larrygator

its simple. some corrupt politician is waiting for his bribe $$$$$$$$$$ to get the permit approved and SF didn't want to pay. NJ is such a corrupt state You seem to be quite knowledgeable, even if your grammar is horrible. Can you find out the politician's name for us?

Thanks for mentioning this. I stopped by the red tent today and saw a lot of memorabilia inside. Old pennants, ride sign, ride vehicles. I look forward to a trip down memory lane if this is to be a temporary museum. Got about 8 rides on El Toro without having to walk around due to low ridership this morning starting at 10:45. Then headed over to a courtesy ride on Nitro (10 minute wait), avoiding the C train. Passing through the games area they had a special on the wheel of chance game for $0.25 and won a Spongebob plush for my niece spending only $3.

That's quite a bit of speculation.

King Butt give exponentially more moons every time you beat him (I got 8,000 from him this morning), so getting to 100,000 appears possible but I was not diligent in playing the game. I did get the gorilla for 70,000.

Thank you that is very similar - but the one at Riverside I believe you had to kneel on it not sit like in this video. Really hoping someone has pics/video of the exact one. Check out this video at the 4:01 mark. But it doesn't look like the rider is kneeling.

Leap the Dips (Lakemont) was SBNO for 12 years before re-opening. Williams Grove Cyclone has been SBNO since 2006, I'm surprised it hasn't fallen apart yet. But I heard it was almost moved to another location last year.

Same here

I was thinking of you when I posted this news.

Bear Creek Campground is set to open on July 1st http://bristolpress.com/articles/2014/06/27/news/doc53ae1885adba6523578258.txt Lake Compounce’s Bear Creek Campground set to open Friday, June 27, 2014 9:24 PM EDT By BRIAN M. JOHNSON Bristol Press BRISTOL — Lake Compounce’s newest attraction, Bear Creek Campground, will hold its grand opening July 1. The 15-acre campground will complement the historical 168-year-old Lake Compounce Amusement Park and newly added Crocodile Cove Water Park. The rustic recreation site features log cabins, mason lighting, and artfully crafted bear and eagle totems. However, those who come to Bear Creek won’t have to leave the amenities of home far behind. The campground features free WiFi and direct TV, 20 fully furnished cabins that sleep up to 10 people each, 24 RV sites with water and electricity hook ups and 30 tent sites. Each campsite is equipped with a picnic table and campfire pit. There are also laundromats, individual showers and 24-hour bathrooms. There will be weekly family-friendly activities including kickball and watergun fights. Campers can find all the supplies they need at Bear Creek Lodge, which contains a general store and lounge. “Guests can turn a trip to Lake Compounce into a family vacation because they now have the option of staying overnight,” said Jerry Brick, general manager. “They can enjoy the theme park and water park and also spend time visiting other popular sites in Connecticut as well. An added benefit is the ability for campers to spend time in the park and return to their campsites at their convenience throughout their stay.” According to Brick, the land for the campsite was purchased in 2006. A feasibility study was conducted two years ago and it was determined they could open this year. Brick said the camp could serve 700 people fully booked and there are still 70 acres of land which can be used for future expansion. “It’s very exciting to be opening up, it was a lot of work,” said Brick. Bear Creek Campground sites must be reserved in advance at cambbearcreek.com. People may park their cars at the campgrounds, but RVs must be rented from Crowley Auto at 9 Barber St, Bristol, Sites start at $35 per night. Campers may purchase heavily discounted tickets to Lake Compounce Theme Park and Crocodile Cove Water Park upon checking in. Group rates are also available. For more information, call (860) 583-3300, ext.6905 or visit campbearcreek.com.

