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I think we are focusing too much on a single character and getting caught up with what has happened before. Just like "it’s good to be bad", the ride could be more of an idea. Examples of this is it might be a battle between good and evil. It might be one character vs another character or it might be two of the same characters like “Batman & Robin”

@Reanimated35 That's what all owners of MDMC say but us real man know different.

@Ryande16 This might be a question for somebody else. I believe the length I grabbed off the station plans is actual and I hope RCDB is because I am using that length to compare too. If it’s as the crow flies, @Reanimated35 is in a lot of trouble.

That's cool @Richard I wonder how they stop the wheel assembly from rotating or moving around once they have come off the track? I have been doing the calculations and I am willing to put @Reanimated35 reputation on it. Movie World’s new coaster is 1370 metres or 4494.7 feet. Lewa Hyper coaster is 1272.99 metres or 4176.5 feet. By my calculations, the coaster at MW will be 97.01m longer then Lewa. For @Reanimated35 reputation I hope I’m right.

I wonder if the fat lady hasn't sung for the templates located in the first compound. Only time will tell. On a side note the plans I have posted are from the station plans and are nothing new. When I started seeing the numbering on the supports it reminded me I had seen the same numbers on the plans.

It will only be in a couple of locations this would happen @themagician.

It's not going to be an exact science because some are grouped to one pad. Switch track has many supports with just 1 label. I have marked K001 in red on the nearmap image and it goes clockwise. The supports and footings for the maintenance bay will be marked M. I don't know how old that image is but it does not show the M footings.

For people trying to put the pieces together this might help you to locate the pieces on track. The centre support in the loading station is support number 1 labeled K001 (The track count and support count both start from the middle of the station. The last footing is support is K193 The track and support count goes clockwise. The same direction the ride will run. The current supports on site are around: K073 Also the K supports are not for the maintenance bay. If you are trying to work out the track location you will have to do the math yourself but my thinking is each container is 12m long so each track section is between 10m - 12m approx. Don't forget to add to the track required each time the track goes up or down. To go with the track info in green/blue you can see the centre of the track start on 0m and ends on 1365m the support before. I don't know if this it the track length or the length on ground.

@Theme Park Girl & @themagician Don't forget how narrow the site is from the first drop. I expect the crane to be located on the road when this track is lifted into place. This might be the new entrance for the next 6 months or they might open and close the new entry as needed. If it was me I would shut down the road the whole time. This might be the location the crane will be driving in and out so you don't have guest and workers close to each other at the front of the park. (I added this bit to keep the guessing going) @themagician I don't know what has happened to my big crane that was on site during the week. It was parked halfway along the coaster between the footings. Maybe they wanted to make sure they could move it in around the site. At the moment I am happy not to call the earlier track part of a loop. If we come across track with a deep spine and no connection points to supports that would indicate the top of a loop.

I did mention the turn around but I believe the dia of the track looks to tight for the bottom of the first drop. Most of the tack numbering looks like all this track will be close together at least. @Richard Where do you think track 1 would start? My guess would be as it leaves the station but that would only be a guess.

Mack track with with extra depth to the spine. LOOP? On the Lewa Hyper I only spot this spine on the loop and the where the coaster turns back. Whatever it is it's a high force section.

@AlexBI'm on a health kick so no drinking for a while. Changing your name is a perk you get when you pay for “ParkZ Crew”

I'm about to go away for work and won't be able to do an update for a while. I know @djrappa will be the most upset with this news so I dedicate this mini update to him. Loads of work happening on site today, all getting ready to go upwards. The gutter that was cut last week has now been removed. Roadbase being placed down so the cranes can drive around the coaster area. (I think that would be the reason) A new larger crane has now arrived and sits inside the coaster area ready to go to work.

You didn't.

@mission When I have mentioned a delay. @djrappa has said everything is ok. So it's ok.

If your name is Meg, this is your answer. Hi Meg, thanks for your enquiry. At this stage we don't have any updates on the new coaster, look out for the announcement on our Facebook page and website soon! - Alaisdair from Warner Bros. Movie World

Will this do? And it's been done before.

Has anybody else seen Audi is running a commercial with the same song on TV? My first thought was there must have been a special on the rights to the song.

total disagree with everything you say here. I an enthusiast and I am not lacking. Announced Feb last year. @djrappa I have not seen all 207 containers in the country. @djrappa What colour is it?

