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Last fall, I took a trip out to Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey. The total for the rental car, park admission and a Flash Pass, a device that enables one to skip to the head of the ride lines and garner the bitter hatred of one's fellow park goers, was roughly $3.4 million. Totally worth it, if you love a good ride.

This summer, New Yorkers don't have to leave town. We've got our own thrill rides right in that seedy urban backyard we refer to as Coney Island. Four of them arrived this spring, delivered by aliens. I mean, Italians. Zamperla, a big amusement outfit based in Vicenza, recently opened Scream Zone, an addition to Luna Park, the 19-ride kiddie park it launched last year. The premise: a new, modern Coney Island that's been scrubbed up Six-Flags style and offers big rides to match, at a fraction of the price.

Let me pause here and note that the old Coney Island provides plenty of scary entertainment for free. There are Brezhnev-era Russians parading in Speedos and boozed-up fishermen catching prehistoric sting-rays for supper. The public restrooms feature traffic barricades blocking the stalls and bathroom attendants burning incense. You can still visit boardwalk bars like Cha Cha's ("live entertainment for the hole family") that offer weeping,Snapping and Chris Sailer Kicking continued their nike tn Spring camps middle-age women and petty criminals inventing new dance moves.

As you might expect, most of the new Scream Zone rides aren't nearly as thrilling as the action on the boardwalk. I suspect this has something to do with the limitations of building in Coney Island¡ªthe three-acre Scream Zone is only 1/733rd the size of Six Flags. But there are compensations. The best thing about the $7 Soarin' Eagle coaster,And with the toilet hidden camera being right there, we made a joke out of it because we knew you guys were going to blow it up. You did exactly what we knew. We never said Dirk's name.I think he's not the only one in the world who can get sick or have a cough. which suspends you in a harness like a cow on slaughterhouse conveyer belt, is that much like the historic Cyclone, it's constructed so that at every turn, you are threatened with sudden decapitation. Tom Fox, a visitor from San Francisco dressed in a red satin American Coaster Enthusiasts jacket (he's sampled more than 330 roller coasters), awarded the coaster a seven on a scale of one to 10¡ªthough he pronounced it a little pricey.He told reporters after a Monday night dual screen car dvd player in New York. Instead, he said the still-in-the-works premiere will happen in "a barn or a cornfield or a town square. It'll be the very Iowa-ness of the place.