News Project 2026: Shoreline Pier (Boardwalk Phase I feat. Barrels O' Fun & More)

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Looks like a site tour today. Expect the usual suspects to have videos and pics in the coming hours/days. Here's a good look around the Pier from Matt Kaiser on Great Adventure Connoisseurs on FB. Looks like more Pier ride pieces on-site, painted, and ready to assemble as soon as their pads are ready for them.

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Great Adventurer said:
Nice look at some of the colors coming to the Pier!

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We’re very lucky to be seeing all of this come to the park seemingly out of nowhere, I’m excited to see what it all looks like when it’s finished

I’m particularly happy to be seeing a NebulaZ here, ever since the SFA closure was announced I pushed hard to see that ride come here
 
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RDL said:
We’re very lucky to be seeing all of this come to the park seemingly out of nowhere, I’m excited to see what it all looks like when it’s finished

I’m particularly happy to be seeing a NebulaZ here, ever since the SFA closure was announced I pushed hard to see that ride come here
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100% agreed! Every one of these rides will be a fantastic addition and I'm very glad they'll all get to live on in this way as opposed to being sold or scrapped.

Despite looking at and admiring all of them in at some point, the NebulaZ is the only one out of the five rides that I actually went on at SFA. I thought it was brilliant and I'm thrilled to see it here in NJ. While I'll always hate the circumstances behind SFA's closure, I really don't think there's any other way that Great Adventure would have gotten a NebulaZ - it doesn't strike me as something they would have chosen for this park off the shelf.
 
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There's so much going on!

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Each new ride has a dedicated sign on the fence.
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They're getting ready to put some more concrete in on the ride side...
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...And the other, non-ride side's concrete was quietly completed.
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A Memorial Day weekend opening suddenly seems quite realistic.
 

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Something else to point out is the new color scheme for the boardwalk games, REALLY hope we see this carried across the entire area because it already looks way better. This along with ripping out the rest of the concrete and replacing it with the new board printed concrete would go such a long way towards making this area finally make sense.
 
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Something else to point out is the new color scheme for the boardwalk games, REALLY hope we see this carried across the entire area because it already looks way better. This along with ripping out the rest of the concrete and replacing it with the new board printed concrete would go such a long way towards making this area finally make sense.
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not to mention, its fits the theming atop of the building better

and also, I love to see this park move the boardwalk Game Center to the vacant side of the boardwalk fries building (like the side next to slingshot) and turn boardwalk game center back into a shop or maybe a museum like the old great adventure history museum
 
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A Memorial Day weekend opening suddenly seems quite realistic.
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I wouldn't be surprised at this rate to see all rides completed by next weekend and focus shifted to BOF's station, walkways, landscaping, other final touches. With testing of the rides happening at the same time, or happening the following week before a memorial day weekend opening.

I just wonder if the food/merch that's supposed to go in front of the employee building next to 3-point will be in "booth" form. Something built backstage and placed there. Or once the pier area opens, focus shifts to building those.
 
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