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PRELIMINARY COPY - SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED APRIL 13, 2011

301 Commerce Street, Suite 3200
Fort Worth, Texas 76102

[May 24], 2011

This Proxy Statement is being furnished by each of Q Funding III, L.P. and Q4 Funding, L.P. (together with Geoffrey Raynor, collectively, "Q Investments") to the unitholders of Cedar Fair, L.P. (the "Company") in connection with Q Investments' solicitation FOR the approval of two proposals submitted by the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board") at a special meeting of the Company's limited partner unitholders to be held on [May 24], 2011 (the "Special Meeting") and at any and all adjournments or postponements thereof. These proposals relate to the right of unitholders to nominate directors for election to the Board.

The Special Meeting will be held at _________ local time on [May 24], 2011 at __________________________________________________________, and the close of business on April 11, 2011 has been fixed as the record date for determining unitholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the Special Meeting. According to the Company's Fifth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership (the "Partnership Agreement"), the General Partner of the Company (the "General Partner") is required to give notice of the Special Meeting to unitholders and to set the place of the Special Meeting within ten days (or such later time as may be reasonably necessary for the Company to comply with certain applicable statutes, rules, regulations or similar requirements) of the General Partner's receipt of a request to call a special meeting. The principal executive offices of the Company are located at One Cedar Point Drive, Sandusky, Ohio 44870.

According to Amendment No. 2 to the Company's preliminary proxy statement for the Special Meeting filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 12, 2011 (the "Company Proxy Statement"), the units representing limited partner interests of the Company (the "Units") issued and outstanding and entitled to vote as of April 6, 2011 were approximately 55,345,716. Each Unit has one vote per proposal.

THESE ARE PRELIMINARY PROXY MATERIALS AND, IN ACCORDANCE WITH UNITED STATES SECURITIES LAWS, DO NOT INCLUDE A PROXY CARD. ONCE OUR PROXY MATERIALS BECOME DEFINITIVE, YOU WILL RECEIVE ANOTHER COPY OF THESE MATERIALS ALONG WITH A DUPLICATE COPY OF THE COMPANY'S WHITE PROXY CARD THAT YOU CAN USE TO VOTE YOUR UNITS.

Pursuant to this Proxy Statement, Q Investments is soliciting FOR the approval of two proposals submitted by the Board in the Company Proxy Statement that, if approved, will (i) amend the regulations (the "Regulations") of the General Partner to permit the Partnership Agreement to include a provision giving unitholders the right to nominate directors for election to the Board ("Proposal 1") and (ii) amend the Partnership Agreement to establish certain procedures and information requirements pursuant to which unitholders can nominate directors for election to the Board ("Proposal 2" and, together with Proposal 1, the "Board Proposals").

Q Investments owns beneficially 10,021,418 Units, or approximately 18.1% of the Company's outstanding Units. Q Investments intends to vote its Units FOR Proposal 1 and FOR Proposal 2. Q Investments urges you to vote FOR Proposal 1 and FOR Proposal 2 by (i) marking the "FOR" boxes beside Proposals 1 and 2 on either the WHITE proxy card furnished by the Company or the duplicate copy of the Company's WHITE proxy card enclosed herewith and (ii) signing, dating and returning such proxy card to the Company. Please do not return any proxy cards to Q Investments. According to the Company Proxy Statement, you may also submit your proxy by telephone or internet. Please refer to the Company's WHITE proxy card for instructions regarding telephone and internet voting. If you have already submitted a proxy card and wish to change your vote, you may do so by delivering to the Corporate Secretary of the Company, at One Cedar Point Drive, Sandusky, Ohio 44870, a written notice of revocation or a properly executed later-dated proxy, or by attending the Special Meeting and voting in person. The latest dated proxy is the only one that counts. Regardless of how many Units you own, your vote is very important.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If your Units are held in the name of a brokerage firm, bank nominee or other institution, only it can execute a proxy with respect to your Units. Accordingly, in order to ensure that your Units are voted, you should contact the person responsible for your account to give specific voting instructions to the broker holding your Units.

