Looking at the renderings of the imagined $1.5 billion upgrade to Coney Island, it reminds me of the Jaws billboard in Back To The Future II where the holographic shark jumps out of the billboard and tries to eat Marty McFly on the street.
Inconceivable? Not quite. In BTTF II, Marty travels to the year 2015. The proposed Coney Island project would finish in 2010 or 2011. So, it would seem that we’re not too far off from “the future”. Now I feel old…but in a cool way.
My only question is, what improvements will be made to the “Shoot The Freak” amusement? Hopefully, none at all. Some things are better left alone, as shown in this amateur tourist video: