Where are the fountains?

I'm not a fan. We need more fountains, not just a replacement. Keep the current one we have right there, give it better lighting.

Want the interactive ones? I say put them more towards the back of the park, by the water rides.

They're replacing it because they hated that they had to donate the money that was thrown into it. :)

I hadn't even thought of that. The removal of the ball fountain will probably have a significant impact on their spare change donation fund.

ltparkmaster said:
The only bad thing is that there's going to be a small permanent building in the midway now that houses the controls and pumps.

Ralph Wiggum said:
My guess would be either the Custard stand or Sketch stand will go away for the pumps building.

Neither will go away.... After all the ball fountain had a pumping facility.... Located behind the food stands and roughly around the location of the first Raptor loop and the pumps exposed to open air. My guess will be that the same area still utilized and a small enclosure built which will have to take into account any necessary clearances needed for Raptor. I doubt much extra space will be needed as a computer as simple as your desktop is likely all that will be needed to control the music and effects synchronization and a few valve controllers.... I don't know much about fountains or this system, but it seems to be be a small basic footprint utilizing a couple of extra feet in addition to the already existing water pumps...

After watching the video, it actually looks really cool. That water goes pretty high though. Let's hope it doesn't hit the Sky Ride cars. lol

The thing is, if they were to move the ball fountain, where would it fit in? It kinda doesn't match any else besides the main midway.

The pump building in Venice is enclosed, about 10' by 6' the building is. Doesn't need to be very big.

These fountains can range from being to only a few inches off the ground to a good 12 feet up in the air. The fountain are very customizable. Venice went through several designs before coming up with the final arrangement. (Grandfather is on the City Board. Got to see the plans :) )

CPboy77 said:
After watching the video, it actually looks really cool. That water goes pretty high though. Let's hope it doesn't hit the Sky Ride cars. lol

It would never reach because SkyRide sits nearly 90 feet above the midway. Those jets at best would be no more that 20 feet tall.

ltparkmaster said:
The thing is, if they were to move the ball fountain, where would it fit in? It kinda doesn't match any else besides the main midway.

I personally would love to see it relocated to fill the giant void in the midway by Coasters restaurant... it would fit nicely there.

I personally would love to see it relocated to fill the giant void in the midway by Coasters restaurant... it would fit nicely there.

Then where will they put the UFO?

I think the best relocation for it would be on the BS midway.

You know, I think you have something there. That would be practically ideal.

They should have just put the new fountain in there (although Im sure they wanted the main midway exposure for the new toy). Out of the way without being too out of the way and increase traffic into that little pocket of the park.

If the fountains light up at night it would make a great picture with Dragster in the background.

So can employees go run through the new fountain to cool off on the extremely hot days of summer?

CPboy77 said:
I think the best relocation for it would be on the BS midway.

I have an even better idea. They should put some sort of new water feature over there, and theme it with half of a pirate ship. And while they're at it, a dark ride themed to match said ship couldn't hurt.

:)

I am bummed about them removing the fountain! I love to take a picture of my kids by it every year! I used to do that at Geauga Lake too and now its gone! I am for the new fountain, but why don't they put ot in the kiddie area? It would be nice to have several different ones in the park! Just a thought!

^^You mean like Pirate Ride? Oh how I wish...

Anyone know what year they got the ball foutain? It seems like its been there a long long time.

dj, sounds great. It's about time CP dipped its toe back into dark rides. They could use Halloween Productions, the company that built Ghostwood Estate at Kennywood. That would be a delightful way to reinvigorate that area of the park. If they ever did something like that, I would probably just power-run back and forth from BS to the dark ride all day long.

P.S. I knew you were referring to the old Pirate Ride, though when I re-read my post it wasn't clear.

Ensign Smith said:
Even my very own municipality of Cuyahoga Falls has a seasonal fountain area like that.

I, also, live in Cuyahoga Falls, but this fountain does not have heavy traffic of kids running through it all the time. The most you you'd see is maybe 10 kids on a hot day running through it or maybe a little more if there is Rockin' on the River going on downtown.

I agree with Ralph, I can't see CP maintaining the fountain for very long.

Cuyahoga Falls isn't big enough to have two enthusiasts. You're skewing all the statistics. One of us has to leave. ;)