Geauga Lake

Which one was that?

Six Flags Ohio.

They, when they combined Geauga Lake and Sea World.

Huh.

I could raid your home and arrest you.

Chris writes, I took my kids to Geauga Lake many, many years ago.

My kids were about seven and ten at the time.

That was an amusement park.

Tell you a story.

My little brother, we was at Geauga Lake.

And my little brother was barely, he was skinny and barely big enough to even get on the ride.

So we get on the ride called the Big Dipper at Geauga Lake.

And so my brother on there with me, we in the same cart.

So as soon as it took off, I'm looking at him and I'm like, that bar is not like down on him enough because he was so small.

I have a feeling nobody really likes any of those except maybe Mr. Flags.

Well, I think because I live where Geauga Lake used to be.

Right.

And then when Six Flags took it over, everything started to change.

At least that's how we felt.

So this kind of gives that same vibe.

It's like, no, we wanted to keep Geauga Lake, Geauga Lake.

Right, right.

And it's being...

I'm going to go back to my Great America... story you know being a kid who first started going to marriott's great america then went to paramount's great america then for one year went to bally's great america and just recently went to six flags great america um i i i think putting the six flags name on it is fine the especially since six flags throughout its history has expanded and contracted they've bought They've gone through – we're going to buy tons of parks and then they end up selling them off to make apartment buildings, Geauga Lake.

So it's a – whatever they do, I think they need to be consistent with their renaming process.

And since they already have something that most people will call Six Flags Great America – To me, the most logical thing to do is do Six Flags Cedar Point and Six Flags Knott's Bray Farm and Six Flags so that you just put the six flags in front of it.

Yeah

... um, I grew up in Cleveland, and there was like the Millennium coaster at, um, it was either Geauga Lake or Six Flags, and it was just-

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And it's insane to do this in Northeast Ohio because the Six Flags name comes with a lot of baggage here.

People remember what happened to Geauga Lake.

Six Flags bought it, renamed it Six Flags Ohio, and then Six Flags World of Adventure after they acquired SeaWorld next door.

Cedar Fair eventually bought that property and changed the name back to Geauga Lake, and then closed the amusement park in 2007.

But Jeff Putz, who runs the Cedar Point fan site Point Buzz, called the survey tone deaf because his point is fairly or, or unfairly, a lot of Northeast Ohioans associate the Six Flags brand with the destruction of Geauga Lake.

So why on earth would you then take Cedar Point, a nationally known name that has existed since 1870, and then dilute it by attaching Six Flags to it? And Cedar Point, it actually isn't alone here.

Six Flags is also surveying Kings Island pass holders about names like Six Flags Kings Island and Six Flags Over Kings Island.