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bigmac1789

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This flew heavy under the Radar,but Funtown Pier in Seaside Heights, have been looking to rebuild for years. The original plan was to build a bunch of attractions over 150 feet but the town stated the Height limit was 150 feet. This April, Construction crews started laying down Pillars for the pier, unkown where the construction progress is now. The park was wanting to open an observation thing in 2022,then open rides in 2023.
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Bring on dem new credits!
I oddly liked the old looping coaster at Funtown Pier. In my travels I actually made it there 3 times before the Hurricane destroyed it (and uh, twice since)
 
Rupert said:
This sounds more like a Rollercoaster Tycoon scenario than somewhere actually real!
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This property has alot of history to it. The park was affected by Hurricane Sandy. They rebuilt the park,but then a year later, Seaside Heights had a major fire that destroyed the park. After the property became Funtown Beach, a private beach where the park once stood. They also had a couple Zamperla Kids rides set up.
 
Hate to put a damper on this one. I visited the new pier a couple of months ago and there's benches and tables there, but no signs of anything else as far as the return of the park is concerned. I asked around and heard that the pier owner didn't like that he couldn't build any major attractions, but was considering building some kiddie rides there for 2023. He originally wanted to open a 300 feet tall roller coaster Star Flyer, but the city put a 150 feet height limit and squashed his plans. So now the only permit submitted is for an administration/entrance building and we'll have to wait and see what happens next.
Jer, Kimi (remember them?) and I visited the park back in 2012 before Superstorm Sandy struck and I filmed a couple of POVs on the Miler Mighty Mouse and the Interpark looper Canobiefan mentioned. You get a decent view of what the pier looked like back then, but the new pier only extends about 80 feet out over the beach now.


 
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ECG said:
[The pier owner] originally wanted to open a 300 feet tall roller coaster
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A pier giga would've been... something.
 
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Sorry, I guess I should have done some research like @bigmac1789 and not just gone by what the local vendors told me. The article he linked says it was a 300 feet tall Star Flyer (that the vendors were calling a coaster) that the owner wanted to build. I corrected my original post above.
Still all six attractions are well over the 150 feet height limit the city stipulates and the owner (Bill Major) maintains it isn't worth opening a full-fledged amusement park without those types of major attractions. So for now we'll likely only see some basic kiddie rides and hopefully he'll get the opportunity to compete with the Casino Pier just up the boardwalk in the years to come.
 
That looping coaster may have been what kick-started my interest in riding coasters back in the late '90s. I was probably 10, and was apprehensive about getting on at first, but then lapped the thing around 20 times before leaving. Felt like such a badass. I seem to remember the ride ops having to push the train out of the station (or back into it), and feeling bad about making them do that all those times.
 
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