The Blog is Gone?

For sure.......for sure....:(

It's a shame that it's gone. They had some really good updates on there. But I have noticed in the past few months, the lack of updates. I had a feeling that the blog was in trouble.

They seemed to be posting more on facebook, than on the blog.

Oh well, I hope they can bring the blog back some day.

Pikajane said:
Aw I miss the blog! The Cedar Point page seems empty without it =(

Much less reason to visit CP's website very often. Blogs such as On Point and personalities like Tony really get the public to connect with the park and give it a more human feel than just a faceless corporation. I'm really surprised the park isn't keeping the blog and that they didn't announce some type of transition to a person who will take over. Plus, I believe Tony did a lot of video work for the electronic entrance sign and other video played in the park. Tony was the perfect spokesman for CP as he was positioned to really make the park personal and friendly to a lot of people. That type of great PR takes while to create and I can't believe CP is just walking away from that.

It's bizarre how something that only five months ago would have been so unthinkable as to warrant its own April Fools joke now is reality.

I think it was a "hits" thing. They saw that have a lot more people following Facebook then looking at OnPoint! At least that is what I think of the situation.

Social Media isn't an "either-or" though. Each forum complements the others.

Bring back the blog!

I wish that I could at least scan through the old blog posts. I liked, during the offseason, to go through and look at what the park was doing at the same date the year or two (or three/four/five) before that.

I sure hope we aren't losing the PointCasts and more POVs as well.

Speaking of videos, there goes all those promised high def povs of ALL the rides at CP. ;)

Kyle2154 said:
I wish that I could at least scan through the old blog posts.

I also liked being able to link to one blog post in particular any time someone started blathering about the origins of "12E" on Disaster Transport. :) I even cited it on the Wikipedia page.

^^And the super cool ones in reverse! :(

I was hoping for a Wicked Twister pov. Well atleast we got this! :)

Hey now, do not dis the Rubmeister...

I've got $5 on a new "OnPoint" tombstone at Halloweekends this year...

I'll take odds against Jack Falfas...

The OnPoint blog was the only reason I ever visited the CP site. I never even check their FB because it's a bunch of stupid "buy a season pass!" "Here's a deal we've told you about 400 times!" posts. Not to mention the idiotic things people post on there. *sigh*

OnPoint had MEAT. I'm completely over this 140 character blurb nonsense.

Reading the blog in the off-season got me pumped up enough to book trips to the point on two different occasions. That's something FB will never get me to do.

I'm really missing the blog lately. Halloweekends was full of updates and cool pictures of the haunts and changing of the park. I really wish Cedar Point would reconsider having the blog.

I haven't been to the website in weeks. There is no community there now to connect with. The blog offered that community feeling that kept me returning daily to check for updates. I'll visit the website when I am going to visit, but that is it.

Anyone else feel like Tony won't be replaced and that leaving CP might not have totally been his idea. Maybe (hopefully) he saw the writing on the wall and got out before he was asked to leave.

We all must move on to greater things in life. Let's just leave it at that.

ibikeiswimirun said:
Anyone else feel like Tony won't be replaced and that leaving CP might not have totally been his idea. Maybe (hopefully) he saw the writing on the wall and got out before he was asked to leave.

Just so you know, the decision to leave was mine and not anyone else's. There are always reasons to make career-changing choices and I have mine, but there was no "writing on the wall," so to speak.

Besides, the office is probably a LOT quieter with me gone. :)