DaptoFunlandGuy

No - the SPIRIT... $5 shots at club blood anyone? lol.

I actually like the idea of a linked "precinct" but yes, diversity is still something needed in MW. I also want to take this opportunity to applaud Whitsy on a very sensible, intelligent comment. (but...) Please don't take this as picking, but with the addition of parentheses, the second sentence reads much clearer like this: <i>With too many of the rides (of the very few that they have) themed after superheros...</i> I say this only because i had to read it quite a few times before i understood that you meant "a majority of the rides in the park are themed after superheroes" instead of what my mind saw as "the very few that they have themed after superheroes"

Many of the animatronics at Disney parks (dancing ghosts in the haunted mansion for example) never stop. They run 24 hours a day. At night time during maintenance periods, they simply turn the sound off so the workers don't go absolutely bonkers. The reason (as I understand it) is because it is too complex to shut down, and then start up the attractions every morning.

Well the birthday cake float looks like the same base as the JL float did - so i'm assuming that would explain it's absence?

Call me crazy but I call Bullshit! The sensors for the LTRR animatronics are not far above water level. It is the boat the triggers the animatronics, not the passengers.

Oh Reanimated - such hilarity. With two minutes, you could perhaps have that job done twice with time for a cigarette? Besides - knocking up my mother is a physical impossibility. Now that we're done with completely unnecessary, unprovoked (not to mention disgusting) "jokes" - does anyone have a serious response?

I like the concept, but think it would be much better suited in the super hero area. The Zurg \ Alien guys are easily attacked by kids in the Disney parks, but ALL of the LT characters are lovable, and I can't really see kids loving the concept of shooting Marvin or Elmer. On the other hand - theres plenty of evil villains in the comics universe that everyone would love to shoot. Maybe put that concept into the old BATR2 showbuilding?

Well the website makes it simple - its gone. get your last ride in if you want to, otherwise, I welcome speculation on the new attraction... Any suggestions? What can be knocked up inside an existing building in just over 2 months?

Thanks for the update Bussy, and congrats on the impending addition!

i'm stretching it thin to put this here - but you do get a different view of the BuzzSaw, so it works. News.com.au published a video yesterday on some of the inner workings of the Giant Drop. It isn't anything we don't already know, but video footage is new in some places... http://video.news.com.au/2128925409/The-big-drop (forums 'link' button not working properly)

Yoda Coaster! Take you upside down it will. Scream on it you must. Lose your breakfast you might.

Like others, the late afternoon weekday timeslot was the show stopper for me. I understand staffing and logistics makes sense to do this on a weekday, i'm just disappointed I couldn't make it. Having said that - it's a fair point that the park didn't HAVE to do this for us, but I also want to point out that we're also doing them a favour, by supplying them with REAL people that they can film for upcoming advertisements. Whilst the park can film anyone, anytime they want to, overall, it's better to get people to volunteer knowing what they're in for, than filming the public and having someone whinge. They get footage to use for advertising before the attraction is open to the public, we get a sneak preview look-see... win-win. My point is, the park isn't bending that far over for us - they stand to benefit as much as we do.

One of the songs is called 'i gotta feeling' by.. nevermind.

True, but being the Pope or the Queen of England entitles you to bypass safety and security scans at airports...

Yes, because the location is just so far away from the now demolished biggest theme park in the southern hemisphere... As they say - most of that area is acreage - the residents have their own noise barriers in the adjacent land.

best suggestion i can make is to take Shazam along for one of the parades, and try and get close to the sound system.

unbiassed? seriously? Are you telling me you had absolutely NOTHING to do with it this time around? i've seen your zombie-coffee-zaraffas updates... you're pulling major hours on something... the question is whether its the parade, fright nights, or the show changes to AOS?

I must confess, while I advocate quality pictures every day of the week, i'd much prefer i-Phone to nothing. In terms of construction updates etc, the building progress of an attraction can easily be seen on the iphone, and the further on we get, the better quality are the cameras in those phones. I still agree that the "published" updates should be done with quality equipment, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with a forum-iphone-update - i'd love to see them more often!

Always a ringing endorsement when Rappa thinks it's good... well that, or it's his ego, but i'm going with number one...

I bought a 4-stroke mower a few months ago. On purchase, one needs to add oil to the sump. After a further 30 hours of operation, one needs to add additional oil to the sump - and thereafter it should be replaced once a year (depending on usage). Not to mention that in those two months, the attraction usually has the hardest service of it's life, and you'd want to make sure that all those new, unused parts had held up to what they were meant to...

i imagine it's not that easy, and tbh wouldn't be worth the money to do so. it would only serve to further reduce the ride's capacity by taking longer to cycle. let them bring something else in and shoe horn it into ocean parade... or perhaps - we'll see them focus now on developing rocky hollow \ gold rush themed areas - i can see it now... 'ye olde adrenaline alleye'

Well they really have to look to something that's either released this year or next. Scooby was opened the same year the film was released, so let's hope they're looking in that ballpark. Joker is a little past now to be a good hookup. Moving away from the Batman related theming (we've got 2 batman rides, and two separate areas of the park that are batman themed (gotham food area, wayne manor), i think we've got to extend out a bit - what else is out this year? Green Lantern is the only one that comes to mind - it's reasonably current (still in cinemas) so thats a possibility. What other suitable superhero stories have come out this year, or will in the next 6-8 months?

Well - you're close... a buzz saw and a saw mill are different - in the same way that a skyscraper and an elevator are different - you're not going to have one without the other.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzsaw_(disambiguation) So your guess is incorrect... a buzz saw and a circular saw are the same thing.

^^ Agreed

Well - when you really sit down and ask people what they consider 'australian' themed, with the exception of rusted water tanks and windmills, red dust, kangaroos and emus, (which oddly enough is a description of the roo\emu exhibit at the singapore zoo), there isn't much "aussie" stuff to theme, that would appeal to the overseas market. Landmarks etc aside - if you look at parks that have tried for such a specialty theme - Hard Rock for example - have failed, because they don't have the broad appeal. A park on the sunshine coast would need to rely (long term) on local revenue - and most people aren't going to want to go to a park that exaggerates the same world in which we live in. Besides - what are you going to call it.... Aussie World??? #Fail. Better to take a lead out of some of the big internationals that have sprung up recently... aka universal... find a franchise willing to jump on board and work off that... or model the park on another overseas - eg: Wonderland \ Canada's Wonderland. Most of the ground work was done, specific themes in place that weren't so totally focussed on one (very restrictive) element. Sure - have an "aussie" land within the park, where the tourists can buy all the ass-stuffed koalas they want, but don't make it the WHOLE park. Now that i've responded to that - as far as the overall announcement is concerned - i'm all for another park in the country that has the balls to compete on the world market (and the money) - whether it hinder or help our other parks i don't care - it may encourage them to invest more to keep up (or it may close them down), but either way - before we even think about the ramifications of it's effect on our other parks, we need to see it get past the "media release" stage... show us some concept drawings, public opinion poll, council discussions and SHOW ME THE MONEY before we really worry about anything else. I'm still waiting for the following: [*]Disneyland Sunshine Coast [*]Disneyland Cairns [*]Disneyland Gold Coast [*]Disneyland Melbourne [*]Disneyland Sydney [*]New sydney theme park (not WnWs) [*]Perth development from about 6 months ago [*]any other half baked idea i've missed [*]oh - and "Habitat Waterford" ...... bwahahahahahahhaha.....