YMMV / Cedar Fair Entertainment

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The announcement for GateKeeper at Cedar Point features a moment where, after the train enters the final brake run, the video cuts to black for a second followed by a sped-up POV of the coaster, backwards.
• Complete Monster: See here.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Millennium Force: Millie
  • Steel Vengeance: Steve
  • Intimidator 305: I305
  • Tumbili: Monke Flip
• Growing the Beard: Cedar Fair acquired the Paramount Parks in 2006 and started pouring massive investments into them. Many of the parks that were lacking in acclaimed coasters were finally able to get them.
  • Carowinds benefitted greatly from new additions, including the hyper coaster Intimidator, the multi-launching looper Copperhead Strike, and the world's tallest giga coaster Fury 325.
  • Canada's Wonderland received three massive B&M's in the form of the hyper coaster Behemoth in 2008, the first B&M giga coaster in Leviathan in 2012, and the dive coaster Yukon Striker in 2019.
  • King's Dominion received the giga Intimidator 305 in 2010, followed by an RMC conversion of their Hurler coaster into Twisted Timbers.
  • California's Great America had no major additions until 2013, when they opened the GCI wooden coaster Gold Striker. Then in 2018, the chain's first RMC Raptor opened with Railblazer. However, Railblazer was the last coaster added before Cedar Fair sold off the land on which CGA stands in 2022, which might make the park’s days numbered.
• Harsher in Hindsight: This 1987 ad dares riders to “feel the grip of Vortex, before it’s too late.” As of October 28th, 2019, it is.
• Heartwarming Moments: Knott’s Berry Farm taking out an ad in 1980 celebrating not their own 60th anniversary, but their neighbor’s 25th. And the mice sent a message back later that year!
• Memetic Loser:
  • Michigan's Adventure has the unfortunate reputation of being the company's most neglected park, the last major coaster being a relocated Vekoma Suspended Looping Coaster (SLC) from the defunct Geauga Lake in 2008. It also has the misfortune of being fairly close to its Cedar Fair stablemate Cedar Point, meaning geography can't even guarantee it much of a market.^note A drive from either Detroit or Chicago to Michigan's Adventure is about three-and-a-half hours. By contrast, Detroit is only two hours from Cedar Point, and the four-and-a-half-hour drive from Chicago to Cedar Point isn't that much longer than a drive to Michigan's Adventure. In short, its only real, captive market is western and central Michigan. Really, the only thing it has going for it is having the world's fourth longest wooden roller coaster, in the form of Shivering Timbers.
  • In terms of a more high-end park, Kings Dominion has been becoming this following the fumbling of the ball with Intimidator 305. Because of the divide in opinion between casual attendees and coaster enthusiasts, the popularity of Kings Dominion started to dwindle, until it couldn't be properly supported at a regular pace anymore like other high-end parks. Granted, the RMC treatment of Hurler into Twisted Timbers was a big plus, but the removal of Volcano: The Blast Coaster made standout coasters at Kings Dominion feel increasingly limited, when it was originally one of the top dog parks of Cedar Fair's chain.
• More Popular Spin-Off: In 1940 Walter Knott built some amusements to entertain people waiting to buy food from his chicken restaurant and berry stall. Today, Smuckers sells a few of the Knott's Berry Farm food products while the amusement park is on the same level as the rest of the parks in the chain.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Mean Streak at Cedar Point was widely considered to be the worst coaster in the entire park due to its roughness and slow pacing. In 2018, it was converted into Steel Vengeance, turning the outskirts of FrontierTown into one of the most popular areas of the park.
• Signature Scene: Most parks have at least one ride element that stands out for being picturesque, unique, or very thrilling.
  • Canada's Wonderland: The underwater drop on Yukon Striker
  • Carowinds: The treble clef on Fury 325
  • Cedar Point:
    • Corkscrew's eponymous corkscrews over the midway
    • Raptor's vertical loop
    • The lift hill and drop on Millennium Force
    • The top hat on Top Thrill Dragster
    • The water cannons on Maverick
    • The keyhole inversions on GateKeeper
  • Dorney Park: The "Jojo Roll" out of the station on Hydra
  • Kings Dominion: The drop on Intimidator 305
  • Kings Island:
    • The 540 degree helix on The Beast
    • The splashdown on Diamondback
    • The shed on Mystic Timbers
  • Knott's Berry Farm:
    • The launch on Xcelerator
    • The drop on Hangtime
    • The cobra roll on Silver Bullet
  • Valleyfair: The unorthodox drop on Renegade
• The Scrappy: Many rides, mostly shakey roller coasters in the parks, get this treatment.
  • Flight Deck^note  previously Top Gun, a Vekoma SLC at Canada's Wonderland is considered by local guests to be one of the worst coasters in the park (and perhaps one of the worst in the world depending on who you ask), mainly because the track itself is bumpy, and the experience is not helped by the fact that guests have their heads almost smashed in between the seat "cushion".
    • Same with Time Warp (previously "Tomb Raider"), a Zamperla Volare flying coaster at the aforementioned park right next to the Flight Deck. It is one of only three versions of this model in North America. Many don't take too kindly to being pinballed in a tiny cage.
  • Carowind's Vortex, for the head-crushing roughness combined with uncomfortable standing restraints, as well as having a fairly boring layout when those factors are ignored. Many consider it manufacturer B&M's worst coaster. A number of enthusiasts hope that Cedar Fair will convert it to a floorless coaster, a process B&M has done to three other former stand-up coasters: the California's Great America version of Vortex (renamed Patriot), Mantis at Cedar Point (renamed Rougarou), and Apocalypse at Six Flags America (renamed Firebird).
  • Kings Dominion's Anaconda is another coaster with a reputation for being extremely rough. Not to mention that even ignoring this, the layout is uninteresting, has bad transitions, and is not even all that thrilling to some. When asking Cedar Fair fans which coasters will likely be torn down soon, this one will likely be near the top of a lot of people's lists.
• Tear Jerker:
  • When a longtime attraction shuts down, it’s often treated with surprising amounts of dignity by the parks. For instance, this was the announcement of the removal of the 19-year-old Wicked Twister.
  • Many Northern Ohioans felt this way after the 2007 season when it was announced that Geauga Lake would close for good. Cedar Fair is often blamed for the closure, as many felt it was to reduce competition to their flagship park, Cedar Point, which was just about two hours away, but really Cedar Fair had only delayed it because Six Flags had too ambitious plans for the park during their ownership. Many locals lamented Six Flags' desire to turn the park into a competitor to Cedar Point, not understanding that to most Northern Ohioans, the parks were never in competition at all, they loved having both parks nearby.

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