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Embers23 Beaver Land Mine Ride User is Offline Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 44	Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:05 pm    Post subject: CLOSING DOWN FOR GOOD! · Quote Just saw Channel 8 news/ FOX 8. They reported Geauga Lake being "shut down" for good, all rides to be dismantled. Waterpark staying open!
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Skyglider Big Dipper User is Offline Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 812	Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:07 pm    Post subject: Re: CLOSING DOWN FOR GOOD! · Quote Embers23 wrote: Just saw Channel 8 news/ FOX 8. They reported Geauga Lake being "shut down" for good, all rides to be dismantled. Waterpark staying open! A very sad day.  Here is the link: http://www.myfoxcleveland.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=4424626&version=2&locale=EN-US&layou tCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1
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MikeJames6 Splash Landing User is Offline Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 174	Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:31 pm    Post subject: · Quote What a shock(NOT) First off I would like to thank Dick Kinzel for destroying the park.  Bill Spehn you have lost all of my respect.  I hope Cedar Point and Kings Island fall flat on its face. I can assure you that I will NEVER AGAIN step foot into another Cedar Fair owned park.  Cedar Point you can keep that overpriced park.  Dick Kinzel you set out the goal that you had all along and that was to destroy Geauga Lake.  We all know the attendance was up this year and that the park was on its way back.  Do you think we were too stupid to figure this out?  Great another condo development area.  All that history flushed down the toilet thanks to Kinzel.  Where is the Big Dipper going to go too?  I am so furious right now!
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Alex Liquid Lightning User is Offline Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 988	Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:31 pm    Post subject: · Quote How are you happy about the waterpark staying open. At this point they should just take that down to, because no more than 300,000 will show up next year. _________________ TOP 5 FAVORITE RIDES: 1.Maverick. 2. BATMAN KNIGHT FLIGHT( forever at SFWOA). 3.X-flight( forever at SFWOA). 4. Millenuem Force. 5. Phantoms reveng
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Embers23 Beaver Land Mine Ride User is Offline Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 44	Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:36 pm    Post subject: · Quote I'm just surprised the waterpark is staying open. Why are they going to destroy all the history and build condos? Stupid Stupid
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thunderop Beaver Land Mine Ride User is Offline Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 51	Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:39 pm    Post subject: · Quote MikeJames6 wrote: Bill Spehn you have lost all of my respect. Please tell me what you'd like Bill to do? CEO > VP, GM CEO gives orders, Vice President, General Manager follows them. That's how life works. _________________ 2008 - Cedar Point - Raptor - Crew Member 2007 - Thunderhawk - Crew Member
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MikeJames6 Splash Landing User is Offline Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 174	Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:46 pm    Post subject: · Quote I would have liked for Bill Spehn to have actually stood up to Dick Kinzel and show him that the park could be profitable if things were done the right way.  But instead Bill wanted to be a yes man and just go along for sake of his job.  I suppose Bill can be emperor of a few water slides and a wave pool now.  Good job Bill!  After next year that will be closed down due to low attendance and all that other usual nonsense.  Maybe now they will bring the Shark Attack waterslides over to WWK.  How sad. How very sad this all is 9/21/07--- The day Geauga Lake died.
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Alex Liquid Lightning User is Offline Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 988	Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:18 pm    Post subject: · Quote I'm now in tears thinking about the good years with SF. It's sad litterally. CF IS WORTHLESS. _________________ TOP 5 FAVORITE RIDES: 1.Maverick. 2. BATMAN KNIGHT FLIGHT( forever at SFWOA). 3.X-flight( forever at SFWOA). 4. Millenuem Force. 5. Phantoms reveng
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coasterdad1971 Splash Landing User is Offline Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 124	Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:47 pm    Post subject: Goodbye Geauga Lake · Quote I agree, there is nothing Bill Spehn can do.  This was entirely "The Dick's" doing.  I love how they claim there isn't the market for this type of park.  What crap.  They did nothing in 4 years to improve that side of the park.
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ChrisC Raging Wolf Bobs User is Offline Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 409	Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:56 pm    Post subject: · Quote According to the press release at cedar fairs website it sounded like they won't even expand the water park for 08...
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coasterdad Site Admin User is Offline Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 1675	Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:19 pm    Post subject: · Quote ChrisC wrote: According to the press release at cedar fairs website it sounded like they won't even expand the water park for 08... Yeah - no expansion and the same price as with the rides?!! Good luck! Dick - you have no idea what you are in for do you? Are you really that stupid? _________________ Greed is what caused GL's demise and that just makes me sick. Lets do what we can to rat out Kinzel - hes a snake. In the end the truth will come out and we will then see whos laughing at who.
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starscream Beaver Land Mine Ride User is Offline Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 9	Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:20 pm    Post subject: Ride side to close · Quote Again, don't let the important people who pay their ridiculous salaries mean anything.  After all, that is the American way!  If I were you all,  and I think you will, boycott the whole damn thing!  WWK will never survive.  I dunno, seems like such a waste.  Tradition and values just don't mean a thing anymore.  Trust me, they will feel it hard in their wallets next year.  Very sad day.  At least they can't sell my memories.
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ChrisC Raging Wolf Bobs User is Offline Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 409	Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:36 pm    Post subject: · Quote I'm not boycotting! Hell I love amusement park too much to do that.
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Gunkey Monkey Site Admin User is Offline Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 869 Location: Cleveland, Ohio	Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:57 pm    Post subject: · Quote ^There sure is a HELL of a lot more parks that are not in the CF chain to visit. Since I'm planning on hitting Darien Lake tomorrow, I'll see what a season pass is for that park.  I need to get away after all this disasterous news.
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Goccvp1 Beaver Land Mine Ride User is Offline Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 5 Location: Struthers Ohio	Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:32 pm    Post subject: · Quote Word on the street is that Clevelanders are viewing Dick Kinzel the same as Art Model, as he took away Cleveland's last amusement park.
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