You may have read or this before or seen the videos in the link, but it's nice to have it all in one article http://nypost.com/2014/06/28/the-return-of-the-worlds-most-dangerous-theme-park/ The dangerous return of the world’s most insane theme park By Tim Donnelly New York Post June 28, 2014 | 5:03pm The dangerous return of the world’s most insane theme park Six deaths. Countless injuries. Criminal charges related to an insurance fraud scheme. Numerous lawsuits. Bankruptcy. Welcome to Action Park. On April Fool’s Day this year, the owners of Mountain Creek ski resort and waterpark in New Jersey pulled what seemed like a great prank: They replaced the resort’s sign with one for the old Action Park, the notorious “extreme” amusement park that operated on the site from 1978 to 1996. Six visitors died there, and its seemingly anything-goes approach to summer fun earned it the nicknames “Class Action Park” and “Traction Park.” New Jersey’s notorious Action Park is back in business. But would you go? Fans nostalgic for its calamity-filled past say, ‘Hell, yeah!’Photo: Zandy Mangold “At Action Park, it felt like you were in some crazy guy’s backyard,” says Dave Schlussman, a 30-year-old from Greenpoint, who in elementary school belly-flopped so hard out of a failed backflip off the park’s Tarzan Swing — just a swing over a freezing cold pool — that his eyeballs felt bruised. “The rides defied any kind of procedure.” The place was as packed with urban legends as it was with lawsuits: Some — snakes in the rapids ride — were most likely fiction; others — tales of the owner bribing employees with cash to test drive some of the rides for safety or starting his own insurance company — were real. But the sign was no joke: Action Park was actually coming back this summer from the original owners. What’s now open at the 35-acre site in Vernon, NJ, is an amalgam of the old and the new — gone are the race cars with shoddy brakes and the park’s most infamous attraction, a water slide with a full vertical loop, which was open for just a month before knocking around too many kids and shutting down for good. Which isn’t to say Action Park is tame now. Far from it. The new Action Park promises to be safer, but you still risk bruises jumping off attractions like the Cliff Jump. The original owners, who had sold the park in 1998 — to a group that changed the name to Mountain Creek — bought it back in 2010 and started restoring old rides such as a river rapids, which they say the previous owners had dulled down. They’re adding a $1 million new Zero G water slide, which they say will be the world’s tallest of its kind when it opens later this summer pending inspection. Riders stand in a capsule, where a trapdoor drops them into the 100-foot-tall slide. But it wasn’t until an online documentary about the old Action Park — titled “The Most Insane Amusement Park Ever” — went viral last year that the owners realized: Not only do people remember the old park, which drew a million visitors annually at its prime; they miss it. “The overall conclusion that the people who went to Action Park have is that it was a phenomenal place,” says Andy Mulvihill, who now owns the resort and is the son of the park’s founder Gene Mulvihill, who died in 2012. “I don’t get approached by people telling me what a terrible place it was. The strength of that passion far outweighed the negative things.” “Negative things” is putting it lightly. One report claimed that in 1987 five to ten people per day were being brought into the emergency room from the park. The New Jersey Herald reported the park actually bought the town of Vernon additional ambulances to keep up with demand. Deaths were caused by, among other things, electrocution in a kayak ride, drowning in the wave pool and a heart attack in ice-cold water. At a cost of $1 million, the ZERO G waterslide is one of the park’s most ambitious to date. Riders stand in a capsule and wait for a trap door to send them shooting through two horizontal loops. At 100-feet high, it’ll be the world’s tallest double-looping slide when it opens later this summer. The old Alpine Slide seemed to be the biggest culprit for mishaps, frequently shredding skin on its concrete track. People reportedly also hit their heads on the floor of shallow pools, got caught in the terrifying suction of the wave pool and suffered abrasions on their legs after having to crawl out of a water slide tunnel. Broken or fractured bones were common, as were busted teeth. But nostalgia is a potent drug, and the new Action Park is sticking itself right in the main vein: The name and original retro rainbow-colored signs are back. On Saturday, former employees gathered for a reunion. The gift shop is selling tongue-in-cheek “I Survived Action Park” T-shirts. OLD: The old Alpine Slide was a concrete track with cars controlled only by an often shoddy hand brake, leading to lots of injuries and one reported death. NEW: For the Alpine Mountain Coaster, riders still control the speed using a brake, but the metal track eliminates the risk of wipeouts. It might seem like a risky move in the age of helicopter parents and endless litigation. Or maybe it’s the best rebranding since New Coke went back to Classic. “It was the time before insurance companies had their hands in everything, before everything is tested and rubber coated within an inch of its life,” says Seth Porges, 30, who co-produced the documentary and lives in Williamsburg. “You might get hurt, but if you walked away, you have a great story.” New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker tweeted that he still had scars