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Quick snaps from today.

First look at the spinning train prototype on blue fire!

Due to inclement weather, this event has been postponed. Clearly someone thinks this is a joke..... Good on ya mate! Oooh..... 2 people now? You gotta give me some time! There.... Now we can keep going!

Mack have begun testing the new pair of spinning seats.

Just found this - "Pico Play was commissioned by the Northern Territory Government to put together a comprehensive business case for a new international water park in the heart of the Darwin CBD. Read more at the link below about our feasibiity process!" https://www.pico-play.com/portfolio-item/darwin-water-park/ This was only published 3 days ago- it appears that this project is not dead in the water just yet. Darwin would be a prome candidate for a good sized water park and the CBD location would be ideal. Hopefully this progresses further to get the green light.

40 year old concrete won't be a challenge for modern drilling and pile driving.

They'll just punch straight through them with any piling. The project team would be well aware of what structures used to be on the site. And the park has done this before, eg Whitewater World was built on the site of thunderbolt, which had all its footings. Also, Cyclone was built on an old road. Also, motocoaster was built on the old roadways for Model T lane.

I'm a fan of them but wouldn't be willing to pay even a small up-charge to see a 4D condensed version. How about WW84 screenings after the parade for $15pp?

Except there's literally nothing left of TRR except maybe a couple concrete trough walls that were left underground

Just went past Dreamworld

Summer Slam is back this year, as well as extended trading hours and movies

Extended trade till 8, yet people still have a piss and a moan. Far out. It's summer holidays, you know what this event needs to be? Park is open till 8. Perfect! Parade at the end is just a themed bonus. I mean 7 is too early for lasers to work in summer, but who cares? This is exactly what has been needed for a long time, and bloody good on them for doing it rather than kicking thousands of people out at the stroke of 5pm

Over-simplifying hugely here - for roughly every dollar Dreamworld spent on Tower of Terror Kua made two dollars in the final sale. 2:1 ROI ain't bad. I also don't think it was necessarily cheaper per-say - two parks jumped on un-proven technology which never worked 100% of the time to buy a one-trick pony that was extremely, extremely marketable in a pre-Google & less globalised world. Back then, punters took world-record claims at face value. Folks today are more knowledgeable, more travelled and more weary to gimmicks and all of those buzz-words (world class, precinct, activation, southern hemisphere's XYZ) which don't have the same shine they once did. In my mind, in 2020, if you had 16 million in today's money (28-29 million) would you spend that on something roughly like Rivals which is from a proven manufacturer and will deliver results long term, or risk it all on something like Ring Racer at the Nurburgring?

I think that joke is getting on in years.

There is hope for @Zanstabar after all... I used to ride Space Probe repeatedly when I worked at Wonderland. If I wasn't doing a closing shift, i'd always get changed and head back into the park for a few cycles of Probe and Demon. The drop is still a rush, but I don't think i've ever felt any differently about it. Granted, GD is taller, but I suppose psychologically any thrill repeated enough can become normalised. Try Skydiving maybe?

Some pics from the street side looking at the lift hill and some fly overs.

Whilst these would be great, I can’t see it happening. A stunt show would take too much planning and rehearsal time for a two week event. Also, VRTP don’t create their 4D films so they wouldn’t be able to show a film specific to the event. Most of their 4D films have been shorter versions of feature films such as Journey, Rio, Yogi Bear The closest thing they could show is Man of Steel the 4D experience but it might a little too frightening for younger audiences.