Owner hopes that public stock offering will save Conneaut Lake Park

That's going to take a lot of money to fix their debt problem.

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"Duff Man Says... Ohhhhh Yaaaaa!"
Current Favorite Coasters:
1)Raging Bull 2)Millennium Force 3)Medusa (SFMW) 4)Vertical Velocity (SFGAm) 5)Dueling Dragons (Ice)

Hope everything works out!

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My favorite Coaster is named after Poop, and I actually like Boomerangs! What is wrong with me?

So do I.

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"We hope you enjoyed your ride on Top Gun. Please exit to your left and we hope you enjoy the rest of your day here at Paramount's Kings Island."

Sounds to me like some much-needed help has arrived in the form of Brill. If they get the legal situations straightened out without taking the park down, I think they'll stand a decent chance. I'd love to buy some stock if/when they get those messes cleaned up. A new ride, some advertising, and local support can go a long way!

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rollergator - intent on improving the "guest experience" - coming soon to a park near you

I love that old park. Lots of good memories!! I hope things work out!

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www.beatniktimes.com (Western, PA at it's best!

Roll-O-Plane Rules!!!

I was there last week with some friends. The Blue Streak is a great coaster and the Ultimate Trip is probably the best scrambler I've ever been on. The gum on Devil's Den was disgusting and I was miffed that the train broke for the day, but otherwise it was a nice historic park in the tradition of many Pennsylvanian parks like Knoebels, Kennywood, and Waldameer.

OMG.........my first (and perhaps last) trip was in June. I loved Blue Streak. I mean loved it. It really put some inspiration into one of my current coaster models. And that indoor scrambler!! Plus a great yo yo, roll-o-plane, twister, and polo shirt!
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Thanks for riding Tidal Wave and enjoy your day here at Marriott's Great America!!
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Isn't the park owned by the town? Then how could they go down? Use taxes to keep it alive.
Edit: as for the hotel, couldn't they lease it to a company like Best Western? Income with no expense.

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Rollercoasters are the secret of life!

http://www.woodencoaster.com *** This post was edited by bigkirby on 8/13/2001. ***

I think every coaster enthusiast who reads this must visit that park if possible, that indoor scrambler and Blue Streak make the trip worth it and I'd hate to see it closed down.

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Join CRAMB (Coaster Rider's Against Markey's Bill) today.

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With Conneaut Lake as my home park, and all of the memories I have there, I'd truely hate to see this park go down. I go anymore, and everything is a virtual walk on, back about 10 years or so ago it was really flourishing, it was difficult to find a parking space, now I park in the front... on a Saturday. The park has already closed down for a year or two, when it opened back up they offered free admission to the park.

I'd give my right arm to save Conneaut.

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AIM: Pritti Kittie

Idora... Always in memories

I am willing to bet that ACE will do something very big with the park. This is only valid in PA and ACE is very big in PA as most people already know. Since this is the case and the President of ACE (as far as I know) lives in PA, I think that ACE will take a big part of this stock offering and possibly save the park from dying. The park is worth saving, too bad I do not live in PA anymore.

ACE doesn't have money to save parks. The whole club has to operate off of $50 memberships. That's a quarter-million budget, and I wouldn't be surprised if most of that is spent on publications.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"From the global village... in the age of communication!"

If ACE can raise enough money to save Leap the Dips, im sure they will do something to save this great park!

The inverstors that they want are to be limited only to the Penn. area. As mush as i would love to help, I don't think they would allow it.

Jeez, they spent $60,000 just to "fix" the Ranger when they could have "bought" some older popular rides like a Rock-o-Plane and an old Zipper for that much.......

Note: The Ranger is coming down, from what a maintainence guy had told me.
And they are looking at a new Sky Wheel which I personally dissapprove of due to its cost and capacity

Sign me up, I'll take a chance!

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Not All Coasters are Created Equally