from the old park, but said: “I so want to go again.” Can the new Action Park recapture the old magic? A handful of the old attractions never left: The 23-foot cliff jump is still there, as are a few water slides. The Tarzan Swing got a safety upgrade, with pads protecting swingers. Eleonora Walczak of Greenpoint, showing off her leg scars from the old park while climbing out of the Cannonball Falls pool on Tuesday, said she was surprised to see the Colorado River ride now required helmets with facemasks. “There were some really zany things that went on back then,” park president Bill Benneyan says. “In three decades, the industry is different, the regulations are different, the safety training is different.” The park’s original owner, Gene Mulvihill, has been described alternately as a folksy industrialist in the vein of John Rockefeller, a mad scientist with an oversize toy set or a canny, sometimes pushy businessman who kept politicians in his pocket. The decision to unveil the name on April Fool’s Day was a nod to his mischievous streak. Mulvihill’s company, Great American Recreation, owned the Vernon Valley/ Great Gorge ski area, and started to add rides in 1978 to expand summer business. The first was the Alpine Slide, which sent people down a concrete track built into a hill in a car controlled only by a hand brake. Henry Winnik, a 29-year-old filmmaker in Cobble Hill, watched a friend make a hard turn and skid down the concrete. The friction ripped off the skin on his right arm from the elbow to the shoulder: “It was raw,” he recalls. OLD: The original Tarzan Swing wasn’t much more than a rope you’d see over a country swimming hole, complete with a splinter- riddled platform.Photo: Courtesy of Action Park Modal Trigger NEW: The new version offers three swings attached to a metal archway with a padded platform. The water is still just as cold, though. Another rider died in 1980 after being thrown from the slide and suffering a head injury. Now, the park calls its Alpine Mountain Coaster a “cousin” of the fatal slide. A car glides down a metal track around twists and turns. You control the speed with a hand brake, and spills are nearly impossible because it’s locked onto the track. Still, the new version of the park isn’t passive, like competitor Six Flags Great Adventure, where every visitor has basically the same strap-in-and-ride experience. Flop the wrong way off the Cliff Jump, and you could end up with bruises all over your legs. The Colorado River ride tossed our raft so close to the cave walls, we were thankful we were wearing those goofy helmets. Oh, and they serve booze to patrons, which creates its own sense of adventure for older park goers. “Great Adventure is Bon Jovi, safe and corporate,” Winnik says. “Action Park was the Ramones.” Gene Mulvihill made money in a series of businesses: real estate, early cellphones, MRI technology and cancer research, his son says, and seemed to have created the park out of sheer force of personality. “He just didn’t accept that you couldn’t try something or do something,” Andy Mulvihill, one of Gene’s six kids, says. “He was not a big believer in government control.” Gene told the Newark Star-Ledger Action Park was almost a labor of love: “I never made any money up there,” he told the paper in 1996. “All that place did was cost me money.” Mulvihill set up an insurance company based in the Cayman Islands to cover the park, a move which caught the attention of state investigators. In 1984, he pleaded guilty to charges for setting up an insurance fraud scheme, and was slapped with tens of thousands of dollars in fines, according to court records. For a long time, Mulvihill deftly outmaneuvered would-be litigants, Porges says. He refused to settle out of court and used his wealth to exhaust claimants. Action Park was reportedly fined just once for not following procedure. But by 1996, it was facing mounting lawsuits and declining attendance as bad headlines spread. It filed for bankruptcy, $40 million in debt. OLD: The twisting and turning rapids ride mimicked a real river — so much so that it was borderline dangerous.Photo: Courtesy of Action Park NEW: The park requires riders to wear helmets with face masks. You’ll be happy for them when the raft slams near the walls of a cave. Visitors say they remember the park as a lawless Neverland where staff never yelled at anyone. “Even as a kid you’re like, ‘They should probably be taking this a little more seriously,’” says Andy Fiori, 35, a stand-up comedian and radio producer in Astoria. Was anyone actually inebriated during work, as rumors say? “I think that was mostly confined to after-hours stuff,” says Therese Mahler, 41, of Jersey City, who worked at the park through college. The site weirdnj.com, a repository of urban legends, reported the park used crash test dummies to test rides. Andy Mulvihill says his dad would have him test the rides decked out in hockey pads. Mahler says the bosses often asked for staff volunteers to test the rides each day. On the rare occasions no one would volunteer, the boss would offer a cash bribe. The new park has attentive lifeguards with whistles at the ready, and omnipresent safety signage. “The world’s changed,” Mulvihill says. “I refuse to be involved in any rides where anybody can get hurt.” Still, if there’s a chance to push the envelope, Demetri Kringas, 24, of Sleepy Hollow, NY, is seizing it. “We push the limits on this park every day,” says Kringas, visiting the park with friends on a Tuesday. He’s gone headfirst on almost every slide, which is against the rules. “They’re always yelling at us.”

