PARKS: THEME PARK & ROLLER COASTER CREDITS

One of my primary loves are theme parks and roller coasters. With two visits to Orlando early in my childhood and a revived love for parks since 2006, I have been a "Ride Warrior" ever since. As of May 7, 2015 I have been to 13 theme parks & ridden 73 roller coasters.  

This will be a growing blog post, which will evolve over time so keep checking once in awhile. The date in the above paragraph is the current update of the list below. Each main bullet represents a park then the side bullet below each park are the roller coasters I have been on at that park. Note that the parks in Florida I have only been in 1998 & 2001 and I was 6 and 9 years old respectively.

NOTE: POSSIBLE PARKS THIS SUMMER OTHER THAN THE VA/MD PARKS ARE CEDAR POINT, KINGS ISLAND, KENTUCKY KINGDOM & DOLLYWOOD. NOTHING IS SET IN STONE AS OF MAY 7, 2016. 

THEME PARKS & ROLLER COASTERS:

(^ Coaster was closed & dismantled since visit, > rode coaster on opening year,* rode coaster on its opening date)

• Busch Gardens Williamsburg (My home park)
• Last visited: April 3, 2016
• Alpengeist (My 1st thrill coaster)
• Apollo's Chariot
• The Big Bad Wolf^
• Griffon >
• Grover's Alpine Express
• Loch Ness Monster
• Tempesto*
• Verbolten*
• Carowinds
• Last Visited October 11, 2015
• Afterburn
• Carolina Cobra
• Carolina Cyclone
• Carolina Goldrusher
• Flying Ace Aerial Chase
• FURY 325 >
• Hurler
• Intimidator
• Lucy's Crabbie Cabbie
• Nghthawk
• Ricochet
• Thunder Road^
• Vortex
• Woodstock Express
• Disney's Animal Kingdom 
• Last Visited June 1998
• Disney's Hollywood Studios 
• Last Visited April 2001 during the MGM era
• Kings Dominion
• Last Visited May 15, 2016
• Anaconda
• Avalanche
• Backlot Stunt Coaster
• Dominator
• Flight of Fear
• Grizzly
• Hurler
• Hypersonic XLC^
• Intimidator 305
• Rebel Yell
• Ricochet
• ShockWave^
• Volcano-The Blast Coaster
• Woodstock Express
• Magic Kingdom Park
• Last Visited April 2001 & Previously Visited June 1998
• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
• Space Mountain
• Sea World San Antonio
• Last visited March 7, 2016
• The Great White
• Shamu Express
• The Steel Eel
• Six Flags America
• Last visited August 4, 2015
• Apocalypse: The Last Stand
• Batwing
• The Joker's Jinx
• Mind Eraser
• Rajun Cajun
• ROAR
• Superman: Ride of Steel
• The Wild One
• Six Flags Fiesta Texas
• Last visited March 6, 2016
• Batman: The Ride (The 4-D spin version)
• Boomerang Coast-to-Coaster
• Goliath
• Iron Rattler (My 1st RMC)
• Pandemonium 
• Poltergeist (My 3rd Premier Rides' Spaghetti-Bowl coaster)
• Road Runner Express
• Superman Krypton Coaster
• Six Flags Over Texas
• Last visited March 10, 2016
• Batman: The Ride
• Mini Mine Train
• Mr. Freeze Reverse Blast
• New Texas Giant
• Runaway Mine Train
• Runaway Mountain
• Six Flags Over Georgia
• Last visited March 12, 2016
• Batman: The Ride
• Dahlonega Mine Train
• Dare Devil Dive (via The New Revolution Virtual Reality headsets)
• Georgia Cyclone
• Georgia Scorcher
• Goliath
• Great American Scream Machine
• Mindbender
• Ninja (Before the 2016 overhaul)
• Superman: Ultimate Flight
• Universal Studios Florida
• Last visited June 1998
• Universal's Islands of Adventure
• Last visited April 2001

MALLS: Jersey Gardens MILLS

On January 15, 2015, Simon Property Group's spinoff company, Washington Prime and Ohio-based mall operator Glimcher officially merged and became WP Glimcher. In addition, two of Glimcher's properties went to Simon. University Park Village, a lifestyle center in Fort Worth, Texas and most importantly, Jersey Gardens in Elizabeth City, New Jersey, which Glimcher built and owned since 1999.

Jersey Gardens is a two-level, 200 tenant outlet mall which has a racetrack layout with stores on the outer and inner rims and an AMC theater on the outside. It is dubbed (and still) as New Jersey's largest outlet mall.

The mall was built in the craze of the Mills properties, including Concord & Katy Mills, which were also built in 1999 and shares some characteristics of those said malls. Before the 2012 remodel into "The Outlet Collection|Jersey Gardens,"  the Gardens was colorful and may had graphics throughout the mall. 

And now, as of January 15, 2015, the mall is now known as:

I like the name. Simon kept the Jersey Gardens name in full and replacing the Outlet Collection moniker into their Mills platform. Since I love Mills malls more than regular outlet centers and malls, Jersey Gardens is a perfect fit and on my main Mills mall post that I did in September 2014, I had named it as a similarity. Now I had put it in along with the rest of the Mills malls, where it belongs.

Since I have been to New Jersey before (not since 2001) I have seen the mall before and its Ikea from the famous NJ Turnpike. Do not be surprised if I visit this mall this year or next and if I do, it'll be my 5th Mills property visited.

WORKS CITED:
Mall Map as the Outlet Collection
News Release from Simon
Trip Advisor