For assistance or further information, please call D.F. King & Co., Inc. ("D.F. King"), which is assisting us in this matter:

D. F. King & Co., Inc.
Unitholders Call Toll-Free: (800) XXX-XXXX
Banks and Brokerage Firms Call: (212) 269-5550

THIS PROXY STATEMENT, AS WELL AS ANY OTHER PROXY MATERIALS DISTRIBUTED BY Q INVESTMENTS, ARE AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE ONLINE AT www.dfking.com/XXXXX.

Q Investments is again asking unitholders to demand change at the Company. It is unfortunate that we even have to pursue this path given the strong message that unitholders resoundingly sent to the Board and management team a short while ago; however, the Company says that unitholders do not have any right to nominate directors.¹ This presents a problem for anyone who cares about having their vote matter. Without the right to nominate, the right to elect in a plurality voting system (as opposed to a majority voting system) means nothing. For example, if the Board were to hypothetically nominate Bernie Madoff for an open slot, there could be no competing candidates offered to unitholders to oppose him.

Now suppose every single unitholder withholds its votes for Mr. Madoff as one would suspect they might. That means that 55 million units do not want Mr. Madoff elected to the Company's Board. However, all it takes is one single vote. Just one vote!!! As long as one single unit casts its vote for Mr. Madoff (presumably cast by management since they nominated Mr. Madoff in the first place, and they own a few shares), then Mr. Madoff would be elected to the Board. Unitholders would be powerless to stop this since they do not have the right to nominate.

The key is that unitholders can only withhold their 55 million votes. They cannot vote for someone they actually like - precisely because they are prevented from nominating candidates. Does this sound like a good situation for unitholders? Obviously, it is not.

Fortunately, the Board has recognized that unitholders might want to fix this issue and has proposed two amendments that would allow unitholders to nominate directors for election to the Board. Although we do not support the Board on most issues, we do support what the Board has proposed here, and we do give credit where credit is due. Proposal 1 is an amendment to the Regulations to permit the Partnership Agreement to include a provision giving unitholders the right to nominate directors for election to the Board. Proposal 2 is an amendment to the Partnership Agreement to establish certain procedures and information requirements pursuant to which unitholders can nominate directors for election to the Board. Combined, these two amendments are what is necessary to avoid the "Bernie Madoff" problem described above.

In order for unitholders to approve the Board Proposals, the Board set the approval threshold at 80% of the outstanding Units of the Company entitled to vote, so it is therefore critically important that ALL unitholders complete their proxy cards. Because of the extremely high threshold set by the Board, each unitholder must vote its Units, as simply not voting will count as a vote AGAINST the Board Proposals.

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Q Investments does not currently have any future plans in the event that the Board Proposals are approved or disapproved. However, Q Investments reserves all its rights with respect to any action that it may possibly determine to take, in light of future developments, including, without limitation, any initiative involving the nomination of directors to the Board or the presentation of further proposals for consideration by unitholders.

The General Partner is authorized by the Partnership Agreement to fix the record date for any meeting of the unitholders, which date shall not be more than sixty nor less than ten days prior to the date of such meeting. The close of business on April 11, 2011 (the "Record Date") has been established as the record date for determining unitholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the Special Meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof. To Q Investments' best knowledge, at the Record Date, the number of Units issued and outstanding and entitled to vote was approximately ______________.

Unitholders of record will vote together as a single class on all matters presented at the Special Meeting. Each unitholder is entitled to cast one vote per outstanding Unit on each proposal presented at the Special Meeting. Accordingly, Q Investments, as the beneficial owner of 10,021,418 Units, is entitled to 10,021,418 votes on each proposal presented at the Special Meeting, or approximately 18.1% of all votes entitled to be cast at the Special Meeting. The holders of a majority of the Units issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the Special Meeting must be represented in person or by proxy in order to constitute a quorum.

