Idora Park returning?

Ive heard some rumours of Idora's return.Can anybody comfirm this?

And if anyone has ridden anything there,please tell me what its like.

It was demolished this season after sitting idle for years. If it was going to be resurrected, I expect it would have happened before the place was bulldozed.

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Shaggy
A.K.A. John K.

But the wood for the caoster are still in a storage compartment right and the blueprints are still around.

I just wish,this sounds like a great park to go to waste.I wish ACE would/could do something about this.Like Dick Knoebel look what he did,but it was only with one coaster not a whole park.

Nitro230 said:
"But the wood for the caoster are still in a storage compartment right and the blueprints are still around."

Both the Wildcat and the JackRabbit looked to be in pretty bad shape. Even though they were SBNO, they were standing idle and rotting for 17 years... just imagine the condition of the wood and the rusted mechanical parts. Besides, the Wildcat was heavily damaged to begin with in the 1984 fire that lead to the demise of the park (sooner rather than later). The question anyway is moot since both of the coasters were demolished earlier this year (and I do not think any thing from them is in storage).

The only chance of resurection of either of these two coasters is to have them rebuilt anew from old blue prints (more in line of what Knoebels did with Twister and the plans for Mr.Twister rather than relocating the Rocket-now-Phoenix).

Not too sure how this would go over. The Wildcat (a Schmeck design I believe) was notroriously rough (I thought I read somewhere that teeth were sometimes knocked out). Its final version was even a tamed down version from its original form I think. If it were to be rebuilt, I am sure the plans would be adjusted even more to take into account today's litigation happy society.

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"I wasn't always this cynical, but then I started kindergarden..."

*** This post was edited by SLFAKE on 11/20/2001. ***

Ive heard that people would actualy stand next to the Wildcat at night and actualy watch the sparks fly from the trains.Is that true!?

I never noticed Wildcat being rough, but that was a long time ago and I could tolerate a lot more back then.

There is nothing left of either coaster but the blue prints are floating around somewhere. There is a rumor awhile back that some guy wants to rebuild the park in a different location but close to the original location, but I heard he was still trying to raise funds. A good site for info about Idora is www.idorapark.org.

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Christ how do you kids do it

From what i had heard, "Idora Park" will return, but not at its grand form as we all knew it to be. Sinc ethe church own it, they want to make it a little township-like park for recreation and relaxing. No more rides, folks.

Supposely the church wants to build their new church there. My theory is that the church burned down the ballroom, only way to get rid of a landmark, right? So they burned it down, with that gone they just take down the rotting piles of wood I like to call history, mow the grass and they got there land for the new church. That's my theory, but hey, maybe it was just some kids who caught it ablaze....from the church.

Actually, I just woke up, ;) but I do believe the church was behind the death of a dying park.