Comments on: Cedar Fair Could Be Sold to Equity Firm Apollo

By: Gruff Dan

Gruff Dan — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:44:33 +0000

That cant be so, KI has been owned by Cedar Fair for years

By: CFC

CFC — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:48:25 +0000

Hey! I don't know for certain, but I've heard from Wikipedia that Merlin Entertainments, the company owning Thorpe Park, Heide-Park, and Alton Towers has purchased all major former Paramount's Parks. This means that Carowinds, Kings Dominion, Kings Island, Great America, and Canada's Wonderland are all now owned by Merlin Entertainments. Plus, I've heard that Carolina Cyclone is getting STAND-UP trains for next year! Can you believe it?

By: 2009 Theme Park News Recap | Theme Park Syndicate - Theme Park News Aggregator

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:44:36 +0000

[...] acquisitions. Blackstone purchased Busch, Disney bought Marvel, Comcast bought NBC Universal, and Cedar Fair was sold to Apollo. Only time will tell which of the changes will have the largest impact on the theme park [...]

By: Quil

Quil — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:39:49 +0000

Intamin gigacoasters of Stratacoasters? do you mean a stratacoaster whith a gigacoaster layout, beacause that would be cool. pricey though.

By: Prof. BAM

Prof. BAM — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:48:10 +0000

Cedar fair is somewhat unhappy with how much Apollo bought it for. But I heard somewhere that Apollo may have plans to add something BIG to each park. I don't know what it is but, Cedar Point may not get anything if that's the case. Why? I believe that Apollo thinks Cedar Point has too many coasters. If Apollo does do something to each park, I hope it's B&M coasters. Or maybe more Intamin giga-coasters of Strata-coasters.

By: Vince

Vince — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:21:48 +0000

Bob, I'm not sure if you remember, but Cedar Fair has since closed the Amusment Park portion of Geauga Lake, and only Wildwater Kingdom, the revamped water park, remains at that location. Some rides from that park have been moved from Geauga Lake to other parks (e.g. X-Flight moved to Kings Island and was renamed Firehawk), but some rides (e.g. Raging Wolf Bobs) continue to rot at that location to this day.

On topic, hoever, I would like to clarify that this Cedar Fair takeover is not yet a done deal. Several lawsuits have been filed and the Kotts family has noted that they are not happy with the sale. The deal will require a 2/3 majority vote from the stockholders, and by rule, Cedar Fair has to have a "shopping" period where other companies may bid on them. Blackstone Group, the company that bought Busch Entertainment has been thrown into the mix of potential companies that would buy Cedar Fair.

Apollo has bid $11.50/share for Cedar Fair (FUN). Currently, FUN is trading at $11.63.

CC, great job with the site and reviews, I look forward to seeing all the new reviews this summer!

128 Days until Cedar Point opens!

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:53:14 +0000

Dear Sir's,

I want to express how extremely happy I am to hear Cedar Fair has been acquired by an affiliate of Apollo Global.

I sincerely hope that they treat their acquisition of Cedar Fair the same way Cedar Fair treated their acquisition of Geauga Lake Amusement Park in Aurora Ohio.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:48:04 +0000

Blue streak is a light shade of blue and the track is dark blue.

By: Quil

Quil — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:21:46 +0000

isn`t blue streak white?

By: Judy P in Pgh

Judy P in Pgh — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:25:39 +0000

I'll take Blue Streak over Mean Streak any day!