According to the Company Proxy Statement, Proposal 1 must be approved by the holders of eighty percent of the Units outstanding and Proposal 2 must be approved by both the General Partner and the holders of a majority of the Units outstanding. However, according to the Company Proxy Statement, because the Regulations must be amended in order to permit unitholders to have the right to nominate directors for election to the Board, the General Partner will only approve Proposal 2 if both Proposal 1 and Proposal 2 are approved by the respective requisite vote of unitholders. Therefore, unitholders should note that, according to the Company Proxy Statement, they will not have the right to nominate directors for election to the Board unless both Proposal 1 and Proposal 2 are approved by unitholders as set forth above. Abstentions will be counted for purposes of establishing a quorum at the Special Meeting, will be counted as votes cast and will have the effect of a vote against a proposal. According to the Company Proxy Statement, broker non-votes will be counted for purposes of establishing a quorum, will not be counted as votes cast and will have the effect of a vote against a proposal.

According to the Company Proxy Statement, any proxy card that is returned without marked voting selections thereon will not be voted with respect to either Proposal 1 or Proposal 2. In addition, the Company Proxy Statement also indicates that, by returning the Company's WHITE proxy card, unitholders will confer discretionary authority to the Company's designees on all other matters that may properly come before the Special Meeting for a vote and that were unknown to the Company a reasonable time before the solicitation.

Only holders of record as of the close of business on the Record Date will be entitled to vote at the Special Meeting. If you are a unitholder of record on the Record Date, then you will retain your voting rights for the Special Meeting even if you sell your Units after the Record Date. Accordingly, it is important that you vote the Units held by you on the Record Date or grant a proxy to vote such Units even if you sell such Units after the Record Date.

If your Units are held in the name of a brokerage firm, bank nominee or other institution on the Record Date, only it can vote such Units. Accordingly, in order to ensure that your Units are voted, you should contact the person responsible for your account to give specific voting instructions to the broker holding your Units.

Any proxy granted on the Company's WHITE proxy card, through the internet or by telephone may, according to the Company Proxy Statement, be revoked by the person giving it at any time before its exercise by delivering to the Corporate Secretary of the Company, at One Cedar Point Drive, Sandusky, Ohio 44870, a written notice of revocation or a properly executed later-dated proxy, by attending the Special Meeting and voting in person or by using the toll-free telephone number or internet website address on the Company's WHITE proxy card.

Please refer to the Company Proxy Statement for the text of Proposal 1 relating to the amendment and restatement of Section 14 of the Regulations of the General Partner to permit the Partnership Agreement to include a provision giving unitholders the right to nominate directors for election to the Board.

Please refer to the Company Proxy Statement for the text of Proposal 2 relating to the amendment of the Partnership Agreement by the addition of a new subsection at the end of Section 6.2 thereof to establish certain procedures and information requirements pursuant to which unitholders can nominate directors for election to the Board.

Q Investments currently owns beneficially (as such term is defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) 10,021,418 Units, or approximately 18.1% of the Units outstanding. In January of 2010, Q Investments informed the Company that Q Investments intended to vote against the Company's previously announced merger transaction providing for the acquisition of the Company by Siddur Holdings, Ltd., an entity controlled by affiliates of Apollo Global Management ("Apollo" and, such transaction, the "Merger Transaction"). In addition, on February 18, 2010, Q Investments commenced a solicitation exempt from the proxy rules to urge all other unitholders to do the same, as Q Investments believed that the proposed Merger Transaction substantially undervalued the Company. During this time, and at the Company's request, Q Investments also met with various representatives of the Company to discuss the Merger Transaction and other strategic alternatives available to the Company.

On March 9, 2010, Q Investments issued a press release announcing that three leading independent proxy advisory firms had advised their clients to vote against the Merger Transaction. Then, on March 15, 2010, the Company announced that it had postponed the meeting on the Merger Transaction, which had been scheduled for March 16, 2010, to April 8, 2010 for the purposes of soliciting additional votes and proxies and giving unitholders additional time to consider and vote on the proposed Merger Transaction. In response to this announcement, Q Investments sent a letter to the Company expressing its concerns regarding reports that the Company was in continued discussions with Apollo about an increased offer price and its disappointment in the delay of the special meeting given that the delay hindered the Company's ability to pursue strategic alternatives.

