When do you mean? You mean back in '96 when Premier bought Geauga Lake, Darien Lake, and Wyandot Lake and FunTime became part of Premier? That's right...the newest and biggest of the Six Flags conversions was the third park that Premier Parks bought, long before Premier bought Six Flags. Back then, the best information I had was that FunTime was holding its own, able to profitably run the park, but without the capital improvement budget of, say, Cedar Point. So if Premier hadn't bought it back then, I'd say they'd still be around and doing a thriving business.
Of course, then Premier bought Six Flags and did the big conversion. I question whether Geauga Lake is in better shape now that it's a Six Flags park, or if it was better when Six Flags and Premier Parks had nothing to do with one another...!
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
Geauga Lake was doing just fine. The weekends were always packed.
