Main Midway Renovation

There's been alot of talk about Lighthouse Point but not much on the proposed changes to the Main Midway. Is there an artists rendering anywere to see exacly what they are doing? What other changes will there be besides a dancing fountain?? Does this mean the end for the waterball???

I'd love to see some renovation in the way of better drainage along the Main Midway and back by Calypso so the puddles aren't ankle deep after a storm!

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I am all about seeing new things at CP..... let your mind wonder until you visit the park!!

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I heard a rumor that 2000 was the last year for Fascination. If this is true I will raise the dead!

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daniel j. haverlock
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I highly doubt that. I worked there this year for a couple of weeks. That game makes the most money out of all of them. there are 40 tables, and if all 40 are full and each playing that is 25 cents a person. That's $10 a game, and the games don't last very long. They told us they did a complete overhaul on it last off season. we did have some games that didn't want to work, but overall we were always busy.

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John
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I hope that isn't true Dan. You got me hooked on that game this year!

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Brandon Sorc
Millennium Force count:67
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My mom always spent most of her time in Fascination (she HATES rides), and now my husband and I have become addicted! It's the perfect thing to do when you just want to rest your feet for a few minutes but still want to have fun. We keep saving our tickets every year!

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What my concern is the fate of the Waterball fountain. I wonder if it will be relocated to make room for this new dancing fountain?

A park without a waterball fountain, is like a park without Fascination (It shouldn't happen!)

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Neil
Pittsburgh, PA
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I hope they don't eliminate Fascination, but I do hope they renovate the look of that building. The neon and colored shapes are way too out of date!

i love the look of the fascination building!
The neon and colored shapes are one of the classic facades of the main midway. Hasn't CP lost enough of it's heritage?

I would prefer that they leave the Fascination building alone until they find a designer who has some good sense and good taste for designing amusement park buildings, Neon is a good thing. Hotels that look like hospitals (Breakers Tower) and retirement homes (Breakers Express) are not a good example for amusement park architecture. Am I the only person here who thinks the main gift shop next to Demon Drop is uninspired, uninteresting, and out of place particularly when compared with the other buildings along there?

Of course, what they really need to do is dress up the park side of the main entrance gate. I mean, think about it...all those people are coming through the gate, and the guerella photographers are standing there with their cameras to get group shots of people coming in for a fantastic day at Cedar Point. And what do they get for a background? A long, low building that has all the charm of a turnpike toll plaza. Even a sign across the top that says, "Thank you for visiting Cedar Point" would be an improvement!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Oooo, that's a great point, Dave. When my husband and I went to Sea World (OH), the "photo-op" scene was by a fountain with a Shamu statue in it -- very nice for the touristy thing. I hope, though, that CP wouldn't make it something Snoopy! While that's a great theme for the kids areas, the coasters and the beach are more what CP is about. Please don't read this as if I'm against children and families, that is far from my intention -- but there is no "Woodstock's Thriller" 300 foot multi-looper!

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Very good points Dave. Neon is a very good thing. CP needs to start building stuff that looks like it belongs with a 100+ year old amusement park and resort and kill the current bland industrial approach.

They need to put a new sign up at the begining of the Causway. I miss the old sign, it was cool to see, even if you were just in the area and not heading to Cedar Point.
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Park visitor since 1979

The Waterball fountain is a fond memory of all the fun I have had at Cedar Point! I can't imagine Cedar Point without it. I hope they put the other fountains somewhere else, maybe where one of the flower beds are now.

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*** This post was edited by coast on 11/3/2000. ***

Is anyone nostalgic about the old fountain, before the water ball? It was a traditional type fountain that had water jets that sprayed up and looked very nice. The water ball to me never was as nice as that old fountain. I think the dancing waters fountain will be a big improvement.

Dancing water fountain should be pretty neat. The water ball is nice to, but I love change. I love making NEW fond moments, plus it gives you something to say to your kids or what not 10 years from now. Yah I remember when the had this ball that shot out water.

Hasn't that fountain with the waterball in it been at Cedar Point since the 1960's?


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Pete, I was thinking the same thing. I always thought the waterball was a poor replacement for the original. There used to be a waterball just like CP's in front of the BankOne building here and when CP changed from the original to the ball, we thought it was too bad that CP decided to replace a fountain with a little personality with a plain stock one. I think the new one should be an improvement.