Work underway on Sea World's latest

Sea World has started construction on its latest roller coaster, reportedly due for completion in time for an upcoming school holiday period.

Details are sketchy on Sea World's newest roller coaster. The park has yet to formally announce the attraction, presumably putting on hold their plans for a hippopotamus attraction to go with a roller coaster following competing Gold Coast theme park Dreamworld's coaster of 2007, Mick Doohan's Motocoaster.

The new coaster is expected to be from manufacturer Intamin, who have built every new roller coaster in Australia since 2004 saw Warner Bros. Movie World open the Mack Gmbh. Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster. All reports at this stage point to the attraction being a jetski themed attraction, possibly featuring a similar seating style to Motocoaster's motorbike seats which the rider straddles rather than sits on.

After much disappointment within the enthusiast and even general theme park going community over Motocoaster's lackluster ride experience, it looks certain that Sea World's attraction will debut a ride that learnt from the mistakes. Reports suggest that the ride will feature two launches to allow the ride to maintain its pace. A second launch also adds block segments to the ride's circuit, meaning the possibility of smaller trains launched more frequently to increase capacity.

The ride is the only major ride attraction to be going into any Gold Coast theme park in 2008. It is Sea World's first roller coaster since the Corkscrew Rollercoaster opened in 1982. For the largely animal centric park it will add more variety in the park's attraction lineup as only their fourth major ride, including Corkscrew, Viking's Revenge Log Flume and Bermuda Triangle.

Parkz has the latest from the construction of the new roller coaster. For all the latest photographs check back on the roller coaster's profile and construction photo gallery.