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Track work around Rivertown is now fully underway @gcthemeparkgirl

MW have the opportunity to have the number 1 family coaster on the coast again. How this ride turns out, will tell us the real state of MW.

Love the new logo and so glad they got rid of the next generation name. Fingers crossed the original entry sign returns (or something just as good). And their choice of wording saying ‘the original spooks’ gives me hope. Not going to hype this up to much for myself because Village are known to hype things up and then disappoint.

Anyway back to the thread title. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CZAN7zq9a/

I liked it! people here can be brutal sometimes lol

Maybe, but I’m sure I’ve seen it operate during winter before. It also doesn’t actually get riders wet, so it shouldn’t make much of a difference.

right, so another enthusiast with a differing opinion. Unless the park is saying it's permanent - i'm happy with my own opinion.

Can't tell if ur joking or not but if u aren't well then im being 100% serious there are actual logos i made for scooby coasters 2025 refurb In fact here's the concept of the sign i made

Socials and website have been updated to reveal a new logo and teased its “coming soon”. Hopefully that means a September-October opening. https://movieworld.com.au/attractions/scooby-doo-spooky-coaster This is the other option, they have pushed out advertising now simply because they see the progress/success of Dreamworld’s King Claw campaign.

There was always a window, and you couldn't see into the booth from the ride when it was in normal operation unless you really looked for them. I got a written warning for that incident though from an ex park manager who was always very grumpy. Some people may know exactly who I'm talking about, shares a name with an ex wiggle lol. The other operators thought it was hilarious, and the riders did too.

Now this is a total load of crap... absolute garbage procedure if you ask me lol. But I guess a station stop isn't as common as it used to be with the moving platform. I can tell you that from opening until I left the company in 2013 at least that an evacuation was never required from a ride stop as a general rule of thumb. However if you were to do an evac it would normally be a ride drain. Fire is a different story, we don't have time for that we just gotta get people off haha. I still have trauma from sitting in the lift room, involving a rather large huntsman... and me running out of there and accidentally elbowing the e-stop in the process! Good times

From when I worked on Wild West Falls in the early 2010's, 99% of downtime was due to guest behaviour (i.e standing up on the turntable, or filming) when a ride stop would be initiated. Then when it came to restarting, the ride would chuck a tantrum and instead require a full evacuation. However like every ride, it occasionally had its issues but overall it was very reliable when it was in its original state. The new boats, station etc have pretty much destroyed the ride for reliability and capacity as well and honestly I kind of wish they would have just put it out of its misery. However we know that any replacement we would have got would not be up to the standards that the ride originally had anyway. In regards to the post about the pumps being shut off to do an evacuation, that was always the procedure. A ride stop normally could be reset and was used to stop the ride for a mechanical issue. Anything involving a risk of drowning (or water related) would be an emergency stop which automatically shuts off all the pumps. An evacuation was not required for a ride stop as the ride can be restarted (normally). But if the E-stop was pushed, the pumps would drain and it would instantly become a full ride evacuation.

The zipper is appearing at North Lakes from Friday. https://www.facebook.com/BNEthrillfest/

I don't get the purpose of the gem. The ride looked fine without it. Regardless, it's still Australia's best themed coaster.