(30 Jun 2022)
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New York - 17 June 2022
1. GoPro point of view riding 'Tony's Express'
HEADLINE: Coney Island to get new rides, plazas this summer
ANNOTATION: The iconic Coney Island boardwalk is getting a facelift with three new rides and pedestrian plazas.
2. Coney Island boardwalk
3. Aerial of Coney Island beach and Luna Park rides
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Alessandro Zamperla, President, CEO Central Amusement International Inc.:
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"Coney Island been this great rich place with so much legacy and emotions and memories for all. Not just New Yorkers, but Americans in order to be an iconic place. We really started the rebirth of Coney Island with Luna Park in 2010. And every year we've been improving. You know, we've been expanding. Actually, we are coming here in 2022 with the largest expansion. We're going to add not one, not two, but three major attractions. And we'll expand the footprint of the park by more than five acres."
5. Wide, Coney Islands iconic Cyclone roller coaster
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alessandro Zamperla, President, CEO Central Amusement International Inc.:
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"Always again, you know, embracing the legacy and the history of Coney Island, if you look at the themeing. The roller coaster 'Tony's Express,' it's actually paying homage to the 'Switchback Railway.' And the latest treasure, the flume ride, is actually paying homage to 'Shoot The Chutes,' again, another, you know, iconic ride in Coney Island, back in the 19th century."
7. 'Tony's Express' new roller coaster being tested with weighted body dummies
8. Wide, 'Tony's Express' roller coaster
9. Various, construction of Log Flume 'Leti's Treasure'
10. GoPro point of view riding 'Tony's Express'
ANNOTATION: The new roller coaster will bend and curve around the log flume at more than 40 mph on over 1,000 feet of track.
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Alessandro Zamperla, President, CEO Central Amusement International Inc.:
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"It's also paying homage to our history as a family. The names of both rides, actually after my grandparents. Tony's short for Antonio my grandfather and Leti, short for Letizia my grandmother."
12. Zamperla riding 'Tony's Express' roller coaster
ANNOTATION: Alessandro Zamperla's family has been in the amusement park industry for over five generations.
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Alessandro Zamperla, President, CEO Central Amusement International Inc.:
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"Again, always this kind of connection with who came before us and really helped us again. We always standing on the shoulders of giants. So we're really much paying homage and honor to them."
14. Construction of a new climbing rope course looking through fence
15. Pan from roller coaster to construction of new pedestrian plaza
ANNOTATION: A 50-foot rope climb and pedestrian plazas are also being built. The entire expansion will increase the size of the park by 50-percent.
16. Wide, construction of roller coaster and log flume rides
17. GoPro point of view riding 'Tony's Express'
ANNOTATION: The new rides and plazas are scheduled to be open to the public by the middle of the summer.
STORYLINE:
Coney Island is getting a face lift, well kinda. The iconic beachfront community is actually getting three new rides and pedestrian plazas on five acres along the boardwalk. The new attractions are part of an expansion by Luna Park, the home of the legendary Cyclone roller coaster.
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