Coney Island's Astroland lives!

This has been a bad year for a bunch of amusement parks.

Geauga Lake's amusement park closed forever. Conneaut Lake Park south of Erie never opened. Williams Grove Park in Pennsylvania was auctioned off. The Chaos ride was removed from Fantasy Island (that really annoyed me). And it was looking like this would be the final year for Coney Island's Astroland too.

But today, Astroland was given one more year! Go here for the complete story.

It won't be goodbye to the Cyclone roller coaster - that'll be staying. But the dark rides, the crazy spin rides which I love so much, and the cool Coney Island atmosphere is what will be going away after 2008.

Even though some things are gone already (like the insanely-run Zipper), I'm already looking forward to going again - but unfortunately, next year really will be the last time.