Some coaster Shows make me mad

Why does it seem when ever I turn on something about amusement parks, roller coasters or rides it seem that the only Amusement parks in the US are, Six Flags, Busch Gardens and anything owned by Paramount. I look at these shows and they SHOW Cedar Point rides, because of course they are impressive to look at but not to many times do they talk about Cedar Point. If I am not mistaken Magnum is number 1 (yeah I know Millennium Force is 1 but wait untill the golden ticket thing). Why does it seem the roller coaster shows go on rides like "Desparado" and proclaim that it is the best. I was watching a show on MSNBC. I know this show was recently made because they covered the roller coaster "Project Stealth." Why not Millennium Force? It seems only a few show actual cover the PO!NT like they do every other park. Sad

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yeah kinda like rating T-bolt above magnum on that top 10 coaster show.

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That's a good question. Perhaps it is because those other companies are so big that the show producers figure more people will be able to relate to the names Six Flags, Busch Gardens, Paramount, etc.

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Maybe because show producers think it's more fun to go to Las Vegas and California then to northern Ohio.

-- Harley

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CP fan since 68.

I may stand alone in this thinking, but I feel Thunderbolt deserves the #1 rating. Yes Magnum is a very special roller coaster, but I think it was rated #2 because the voters felt that there were so many coasters just like Magnum. Thunderbolt is a great coaster that has never been copied.
Just a thought....

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I have seen fair treatment for the CP coasters that deserve it (Magnum and Raptor). Besides, even I'll be the first to admint that Cedar Point is not the center of the universe (but it's pretty close).

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Jeff
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Not to say that Cedar Point is the center of the universe. It seems to me though that the shows more oftenly go to other parks (with the exception of the discovery channel). Sometimes the coasters are seen but not mentioned.

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I have always felt that those Discovery Channel shows show A LOT of Cedar Point footage.
Along those lines -- Pick up any Roller Coaster book and Cedar Point is featured prominently
inside -- usually more than any of the "corporate" parks.

Cedar Point not the center of the Universe..... I rank CP right up there next to the all powerful and mighty GOD, I look at it tgis way.... if Jesus is on the right hand of the Father then CP must be on the left...... LOL

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"Amuesment Parks,Persuit of Fun"had a few things about Cedar Point but not enough.All they had was Magnum,Meanstreak,Raptor and Iron Dragon.Does anybody know when the 2000 list of top 10 coasters is going to be on?

And about the MSNCS stealth thing remember that this was a old dateline segment when stealth opened a few months ago so MF was not open yet.

I always thought CP was represented well, more than PKI. In fact, and I don't remember the name of the special on cable, but CP was in about half of the hour-long show.

Plus the first tape of 3-D coaster thrills represents Magnum, Mean Streak and Raptor. No other park had three coasters represented.

CP may be represented well, but it never got its own 2 part Brady Bunch episode.

-- Harley

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CP fan since 68.

I was playing around on the Roller Coaster Database site and whenever I brought up a "top 10" list, CP was the highest non-corporate park! I like that fact that CP, for the most part, keeps massive large-scale corporate advertising out of the park! *** This post was edited by Jmstuckman on 5/16/2000. ***

Thats why I said Coaster SHOWS, television, I also said the exception of Discovery Channel

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Please don't think that CP is not a corporate park because it is. And don't think that there isn't advertising in the park. For example, Pepsi logos are all over Coasters and Snake River Falls and don't forget the Summer Spectacular is/was sponsored by Meijer. Plus I'm sure FirstEnergy has their hands in something as well.

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Scott W. Short
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First Energy is this year's sponsor of the Summer Spectacular. Huggies and Meijer sponsor "Splash!" (The Diving Show).

By corporate park, all I meant was it wasn't really a "chain" park that gets the same rides with the same name as all the other parks in it's "chain."
I also meant that since it doesn't have a big movie studio backing it, it might not get as much attention and be as prominent as the other parks (which I think it gets a fair amount of attention, without the Paramount/Disney/Universal name)