Somebody needs to wake up the MW marketing team. They have fallen asleep on the job.

After all the people made their submissions regarding the application for a car park MW replied to them. This has just become public. If you want to read the whole document, you can go to PDonline. It’s the last document. I have copy & pasted the key point that the report made. The thing that keeps going through my head is did MW do enough to inform the local residence. I say this because if I go on Facebook where the residents are talking about the car park nobody seems to know that it was an overflow car park. In the end G.C.C.C. received 143 properly made submissions. A review of the properly made submissions has been undertaken to ascertain key matters raised. This revealed that the following three key themes common across the submissions Traffic and transport; Town planning; and Other matters (i.e. nuisance from lighting, noise and other site specific issues). This is MW responses- It is important to distinguish that the car park is only intended to provide overflow parking for guests and staff. The operational need for the overflow car parking is likely only to be triggered on peak theme park visitation days, which generally occur during school holiday periods, public holidays and weekends. Importantly, peak carpark operation is unlikely to occur during the background traffic AM peak period. The intent to onlyoperate the car park on peak theme park visitation days, in part, addresses many of the matters raised by submitter. The site does not have exhibit the character values ordinarily associated a low density residential area because of the dominance of physical infrastructure on and adjoining the site, including high voltage power lines, water pipelines, an electricity substation and the Pacific Motorway. Accordingly, the site is considered unsuitable for a residential development outcome. The proposed development will provide a positive contribution to the orderly development of the locality. The noise mitigation and landscaping treatments will provide an effective buffer between the dominant physical infrastructure and nearby sensitive residential uses. As noted within the Applicant’s Information Request Response, several options to provide convenient and safe pedestrian access for theme park guests and staff have been considered. The most direct link would be to provide a dedicated pedestrian footpath across Saltwater Creek to the theme park entrance. We confirm that the Applicant would be prepared to submit to a reasonable and relevant condition of approval requiring that safe and efficient pedestrian access be provided between the car park and the theme park entrance, prior to the commencement of the use. The development incorporates the recommendations of the submitted Noise Assessment, by proposing a 1.8-metre-high acoustic fence, where adjoining sensitive uses. The strategic retention of existing vegetation within the development and the proposed landscaping ensures the proposed development will protect and enhance visual amenity outcomes. A minimum five (5) metre vegetated buffer is proposed where the parking station adjoins sensitive land uses to provide ascreened buffer to the development. The proposed landscaping will allow the development to act as a buffer between adjoining sensitive uses and dominant physical infrastructure in the immediate surrounding locality. This will reduce the visual dominance of the physical infrastructure, thereby improving the visual amenity and character of thelocality. The proposed parking station will be managed by Village Roadshow Theme Parks as part of their broader theme park operations at Oxenford. The site will be monitored by security staff who can take appropriate action should any anti-social behaviour be observed. Access to the proposed parking station will be restricted so that vehicles are unable to enter outside of the permitted operating hours. As detailed in the Car Park Management Plan and Operational Guideline (refer to Appendix B), temporary lighting will be installed with the car park used for night time operations. Temporary lighting is considered appropriate given the limited night time operations proposed. The Car Park Management Plan and Operational Guideline (refer to Appendix requires all temporary lighting to be positioned and shielded to prevent light spillage outside the boundaries of the premises to comply with AS4282-1997 – Control of Obtrusive Effects of Outdoor Light in. The perceived concerns that the proposed development will result in a reduction in surrounding property values is not a consideration relevant to the assessment of the proposed development against the regulatory planning framework. The proposed development has sought to ensure that the damage to existing onsite vegetation has been minimised to the greatest extent possible. The submitted Basic Ecological Site Assessment Report prepared by New Ground Environmental concluded that the proposed development will nothave a significant impact on the ability of the site to act as a corridor, given the existing disturbance and the physical barriers to fauna connectivity in the immediate surrounding locality. The presence of physical infrastructure on the site itself and within the immediate surrounding locality (including electricity power lines, a substation, local roadsand the Pacific Motorway) already creates significant air pollution in the local area.

Is JL open again?

@djrappa I never know how to please you. Yesterday when you said, you were coming over last night to cut my grass, made me think you liked mowing. I think you had the setting set too high because when I checked today I saw no difference in my yard.

I almost fired up the Iphone to capture the cutting of the grass @themagician