .0001 seconds while on the midway the business will change their rules. No person has a RIGHT to go anywhere, it is a CHOICE. Other people don't have to change so THEY can feel comfortable.

Apparently CP has decided that smoke-free would be a good business decision, that's their choice.

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djDaemon said:
Not to start the never ending debate again, but no one is forcing those "others" to go where there may be smokers who may harm their lungs.

So is it okay if I bring a can of fart spray and spray it around anybody I find smoking? After all, nobody's forcing them to go where others are enjoying their fart spray.

So apparently enough people decided not to visit the parks, so it was a good buisness decision. Is that what your saying?

A half wiff? Not quite.

Weather your stuck in line, or just walking down the midways, if your stuck behind a smoker or groups of smokers, you inhale a lot more than just a wiff.

And fat people dont give me second hand smoke, or harm my health .

Its so typical that someone ALWAYS tries to compare smoking to other things that have nothing to do with the dangers of second hand smoke. They always try and twist the issue and try to make it look like there is nothing wrong with smoking.

It's like non smokers are being "punished" for giving a crap about there health. If you feel the need to inhale toxic chemicals and fumes, so be it. But just have the respect to not do it around me or others that care about there health.

Thats why I like the smoke areas.

Whatever the parks justification for it, that's their right as a private business. Its not up to government.

There are already rules in place about smoking in line. They are poorly enforced and responsible smokers (95% of all smokers) don't smoke in line. Its just the couple of a-holes that give the rest of us a bad name. As for walking down the midway, if you don't like smoke -- DON'T WALK BEHIND THE SMOKERS.

Second hand smoke, in the miniscule quantities that could be inhaled on an open-air midway do not harm health. Use some common sense, please. Second hand smoke is harmful (just as the smoke is) but not in open air. The ones at risk are the kids whose parents smoke in the house and car with the windows closed.

Really?

So you are an expert on the subject?

Acording to many reports that I have read on the effects of second hand smoke outdoors, they would all disagree with you.

Here is a report that confirms this, and they even did part of the study at an amusement park.

http://www.repace.com/pdf/outdoorair.pdf

And why should I have to dodge smokers all day? Like I said, if you feel the need to give yourself cancer, than do it in a designated smoking area that does not harm others.
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Jason Hammond said:

I'm suprised they didn't say anything about Villian. They were making a pretty big deal about it at the off-season ACE events.

What did they say?

While the government is at it (and since they've got so much spare time and money), they should go ahead and outlaw trans fats while they're at it. After all, the government must tell us what's good for us and what isn't, else we be left to suffer at the hands of our own decisions.

That argument is no different than the one posed by the fat people who sue McDonald's, or the trach-sporting victim who sues Philip Morris.
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^^^ - First, none of that experiment was conducted at an amusement park. It was all done at the University of Maryland.

Secondly, he used groups of smokers. His highest concentrations came from using several cigarettes at a time and from close distances. If you're standing within 5 feet of a group of smokers thats your own fault, not theirs.

Thats a ignorant response if I ever heard one. Its my own fault?

Silly me, what was I thinking going to a amusement park.

Are you saying that second hand smoke is "good" for you? Is it not the governments job to protect its people? Why do you think that cocaine and heroin(sp) are not legal?

While I do not like this current government(thats a whole other subject), There are certain things that they are doing to try and make this a safer and better place to be.
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