Posted May 23, 2014, 2:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Wayward Memphian
I've noticed the coaster one uses a slice of the land that available there. What's the speculation like for the Zamperla crew to use the rest as possible a water park to compliment the beach.
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That was reported earlier, but they are in negotiations to acquire the land. The land where the Thunderbolt now stands is city owned, like the rest of Luna Park.
If you notice the empty lots in the photographs, those are also privately owned lots (Thor) where future development will take place. But besides the waterpark,
they still have plans...
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.1802824
May 23, 2014
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Zamperla has plans for more new rides, but he declined to discuss them until the Thunderbolt proves a success.
That’s mostly a matter of getting enough people willing to pay $10 per ride this summer. The sun coming back after a long winter will help.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/ny...ster.html?_r=0
Got Nerves of Steel? Meet the Thunderbolt Roller Coaster
By LISA W. FODERARO
MAY 23, 2014
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It may resemble a giant Erector set. But the new Thunderbolt roller coaster, which was manufactured in Italy and Slovakia and shipped to New York in pieces,
is not child’s play, at least when it comes to assembly.
Over several weeks, construction workers, engineers and electricians have been toiling from sunup to sundown in Coney Island, hoisting more than 200 white
support structures into place and then affixing 77 sections of bright orange track, stretching 2,200 feet, with five inversions (that means you go upside down).
By the time it is finished, the workers will have used 2,590 bolts to piece together the track sections, which average 38 feet and weigh up to 12,000 pounds.
There was rain and wind slowing their progress. There was the unpredictability of prefabricated pieces. And there was the impossibly narrow work site, just next
to the B & B Carousell, running from the boardwalk all the way to Surf Avenue, near West 15th Street.
“It’s a very odd property,” said Valerio Ferrari, the president of Central Amusement International, which will operate the new roller coaster and already runs
Coney Island’s Luna Park.
“It’s 48 feet wide by 800 feet long. No one has ever before offered a coaster so skinny and so long.”
The company planned to open the roller coaster on May 24, the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, but construction delays pushed the target date back to May 31.
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