Geauga Lake Going to Close?

I think they have instore Wildwater kingdom and that's it

Semi-confirmed? What does thae even mean. Who semi-confirmed it?

It means it was mentioned on Screamscape and his post.

Nevermind. If I had made my first stop today at Coasterbuzz rather than pointbuzz, I would have known.

No one answerd my question,

Can anyone please tell me why they closed the Old Water Park at GL?? Besides (they wanted to build the new water park)

^I believe that all changed when Six Flags aquired the Seaworld park. While in it's brief stint as WOA- the animal attractions drew the crowds. Then when CF bought the park out- they had no interest in running an animal park, and instead demolished the stadiums and installed a newly expanded waterpark.

Hmmm- Dark Days ahead indeed... I never want to see a park close, but with CF's aggressive ride rotation, GL is looking like a yard sale. If plans are confirmed to sell the land- I hope they at least keep the waterpark going. Seems like a waste of money, to invest all that they did to change over Seaworld to the current waterpark.

"Semi-confirmed" is the equivalent of "kind of pregnant."

There are plenty of stand alone waterparks out there and I think there is a market in northeast Ohio for one. If that is the route they are going I would be disappointed as an old Geauga Lake fan and employee but it wouldn't be devastating.

Well to me if they do decide to send Dominator and Thunder Hawk to Michigan Adventure and Kings Dominion, they pretty much are getting ready to sell the ride side because no one is going to want to go there anymore except for the water park side.

But the rides they are removing are all part of Six Flags' Folley. So the ride-side is going back to what it was pre-SF Expansion. The park seemed to do quite well before Six Flags muddied it up.

The negative to this is also that before Six Flags destroyed the park, there was a Sea World. That was a huge draw, and something that CF doesn't have as a tool for drawing people in. I think that is the bigger loss, not the removal of some rides that had no business being installed in the first place.

What I don't get is, why are they tearing down rides, when they could be tearing down the old waterpark!

Because the old water park does not cost money.

The rides cost money to operate.

Thanks for the semi answer minerider,

This topic really gets to me though, I kinda see what C.F is trying to do. Maybe they wanna get rid of the S.F trash and put in new coasters of their own. If that is what could happen i think a good plan would be to build a similer ride to the effects of Maverick and M.Force, combine the two rides. now that would be a treat! But very dobtfull.......

If they thought the rides they were removing were trash, they wouldn't be installing them in other Cedar Fair owned parks. They'd be disposing of them - like you do with trash.

The rides are not "trash", they are equity. They have value and substance. They just, unfortunately, do not fit the mold of what managment wants GL to look like when it's all said and done. By moving these coasters to other parks, they make their sister parks more profitable. All parks have to offer a new attraction each year, or the customers may loose interest and not return- or worse, go spend their money at a compteting park.

As to why they would remove Mr. Hyde's Nasty Fall, and X-Flight and re-landscape those areas as to look as if nothing were ever there, but let the old waterpark rot away- is anyone's guess? (sorry for the run-on)

Okay, here's a supposition. Mr. Hyde's Nasty Fall was removed before CF realized what a money black hole the park had become, so they were still in a phase of pumping dollars into the place as needed. Hence the nicely landscaped Central Park area.

The old waterpark -- or part of it, anyway -- was still operating until they got the new wave built on the other side of the lake. By this point, Kinzel and Spehn were beginning to understand the nature of the problem they had inherited. They dried up virtually all investment funds; the old waterpark was left to rot.

That brings us to last off-season, when X-Flight was removed. By now Dick and Bill really saw how bad the bottom line was, and if there were any way possible that they could have left X-Flight's footprint fester as an abandoned construction site, they surely would have. Unfortunately, the coaster occupied too prominent a place, sitting as it did right next to the park entrance. Even a stockade fence wouldn't cut it there. So reluctantly, through gritted teeth, they had the site graded and seeded -- but nothing else. Notice there are no trees or shrubs planted in that area, just grass with a couple electrical boxes sticking out and looking butt ugly.

Again, all supposition.

I'm sorry i did not mean the rides them selves were trash. Dont get me wrong Dominator is a great ride. i could ride that over and over all day long. Thunder Hawk is also a great ride. So what i ment was
Six Flags did not know what they were doing and now Cedar Fair is just removing the rides that dont fit in anymore. The thing i still dont understand is why let the old water park rot when they could reopen it and have one big water park.
If they want to go the water park way. Why not remove all the rides. Close the park for a year and build a masive water park???

I would imagine the answer to that is, that Cedar Fair does not want Geauga Lake to compete with Soak City. Soak City is a seperate gate and kind of a stand alone. I already prefer Geauga Lake to Soak City, and if Geauga Lake became the water park that it could be, there would be little reason to go to outdated Soak City. Except for the fact that it is closer.

Geauga Lake will be better off at going more water park than ride park.

They could turn Geauga Lake into this: http://www.schlitterbahn.com/

And get rid of most of the rides. (notice I didnt say all)

They could just be a water park and thats it. Then CP could get rid of Soak City and build Coasters and Flats over there. Then if people wanted to go to the biggest water park in the Mid west they could go to GL if they wanted HUGE coasters and thrill rides they could go to CP. That way they wouldnt really compete with each other because they are 2 different types of parks.