Dante's Inferno on sale website.

http://www.rides4u.com/index.php/rides/detail/770

How do you move a building?

First you disassemble it....then you move it, then you install it on a new foundation. Well, actually, first you get a permit from local authorities, if it is required. See a certain park in Massachusetts for advice on that....you do not begin construction on your new permitless ride on a dark night.

Or you just move the stuff from inside it and design a new exterior building for the ride. Or just use the parts on your existing ride.

Doubts Mount Over City's Coney Island (Brooklyn) Plan:

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090309/FREE/903099976

Coney Island Plans Rouse Ire:

The New York City Council will decide the fate of the city's fabled Coney Island later this month when it considers Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to turn the aging seaside amusement park into a year-round draw....

But the plan has drawn ire and skepticism among New Yorkers. Dennis Vourderis, for example, worries that this might be the last year his family spins Deno's Wonder Wheel. The 150-foot tall Ferris wheel, named for his father, has hoisted visitors over the Brooklyn skyline for 89 years.

Residents of this neighborhood in southern Brooklyn are demanding guarantees that they would get first dibs on jobs. Merchants and ride owners are worried a developer will end their leases....

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124770012985348345.html

Interestingly Cedar Point would not exist today if the owners in the late 50's had not had a change of heart about closing it down. If I am not mistaken they were going to turn it into a housing development but had a change of heart. It would be nice if Thor ( majority owners of Astroland ) had such a change of heart.

It's a shame to see all this happening. It sounds like the company that owns the majority of the park is more interested in making a huge profit off the land than preserving and improving a classic park. It is nice to hear that they can't knock down The Cyclone though.

More than 50 companies from 7 countries compete to develop Coney Island of Brooklyn, including Premier Rides:

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brookl...s_comeback.html

Very detailed and interesting article:

http://www.hmonthly.com/blog/2009/12/09/co...r-ride-century/

Zamperla gets contract to operate at Coney of Brooklyn!:

Coney Island’s going back to the big time, as the city announced on Wednesday that the amusement wizards behind the popular Victorian Gardens theme park will begin running an amusement park by the Boardwalk this summer.

Zamperla, an Italy-based manufacturer of amusement park rides that has also gotten into the theme park business with its popular attraction in Manhattan’s Central Park every summer, has won the city contract for an unspecified, but up to 10-year, run as the faded funhouse’s newest, biggest draw.

The contract comes with big expectations: the Economic Development Corporation has a much broader vision of a revived Coney Island that will see the former People’s Playground transformed into a 24-7, all-year entertainment, amusement, games and retail zone — one that will take at least a decade to realize.

Until that Xanadu can be built, Zamperla will bring in its rides — though the actual amusements remain undecided — and begin operating by this summer....

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/5/33_05_ac_coney_interim.html?comm=1

Woo hoo! We got 10 more years!

Up to 10 years. Will be interesting to see what they do with the park.

Just a reminder.

That ten years is now more than half gone.

Four more, and then?