Over 20 years later
It’s really amazing that even over 20 years after Lincoln Park closed and the Comet went silent people still remember. In my random searches for info about the park and the Comet, I’ve been consistantly seeing the comet rated by coaster enthusiasts in the top 100 of all time !
That say a lot about the ingenuity of the creators, the innovations and the sheer longevity the park and the Comet enjoyed. I’m sure the lineage of the comet, being akin to the Cyclone (Coney Islands Astroland) shows that the Idea was timeless and the design a classic. The years of neglect may have taken the Comet from us, but with luck, documentation and photographic detail, perhaps we can preserve the ideas that created the Comet.
My personal hope is that someone someday will create a clone of our old friend, and hopefully this site will show the details and help inspire that idea…
I know what you all will say, she was creaky, rough and somewhat violent. I say that is exactly what gave the Comet its character and thrill, it was all in the illusion (and a good slapping about the car) and that is what gave us all that rush of adrenaline and the euphoric feeling of surviving to do it again and again and ….