Mean streak is not closing in July

They do have a third park........ Wildwater Kingdom ;)

But seriously, I could see them doing something along the lines of a partnership with another attraction, opposed to a "third park".

But I've always thought that Soak City and CP should be one park.

Although it has been gutted, there are 3 parks on property. You are forgetting Challenge Park. :-)

Perhaps they could change the name of Challenge Park to Geauga Lake?

^ dub tea fug?

If that new sports complex wasn't being built on the former Sandusky Airport, it would've been the perfect place to relocate and expand Challenge Park with a resort hotel. A ferry boat service could've been run between the new Challenge Park and CP.

I don't know if that would pay out. CP isn't like disney where the entire area is full of tourists.

Augustmueller said:
^ dub tea fug?

I'm sorry, I don't speak that language. English translation please?

vwhoward said:

Augustmueller said:
^ dub tea fug?

I'm sorry, I don't speak that language. English translation please?

Double U, Tee, F...

Cedar Point GCI said:
I don't know if that would pay out. CP isn't like disney where the entire area is full of tourists.

It always cracks me up when someone states that but for Cedar Point no one would ever come to Lake Erie. The area was busy with tourists even back when CP was crap and still would be, regardless. It's seasonal, but in the summer it sure gets busy and not all of it is Cedar Point's fault.
Sandusky, Huron, Vermillion, the Islands, Marblehead, Port Clinton, etc.

I wouldn't exactly call pre-KInzel cedar point "crap", but I get your point.

Not to change the subject, but has there been any more markings, flags, paint marks, or blueprints in the trash can (some of you will remember that one) since last month that started all this excitement? Or are we still at the same point we were around the beginning of June?

Rode Mean Streak two days ago and saw nothing new.

I saw something orange that I'm pretty sure was a ladder by the path to get to Eden Musee, but I doubt that's anything of importance.

CPNostalgia said:

I wouldn't exactly call pre-KInzel cedar point "crap", but I get your point.

I believe that MAC is referring to the pre George Roose-Emil LeGross CP.

Yessir, yes I was. Messrs. Roose and Legross rescued Cedar Point from the slum it had become through the 40's and 50's. The midway was old and decrepit, access and parking weren't good, boating was not a convenient option, and the hotel was an embarrassment.
We can forever thank them for their vision and desire to save the place from demolition and turn Cedar Point into a nice place that would once again draw tourists. Which by the way, were already coming to the area. There's no doubt that Cedar Point's resurgence gives a huge boost to the region's seasonal population, but the area was and would still be busy with vacationers whether CP as we know it was there or not.

Weren't Roose and Legross's original plans to build a housing development of some sort? It's kind of ironic that they saved the park despite their original plans having been to destroy it if I remember right. It's been a while since I read the book.

Actually it was Mr. Roose's original intent. It was a very desirable location for redevelopment, but there was such a stink raised about razing the old resort that the state of Ohio got involved, threatening to use eminent domain to take over the property and turn it into a state park. That's when he backed off the housing plan and began taking note of the amusement business, especially Disneyland. This is when he convinced Emil LeGross to buy into it. The rest, as they say, is history

RCMAC said:

Cedar Point GCI said:
I don't know if that would pay out. CP isn't like disney where the entire area is full of tourists.

It always cracks me up when someone states that but for Cedar Point no one would ever come to Lake Erie. The area was busy with tourists even back when CP was crap and still would be, regardless. It's seasonal, but in the summer it sure gets busy and not all of it is Cedar Point's fault.
Sandusky, Huron, Vermillion, the Islands, Marblehead, Port Clinton, etc.

The town of sandusky seems like a ghost town besides all of the cheap motels and the areas by Kalarahi. People don't come to Sandusky for a week long vacation like a lot of families do in Orlando. That was my main point. I do agree that Lake Erie has lots of tourists, but its usually for a day or weekend trip unlike Orlando.

Given that six months of the year the region is cold, and for three months or more of that total bitterly so, it's very likely this will always be the case. On the plus side, we get very few alligators up this way.

That's just not true. There's condos, resorts, cottages, campgrounds, and miles of boat houses and marinas, and they aren't for day trippers. There's plenty of people who come to the area for a week or more, and not everyone goes to Cedar Point. I know this. I was born there and I have lived there.

The Lake Erie Shores and Islands Vacation, Convention, and Visitors Bureau would disagree with you as well. Sandusky is not Orlando, true, but neither is any other place on earth. It's a small town in 419 that largely makes its mark in the state of Ohio with its tourism industry. It's the center of an area that draws nearly 7 million people a season. With 3.5 going to Cedar Point (most of those, by the way, are single day visitors) the other 3.5 have to be doing something else somewhere else.

Once again, this fanboy perception of the world revolving around Cedar Point is so narrow. If your idea of a ghost town is 70,000 people in the metro area that live there year round, many of them with jobs, then I don't know what to say, except that you live in Cleveland, so yeah.