PLAYLAND PARK
Rye, New York
 Park News - (9/1/10) The local government in control of Playland is now seeking proposals from experienced parties looking to reinvent Playland for the 21st Century. Something needs to be done to stop the year-after-year cost of the park losing millions of dollars. It should be a no brainier to make it profitable. From what I’ve been told about the place (having never had been myself) it sounds like they need to alter the pay structure to become more like a standard amusement park with a pay-one-price plan that gets you admission and unlimited rides, ending the tide of people coming in to use it as a babysitting service or as a place for troubled youths coming in to just hang out. Clean up the park… clean up the clientele, and make it a clean safe place for families to visit once again, plus invest in some new modern attractions to mix in with the classics. They just need someone with experience to take it over.
(8/5/10) Bad news for Rye Playland, as it seems there is a plan afoot to close down the park. The park is owned and run by the local government, an unusual situation to be sure, and reportedly loses between $3-6 million every season. Perhaps they would be better off hiring a theme park company to manage and run it for them for a few years to see if someone with experience can turn it around.
(2/23/10) Sally Corp. has added a new dark ride video this week showing off their update to Ye Olde Mill at Rye Playland. It is a pleasure to see this ride captures this way, showing off the individual characters as they deliver their lines and edited together to tell the ride’s story, instead of seeing it captured wildly by a rider as they pass by.
(8/7/09) Playland’s Dragon coaster will be officially designated an ACE Roller Coaster Landmark in a ceremony on August 8th, at 12:30pm. To date only 21 coasters have been given Landmark status by ACE since the award’s inception in 2002. You can read more about the Dragon at CoasterWarriors.com.
2010 - Children’s Museum - In Planning - (7/4/08) Rye Playland will become home to the Westchester Children’s Museum, a non-profit center that could revitalize the business at the theme park. The plan is to build the museum in the park’s old “bathhouse” building, which will need some signifigant work as it hasn’t been used in over 40 years. $8.8 million has been approved to restore the building and that the early estimates for the museum are $23.3 million and hopes to open in 2010.
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