Morey's considers new trains for Great Nor'Easter

It's always good when a company realizes the needs of their customers and changes something to make their lives better i.e. the Premier train conversions to lapbars. Let's hope that other amusement parks with SLC's get interested as well, although with a $1-million dollar pricetag, some might not see the benefit.

I'm just amazed that a council has to review the change considering that Morey's is a private organization.

I won't pretend to know how the Morey organization is set up but it's a big family that owns and operates a lot of businesses in the Wildwoods. In addition to the amusement piers they also own a handful of motels as well as other stuff I can't remember.

It's the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, which is responsible for doing amusement ride inspections. New Jersey's amusement ride law is very specific, and instead of referencing industry standards, includes design requirements that are actually based on the draft language of the ASTM standards (including stuff that has not been adopted into the standard). New Jersey's ride law is probably the most meddlesome in the country and requires that the State approve all the designs. Some of the requirements in the New Jersey law (such as the release of proprietary information by manufacturers) makes me almost surprised that there are still any rides operating in that state at all.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Is this 1 million $ price-tag somthing official or is it just floating around?
It seems pretty steep for a 20 person train.

It's for two trains, and I assume that takes into account minor changes that have to made elsewhere (IF changes have to be made, like braking systems and whatnot.)

Its just the coaches. Everything else (brakes, whatnot) stay the same.

That's what I thought, but wasn't sure. I have no idea what new trains cost so I was just speculating that the price could have included other work associated with the change.

Are these those new trains with the lapbars that they are putting on there family inverted coasters? Having never ridden an SLC, I don't know how the old ones fel, but lapbars on an inverted coaster. Wow. B&M, take note of what your competitor is doing, will you?

Heck, wasn't it Anton himself to basically proved that a lapbar was all you needed to restrian folks on coasters that go upside down? It's very nice to see that several companies are discovering that you CAN do this safely. I can't begin to tell you how much more fun Mr. Freeze is without the OTSRs...

Now, if only they could restore lap bar only trains on Revolution...