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| Manufacturer | Zamperla | ||||||||||||
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Kite Eating Tree is a Junior Drop Tower built by Italian manufacturer Zamperla currently located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, USA. The ride originally operated at Geauga Lake & Wildwater Kingdom in Aurora, Ohio, USA.
History
The ride was new to Six Flags Ohio in 2000. It was located in the Looney Tunes BoomTown area and was known as Tweety's Club House,[1] themed after the Looney Tunes characters Tweety the Bird and Sylvester the Cat. It featured a dazed figure of Sylvester the Cat on the ride car, while the top of the ride structure featured a figure of Tweety the Bird holding a log hammer in front of a house. This is to represent Tweety hitting Sylvester, causing him to fall down.[2]
When Six Flags sold the park (later further rebranded to Six Flags Worlds of Adventure) to Cedar Fair in March 2004, the attraction was stripped of its Looney Tunes theming and was renamed to simply Tree Hopper due to the loss of the Looney Tunes and DC Comics licenses by Six Flags, now located in the rethemed Kidworks Playzone area when the park was rebranded back to Geauga Lake. The Tweety the Bird and Sylvester the Cat figures including the house were removed off the ride structure and its ride car.
In September 2007, Geauga Lake was permanently closed by Cedar Fair, who subsequently distributed the park's rides to other parks. All of the rides in the Kidworks Playzone area including Tree Hopper were relocated to Cedar Point as part of the brand new Planet Snoopy area.[3] As part of the move, the ride was given an Peanuts theme and was renamed to Kite Eating Tree, themed after the Peanuts running gag when Charlie Brown gets his kite stuck in a tree, which is referred to as the "Kite Eating Tree" in the series. It opened on May 12, 2008.
References
- ↑ Bloom, Connie (2000-06-01). "Kids will go bonkers over BoomTown". The Akron Beacon Journal. p. 76. Retrieved 2025-01-25.
- ↑ "Zamperla to Debut Seven Family Rides at Six Flags Ohio". Zamperla. 12 April 2000. Archived from the original on 25 April 2001. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
- ↑ "Cedar Point gets Geauga Lake rides". The Plain Dealer. 2008-01-12. p. 19. Retrieved 2025-01-25.