Six Flags celebrates New Jersey with new 'Shoreline Pier'
Four rides from the now-closed Six Flags America theme park will find a new home later this spring, at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey.
The four will join a refreshed Round-Up ride in the park's new Shoreline Pier at The Boardwalk area. The new area celebrates New Jersey’s iconic oceanside amusement piers and will open later this spring.
Shoreline Pier at The Boardwalk. Concept art courtesy Six Flags
"Shoreline Pier celebrates everything people love about New Jersey’s legendary boardwalks — the motion, the magic, the tastes, the thrills and the timeless sense of adventure," Park Manager Michael Fehnel said. "This new area blends the alluring vibe of shore towns with classic midway fun, creating a destination that feels both nostalgic and brand-new."
The attractions in the new area will be:
- Barrels O’ Fun: Reverchon spinning coaster formerly known as Ragin' Cajun from SFA
- Flying Scooters, relocated from SFA
- Wave Swinger, relocated from SFA
- Hypno Twister: Nebulaz ride, relocated from SFA
- Super Roundup: Six Flags Great Adventure's 1974 Round-Up ride, formerly known as Swashbuckler
Hungry guests can enjoy boardwalk and New Jersey favorites including Jersey-style disco fries, topped with melted mozzarella and brown gravy, Gabagool On-a-Stick - capicola dipped in corn batter and finished with a hot honey drizzle, and a Holey Cannoli funnel cake.
Six Flags Great Adventure will celebrate the new area with a limited-time Boardwalk Nights event this summer, featuring live music, dancers and acrobats.
Six Flags Great Adventure opens for the 2026 on Saturday, with a passholder preview night on Friday, from 5-9pm.
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"We destroyed multiple epic, record breaking coasters and I'm sure you're excited to see what amazing things will replace these... Well, uh, we moved around some existing carny rides! Congrats!"
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I would've loved to have seen something like this amongst the Lakefront area, if that's what they're evening calling it now. I guess anything is an improvement as long as it isn't a new DC comic addition.
@Russell - Don’t hold your breath. They didn’t seem too concerned about Superman and Green Lantern hanging out on the Boardwalk keeping Lex Luthor and Sinestro in check… all while Joker is over at the lakefront plotting his next takeover
Overall, I'd say it looks good, not great, but for a project that is going from nonexistent to fully operational in six to eight months it's pretty well done. It's also important to remember that this is phase one of a two or three phase project, so we're not getting these rides and then waiting several years before the next addition. Is this going to be a trip-worthy addition for most? No, it's not, unless you're a family living local to the park. Is it going to help round out the property's offerings and replace attraction capacity lost by the recent removals? Absolutely, and that's really all it needs to do.
This park has always been the biggest under-performer in the whole theme park industry due to mismanagement, and it looks like nothing is changing now. With this property Six Flags has:
-An amazing location literally right between NYC and Philly, the biggest and richest market in the country.
-Enough vacant land to do whatever they want.
-The weather here isn't even that bad compared to much of the north, its nice enough to the point they open in late March every year, and up until they cancelled HITP last year they were open all through December (that might pushing it, but if they wanted to they could do HITP in November and it would be a huge success if they did it right).
I see absolutely no reason why this park shouldn't be a huge success. If they made it a desirable place to visit there is no reason all the stuff they have there + multiple hotels wouldn't be a huge success. There is absolutely zero reason this place shouldn't be printing money, it should easily be more successful than Cedar Point.
Yet, I have been here many times, with my first visit being in the early 2000's, and it has always sucked. Its in the middle of a lush forest with lakes and stuff so it should be beautiful, but somehow manages to be ugly. It is run down and poorly maintained. I will say the operations have gotten better since the Kieran Burke days but they still have a problem with staff rudeness (though that's more because their ridiculous locker policy). They don't even try to make the place look nice.
And now here we are, new management, worse management than ever. Doing an entire area last minute, with zero thought or planning whatsoever, putting old used flat rides and a flawed 22 year old mouse coaster that ALREADY DIDN'T WORK OUT AT ITS FIRST PARK (i'm not going to get into this rant again) in, grasping at straws desperate to sell some season passes. This place frustrates me to no end.
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"Late spring"? I would be absolutely shocked if they can get this open by July 4th. Also, this announcement doesn't really address the elephant in the room, which is a giant DC-theme coaster at the end of this new area (Superman: Ultimate Flight, which I assume will be closed to guests until the new Boardwalk area opens) or the other upcharge attractions in the area that were a part of the former boardwalk area, Slightshot and go-cart track.
I don't really have a problem with what they're doing here aside from the aggressive timeline, which will either not be fulfilled or will result in a disappointingly bland end product. They are pretty much mimicking what Cedar Point created with their successful revitalized Boardwalk area, but they're missing the food hall that has formed the cornerstone of that development. I do wonder if Super Roundup is actually parts from both Round-up/Shwashbuckler and Riddle Me This (from SFA), which would make this area a little piece of the Maryland park in central New Jersey.