Extremely landlocked?!!? Smaller park?!!? Geauga Lake was once the largest amusement park in the world.

When we were kids we went to all of them in the same summer like every year. Cedar Point, Geauga Lake, Sea World and Kennywood. But that is because we were from NE Ohio. So sad that my childhood favorites cant be shared with my kids.

Hindsight... The problem was always lack of hotel life around the park. The last coaster built was 25 million spent, they could have built a resort on property and made it a multi day destination like a discount disney.

lets bring it back.....

The parking lot was always packed at geauga lake.

Six flags added 4 coasters in 2000. Batman Knight Flight (B&M floorless, Renamed Dominator, now at kings Dominion) Villain (CCI Wooden Coaster, demolished in 2007) Superman Escape (Intamin Launch, Renaimed Possessed, now At Dorney Park) Roadrunner Express (Zierre kiddie coaster, renamed ‘Roller Coaster’, now At France’s Papea Parc)

Six Flags had plans to add a hyper here

Randy West My Childhood at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio USA 🇺🇲 1980's / 1990's & Randy West Miss it's Forever EST. 1887-2007.

My alternate history would be SF accepts Seaworld’s offer in 2001. Based on that, X Flight never got built, and I’ll give that coaster to Michigan’s Adventure (Paramount was in a deal with Verona, and they backed out since the coaster that is now Nighthawk was then at Paramount’s Great America and it was plagued with problems, so paramount backed out. But the next model, intended for Kings Island, was already manufactured. At the time, Michigan’s Adventure was family owned and it had been 4 years since their last coaster, Shivering Timbers, and they could get a new coaster at a cheap price). With Seaworld running Geauga Lake, Shikra got sent to Geauga Lake instead of Busch Gardens Tampa (they still got a dive coaster the next year, and Williamsburg got one the next season. And with the proximity to Cedar Point, Valravn never got built).

I read that a fire burned down their beautiful roller rink!!!! To make the park complete they should build a new beautiful Roller Rink - complete with a new Hammond organ!!!! Now that would be so cool!!!!!

What do you mean Geauga Lake was one of their smaller parks? Geauga Lake was the Largest Amusement park in the world when they bought and added Sea World to the complex at 700 plus acres. They were also the Largest water slide complex in North America in 2003. Land locked? There was plenty of land to build on, part of the property wasn't even used as part of the park, but the park did own the land. So even more expansion could have been done if they developed the unused land.

R.I.P. Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio USA 🇺🇲 EST. 1887-2007.

It's very sad that one of the most well known parks ever was suddenly demolished! Very very sad.

Six Flags Worlds of Adventure was the largest theme park when it reopened as such in 2001 with the Seaworld Park. It wouldn't have been landlocked. They had tons of room for expansion to the north of the park that wrapped around the whole parking lot. Plus there was some land to the south of the Seaworld side and there was a fairly sizable piece of land in between the Wolf Bobs and the Seaworld side. What I would have seen happening is Six Flags buying the parcel of land across Aurora Road/HWY 43 and building a hotel due to the lack of hotels in the area, something similar to the Great Escape Lodge. At some point, I see them relocating the water park to the opposite side of the property, directly across the parking lot from the main entrance. To help bring more income, they'd have a separate ticket for the new water park, but offer tickets at a discount with Six Flags Worlds of Adventure tickets. They'd of course fill in the space that the waterpark took up with new attractions (I see a new Sky Screamer and a new coaster, maybe the spinning coaster there).

Ah, what might have been

A few notes on what you said... About your RMC on Raging Wolf Bobs, I don't even see it being RMCed. It was a one of a kind design, modeled after the original Bobs, and was really costly to maintain... I think your predicted Premier Rides launch coaster would replace the Raging Wolf Bobs around when you said, and Six Flags would keep the log flume. I think the Villain would be RMC'd in 2019 to compete with Steel Vengeance.

Landlocked? When they combined with sea world it was the largest amusement park in acreage in the country

Randy West Love Raging Wolf Bobs 🐺 EST. 1988-2007 at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio USA 🇺🇲.

Cool video!!!! I'm outlining a book using a similar alternate timeline and found this while doing some research. Thank you for the nostalgia and education all in one!

Really, the damage was done when Six Flags tried to expand the park too much and too fast. It's not entirely Cedar Fair's fault that the park met such a sad end.