On April 5, 2010, the Company announced that it had terminated the pending Merger Transaction and that it had adopted a unitholder rights plan or "poison pill." After engaging in conversations with the Company and other interested parties about the future of the Company, on April 28, 2010, Q Investments sent a letter to the Company stating that it had engaged an executive search firm to identify independent and qualified candidates to serve on the Board and that it intended to nominate and solicit proxies in support of such independent candidates for election to the Board at the Company's 2010 annual meeting. Numerous conversations between Q Investments and the Company resulted in the Company's announcement, on May 5, 2010, that it had reached an agreement with Q Investments that allowed Q Investments to participate in the nomination of the two new independent directors to the Board.

During the month of May 2010, Q Investments and the Company exchanged letters relating to the refinancing of the Company's debt and, in connection therewith, the renegotiation of the covenant restriction preventing cash distributions to the unitholders. The Company attempted to refinance its existing debt in May 2010 but was unable to do so. On July 15, 2010, the Company commenced a private offering of senior unsecured notes. The note offering closed on July 29, 2010, and, in conjunction therewith, the Company terminated its existing credit facilities and entered into a new credit facility which, among other things, limits the Company's ability to make cash distributions to unitholders in excess of approximately $0.36 per Unit per annum for the foreseeable future.

On October 14, 2010, Q Investments filed a lawsuit in the Delaware courts seeking a declaratory judgment confirming the right of unitholders to nominate directors for election to the Board. The Company answered on December 10, 2010 and explicitly stated its belief that the Company's Partnership Agreement "does not confer any right on the Cedar Fair limited partners to nominate candidates for election to the General Partner's board of directors."

In November of 2010, Q Investments called a special meeting of the Company's unitholders, which was ultimately held on January 11, 2011 (the "January Special Meeting"), for the purpose of considering and voting upon two amendments to the Partnership Agreement. At the January Special Meeting, Q Investments' proposals received overwhelming support from the unitholders who voted. Q Investments' proposal to separate the offices of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer received the support of 81.11% of unitholders voting (constituting 54.15% of all unitholders), and Q Investments' proposal requiring the prioritization of an increased distribution to unitholders received the support of 74.16% of unitholders voting (constituting 49.34% of all unitholders).

Q Investments first filed a Proxy Statement (in preliminary form) with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 3, 2011 and proposed an amendment to the Partnership Agreement to explicitly give unitholders the right to nominate directors for election to the Board. Q Investments submitted to the Company and General Partner a request for the Special Meeting regarding this matter on March 3, 2011.

On March 29, 2011, the Company filed a preliminary proxy statement in which it opposed the amendment by Q Investments but proposed its own amendments to both the Partnership Agreement and the General Partner's Regulations to accomplish the same goal of giving unitholders the right to nominate directors for election to the Board.

On April 8, 2011, Q Investments filed a revised preliminary proxy statement in which Q Investments advised the Company that it was willing to withdraw its proposed amendment and support the Company's proposed amendments. Later that day, Q Investments also submitted to the Company a request for a second special meeting to ensure that unitholders would have the right to vote only on the amendments proposed by the Company; Q Investments stated that it did not plan to pursue this call of a second special meeting if the Company were to allow unitholders to vote solely on the two Company amendments.

On April 12, 2011, the Company filed a revised preliminary proxy statement in which it agreed to hold a Special Meeting only on the two amendments that it proposed. Q Investments then proceeded with the solicitation described herein.

  The following tables provide information as to the beneficial ownership of the Units by Q Investments, each current director and named executive officer of the Company, all current directors and named executive officers of the Company as a group and each other person who owns beneficially 5% or more of the Units. Except as stated otherwise below, the information for current directors, named executive officers and for all directors and executive officers as a group has been taken from the Company Proxy Statement. The information for Neuberger Berman LLC as the beneficial holder of 5% or more of the Units has also been taken from the Company Proxy Statement. Although Q Investments has no reason to believe that any such information is inaccurate or incomplete, Q Investments has undertaken no independent investigation of such information and does not assume any responsibility for its accuracy or completeness.

