Sounds great for Coney. 

https://www.citybeat.com/arts/coney-island-to-attempt-world-record-for-most-people-down-a-water-slide-in-24-hours-13123329

Interesting idea but I feel sorry for the employees who get stuck working overnight - I doubt that many people will come between midnight and 8am

Interesting idea I think as well, but I doubt many people will come without the rides open daytime hours.

I'm more interested to see how things go for Balloon Glow this year. I've attended that event numerous times over the years, and it's always one of Coney's busiest days. The rides being gone will theoretically give them more room for people to place chairs, blankets, etc. for the big fireworks show at the end of the night, but at the same time, the rides always drew big crowds during the event and gave people something to do besides the pool.

Anyone show up? 

A friend of mine posted on Facebook that the park was pretty busy, but everything got shut down at 10:30 because of safety issues.

6 hours ago, Oldiesmann said:

A friend of mine posted on Facebook that the park was pretty busy, but everything got shut down at 10:30 because of safety issues.

Did they elaborate on the safety issues?  Was it an incident that happened or was it a safety issue they should have anticipated and planned for by agreeing to do this?

 

Edit: despite the park saying it was capacity issues (which should have been planned for and addressed), it appears something did happen:

https://www.wlwt.com/article/police-respond-to-incident-at-coney-island-water-park-after-world-record-attempt/40328389

Another swing and miss for Coney. 

Sounds like unruly guests and fights...unconfirmed but other social media sites have people posting gun shots.

https://www.wlwt.com/article/police-respond-to-incident-at-coney-island-water-park-after-world-record-attempt/40328389

WCPO just said there were no reports of shots fired, despite someone claiming there was a gun. If Coney decides to attempt this again, they need to make sure CPD and/or the Hamilton County Sheriff are there to provide extra security to prevent this sort of thing from happening again.

Oh Coney, if only you would of just invested into more rides you wouldn't have to do things like this to be relevant.

Yeah.  I still miss working the rides down there...  Definitely was a swing and a miss.  They were promoting this even a LOT on the radio when I was listening driving into the office.  It really is unfortunate.

Some of the videos I saw were crazy.

Just sell the park to Gene Staples. Does that Mike Smith still have his hand in that Riverbend stuff.....follow the money trail...lmao

I'm still interested in seeing what happens during Balloon Glow on Sunday. No rides to help spread out the crowds this year, so I'm sure many will just stick around the pool all day instead. I'm not planning to go this year because of the lack of non-water activities prior to the balloons lighting up, but I'm wondering if they will regret not having rides or if this will just add fuel to the "people only come for the pool" stupidity