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Standard 'Storm is closed during summer, they are morons' rant.

Just wanted to share some photos of the night. As always, great to catch up with @Tim Dasco and the others. We saw Black Widow go down, but it was back shortly afterwards. We walked on to Inferno and Abyss. Abyss had to be stopped after our ride as some people had dropped some glow sticks on the track and on top of me as we headed up the lift hill(that’s why the shot of the station has the show building lights on). Some of us ate at the food trucks again and nothing disappointed. We rode Rail Rider and had a quiet cider around close at 11pm. There was a bigger crowd than before, but still very chill.

Worry not @Brad2912 the Holidays will be over again soon and things will start going back to normal😁

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Hagrid's Magical JetSki adventure?

That's a lot of words to defend a ride that'll be closed pretty soon. 🙂

Seems like all the attractions are closed during their usual months As the Star Flyer isn’t listed for maintenance does that mean we will see if close before the end of the year? Maybe we will see it close once major Leviathan construction is underway?

It was SARS!

Yeah, but as i've mentioned to others previously - we don't know what we don't know, and enthusiasts are inclined to speculate where there are gaps to be filled. Usually their speculation is based on the previous track record of the park... It's not an unreasonable assumption to make, given the closure of intencity seems to be due to the desire to leave the maze intact for an event that was 11 months away. So, thanks for the information. A QFES assessment does make sense. But seeings how that part of the queue has been closed for a while, wouldn't you think the park could do better than masking tape? Tensa-barriers? Portable fence panels like they currently have protecting the gardens in the rivals queue? As for fire safety, surely if the second half of the building wasn't walled off, thereby giving access to an additional fire escape near the villains precinct, it would be safer, no?

Why don't you try the actual ride POV to get an idea? As you can see - Whombex helpfully provided it for you last time you speculated on something we already know. You've got a lot of teeth for a smartass. But how are the tendies?

UTT wouldn't have the same density of people though.

Or perhaps you have no idea what your talking about and maybe QFS re assessed the building after the park down the road killed 4 people and reduced the capacity of the queue area to half? Just perhaps. Or maybe it’s as you’re right and the park is just too lazy to move a table...

Are you basing your assessment of this ride on any in-depth mechanical, engineering, or maintenance experience from working at Movie World? Or are you just going off the fact that others have said it's nearing end of life? Or perhaps on the recent end of life closures for Sea Viper, Wipeout and Tower of Terror? Arkham Asylum opened in December 1995 - its currently 25 years old. There are 50 Vekoma SLC models listed in RCDB, (8 of which are relocations) First up - Sea Viper. Opened in December 1981, it closed in 2014. That's 33 years. If you're using this metric, we've still got the best part of the next decade to enjoy Arkham. Wipeout - the Waikiki Wave Super Flip (another vekoma, by the way) - only 7 in the world, and a very different ride system to a coaster. I believe the last two surviving models - Wipeout, and Huracan at Six Flags Mexico both closed in 2019, indicative that they had definitely reached end of life. Arkham does not necessarily fit that description at this time. Tower of Terror - by all accounts the ride system was end of life. Magic Mountain's Superman version received an upgrade to the launch system about a decade ago, and from what I understand, they're currently cannibalising ToT for any parts they can make use of, as Intamin doesn't support the ride system anymore (and why not, when its 23 years old, and has only two installations in the world). None of these points apply to the SLC. Of the 42 models in existence, only 2 are not operating - one in South Africa which stopped operations in May 2018, and one in Suzhou China, which stopped in October 2017. The most recent (new) installs appears to be Energylandia, opening in September 2015, and Sun World Danang in Vietnam which opened in January 2017. Along with the Boomerang, the SLC is one of the most prolific of Vekoma's coasters. Parts and equipment clearly will continue to be available so long as Vekoma continues to sell the model or variant to the market, so it will not suffer from the issues that Wipeout or ToT have. It will come down to when parts are no longer financially viable. The ride is still insanely popular, and so long as it remains popular, the park will continue to invest in parts and maintenance so long as it is financially viable to do so. I think it will probably come down to if the rolling stock \ hangers suffer issues as that would possibly be the most expensive cost to keep it running, but given they have parts available (due to the "purple" train cannibalisation), and likely more than 42 other train assemblies out there in the world, acquiring even those parts wouldn't necessarily be a deal breaker. It may very well turn out that there is an insurmountable issue in the future, but to be claiming its deteriorating rapidly is ridiculous (unless you have actual, tangible evidence to the contrary), especially when you compare to other ride models from Vekoma - such as our own Titan\Demon\Zoomerang (the boomerang from World expo, that moved to Wonderland Sydney, then Alabama, then India) that keeps on kicking despite being 7-8 years older, and being relocated 3 times

I don’t understand what it actually is you are wanting them to do here?

And that concludes today's reminder of Storm being shit

? And where was the carpark going? Under the Bermuda volcano?

A good write up, but a shame that little information about his recent visit would be disclosed. Surely not all of it would have a reference to the rapids incident. Many comments such as friendliness of staff, current rides and attractions under maintenance and the quality of current attraction offerings could have been mentioned. One question that was floating through my head was... "I wonder if he had to pay for a ticket full price during 2017?". Also thought there were going to be interviews from previous engineers and opening day staff?

If only he never sold it.... Such big things were coming

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Boost Juice should move into the sky Voyager store now.

Gimmicks sux. How about provide a good park so people want to buy tickets.

Not sure why Dreamworld went with a blue fire clone just watched this video and it sounds crap