Nice video of what might have been. Hard to believe that at one point this old family picnic park became the largest amusement park when it expanded to include the old Sea World area. Here is a good site with a very long and detailed history, but worth reading. www.themeparktourist.com/features/20140824/28153/lost-geauga-lake-how-worlds-largest-six-flags-disappeared

4:58 I think it'd be more likely for Villain to get the RMC treatment, while keeping Raging Wolf Bobs and Big Dipper preserved. Raging Wolf Bobs didn't have a layout suitable for an RMC conversion.

it was almost twice the size of Cedar Point

You're off a bit. Premier ate Geauga Lake and then also ate a financially struggling Six Flags and put on the Six Flags skin down to making even more irrational spending decisions. They then chose a park with only 2 lane country roads leading to it and barely any hotel options nearby to over extend. Then Sea World sold their park and suddenly you get a monstrosity paying taxes in THREE counties. But park and local infrastructure was not ready for a megapark. There was no smooth, natural growth and symbiosis within the park or the local area like what goes on in Sandusky. The 2.7 million visitors still came, but they had a poor experience and so less and less returned. Further, Cedar Fair doesn't do animals stuff on a Seaworld scale, so they were never gonna use that side of the park like that. And yet Seaworld was essential, there were smaller parks and larger parks in PA and OH and so on for amusement rides, but a place like Seaworld was much rarer, so when it had to close attendance just kept plummeting as it did the last year Six Flags had been running it.

I don't agree with this, in 2004 Six Flags was planning two flat rides for the park they were also approved for a 200 ft coaster (many believe that coast is Gialoth at La Ronde), 2005 Tornado water slide, 2006 would see Goliath. Also, that park was not landlocked and it was not smaller. On top of that, many of the rides at GL were older and could have been easily removed and make way for newer rides.

I think Six Flags could have closed the seaworld park and only operated the amusement park.

Randy West Only One Roller Coaster Train The Villain EST. 2000-2007 at Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio USA 🇺🇲 on Year of 2006

HAHA s m a l l e r literally it was the largest theme park in the world at one point under Six Flags

Palace Entertainment should re-open this park as Geauga Lake

Once the biggest amusement park in the world

Cedar Fair and Six Flags Took Away Randy West Childhood at Geauga Lake and Sea World Ohio in Aurora, Ohio USA 🇺🇲 in the years of 1980's and 1990's.

You would also have to assume that the Great Recession never occurred (or was less severe than in our timeline), because financial problems were probably a key factor in the park's closing (especially as Cedar Fair had 2 parks that would have competed with each other). If Six Flags still owned Geauga Lake in 2007, either Six Flags would have been forced to close the park anyway, sell the park, or downsize it (seriously, who thought it was a good idea to build the world's largest single theme park in the middle of nowhere?!)

It would have had way more major expansions than that

Six flags added 4 coasters in 2000

What about doing a video On Euclid Beach park

Would Dick Kinsel get replaced by Matt Ouimet?

Cedar Point would have "NEVER" compared to Geauga Lake! So, the only thing left to do is rid the competition...Boycott (Crappie Pig) aka Cedar Point-less!

You forgot Corkscrew

They were bought out by Six Flags in 1995, Not 2000

What about an RMC Big Dipper

I think a yo kai ride be there in gegula lake

Rebuild it

Wow

... ... ...what is sad here is you should do an "alternative timeline/story" for :{The Original Six Flags OVER TEXAS!} that premier entertainment or partners or amusement "stole~away" the Heart & Soul of The Park That "made disney world work!" in orlando, florida... ... ...all ideas and creativity came from the True Six Flags Corp, not the "counterfit! ~ premier amusement"... ... ...they do not even use the Real Six Flags That Flew Over Texas, but some cheap~o dime store flags... ... ...they ruined the "disney world esk" fantacy land, striping it of its Heart & Soul,... ... ...and each "Countries" Flavor and Fair and "uniqueness" , for a hyped up version of roller coasters, that only mr.freeze fills a true coaster bill, though the double loop "shock wave", and mind train were unique originals... ... ...the safari water ride, pirates island, spindel top~gone ; the character from some "foreign state", ...premier ruined its texas glory... and "franchised it" too other states, when it created disney worlds theme park... ... ...i went too both as a CHILD,...disney was Six Flags Over Texas! but SFOT had Better Rides BECAUSE IT HAD THE ORIGINAL SCHEMATIC ; from the HEART!!! ; disney world was great! but Six Original Flags Over TEXAS was {{{b e t t e r}}}... ... ...ironicly it was voted number four~best ; too be number {4}, behind magic mountain!, because of its COASTERS!!! ... ... ...they should dismantle SFOT! because it SHOULD BE NUMBER ONE!!!!!!!!!!(10 ; "what a shame", ... ... ...please leave the double loops of shock wave and the orange observation tower as "museum pieces"; but what you have DONE is made a "burger king" out of SFOT; burger king, the best flavor original burger TRASHED BYE TERRIBLE OWNERSHIP!!! ; if only i could bye Six Flags Over Texas & Burger King ; they would be unrivalled! 🎶 llove Brother brent! 💘}}}

The sales sucked bankruptcy. Cedar Fair bought them from the bank than later bought Kings island (my home town park) which has 1,000s of open acres of development. Unlike Geauga and Cedar Pointe. Not to mention the Beast! They knew what they were doing. It is sad to see that area a skeleton of its former glory. I went to Sea World as a youngster.

3:13 Dude, that's the Skyrocket at Kennywood in Pittsburgh, PA. You can't fool me, man.

2018 ITS COMING BACK

Bring back SeaWorld please If you can

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