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So the Yong family built their home first, got it all approved by council, and is willing to help out where they can to support their neighbours... but they're the bad guys? This is such a bizarre hit piece trying to make us feel sorry for millionaires. I agree with @Levithian. This is 100% on their builders and architects.

MW has consistently been running 2 trains on Superman and Rivals all through the school holidays. If they have the trains available for peak season, they use them. Much as you have been for a few weeks now, you're actually talking nonsense.

The most recent Surfrider coaster to open I believe is Timmy’s Half Pipe Havoc, which has the new lap bar restraints. It has a 48″ or around 122cm height requirement, so getting new restraints for Surfrider would definitely make it more accessible. Hopefully it would also help out with the family-thrill lineup that will be lacking while Scooby-Doo is down🤷🏻‍♂️

40cm? With certain building requirements you can build right to the fence line with no space between houses at all. They should be slamming their builder and architect. The Yong's property was existing and they have no requirement to allow access to their property to allow builders to erect things like scaffolding or to provide site access anywhere, let alone make sure they leave space along a boundary for future access to a neighbouring property. It's not preventing them from building the property, the size and alignment of your property is not providing enough space to allow the builder to actually build it within your boundaries.

When there's a 60+ minute queue and your friends are outside because they didn't want to ride, and you've listened to the MRT spiel for the 100th time while standing in the humid queue area, I can understand avoiding it.

I will never look at it the same now thanks a lot… haha 😂

Which one @REGIE?

When is anyone getting re-rides these days? The queues are rarely that short. And if the park is empty enough that there are spare seats for re-rides, they probably don't need a 2nd train that day.

Better NSW location is Western Syd or between Newcastle and or Gosford and Sydney.

The problem here lies with the certifier of Mr Yong's home. GCCC has a required setback of 2.5m unless council has given relaxations, which hasn't happened here as no application was made. The private certifier signed it off as compliant. It isn't. They're retrospectively applying for the relaxation and they'll want to hope that they get approval else the building will need to be redone to meet the approved specifications. The fact that the other house now needs a firewall installed too is an additional cost, and the builders\ certifiers will probably be sued to recover those costs from whomever is required to foot the bills.

Fair enough, but our regulations wouldn’t be much different. An amusement device is an amusement device. Regardless of travelling or park. It was more so a comment on how there’s isn’t too much difference in regards to how states regulate the use of amusement devices.

I'm upset I won't be able to ride SR in my buggies anymore.

Wouldn’t exactly say that, we operate and maintain our rides the exact same way in all four states that we visit. Checks and audits are fairly similar also.

Maybe head back to school to learn about paragraphs

You don't need access from anywhere near the old arkham area/new oz precinct to even completely gut and replace the entire ride. There are two large access (roller doors) in the high zone building that provide more than ample access. It's how they completed the rebuild last time. All the themed areas are just boxes built inside of the shed. It's just open expanses above the ceilings. If it wasn't for the track you could drive a bulldozer through everything and end up with a clear box right up to the queue line inner castle. It's quite a big area inside to house/allow machinery access and skip bins to cart all your trash away without the track being in the way. Just speculating, but the track structure is very old now, and unlike other rides with solid columns for foundation, scooby doo is a large mad mouse and uses a lot of turret like supports that allow a lot of movement in the structure. It might be a permanent install now, but it's built with cones and tapers bolting the fixings to the supports and the track sections are flanged, so it can be dismantled relatively easy (compared a a rollercoaster with multiple permanent fittings) and transported. My guess is perhaps they found something wrong, maybe with wear or fatigue that required intervention now, either as a temp measure to keep going until the planned later closure, or potentially due to the cost wastage, bringing forward the closure and start of any future works as a possibility instead. This is largely what happened with the last renovations/upgrades. It was just because they decided to keep the ride open with everything removed that we were spared the immediate, long shutdown period too. Whatever the reason, sometimes the unforeseen forces your hand or at the least gives you cause to revaluate your plans and things change. Can't do anything at all about it other than make your decision and move forward.

It's had a major overhaul though including the ride control/drive systems as part of the new requirements qld government introduced to operate an amusement device. I don't think it has even been run since this has happened, so for all intents and purposes it's a new ride, so age shouldn't be a problem with a view to it only being temporary before its too old and worn out and is removed again.

I'd love to see it get new Vekoma trains. It's turning 20 this year, Road Runner got new trains for its 20th as well. One can dream

If you continue down that rabbit hole, fundamentally all flat rides are just differently shaped spinny things.

It mostly comes down to the absolute hacks who had the first crack at ‘next gen’ absolutely blasting the place with massive clouds of smoke to try and see their pathetic toy lasers. This well scared off the fire people so there has been nothing since. A properly done haze will be almost undetectable and perfectly fine in there. 🤞

I don’t think they will and I don’t want them to add anything ‘unique’ to the ride experience (in terms of the track or ride vehicles). Updating the ride vehicles to a more modern system is great (and needed), replacing pieces of track and upgrading the rides systems is all much needed and is great news. The one major thing I’m hoping for is they upgrade the screens and theming within the ride. Next Generation was a flop (would be great to see that part of the name removed and the old entry sign return). They’ve proven with Leviathan they’ve found someone who can create fantastic screen animations for a ride, so if they keep screens they definitely need to use that team again. But I do hope more real sets return to the ride, that’s what made the original ride so great.

At it's best, Scooby was a world class attraction IMO. Sucks it will be down for so long, but hopefully it's worth it this time.

Crazy Coaster normally operates at FJF's Summer Carnival in Apollo Bay. Taipan is all but retired from what I've heard. Massive ride and needed a fair bit of work to keep it running. Doubt it will be operating in the foreseeable future.