They changed the ski show a lot till the park closed.

Carmine Crincoli Until they empty the tanks of the huge trainable whales and dolphins, people will stop coming and they will bleed $. The model is outdated. A true conservation/ocean park like Disney Animal Kingdom/TokyoSea with thrill rides would be great.

The park was successful for thirty years. It was combining both parks together that proved to be the downfall for the mega-park along with poor management by Six Flags. AB did I invest in the park as best they could adding the 4D Theater, Shark Encounter, Dolphin Cove, and Patagonia Passage. Yes, they also added Mission Bermuda Triangle, but that was during the final season as Sea World and could be rethemed with a new film in later years. It actually did get a new theme under Cedar Fair as Dino Island. Six Flags buying and merging the park is what ultimately doomed it. Both parks used to pull in just about a million visitors a year before the merger. Six Flags actually thought that they could pull in 2-3 million by merging the parks. Ironically, the merged park pulled in just over a million per year in attendance. People tried to do everything in one day as Oporto multiple days. Bleeding cash, Six Flags sold the park to Cedar Fair who immediately closed the Wildlife Side (former Sea World) hurting attendance immediately. They transformed much of Sea World into a water park, but it didn’t help. They shutdown Geauga Lake in 2007, and Wildwater Kingdom event closed in 2016. Corporate mismanagement and greed killed both successful parks. The biggest wrong that Anheuser Busch did was sell the park to Six Flags. They did invest in the park, just not with rides as they weren’t permitted to with their lease with Geauga Lake.

@@davehahner5344 The minute Cedar Fair bought it, it was doomed. Being just 2 hours apart, it was too close to Cedar Point for Cedar Fair to actually want it to survive. I had hoped that they would put the focus back on the sea park aspect and make it something completely different from Cedar Point. But then, that was also about the time that Sea World started getting into trouble with the killer whales and the whole societal shift about keeping animals in tanks. It's just sad all the way around. I loved Geauga Lake.

I went to Worlds of Adventure. Truly a magnificent park

Saw you again

And soon to become a standard housing development

I think the idea was to offer something closer to home for people in the midwest and northeast that could be driven to for a holiday weekend. Not everyone can afford to take a huge long trip to Cali/Florida every year.

Ohio has a big population and a large Middle class. Why do you think there are 2 big amusement parks in the state?

@@Coolsomeone234 Agreed, two huge amusement parks. ...it's the whole "Ocean" thing that I'm wondering about. I'm originally from MN and Ohio's winters aren't much better. You'd need a sub-tropical environment not to mention direct access to an ocean to stick to the Sea World mission of marine rescue and rehabilitation.

I heard the same thing

yes

SeaWorld also has to pay Inbev to use the Busch name for the two parks and I feel that would be a better way to cut some costs before removing animals (Maybe its not that bad or they have no idea how to rebrand them-they could use their old titles, The Old Country and The Dark Continent for inspiration even though I don't know how many people will get it [which is probably another reason why they are still paying InBev to use the name])

I feel that I could go on a tangent, but I think I got the basics out

Cheers for that Josh. I’ve sent it onto Luke and it will be reflected in his yearly review. - Dom

@@ReviewTyme I used to get confused too till I realized that to laud someone is to congratulate them on something that you would appLAUD

I hate to say this to you but Seaworld is in a shit load of finical trouble

NightIsRight I want those SeaWorld parks to happen when SeaWorld gets out of financial trouble!

@@nightisright1873 not when seaworld has less parks and is making more money per park than cedar fair and six flags. additionally, seaworld parks are beautifully landscaped and themed and non of SF or CF's parks can compete. also the average attendance per seaworld park eats up sf and cf's averages by over a million. on top of all this, seaworld has HALF the debt CF and SF have by a whole BILLION! seaworld is a WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY better experience than Six Flags or Cedar Fair and as a company is doing a lot better with 2 new parks ready to open in the next two years.

@@carminecdinoproductions what financial trouble? the company has a billion less debt than Six Flags and Cedar Fair and is opening Sesame Place San Diego next year and SeaWorld Abu Dhabi in 2022. also the company is turning a $50M+ profit yearly-a profit larger than SF & CF. but i agree, seaworld should wait to open new parks.

They still abuse their animals so much I doubt they would build new ones because their reputation is so bad right now

Your mom had her bachelorette party at sea world?

Yup! I am descended from very cool people She was working at Geauga Lake at the time

Not really. SeaWorld Ohio doesn’t have much of a story like it’s neighbor.

Sure it does. There are at least 2 other videos that go much further into detail, and the story behind it. This barely scratched the surface.

Hey Michael, are you able to point me in the direction of these videos? One of the reasons I focused purely on Sea World Ohio not the entire Geauga Lake property is because most videos on the topic focus a lot more on Geauga Lake/ Worlds of Fun and gloss over Sea World Ohio. Whilst I will focus on the larger property in a later video this video was designed to purely be about Sea World and their demise came about in 2000 due to the property being bought out by Six Flags, a lot of the more juicier stuff happens when Six Flags sells the property to Cedar Point, which will be tackled in a future video. - Luke

Actually, I found them right here on KZfaq. I found them interesting, because I grew up in central Ohio. I always wanted to go to Sea World and Geauga Lake, but my parents never took us, and by the time time they closed, I had moved away from Ohio. I found them watching similar videos, and those ended up in the queue. I didn't search them out.

It means exactly what I said, nimrod. The videos are ON KZfaq. I don't have them saved. IF you want to see them, I suspect they're easy enough to find, even for a nimrod.