No One Is More Unmoved Than The Amusement Park Veteran

Don’t oversell it or anything:

A New Jersey amusement park king is rushing to reopen the shuttered [Nellie Bly] Shore Parkway kiddie park by Memorial Day weekend — with brand-new rides, a new name and wi-fi technology.

Martin Garin and his co-owner son Marc plan to restore five of Nellie Bly’s ancient rides and introduce seven new ones — most of them with kid-friendly names like Venture Elephant.

“I don’t know if its going to be much different, but it’s going to be quality — it’s going to have rides and food and entertainment,” said Garin, who ran New Jersey’s Meadowlands Fair until 2002.

Minor thrillers such as bumper cars, the Tilt-a-Whirl, and the Scrambler will be reintroduced, and a handful of less-scary attractions, such as a carousel, also will hopefully draw the kids, the Garins said.

“It’s like every kiddie ride,” Marc Garin said of the Venture Elephant and others like it. “It just goes ’round and ’round.”