Word is Jack Rabbit at Clementon Park in New Jersey:

http://www.rcdb.com/ig221.htm

will be removed either the end of this week or early next.

I was lucky enough to ride this back when it still did not have upstops, then again after they were installed. In defense of the park, it hadn't operated since 2003. The coaster does not have footings, and merely sits on the ground.

See: http://www.rcdb.com/ig221.htm?picture=2

http://www.rcdb.com/ig221.htm?picture=3

It would have been removed much earlier had the park had the money to do so. It has now changed hands, and the new owners are removing it.

This (along with Big Dipper in Ohio) is one of the few John Miller coasters left. Jack Rabbit and Racer at Kennywood, Jack Rabbit at Seabreeze in Rochester, Legend at Arnold's Park in Iowa, Roller Coaster at Lagoon in Utah, Wild One at SFA and the seasonally operated Coaster at the Puyallup Fair in Washington state--and the standing but not operating Screechin' Eagle at LeSourdsville Lake. It's come to this.

Oh, more overseas? Yeah, One. Big Dipper at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in the UK.

Alas.

Sigh.

Regardless of the current condition of the ride, it is still a sad day when a coaster designed by such a legendary designer is slated for the wrecking ball.

Jack Rabbit at Clementon is no more.

Pictures can be seen starting at post 12 here:

http://gadvupdates.com/forums/index.php/topic,1892.0.html

The first post has before photos....

Is the rest of the park staying open? Is the j2 any good compared to its predecessor?

The park is staying open. In fact, it has been purchased by some former Six Flags executives. J2 previously known as Tsunami is one of the wildest, most violent roller coasters I have ever ridden. Made by S & S Power, as was Avalanche at Timber Falls in the Wisconsin Dells. It has some very violent transitions (unlike Timber Hawk: Ride of Prey, also an S & S and perhaps the mildest, most boring wooden coaster I have ever ridden). And before you ask, no I have not ridden Falken in Denmark!

Jack Rabbit was a John Miller creation and not the most rambunctious of rides...but still it was a lot of fun. It was, as I posted earlier, at first a side friction coaster with no upstops (like Leap the Dips).

Well deserving of a bump.

And fewer John Miller coasters than then.

And Geauga Lake's Big Dipper continues to rot into oblivion, owned at this point by who knows whom.

I just couldn't imagine there will be anything left of the Big Dipper.

I can only imagine it will set there till it either rots plum to the ground, or the finally demolish it.