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Santa came early and brought us TWO NEW RIDES for 2015!! Get ready for fun on a swinging-pendulum thrill ride and kiddie bumper cars!

The new thrill ride swings in a back-and-forth pendulum motion, sending riders in a 360-degree arc, forty feet in the air as the ride carriage spins in a clockwise rotation. And the new kiddie bumper cars will put little ones in the driver's seat for a bumpy, bouncing adventure.

Bouncing?

Huh?

Yeah. That is a creative description for kiddy bumper cars.

I believe the pendulum that Coney might be getting is a Zamperla Midi Discovery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEW8BMon8do

And it looks like Zamperla also makes a mini bumper car ride. http://www.zamperla.com/products/mini-bumper-car/

Awesome news!

Never knew they had a sister property Jelly Stone Park Bloomington IN, on Coney's web site now.

Good for them.

Well, the Jellystone campgrounds are actually owned by Leisure Systems. Leisure Systems is owned by Park River Corporation. Park River Corporation is the parent company that owns Coney. Park River is owned by the relatives of the late Ronald Walker, who purchased Coney in 1991.

I absolutely love the history of Coney and the early history of Kings Island. One of these days, I should write a book about it all.

Contest to name Coney`s new rides: http://coneyislandpark.com/in_the_news.php?nID=54

Guess I was proven wrong about thinking that all Coney would get in 2015 is new picnic tables. Awesome news!

Those little pendulum rides really do offer great bang for the buck for a small park. The one at Camden, at least on the day I was there, was one of the only rides with a line, and it was a few cycles' wait before I was able to ride. Especially considering that it's one of the higher capacity thrill rides in the park.

Camden Park has other thrill rides?

(I'll probably catch some flack for this.)

IMO I think the one they have at Camden is better than Delirum at KI.

Also, It had THE best ride op(s) probably of any ride I have ever rode.

Flack?

Terp, who prefers Revolution at Six Flags Great America née Frisbee at NJFTP to any Huss Giant Frisbee.

Flack?

Terp, who prefers Revolution at Six Flags Great America née Frisbee at NJFTP to any Huss Giant Frisbee.

Yes, flack.

Guess I could've said I'll be gettin', a hard time.

Not from me.

Bigger does not necessarily mean better. Often, it doesn't.

See Son of Beast.

Don't get me wrong, Delirium Is an O.K. ride.

But, it does not hurt my feelings if i don't ride it, neither.

I do really like the one at Camden (I can not think of it's name to save my life.)

I think Coney's getting a good ride.

The Rattler.

(And yes, imitation of a Kings Island snake and a Texas coaster was probably intentional).

I learned "bigger doesn't mean better" when I visited Camden several years ago. The small Spider ride they had there was so much more intense than Monster. It's a shame it isn't there anymore, but it sounds like it was past its prime and/or wasn't well-maintained.

Note that Holiday World's disappeared approximately the same time. Though coincidence in time may not mean the causes equate...

The Rattler.

(And yes, imitation of a Kings Iskand snake and a Texas coaster was probably intentional).

Thanks Terp, guess I could've looked it up...........What makes you think that?

Oldiesmann, I would probably say I rode Camden's Spider a couple hundred times in my life, for some reason, i just really loved that ride.

General speculation (just between me, some friends and some GP that I have spoken with) is, one, or more bolts come loose.

It's just, not the place it seemed to be in my youth

No bolts came loose on the Spider. The arm bent due to metal fatigue.

Really? Where did you find that out at?

That's pretty crazy.

Really? Where did you find that out at?

That's pretty crazy.

Let's just say a media source (at the time) wrote about the State report:

http://www.wvbroadcasting.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18965

Thanks Terp for clearing that up, sometimes I just go with what I hear, or my gut instinct. I'm not much for finding things things like that, sometimes.

You, sir are a fountain of information.

Looks like some good and fun new rides. We will be going to ride and slide.

Camden Park has other thrill rides?

Sure! They have a coaster so thrilling that the back seat of the train won't even ride it!

I do have to admit, walking into the station and seeing an entire seat and lap bar missing from the train did not exactly give me the warm fuzzies about riding...

At least one poster here has ridden that seat many hundreds of times. Can you say back seat of Tornado at Stricker's Grove x about 3?

Years ago, they ran two trains on that ride. Manually controlled. It was always...amazing. Dispatches were swift and smooth. And I never saw an operator back then under an age I perceived as 70--but was probably more like a hard lived 55+.

^ Are you talkin about Big Dipper?

If so, I just don't remember that. Might have been before my time.

If so, wow.

I most certainly am.

Big Dipper's first season was 1958.

Terp, who rode its predecessor, The New Sensation, many times the summer before he was born.

Huh, when did they do away with the second train?

About a decade ago.