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* Less than 1% of outstanding Units.

The rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission require Q Investments to make available to unitholders certain additional information with respect to those persons and entities that may be deemed participants in Q Investments' solicitation (each, including all the entities specified in the following paragraph, a "Participant").

 The number of Units owned, of record or beneficially, by Q Investments is set forth above under "Voting Securities Outstanding - Ownership by Q Investments" and the notes thereto. Q Funding III, L.P. is a Texas limited partnership, the sole general partner of which is Prufrock Onshore, L.P., a Texas limited partnership ("Prufrock"). The sole general partner of Prufrock is J Alfred Onshore, LLC, a Texas limited liability company ("J Alfred"). Q4 Funding, L.P. is a Texas limited partnership, the sole general partner of which is Star Spangled Sprockets, L.P., a Texas limited partnership ("Star"). The sole general partner of Star is Excalibur Domestic, LLC, a Texas limited liability company ("Excalibur"). Geoffrey Raynor controls both J Alfred and Excalibur.

In addition to the Units reported herein, certain other members of the "Q Investments" family of funds, namely Amalgamated Gadget, L.P. on behalf of R² Investments, LDC (collectively, "R²"), currently have long economic exposure to 550,900 Units through cash-settled equity swaps (the "Equity Swaps") under which the profit to R² will be based upon any increase in value in Units and the loss to R² will be based upon any decrease in the value of Units over the term of the transactions. The Equity Swaps may only be settled in cash and do not give R² direct or indirect voting, investment or dispositive control over any Units and do not require the counterparty thereto to acquire, hold, vote or dispose of any securities of the Company. With respect to the Equity Swaps, R² disclaims beneficial ownership over any Units.

Except as set forth herein, neither Q Investments, any of the other Participants nor any of their respective associates has any substantial interest, direct or indirect, by security holdings or otherwise, in any matter to be acted upon with respect to this solicitation.

      The entire cost of Q Investments' solicitation FOR approval of the Board Proposals will be borne by Q Investments. Q Investments estimates that total expenditures relating to such solicitation, including D. F. King's fees and expenses, will be approximately $_________, of which approximately $___________ has been expended to date. Q Investments' solicitation will be conducted by mail, advertisement, telephone, electronic mail and in person. The persons identified as Participants herein may, without additional compensation, make solicitations through personal contact or by telephone, and arrangements may be made with brokerage houses or other custodians, nominees and fiduciaries to send solicitation material to their principals. Q Investments will reimburse any such person for his reasonable expenses. In addition, Q Investments has retained D. F. King to assist it in the solicitation FOR the approval of the Board Proposals for a fee of $___________ and reimbursement for its direct and indirect expenses. Q Investments cannot now determine how many persons will be used by D. F. King in its solicitation efforts but anticipates approximately _____ such persons will be used. Q Investments also expects to agree to indemnify D. F. King against certain liabilities and expenses, including liabilities and expenses under the federal securities laws.

According to the Company Proxy Statement, any unitholder who intends to present a proposal at the 2011 annual meeting and who wishes to have the proposal included in the Company's proxy statement and form of proxy for the 2011 annual meeting must have delivered the proposal to the Company at its principal executive offices not later than December 31, 2010. Any unitholder who intends to present a proposal at the 2011 annual meeting of unitholders other than for inclusion in the Company's proxy statement and form of proxy must have delivered the proposal to the Company at its executive offices not later than March 16, 2011 or such proposal was untimely. If a unitholder failed to submit the proposal by March 16, 2011, the Company reserves the right to exercise discretionary voting authority. Please note that, because Q Investments was not involved in the preparation of the Company Proxy Statement, it cannot reasonably confirm the accuracy or completeness of certain information contained in the Company Proxy Statement.