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Adventure Express is back on track.

Saw this post on Facebook. Looks to be drone shots of them destroying the pool. I do hope they save moonlight gardens. Had my first dance and real kiss there. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/SYPvJue5rPaoR9mj/?mibextid=WC7FNe

New look for Thunderhawk's 100th.

Given simple things like a pass not working for parking and employee telling the guest it doesn't include parking, and people have their meal plan work one day and not the next, I don't know if I would be comfortable outlaying any money into a CF gift card LOL. If they can't train their staff properly on what a Gold pass includes, I sure doubt they are telling them how to process a gift card if there are any issues... I'd go with a Visa gift card.

Might have a new one soon. https://x.com/sixflags/status/1770917112317395101?s=46

more dark rides too.... n Snoopy expansion keep it going.

Last year I think they had Backlot, I'd be happy to see it added again.

Hmmmm, that video from the park sounds very much like something @DonHelbig and @BoddaH1994 discussed on a recent episode...

Here is a good one too!

Although it is sad to see the park's demise, the ownership did themselves no favors removing the rides. The rides were just enough to get my family to buy season passes each year. Not an overly big selection, but quite a few fun rides (bumper cars were great there!). We actually did not go to the pool much at all. We saved that for KI. It was super close and a really nice way to spend an afternoon walking around under the trees, getting a bite to eat and riding. Once the rides were removed, we ceased to buy passes. It hurt because we have had such amazing, memory filled days there. If we wanted a water park, then off to KI we go for a much more robust selection of slides. So, I blame management for not understanding just how much the park meant to locals and beyond. Not keeping the rides and not thinking ahead and adding more rides to the mix was what killed Coney for us.

I read somewhere a while back that they do plan to save Moonlite Gardens. As much as people love to hate MEMI and/or CSO for this, it isn't their fault at all. This wouldn't be happening if the previous owners of the property hadn't decided to sell it to begin with. They were even selling season passes right up until the announcement of the sale was made, and have conveniently remained silent on this issue ever since (easier to let a big corporation and the city's beloved symphony orchestra take the blame I guess).

I’ve got no love for MEMI after what they did to MidPoint, but this shouldn’t surprise you considering they’re not in the business of operating pools. Sunlite (and by extension, what was left of Coney) got spared by a stroke of luck in 1971. There’s been ample time to revive the park into something more, but no one did, even after the death was hastened with the removal of rides in 2019. At least they intend to keep the main gate and possibly even Moonlite Gardens…a venue which the previous ownership let rot.

Thank you for documenting this for posterity. I've only been to Coney Island once, and that was a walk through to get to Riverbend, so I don't have the sentiment you do. But , I do hold the property in due respect since it went through labor pains to birth Kings Island.

Exciting news for Dorney! The park PR team has knocked it out of "the park" with their updates this off season!

Does anybody seem to remember this giant billboard of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo in Hanna-Barbera land at Kings Island? If so does anybody know what happened to it, weather it got sold or destroyed? I'm curious because I used to love seeing it when I was a kid, thank you!

I think they are right by going with the Camp Snoopy push as the main thing, they want to retake the Golden Ticket Award back, and you don’t do that just by talking about a new coaster, it needs to be them talking about expanding Planet Snoopy, and that’s what they’re doing. It would be nice to see a Peanuts Pirate ride added someday, it’s popular at Carowinds.

It appears as though our dear friends at CSO/MEMI have brought the hammer down on Coney Island and Sunlite Pool. As of this post, the destruction of the pool has started: 3/21/24 I actually stopped by the park last night before dinner to snag a few pics. Didn’t think today was going to be demo day. Glad I went when I did: 3/20/24 Looks like a lot of working going on in the corner of the park by Lake Como, the interstate, and Kellogg. Maybe this is the site of the new venue? I’ve heard the pool area will be a parking lot expansion… Anyway. I adore this place and hate seeing this happen. But I’m sick, and I plan on doing periodic updates with pictures. So I’ll post them here as things progress.