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 High Anxiety, a slide that drops riders down a steep chute and up the walls of a funnel shaped structure. Mountain Creek Waterpark will re-open on June 6th so get that swimwear picked out now!
I was personally hoping for one of those new ‘looping’ waterslides that are popping up in Europe, sort of as an homage to Action Park, but this sounds pretty cool as well. Unfortunately no images or anything detailing what it does were released along with the newsletter other than a neato logo!
12/23 Update: A recent update at Screamscape shows a scanned postcard with a teaser of Alpine Pipeline. Interestingly enough the Mountain Creek Waterpark website has yet to say anything about the slide.
6/15 Update: So has anyone been on it yet? I haven’t gotten up to Mountain Creek yet so I have no idea what it’s like.
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 residence in fake trees, copper wiring has been stolen, and liquor bottles litter the ground. When approached by a DoD3 reporter, a bum thrashed about and attempted to throw a cheese grater at said reporter while screaming something about us taking over his tiki head house. “It was insane” said the DoD3 reporter whose name is not important enough for me to remember, “the guy smelled like piss!”
We would love to keep you updated on this story if our reporters haven’t already fled for their lives.
Source: Tucson Citizen: Vandals damage statues at Magic Carpet Golf
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 the early to mid 90s, and Great Adventure are just some of the places covered in Week 6’s 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 that are collectively known as Morey’s Piers) studied the feasibility of moving and reopening the ride but according to Jack Morey, “In the end, the old ride was just not viable given New Jersey state regulations and industry safety standards.” A public ceremony in memory of the old Philadelphia Toboggan Co. manufactured darkride/coaster will be held at 12:00pm on January 31st, 2009.
Here’s the official press release from Morey’s Piers.
This whole Golden Nugget thing has been going on for many years now. I remember back in 2005-ish when the Morey’s Piers website had a poll regarding interest in restoring the Golden Nugget. The ride was last open in 1999 when Dinosaur Beach occupied the pier and the ride was given a slight ‘dino’ theme inside. I had the chance to ride both versions when I was younger so at least I can say that I’ve been on it. It was a cool little dark ride with lots of old school scenery and Bill Tracy effects; an absolute boardwalk classic and one of the only things surviving from Hunt’s Pier. I’m sure there are many boardwalk goers who are going to be none to happy about this news.
What’s your take on this news?
