DaptoFunlandGuy

^It does, but if they're ready, nothing says they can't aim to soft open during the september school holidays for 'dress rehearsals' whilst they iron out bugs, and take some of the capacity pressure of the parks' other attractions...

Your point is valid, but at the same time, if they don't offer a competing product, they will lose market share to VRTP. Many people (both here and on social media) have referenced the fact that they switch between annual passes from year to year, and many are due for a DW pass this year, but have stated that they intend to keep their VRTP pass due to the hyper. Unless DW offers something more than 'charm' and the rebirthing of pre-existing ride experiences - they won't get the visitation needed to sustain themselves for the next 18-24 months. Nobody is going to spend big on a thrill ride if their current revenue pattern continues. They need to spend it now, while they still have it.

Speaking of fright nights - I really hope they have plans for the 'BA:TR plaza' - that area was only ever designed for one ride queue. Now there's 3 feeding from that space, and judging by what we've seen, Rivals is going to make 4. I can only imagine the chaos that is going to ensue there unless they do some serious work on traffic management.

Especially when nobody outside of the park and manufacturer knows how to divide by two.

we don't want a Eurofighter when there are so many others out there to choose from. something different. And @pushbutton - for once I agree with you - they need an answer to the Hyper, but the answer isn't to copy (or attempt to) - they need a completely different direction, and for my money - the park is both ripe for, and well suited to a full circuit woodie \ hybrid.

Road Runner height restriction has recently increased - so depending on when her birthday is, she might have to grow a bit more before she can ride again...

To the contrary. there are many reasons to go back and ride 'old favourites' again and again. I proposed to my wife on Cyclone, and immediately after our wedding, we rode Sea Viper. Naturally one of those isn't an option any longer, but clearly - some people hold special memories with certain places \ rides \ attractions in theme parks, and this can bring them back, even if you don't see the ride as being that special. Hell - all one has to do is to look at the run of the Disney Electrical Parade (and the uproar every time they announce it's closure) to know that locals will keep coming back to ride old favourites. But everything is relative. If you spend $30million on a ride, it's easy to justify say - 2% of the ride cost on marketing - and spend $600k on advertising. But then you go and spend $2million (generous) on a walk-through experience. Can you really justify spending $600k, or 30% of the attraction cost on advertising? (When 2% would be $40k)? No - everything is relative.

DEFINITELY want terror tour on this one. do terror tour people get to push? i'm in.

then why ask for 7.5m? #greedy

Hey! He started at 5! I met you halfway - a 50% improvement on his original offer. He improves by 25cm and you're gonna give him the academy award? For shame... I'll give you 6.53...?

you'd get that in a soundstage, but i doubt you'd get it in those sheds.

You mean like building Wedgie to fight Aqualoop? 'LOL'

Split the difference - you can have 6.25m.

Off topic for a minute - but this is precisely the answer to people who sit there and whinge about why we're getting another coaster instead of a dark ride, or walk through, or monorail. Coasters are what people get excited about. You asked for people's thoughts \ opinions - and i'm sorry but I have to agree with @Reanimated35 - I've seen more asian tourists in DW than in SW on a regular basis - Corroboree, wildlife experience \ tigers bring just as many tourists to Dreamworld - and proximity to the strip doesn't impact on the Asian tourbus market - because they're on a tour bus. The itinerary many of these groups have - its far more enticing to pull off the highway for an hour's experience than to travel into a dead end spit. Plus - many of these tourists have the same marine life - dolphins, seals and sharks - in marine parks in their own backyard. Kangaroos, Koalas etc are unique to Australia, and the experiences offered at Dreamworld trump that particular demographic every time (although, Paradise Country offers similar). Dreamworld's main competitor is VILLAGE ROADSHOW. It has been said many times - what Village offer across their properties is what dreamworld offers in one place. Wildlife? Paradise Country or Dreamworld. Exotic animals and animal experiences? Sea World or Dreamworld. Waterpark? Wet N Wild or Dreamworld (WWW), big thrill rides? Movie world or Dreamworld. See the pattern here? Note - i'm firmly in the VRTP camp. Other than free \ event after hours admissions to Dreamworld, I haven't been in a few years. Meanwhile i'm a passholder to village, and have almost continuously held one since 2008. I prefer VRTP's offerings. Nothing i've said above is to suggest that DW's offering is better - only that the comparisons between both corporations can be drawn easily enough - and not discounted as quickly as you have.

