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To compliment last week’s Crapstravaganza photo feature, I’ll be bringing out the real park crap this week! This time around the focus will be on theme park shirts, cups, stubs, writbands and tickets that I have amassed through the years. Next week I’ll be getting back to park brochures and maps

Mountain Creek Waterpark in Vernon, NJ has announced their newest slide for thrillseekers to enjoy, Alpine Pipeline. According to a newsletter, riders will take an “exhilarating tandem tube ride through walls of water as you spiral in and out of darkness to the cool splashdown below.” Mountain Creek’s last major addition was in 2003 with Mountain Creek Unveils New Ride for 2009

Bums Overrun Mini Golf Course

A closed down mini golf course in Tucson, AZ known as Magic Carpet Golf seems to be the new stomping grounds of bums, deviants, thieves, ne’er-do-wells, and vagabonds. “The bums are destroying it all,” claims Charles Spillar, a spokesman for a park that is trying to salvage props from the course. Apparently bums have taken Bums Overrun Mini Golf Course

Main Article: Crapstavaganza Week 6: Photo Phun This week’s installment of the Crapstravaganza is a bit different. In the past weeks I’ve featured a brochure or park map but this week we’re going to take a look at some park photos from years past. Busch Gardens Europe in 1991 (B.G. Williamsburg back then), Wildwood in Crapstravaganza Week 6: Photo Phun!

2/1 Update: Added photos of the Golden Nugget Farewell Ceremony. 1/26 Update: Golden Nugget is bought by Knoebels Breaking news, the Golden Nugget Mine Ride that has stood on the old Hun’t Pier in Wildwood, NJ since 1960 will be demolished. The Morey organization who currently owns the pier (and the three large amusement piers Golden Nugget Mine Ride to be Demolished!