Artifacts from Gillian’s Wonderland Pier are still up for sale

The vintage Gillian’s Wonderland Pier Canyon Falls Log Flume Bathing Guy is still up for grabs, with a $2,000 price tag.

So is the 12-by-6-foot fiberglass Haunted Dark Ride Skeleton head, including the top hat and the skeletal hands that once gripped the front of the ride, for $8,500.

Nearly two years after the iconic Ocean City boardwalk amusement park closed down, and with the future of the site still uncertain, 20 of the kitschy and spooky disembodied artifacts from Wonderland remain unsold at Obnoxious Antiques in Burlington, N.J.

John Polito of Obnoxious Antiques said the massive skeleton head and hands are the work of Bill Tracy, a noted and hugely influential creator of dark ride amusements.

Much of the other work is the creation of former Wonderland staff artist Wayne Seddon.

The relics were part of three truckloads hauled off for sale in late 2024 after the park shut down.

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The rotating Wonderland Pier letters sold for $10,000, and Obnoxious Antique’s website lists dozens of other pieces that have already sold, ranging from a Haunted House Moonshine Drunk Weasel to a Smiling Pier Lobster in a Trap to the Dark Ride Devil in a Cage. The sale prices are not listed.

Polito is hoping another Halloween season will tempt buyers for the skeleton and the other dark ride props for sale, including a pair of coffin speakers ($600), an animated man in a closet ($1,150), and a spider automaton ($750).

Polito said about half the sold objects were sold to out-of-state buyers, but the other half “went back to Ocean City,” including the Monkey Band, which is on display with other Wonderland artifacts in the Boardwalk food court as a “Wonderland Pier Museum.”

Some of the exterior figurines were bought by nearby Storybook Land in Egg Harbor Township.

Polito says the $8,500 price tag for the skeleton and hands “is a steal,” and would be perfect for a committed Halloween house decorator.

He estimates it cost $20,000 to create.

“It’s heavy,” he said. “They would have to commit to it and they would have to really want it.”

Over objections from some nearby residents, Ocean City Council recently voted to designate the former Wonderland site at 600 Boardwalk in need of rehabilitation and will now negotiate with developer and owner Eustace Mita, who has proposed a seven-story luxury hotel on the site.

Mita bought the site from Mayor Jay Gillian, who made the decision to close the beloved amusement park his family had owned for 65 years in October of 2024.

Mita’s original proposal called for restoring the Ferris wheel and historic Carousel, and preserving several iconic kiddie rides from Wonderland.