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Hi there all! Wanna give you an update to the construction! Sorry that it's been a little while since my last post. I've needed to have a break because of some mental health issues that I've been having. Anyways.... The Fence to enter Maloney's Corner is now being removed as I speak! For the new Luna Land entrance. The Foundations and Shed are now confirmed to have been removed from Tumble Bug. No other construction has started on Big Dipper. You can see a Cement Truck leaving LPS after starting the foundations for rides like Little Nippers. And you can also see the Maintenance Team fixing up ride s like the Ferris Wheel, Crystal Palace, and the Wild Mouse! Have a look at this photo from a week and a half ago and look at the difference to Maloney's Corner! Next update will be whenever I get there! (P.S Yes, I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't use Switchback (my proposed name that I did send) for the now named Boomerang...)

I rode Blue Fire at Europa, so you can personally thank me for Steel Taipan...

I think the ride parts at yatala have now been transported to dreamworld as there is now launch track in the carpark just check out destination dad and daughters instagram post linked here https://www.instagram.com/p/CLnjGC3g78s/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

@AheadMatthewawsome it's starting to look heaps good especially that it's about a week till the first ride will arrive Actually there might already be a ride in lavender green in that shipping container

For those who aren’t already aware, Mike Croaker, the head of entertainment for VRTP began a podcast at the start of the year caller ‘Park Life’. Each episode he interviews someone WHO go has in some way been involved with VRTP. The first episode starts with a very insightful interview with COO, Bikash. Since then Mike has interviewed a wide variety of people that include those who involved with park operations, entertainment, merchandise, film studios and the Aquacolour Lightshow. There’s an episode out every Friday and I have thoroughly enjoyed every episode so far. Mike doesn’t just focus on the theme parks, but sometimes a wider spectrum of the persons career, influences and passions. If you haven’t checked it out, I highly recommend you do so. Love to hear everyone’s thoughts on it too.

Yeah get what you are saying. However, its still a major missed opportunity for mine for the major rides. Boomerang for the shuttle coaster is so generically bland and bad that its laughable that so little effort went itnto it. This ride could easily have been called the Wild Cat, hearkening back to the earlier Schwarzkopf travelling unit that replaced the Wild Mouse. Calling it the Wild Cat would link it to the Wild Mouse and provide a synergy between the 2 coasters, whilst at the same time reviving a Luna Park name from the past to good effect. Naming the family shuttle as the Wild Cat is entirely feasible IMHO. Similarly , whilst I don not mind the name of Sledgehammer for the Zamperla 360 Discovery Pendulum ride, it also could have easily been named the Flying Saucer. Again, a lost opportunity for mine. But as you say, these are minor quibbles!!

A new water ride would be good, but it couldn't be anything similar to TRR, otherwise the GP might not take it too well...

I thought I’d just post Luna park’s Instagram story and sorry guys but you will have to download it FullSizeRender.mov

Both. I found comments on posts from them on multiple occasions

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🤣 🤣 🤣 I loved that show

It was really only the twin tube slide tower (I refuse to call them Tower 1, Tower 2 etc 🤢 )that had that issue, but that has since been rectified with additional stairs. The Proslide Towers each had one stair per ride and a separate one for fast track, the Racer/360Rush tower only had the two rides so never a real issue, though i thought it was silly splitting the 360 rush slides on each side because that introduced crowd crossover. The ugly colour scheme of the racer was inspired by NSW surf club cap colours. The park had the wrong concept from the ground up, it was heavily inspired by Sydney beach culture, specifically places like Manly, so the park was modelled LITERALLY off that, from things like the Norfolk pines, to the pavers and sandstone walls, to calling the dining area “The Corso” https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.7943181,151.2874465,2a,60y,359.41h,90.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suAFMLGcypbDmLfcH_TxFOg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 In the end, surprisingly enough, modelling yourself after council open spaces means you too end up feeling like a council park. The park didn’t have enough landscaping…Large expanses of lawns and bark chips so windswept and hot. I think it was overly spread out. Walking 400m from the twin raft slide tower to the T5 tower sucked…No shortcuts etc. Single day tickets were too expensive, ostensibly to get people to buy passes, so you got this weird mismatch. Too expensive for a one day visit, but too far out of the way to make good use of the annual pass. One of the biggest issues was a lack of things for families, and that is a huge sin when it comes to a waterpark IMO. They had some good kids slides, but then the rest of it was a fairly bland splashpad....needed more wading pools, more shade over the splash pad, and of course the main thing, no play structure!

They said that it was decommissioned through private dm’s

It’s not exactly an architectural beauty. With all the issues sea world has had on the spit previously, I’m surprised there wasn’t more uproar about this ride going in. As an enthusiast, it’s a mix of wood, steel, and nails, and it looks like a good roller coaster, but it’s not exactly pretty. Pretty is something I’d consider the Tree of Life, the floating mountains in avatar, and so on. This roller coaster is as beautiful as scaffolding on a construction site. Don’t get me wrong, i’m excited for this ride, I love wooden roller coasters. When I did the DCP in Orlando, I would hog Gwazi, even in its limped form. I do not quite understand your dreamworld comment though.