Birth of Luna Park Set. Photo © Bruce Handy/Pablo 57 via flickr
Photographer Bruce Handy, who has been chronicling the Birth of Luna Park, says the first shipping containers arrived from Italy on Monday. What is the unidentified red object in the photo? Could it be a footing for the Tickler roller coaster that we wrote about the other day? Or is it part of another Zamperla ride? Or the base of one of the towers? If you have an idea, please post a comment. As soon as we find out the correct answer, we’ll let you know. The virtual tour of Luna Park on YouTube may provide some clues!
UPDATE May 5, 2010:
A big thank you to boltz, who found out the “mystery object” is the center of the Wave Blaster, which Zamperla’s website describes as a “teen-ager version of the Jump Around. Considering the great success that all these ‘Jumper rides’ are having, Zamperla has further developed this design and is proposing the Wave Blaster with 12 arms for a total capacity of 24 seats.”
Birth of Luna Park Set. Photo © Bruce Handy/Pablo 57 via flickr
Related posts on ATZ…
April 28, 2010: New Coney Island Coaster Pays Homage to Luna Park’s 1906 Tickler
April 14, 2010: Photo Album: Heroic 24/7 Race to Build Coney Island’s New Luna Park
February 15, 2010: Steeplechase Express: Will Zamperla MotoCoaster Pony Up for Coney Island?
January 24, 2010: Zamperla-Ride-O-Rama: Swing in the Sky over Coney Island
Amusing the Zillion 
Footing for the Tickler is a good guess, I think. This little video made me very happy, and I so look forward to the new Luna, which promises to be both shiny-new and traditional. I am *so* impressed by what I’ve seen of Zampela and their work, just from a short peek at their website and what I’ve seen on Coney-related blogs.
Since the photos were taken, the work crew has been moving the red tracks for the spinning coaster over to where it will be set up. As for the “mystery object”–I posted this link on Matt’s Carnival Warehouse, where many of the posters are very knowledgeable about rides. The majority say it’s not a coaster part, but a ride base. Quite possibly the center of the new Air Race ride! We’ll see..
Here is the discussion over at Matt’s
http://www.carnivalwarehouse.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=32643