Geauga Lake's Big Dipper for sale on eBay

I know.

The internet is supposed to breakdown barriers, but all it seems to do is provide brick walls to bash your head against.

Cedar Fair would have given it away to someone with a plan. I said before as well... organizations had that opportunity.

Exactly Jeff. Organizations were interested. It's just that none of the ones interested had the means to do anything about it.

ACE, which I would venture a guess would have the most ability of any coaster enthusiast club. And they only have about $100K or so raised from years and years of members' donations set aside for Preservation efforts. I forget the exact number. It's been a few months since I saw the annual financial report. $100K wouldn't go very far in this situation. Even if it would, that would completely deplete the fund for one project.

I wouldn't expect ACE to pay for it themselves, but I find it very hard to believe that an organization with that many members, particularly in the Cleveland metro, couldn't talk to the right people to get some kind of development deal on the table somewhere. I mean, the ex-president is a flipping architect.

Actually, there's some interesting gossip around all of that, but being hearsay and innuendo, is probably not worth repeating.

Having contacts and knowing people is one thing. Having those people be willing and able to purchase the land, finance and develop a project is a whole other. Especially in the financial climate of the past 3 years. Cedar Fair hasn't been able to find any buyers for a property that supposedly had developers salivating and would attract corporations from all across the country. I'm sure their people know a lot of the right people too.