After going to coaster-count.com, and filling in my rides, I noticed an omission of a spinning wild mouse I had ridden at Miracle Strip Amusement Park. I contacted coaster-count, and they initially e-mailed me back saying I had most likely confused it with another park. After adding more details, they e-mailed me again, and now acknowledge it's existence. It is now listed on both coaster-count.com, and rcdb.com. Sadly, it is listed as unknown, on both sites. Does anyone else remember this ride? If so a name would be grand, and better yet some photos. They asked if I had any photos, unfortunately, I do not. Any help would be appreciated.

Crazy Mouse (2002)?

In the right pane, about 3 pages down:

http://www.miraclestripamusementpark.panamacitysun.com/

Outstanding! Thank you kind sir. I think I even looked at that page before and missed it. I knew this site would come through.

Sorry to double post, but what a sad article.

"As we move up to modern times and into the cyber age. We had witnessed the explosion of the Internet and our nation was rapidly expanding with real-estate sales of all types. Real Estate Sales were basically on steroids and America was in transformation and taking on a new shape. The locals and municipalities of P.C.B. desperately wanted to shed the image of the Redneck Riviera. The City wanted to begin to earn what they felt these properties were truly worth and what they felt they should be making since this was in fact Premium Beachfront Property. It was decided to loose the Miracle Mile Image also known in slang as the The Redneck Riviera. The transformation would be marketed as The Emerald Coast" due to the Blue/Green color of the waters depending upon the time of day. The pressure began to mount on current business operators of the day and unfortunately this park along with others in the area's days of operation would be limited."

And here we are, 10 years later, and it sits as an eye sore, an overgrown lot with abandoned buildings that used to house rides and attractions. That is unless something has changed since the 2010 photos included on page 2 of the article. I think there may be a lesson to be learned here.

EDIT: I misread, as of 2010 it was completely leveled, the pictures were taken before.

The owner of the park probably made a fortune selling that land though. According to Wikipedia, many of the rides have since been sold and moved to other locations, and a smaller amusement park opened nearby in 2010 (see http://www.ms-pp.com). It sounds like what happened is they waited too long to clear the land, and by 2010, the country was in a recession so people weren't as interested in buying beachfront condos. Things might turn around now that the recession seems to be ending to some extent, but still, luxury housing isn't as lucrative as it once was.

I found some pictures here:

http://www.themeparksonline.org/tpoRides.asp?ID=5174&selYear=2002&sec=20000&ParkID=104

Click on the Additional Photos page for more.

Good find, that site seems very hard to navigate. Thanks!!