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Although most properties of Marvel, including the Marvel Cinematic Universe film franchise, had been acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2009, Paramount was already distributing some of these films starting with Iron Man in 2008. However, it is worth noting that Kings Island did feature a select number of days in the 2014 season for meet-and-greets with Marvel characters Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor from the 2012 film The Avengers. Other changes made by Cedar Fair included the revamping of the Halloween event FearFest into Halloween Haunt, and the retheming of Boomerang Bay (which had previously dropped all references to the Crocodile Dundee films, but continued to feature an Australian outback theme) to Soak City in 2012(themed to a tropical beach). By 2010 with the opening of Planet Snoopy at Kings Island, all former intellectual properties were replaced with either themes unrelated to existing intellectual properties, or the Peanuts characters in 2010. Although the acquisition included a licensing deal in which Cedar Fair would be allowed to continue using various properties of Paramount such as Nickelodeon characters up until 2017, Cedar Fair was not interested in paying licensing fees, and began dropping such themes, beginning with changes made to rides based on films such as Top Gun and The Italian Job: Stunt Track, which became Flight Deck and Backlot Stunt Coaster, respectively. That same year, CBS Corporation declared they were no longer interested in participating in the theme park business, and Cedar Fair placed the highest bid on all five parks, which included Kings Island. In 2006, Viacom had split into two divisions, with the name now being used for the smaller company of the split, with the majority of Viacom's assets, including Paramount Parks, being transferred to CBS Corporation. Each of Cedar Fair's parks has featured a children's area themed to the characters at some point or another, all of which use the names of either Planet Snoopy or Camp Snoopy.

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The acquisition of Knott's Berry Farm also included the license for Cedar Fair to feature the characters of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comics and television specials in their parks (such as Charlie Brown and Snoopy), who had been present at Knott's Berry Farm since 1983. Over time, Cedar Fair continued to grow as an amusement park chain, acquiring Dorney Park of Pennsylvania in 1992, Missouri's Worlds of Fun in 1995, and Knott's Berry Farm in 1997. Later in 1987, the management offices of Cedar Point were re-established as Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, with the name being combination of their two parks owned at the time.

Almost a century after operating under one park, Cedar Point acquired ownership and management rights of the Minnesota amusement park Valleyfair in 1978.

Beginning in 1870, Cedar Point operated as a solely owned amusement park for many years.