Family Kingdom-New for 2014

[strwrse1]

Ok, I didn't know they were getting a new coaster, but has anyone seen the page advertising their new rides? If you look closely, there is a familiar picture:

 

Are you now the spokeperson for the park?

 

The website is:family-kingdom.com/AmusementPark/newRides.cfm

[SharkTums]

LOL! That's awesome! I had no idea, maybe Robb knows something about it. They have the same picture but a bit larger on another page as well.

[strwrse1]

I missed that one. I just came across this today. I was so suprised to you and Kristen in the pic, I had to look again to make sure I wasn't seeing things. That pic was from Knoebels on an East Coast trip a few years ago, am I right?

[larrygator]

Ten days ago the local paper also reported Family Kingdom buying two smaller rides from the old Freestyle Park. Magic Bikes and Jump Around Dunebuggies.

 

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/12/20/3914925/some-freestyle-rides-find-new.html

 

Some Freestyle rides find new home in Myrtle Beach

By Dawn Bryant

dbryant@thesunnews.comDecember 20, 2013

 

A couple of the Freestyle Music Park rides that were up for sale have found a new home just a few miles away in Myrtle Beach.

 

Family Kingdom Amusement Park on Ocean Boulevard wasn’t hunting for new rides – the park added four earlier this year – but couldn’t resist the chance to pick up two slightly used rides from the closed theme park just a few miles across town.

 

Family Kingdom bought Magic Bikes and Jump Around Dunebuggies, two interactive family rides that were the right size to squeeze into Family Kingdom’s 13-acre park on Ocean Boulevard near Third Avenue South. Crews picked up the rides last week and will have them installed and ready to go by the time the park reopens in the spring.

 

“We are making some room for them,” said Donnie Sipes, Family Kingdom’s general manager. “These two have small footprints so we are making room for these.”

 

Freestyle Music Park, which closed after the 2009 tourist season and has sat dormant since, is trying to sell off its rides, with more than a dozen of them – including the signature roller coaster along George Bishop Parkway – popping up for sale on the website of Ital International, which brokers the sale of new and used theme park rides.

 

Sipes declined to say how much Family Kingdom paid for the two rides. They are only slightly used, with the theme park in Fantasy Harbour only lasting two summers, as Hard Rock Park in 2008 and Freestyle Music Park in 2009.

 

“We thought it was a good deal for us,” Sipes said. “They are here locally. We got to go over and take a look at them.”

 

Once the two rides are in place, Family Kingdom will have 39 rides in the park, which has been a staple on Ocean Boulevard since 1966 when it was known as Grand Strand Amusement Park. It was renamed to Family Kingdom in 1992.

 

Other rides at the former Freestyle are still listed for sale on Ital International, including the roller coaster that was known as the Led Zeppelin and Time Machine.

 

Read more here: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/12/20/3914925/some-freestyle-rides-find-new.html#storylink=cpy

[MayTheGForceBeWithYou]

I missed that one. I just came across this today. I was so suprised to you and Kristen in the pic, I had to look again to make sure I wasn't seeing things. That pic was from Knoebels on an East Coast trip a few years ago, am I right?

It's from the Chimelong update in 2008, near the end.

[larrygator]

Thanks for pointing that out, I knew by the bamboo that it wasn't taken it Knoebels, but it was bugging me that I couldn't figure out where it was taken.

[arby]

The Twist and Shout coaster was new for 2013. I picked up the credit this summer when I was there.