^The fat train completed the circuit faster than the non-fat train. The heavier we made the train the quicker it was in completing the circuit. Enough said!

Sorry but, Montana Infinitum, La Feria. Whoops, thanks for the fix. Mindbender at Galaxyland

He should know TPR, since Robb and Elissa brought TPR to the park in 2010

The owner of the park was also my tour guide in Dracula's Castle when I visited a few years ago. I spoke with him a little bit and was surprised that someone would visit his little park all the way from the US. I visited before the Knight Ride Tower, which appears to be well done. Thanks for sharing.

Keep on keepin' on, Einstein. Kyle - Thank you for the edit. My eyes are bleeding.

So you would rather have prices increase at SFGAdv after rounds of litigation because the park makes no attempt to prevent accidents? Many of the comments you make in this thread are ignorant.

It was proven in 2009! We don't need no stinking science. I'm a proud participant in the original fat train. So glad you did the Grand Prix again, still my alltime favorite TPR Trip moment.

Not a wise decision. I found the Bison Burger to be a great healthy option.

It is best to ask questions like this in the proper Park Discussion thread. Here

I did not feel an active trim on my ride yesterday.

Must have happened late in the day, I left the park at 5pm and never saw/heard it running and this was the best thing that happened all day. The Funnel cake stand near Down Time serves an Ice Cream Nacho dessert. Looks just like the picture and tasted great. I told then to hold the cherry.

I have no problem with Thunder and Lightning, Twister, Pirate Ship, Enterprise, Wave Swinger, and DownTime

And it never opened today, still waiting on a part. I'm not feeling good about tomorrow, because quite frankly Boulder Dash is the only thing I really love at the park. Looks like I might be riding a lot of flats.

I don't know what was funnier. Garbles failing with the barrel or Garbles getting sand in his vagina in the next vine.

The fourth time is a charm as I finally rode Thunderbolt today. My thoughts. I love the swiveling lap bar, I this something like this would have made SkyRush more enjoyable for me as is better disperses the pressure. The hard plastic seats are not uncomfortable, but you are not snug in the upper body part and sway quite a bit. I think the only other coaster where I felt like this with my upper body was the Bullet Coaster in Happy Valley Shenzhen. Those black shoulder straps probably saved me from cracking my face on the restraint on my lap. Those airtime hills on the return are violent. I ride with my hands up and the coaster tried to throw me straight out of the front of the car. I actually might ride with my hands on the grab bar next time I ride. The tight turnaround feels like it pulls a lot of g's. One of the most forceful turnarounds on a coasters. I very liked the second half of the ride, but something was off in the first half. Not horrible, just off. Maybe it was due to my upper body sliding around so much. People might say it is expensive at $10, but it's a much better deal than the price of some random kiddie coasters.