Christmas Light Craptacular

Posted by on December 24, 2008 | Add a Comment

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Album Page: Chistmas Light Craptacular

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone! Guess what? I made you all a little present! It’s a photo set called Christmas Light Craptacular! Twenty houses unwittingly entered into this competition; a competition to see who has the most gaudy Christmas display in town! Some are good, some are bad, and some are awful! I rated each one on my own skewed scale, but you can also rate them yourself at the bottom of each image page; that way we can decide the true winner of the Craptacular!

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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

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Alpine Pipeline, new for Mountain Creek in 2009Mountain 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.

Bums Overrun Mini Golf Course

Posted by on December 17, 2008 | Add a Comment

Birdie!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

(Before anyone complains, yes,  some of this is made up.)

ShockwaveMain 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.

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