Jet Star
Casino Pier
Coordinates	39°56′33″N74°04′09″W / 39.942574°N 74.069198°WCoordinates: 39°56′33″N74°04′09″W / 39.942574°N 74.069198°W
Status	Removed
Opening date	1970
Closing date	2000
Replaced by	Star Jet
General statistics
Type	Steel
Manufacturer	Anton Schwarzkopf
Model	Jet Star
Height	44.3 ft (13.5 m)
Length	1,765.1 ft (538.0 m)
Speed	31.1 mph (50.1 km/h)
Jet Star at RCDB Pictures of Jet Star at RCDB

Jet Star, sometimes stylized as Jet-Star, was a steelroller coaster which operated between 1970 and 2000 at Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. It was replaced by—and sometimes confused with^[1]—Star Jet,^[2] the coaster which was swept into the Atlantic Ocean by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

May 14, 2013 — The iconic view of the Jet Star roller coaster standing in the Atlantic Ocean's roiling surf will be lost to history in a few days. Said spokeswoman Toby Wolf of Casino Pier amusement park. COASTER-net TV Store Hauntoverse About Links Casino Pier Location: Seaside Heights, NJ. Casino Pier Location: Seaside. Roller Coasters Hot Tamales Hydrus Pirates Hideaway Thrill Rides Tilt-a-Whirl Surf Shack Shore Shot Ferris Wheel Air Race Bumper Cars Disk'o Moby Dick.

History[edit]

Unfortunately, Wild Mouse became a victim of the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy when it hit the Jersey Shore on October 29, 2012. Casino Pier was fortunately able to salvage this Wild Mouse coaster, but due to the destruction of the pier were it resided, the roller coaster was sold to a new operator in Sacramento, California. Aug 31, 2011 Pirates Hideaway Roller Coaster POV Casino Pier Seaside Heights New Jersey Shore. Casino Pier (East Coaster Trip. Star Jet Roller Coaster POV Front Seat On. Hydrus Casino Pier (Seaside Heights, New Jersey, United States) Operating since Roller Coaster Steel Sit Down Extreme. For statistics on the fastest, tallest or longest roller coasters? Find it all and much more with the interactive Roller Coaster Database. Hydrus Casino Pier (Seaside Heights, New Jersey, United States) Operating since.

For some time there was confusion about the early history of the Jet Star. It was originally thought to have been moved to Casino Pier from a brief run at Palisades Amusement Park. Instead, it seems that it was bought new from Anton Schwarzkopf's company in Germany.^[3] Casino Pier had operated Wild Mouse roller coasters in the late 1950s,^[4] but by the mid 1960s, ridership numbers were dropping.^[5] The Park's operator, Ken Wynne,^[1] was traveling in Europe when he found the coaster he thought would be the best replacement—a Jet Star coaster built by Schwarzkopf.^[5] Wynne believed that it would provide a much more exciting ride experience than the earlier Wild Mouse coasters.^[5]

During the construction of Jet Star, there was some debate on where it should be located on Casino Pier.^[5] One story tells of how Wynne told the ride dealer, Roland Koch, where on the pier the coaster should be built. When Wynne returned from lunch, he discovered that Koch had begun to build the coaster in a completely different part of the pier. After a long argument, Koch's preferred location won and the coaster was built where the dealer wanted^[5]—at the very end of the pier, overlooking the ocean.^[6] As the later Star Jet would ultimately replace the Jet Star, this placement may have proven unlucky for the later coaster, as it was only the far corner of Casino Pier which collapsed during Hurricane Sandy, sending the later coaster into the surf in 2012.^[7]

The Jet Star was removed from Casino Pier in 2000. There were some attempts to sell the coaster, but refurbishment would have been too costly. The coaster was ultimately scrapped and the cars sold off.^[3]

Layout and ride experience[edit]

Having a footprint of 86.6 by 144.3 feet (26.4 by 44.0 m), the coaster was relatively compact, as was typical of the Jet Star model line.^[3] It had much steeper drops and higher-speed turns than a Wild Mouse coaster.^[5] In 1991, a single ride on the coaster cost 5 tickets (approximately $2.50).^[8] In 1997 it was rated as being the most extreme ride on Casino Pier.^[6]

References[edit]

^ ^a^b'History Timeline'. Casino Pier & Breakwater Beach. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
^Marden, Duane. 'Star Jet (Casino Pier)'. Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
^ ^a^b^cMarden, Duane. 'Jet Star (Casino Pier)'. Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
^Marden, Duane. 'List of roller coasters at Casino Pier'. Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
^ ^a^b^c^d^e^fFutrell, Jim (2004). Amusement Parks of New Jersey. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN0811729737.
^ ^a^bUrbanowicz, Steven J. (1997). The Roller Coaster Lover's Companion: A Thrill Seeker's Guide to the World's Best Coasters. New York, NY: Kensington Publishing Corporation. ISBN080651924X.
^MacDonald, Brady (November 7, 2012). 'Superstorm Sandy: Tallying the damage at amusement piers'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
^Sharkey, Joe (August 4, 1991). 'The Great Boardwalk Towns of Jersey'. The New York Times. Retrieved July 8, 2017.

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Published 8:07 PM EDT May 14, 2013

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. — The iconic view of the Jet Star roller coaster standing in the Atlantic Ocean's roiling surf will be lost to history in a few days.

A dredging company started removing the amusement park ride from the water Tuesday, more than six months after superstorm Sandy dropped it there.

'It is a huge relief to know we finally have a starting time, and in the next few days we'll see progress and an ocean clear of debris,' said spokeswoman Toby Wolf of Casino Pier amusement park.

Casino Pier officials signed a contract in mid-April with Weeks Marine of Cranford, N.J., to remove the Jet Star and other rides from the ocean. However, before the work could begin, the company needed to take an underwater inventory to determine what remained below the surface and what equipment its workers would need to remove it, Wolf said. Then, Weeks Marine needed steady sunny weather.

A barge and a crane arrived in the morning before Britain's Prince Harry toured the boardwalk and played the Goblet Game, a game of chance involving a whiffle ball and holes in a panel. A little after noon, the real work began.

'This is my closure,' said C

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