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Park News - (2/13/08) Cedar Point has confirmed that the Skyscraper from Valleyfair (and Dorney Park before that) will be added to Challenge Park this season.
  (1/9/08) Cedar Point has announced the details for Coastermania 2008 that will take place on Friday, June 6th. The all day long event will include morning ERT sessions on Maverick, Millennium Force, Raptor, Blue Streak and nighttime ERT on Gemini, Dragster and Magnum. This event is only open to current members of coaster clubs who can bring along one guest. More official information and registration will be posted here in the near future, so please check back.
  (12/4/07) Right now I’ve got no way to confirm this rumor at all, so I’m just passing it on as a possible warning, but Screamscape has heard that Cedar Point may be considering the removal of “an older steel coaster” before the 2010 season. I’m guessing 2010 could very likely be the next year we’ll see a new coaster added to the park, so it may be time for an older ride to make way for a newer ride. With the arms race against Magic Mountain to see who has the most coasters over, the time may be right. I don’t have a name at this point, but my short list of possibilities would include: Wildcat, Disaster Transport, Iron Dragon, Corkscrew and the Cedar Creek Mine Ride. Despite the numerous rumors of Disaster Transport being removed over the years, we’ve heard that the park may be leaning towards removing a ride move towards of the back of the park, which would likely narrow it down to my final three possibilities if true.

2008 - Planet Snoopy - (1/15/08) CoasterCrew has posted a large update about Planet Snooppy with both photos and a video.
  (1/14/08) It looks like Cedar Point has added a third webcam now to cover the construction of Planet Snoopy. Speaking of which, from what I’ve been told elsewhere it sounds like all of the rides coming to Planet Snoopy will be coming from Geauga Lake, which will give the park more than a few duplicates this season. Makes me wonder if they will remove the older duplicates already in the park or leave them in place as extra capacity for the kiddies.
  (1/11/08) Cedar Point has finally confirmed Planet Snoopy for the 2008 season. According to the release, Planet Snoopy will feature 7 rides (mini tea-cups, a mini train, 4x4 trucks, a bouncing tower, spinning balloons, rocket ships and a crazy sub), games, character appearances. In addition to Planet Snoopy, Cedar Point will also open a new Peanuts themed restaurant aimed at kids that will feature a large “kids only” menu with a small “adults only” section included as well. Four new shows will also be added to The Point this year: Snoopy’s Big Bow Wow On Ice (Good Times Theater), All Wheels Extreme (in the former Aquatic Stadium), Signed, Sealed, Delivered (Centennial Square) and a new musical review at the Red Garter Saloon.
  Probably what is confusing most people right now however is the list of attractions in Planet Snoopy. Anyone familiar with the park will probably realize that many of the listed attraction are already in place elsewhere in the park. There is a 4x4 ride in Kiddy Kingdom, Balloon Race and Camp Bus are over in Camp Snoopy, Peanuts Express was in the old Peanuts Playground that Planet Snoopy is replacing. Earlier we did hear that the Road Rally from Geauga Lake may become the new 4x4 truck ride as well as the Half Pint Railway filling in as a newer version of the Peanuts Express, but those rumors have yet to be confirmed. While the Bouncing Tower may be a new ride to the park (possibly the Geauga Tree Hopper), it doesn’t change the fact that Cedar Point already has a similar ride in Frog Hopper. Some believe that the former Rocket Relay and Mad Mad Whirl from Geauga Lake will fill in to the last two slots. Anyone know exactly which rides are coming from where yet?
  (1/7/08) As of this morning, the Cedar Point website seems to be having some issues, so I’m guessing changes and updates are being made right now. Apparently this was true earlier this week too as a reader sent in the following screen capture when the website briefly displayed a graphic announcing the new Planet Snoopy kids area, only to have it pulled a short time later.
  (11/28/08) One of our readers who happened to be in the park not long ago was able to snap this quick photo showing off the state of the old Peanuts Playground. If you compare this to an aerial shot of the park, you can see they’ve already removed the Peanuts Express train track and started clearing the site.
  (11/6/07) Cedar Fair confirmed the addition of several new family friendly attractions in a new children’s area that will replace the Peanut’s Playground featuring seven new rides in addition to a family lounge area with quiet spots for feeding, resting and changing.
  They declined to name it, but Screamscape sources have named the area “Planet Snoopy” and tell us that several of the “new” rides will come from Geauga Lake including the Convoy and Train (replacing the old Train). From what we’ve been told the only thing currently there that is expected to remain is waterfall and school house. We’ve also heard a rumor that Cedar Fair may slightly reduce staffing at a few of their coasters in order to staff this new area, cutting a position or two from Millennium Force, Dragster, Wicked Twister and Mantis. Apparently they were testing these staffing changes at select times during Halloweekends and found the impact to ride capacity to either be minor or ab acceptable loss. Cedar Point also confirmed that the Sandcastle hotel will renovate it’s interior over the off-season.
  (10/11/07) The latest buzz over the Cedar Point 2008 addition is that it may be a complete overhaul to the Peanuts Playground area of the park, adding in several new kiddie rides from Geauga Lake. The entire area may also be renamed to something else with Snoopy in the title.