My first thoughts is you should avoid using centre alignment on your posts. It has negative connotations around here.. and definitely don't use animated GIFs. For my thoughts, The dip in DW's statistics is to be expected. I don't believe the recovery from this is a 'few month' thing. It will take a few years for the park to bounce back, if it does at all, and only if management take the right path. Sure, they could open the southern hemispheres best XXXX, but most big thrill blockbusters have an element of fear to it - most thrills come from an appearance of danger - be that through speed, height, etc. Most of the big tickets that would have people flood back to the park would be deemed insensitive. The park is in desperate need of capital injection to secure it's future - and more than just improved facilities, exhibits and experiences. Few people rush out to buy an annual pass because stage 2 of the Corroboree is open, or the next part of Tiger Island is finished. The kind of excitement that we have witnessed on social media in the past 24 hours for the MW hyper is the kind of excitement DW need - people tagging their friends saying "we HAVE to go back" or "we HAVE to ride this". I also saw many people saying things like 'we usually alternate between DW and VRTP passes, but we will be keeping our VRTP passes this year for this!" The only folks who know whether that will happen are in the management of the park, and of Ardent \ Main Event. As has been said many times before, Only Time Will Tell.

Oh, but have they? But why? Did Tower of Terror suddenly lose popularity when they reversed the train? Does Mick Doohan dispatch with empty seats in the unpopular rows? No & No. If the train was half and half, people who cared would choose, and people who didn't care would choose whichever queue was shorter, which would naturally even things out. Many coasters around the world either face backwards, or have backwards travelling elements - including scooby. I guarantee we will look back at this discussion in a few years, saying 'why did people make such a big deal out of it?' Personally I think the backwards facing is a great idea, but do wish they'd have added more than a single row. That look of Joker's face as you lay on your back flying down the first drop!

Should have made both trains half and half. so on one train - the rear faces backward, the front faces forward the other - the rear faces forward, the front faces backward (*bonus element - you get to see the reactions of people across from you) this fixes the 'what happens when they only run one train' argument too.

See, I thought that was a really good idea @Skeeta. Apparently the folks who built Tower of Terror, and Superman: Escape from Krypton also thought that turning the car around to give a backwards ride experience was a really good thing, but apparently we're all wrong, and

I was thinking that, but then can't imagine the queue would be much more than the typical 'i'm waiting for the front seat' mentality - i do think in the first few months it will be mental. Personally, since we know there is at least (most likely precisely) two trains, i'd like to have seen them do one train all forward two backward, and the second train all backward, two forward...

well technically it is a world's first non-inverting loop, in that it is one in which riders can go both forwards and backwards at the same time!

Didn't the video say "ONE OF" the worlds first?

Movie World: "But I want Pizza Hut" DC: "Pizza? Yuk! I want KFC!" Warner: "No Way! we're getting McDonald's" End Result - Collective Decision Making: "Fuck it - you can all have weetbix and like it"

but they did say 'not pink'... I think the admin team here have jumped the gun. Closing the speculation thread means we can't now discuss the previous speculation within the same thread.

As I understand it its being done the same way as the GL sign. We've heard previously the GL sign is actually a custom screen, so it could be animated \ altered. Looking at the joker face - the mouth part itself is a solid piece - which suggests to me a clever dick in the design department might just have plans to make the mouth move... You started it by pointing out flaws on a website (which is also not an English class). Are you pot, or kettle? And no, it isn't English class. Usually by the time you get to a point where you can navigate the internet unsupervised, you'd expect to have graduated from English class.

Only if you aren't keeping up...