warnerleroy

I'm for all them using the same straegy they used this there of one major flat plus three small ones. add your drop tower in Movietown and reopen/retheme old country with 3 or 4 other flats(reopened/rethemed autobahn, chance unicaoster, Zamoerla Airplane looper, a new family coaster, Zamperla Skyhawk or Demoderby, just some ieas...)

Pirates of the Carribean At World's End

Pirates of the Carribean On Stranger Tides

The remake of Arthur with Russel brand

am I the only one who wishes they rode the Green HORNET roller coaster?

Source: The Associated Press

NJ Steel Pier drops plan for Diving Horse's return

By WAYNE PARRY | Associated Press – 13 hrs ago

 

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Diving Horse has finally been put out to pasture for good. The owner of Atlantic City's Steel Pier says he's dropping a plan to bring back the legendary attraction, which featured a horse and a rider plunging into a 12-foot-deep water tank from a platform 40 feet in the air, after animal-welfare activists lodged fierce criticism. The act ran on the pier from the 1920s to the 1970s.

 

Anthony Catanoso, whose family owns the historic pier, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he's no longer interested in reviving something that helped make the pier world famous in the last century.

 

"We just felt that since Atlantic City is moving forward, we should move forward with it," he said. "We should create new memories for visitors instead of recreating old ones."

 

Catanoso revived the act once before, in 1993, but shut it down after two months following similar protests from animal-welfare activists.

 

He had envisioned the Diving Horse as the centerpiece of a refurbished Steel Pier, part of an overall makeover of the gambling resort being planned by local and state officials. He downplayed the significance of public opposition in the latest decision to pull the plug on the Diving Horse but acknowledged that the protests did take their toll.

 

"That negativity — we didn't want that to interfere with the positive things we're trying to do," he said.

 

Roseann Trezza, executive director of the Associated Humane Societies in New Jersey, said she was delighted with the change in plans.

 

"You have people trying to make a buck off the backs of animals, and it's really cruel exploitation," she said. "Everybody worked together against that, and I am so happy to see that happen."

 

Catanoso proposed reviving the act earlier this month when a massive redevelopment plan for Atlantic City's Boardwalk, casino district and shopping areas was unveiled. But within days, animal-welfare activists were voicing opposition.

 

The Humane Society of the United States said its members "emphatically oppose equine diving acts."

 

"This is a merciful end to a colossally stupid idea," society president Wayne Pacelle said. "We are pleased so many citizens spoke up and urged that this spectacle never get off the ground. Horse diving has the potential to frighten and injure and kill horses, and it rightly belongs in Atlantic City's history books."

 

A petition against the act on the website change.org garnered 10,000 signatures in one day.

 

Catanoso said he extensively researched the act, including speaking with past performers. In a press release announcing his intention to bring back the act earlier this month, he determined that no horse was ever harmed.

 

"Through this research, we determined there was no animal cruelty or abuse that occurred in the past," he wrote. "The new act will be humane, provide the horses first class care, operate under modern safety standards to protect both the riders and the horses and will not subject the horses to cruelty. We understand and share the community's concern regarding the inhumane treatment of animals. For the past 20 years, we have been dedicated to providing wholesome family entertainment in Atlantic City. We are committed to that goal and would never feature any act that would mistreat an animal."

 

Protesters had been trying to organize a demonstration at the next meeting of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority to protest the inclusion of the Diving Horse in a redevelopment plan for Atlantic City, the nation's second-biggest gambling market after Las Vegas.

 

Although the Diving Horse was the most attention-getting aspect, the Steel Pier is undergoing a $100 million renovation that will take 3 1/2 years and will make it a year-round attraction. Some work is already under way. This summer, there will be six new rides, several new games, beer gardens, new food and beverage kiosks and a resurfacing of the pier floor.

 

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Wayne Parry can be reached at http://twitter.com/WayneParryAC

do you know what it is?

will it be ready for opening day for HH?

I like the idea of part of the pier covered so the rides can run all year. If it happens it will be nice to be able to ride a coaster during the offseason. I really miss Tivoli Pier from Tropicana even though the coaster wasn't that great, it was better than nothing.

I remember hearing that the Catanaso (probably spelled wrong) brothers own that coaster and have tried to move it to the pier. It makes me wonder about that "new coaster".

^you know more?

Any pics of it post "retirement"?

With the area being "revived" I'd love to see a Zamperla Balloon Race themed to the original GAdv balloons replace the remote control cars behind big wheel and a Pirate themed tilt-a whirl for the lakefront where the remote control boats are now

am i the only one who saw the secret service in the first photo atop the emporium?

Ive been behind main street so many times it actually seems odd to see it all 'decorated' as opposed to the utalitarian way it normally is

can we put this in movietown? perhaps in the old Exploratorum?

if this "rotation" included a new flat to fill super teepees old spot, i guess I wouldn't mind it as much....

As opposed to rotating the coasters, I'd like to see GAdv do another makeover on medusa, ala 2009, but much more. Medusa(thats atleast what i still call it)'s attendance is low mainly because of it's location in the park. in 2013, i'd like to see another "Adventure alley" esque expansion, only this time in the Movietown/Old Country area. Add another drop tower to Freefall's old spot and name it Stuntman's Freefall again and demolish chiller's stations(and Musik express if the reports of it being beyond repair are true) and put Medusa there. Repaint it brown with black supports and rename it "Spin meister". This, with a reopened old country, will give it a lot more attention and more people will see it and ride it. then, add another flat ride to the old spin meister's area to complete a old country revamp.

prob not biaro b/c of all the money that was pumped into it a few years ago. I think SUF would prob be a more likely candidate

^that 1990's skipper sure is energetic!

One idea I had after GITP was that Six flags should find a way, even if it's not adding a new major attraction for 1 or 2 years, would be to BUY Gary Goddard entertainment with Gary as a consultant. That way Six Flags would have an inhouse, Disney-imagineering esque design team with EXPERIENCE in unique and high quality entertainment as opposed to the "norm" of six Flags creative. It would still operate as it's own company too, however, so companys other that SF could be in business with them, bringing more revenue in to prevent the company from going under

can this effect be restored(although it most likely wont)?

Disaster was just upgraded years ago so they wouldn;t remove iut and loose their investment. Still I can;t help but think that this decision to close Jaws was notm something USF has been depbating for planning for along time, it just seems so rushed in nature....

I havent ridden Jaws in years so if it's true about the lack of capacity i can manage to take some sense out of the situation, although I still dont agree with it. However, rides like Kongfrontation and BTTF NEVER had short lines whenever I went, from the opening of the park up untill their closings, so the same argument cant be used there

I have a friend who went to Vegas for New years and i just called him and he said he had a terrible headache. being New Years Eve, I joked with him that he probably partied too hard, but he said "No, i rode Manhattan Express at new York New York" XD

i cant wait to see either how empty or crowded it will get at 5 am

This would be great especially with how big the holidays are in the new York area. They can replace all the display windows on main St with mock up little department store windows and but a Rockefeller center style tree over the fountain since it can't operate itd also be interesting if they could make a real flying santas sleigh using the skyway cables ala disneys tinkerbell

this news officially ruined my day -