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hmmm..... I can also deduce that this is a worlds first finally from WVTP - one that dreamworld won't get - they also don't have any sort of restraint system. As a matter of fact, it looks like they've somehow managed to mount ten of the Sea World Jet Skis in a train formation onto the track of the corkscrew? even better - it seems some sort of mechanical cloning has been used - as every jet ski appears to be identical... like they've just used the one jetski, and put different kids on them in an excited pose! holy crap - do you reckon that it might be related to this post here? matt crombie's post from months ago that you really should look at before commenting on an ARTIST'S BLOODY RENDERING

Although considering that post was made near on two months ago, it couldn't have been very obvious back then....

Well, since it is against the community guidelines to do so - yes, you should have. Then again this is why I made a little joke out of it rather than obsessively yell at you for not spelling the right way.

I was just checking out Gazza's latest addition to the photo galleries. I couldn't help but laugh at the following: followed by That's extensive.... Surely theres a way (not sure how hard it would be) to program a simple logic into that line that says "extensive". The system is obviously able to recognise how many photos it has for each attraction, so using that, why can't it have a couple of different phrases - EG: if theres less than 3 or 4 - "Our <Ride Name> gallery needs more photos. Contribute more here! If theres say 5-10 "Check out the Parkz <Ride Name> photo gallery here! And if theres more than 10 "More Photos from our extensive <Ride Name> photo collection here It just seemed a bit of a stretch to call 2 photos a "gallery" let alone our "extensive" collection.

So Chris why haven't we seen you around much lately? your other ID hasn't posted since late 2005, and since you created this one in april 07, you've made 9 posts... most of which are in here... I remember when I first joined R-C\TT your posts littered the forums. I remember the animated gif you had as an avatar at that point quite vividly.

Gazza, tell me you clicked the starch link..... god I read some of those and cacked myself...

still waiting on why we won't see it return? That made the ride. entering the final lift hill and feeling the heat rise as you get closer to the top of the lift hill was the perfect setting that you were entering a volcano.

Bully for you - who cares? Just see how many people you can one-up in every way. Good idea! Let's redo all of dreamworld from starch Give me amylose and amylopectin theme parks any day.

Good news to hear Gazza. I think the rope lights in the lift are to give you some point of reference when the lift tilts. I think if you didn't have it (try closing your eyes next time, before you enter the lift area) you would just feel like you were moving sideways, rather than TILTING. I'd still like to see them fix the last drop though. I don't think the haze you saw in the main room would have been fog or smoke because it would have carried forward into the last room. I think the mist was just particularly good that day. Dammit MW, just bring back the green laser - you've got it in the rest of the room.

Progressive park openings also work too. Wonderland did this with Goldrush. I have to say as far as opening hours it isn't really the best to have the ENTIRE park area open prior to attractions open. Last time I was at Movie world, the ropes were around the Roxy area. The problems with the whole park being open is it costs you money - You have to have staff in attendance at every stall and attraction, to prevent guests getting where they shouldn't be. For Wonderland, as a staff member, I loved being in the Photo lab, because it was the earliest start for park staff. Retail plaza \ wildlife staff started at 8:30, but park staff (other than goldrush) would start at 9:30 to be on deck before 10:00am. I think the same was for attractions - staff didn't start till 9:30, which meant they had to get their keys and radios, and make it to the attraction, check the maintenance signoffs, and cycle it before the gates opened. In some cases, Bounty's was still in cycle check when the gates opened. Roping the area inside the gates, but before you hit an attraction is a good idea - a few retail staff members on duty in a sales area works well - you might not make a sale, but it forces people to look, which means they might see something they like and come back for it later. Disney does this for a reason - roping off at the hub opens all the stores on Main Street, without needing all hands on deck everywhere else, and it provides for more income. Opening the whole park means you have no concentration of guests, you need to have staff at every corner of the park to supervise the little darlings, therefore - you're spending more money on wages, and not making any in your shops.

I think it's going to be very unpredictable, as to what DW will do with the area. If precedent is anything to go by - it can remain SBNO for between 2 and 18 months, before demolition without ceremony. (ala Thunderbolt and Eureka). Admin: Any chance that the two threads on this topic can be merged

Well Joz, I for one like this new angle taken by dreamworld. Blunt honesty, without thought for public concern could mean that we are actually informed of WHY an attraction is taken down... eg: Hector and Cletus left a spanner on the rail of cyclone, so its going to be closed for two weeks, while we have a full set of urethane wheels shipped out from the US. Or better yet - we might have seen an update such as "Eureka is closed. We're pretty sure its gunna cost too much to fix, but until next years budget allocation comes in, we're just saying "maintenance". Once we're sure we can't afford to fix it, then we'll just remove it off the park map, and hope nobody will notice." Followed by another update saying "People are still noticing that it's closed. We're not going to announce that it's gone yet, but we will board up the station, and paint it like a shopfront for KFC... ummm... in the middle of goldrush country - of course! its a perfect place for a front that looks like KFC - why not - Wonderland put a brightly coloured Dippin' Dots in Goldrush... oh wait didn't they close like a year later?..... oh crap... that announcement wasn't supposed to be made yet..."

With pleasure, but not only because you liked the old design... You're Crazy. Don't say you didn't ask for it.

Well, they don't advertise Wild West Falls anymore... nor do they advertise lethal weapon any more... I haven't seen superman advertised in a while except for Rove, and Scooby hasn't been advertised in a while - Maybe they should close all the rides except for Batwing, since thats the last one I saw advertised? Better yet, let's close every ride that has a good capacity, a good demographic basis (almost everyone can ride it) and can be ridden even when the weather is bad - how many rides does that leave us?

I'm not even going to start on the rest of that post.

Pretty sure it was teaser Gazza. From the info they had on the website, and on the forums here, the ads were on bus shelters and stuff, just the "01002" and a website (which I think was also 01002.com.au or something) which had more info, so you'd see 01002 and a website, and it would drive you nuts, so you'd log onto the 01002 website and get involved, where you also found out about the competition to work out what it meant to be the first to ride it. You're pretty spot on from the info I can remember.

Sanderson has been brought up before - but good find! We've yakked about the cyclone queue pretty much since it was built, all in the negative. As Richard said - the most poorly designed queue in the world.... well... almost. I think its a combination of whats been said - first, that you have to be pretty intimate with the concept to really understand what they're doing. (A bit like Tower of Terror too). The second is that the maintenance is really a problem. Something breaks, and instead of fixing it to standard, you fix it as cheaply as possible, or you don't fix it at all. Things like the cave wall in Tower of Terror is another example where it is damaged, and they just do nothing. But instead of bringing in the same theming experts to adjust or fix or repair the problem when something is changed - for example the relocation of the TOT queue, they just stick up some stairs, mount some air cons on the wall, and leave it with a very sterile warehouse styled queueline at the start. This is MLE all over, and its such a shame.

Oh Crap where do I start? Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster cars have laser eyes that detect fire, and independant motors in each car capable of reversing the cars back up hills and away from danger in case of fire Village will restore the theming to WWF Disney sold out to Universal A new one that only came on the boards recently - Apparently "Warner Village Theme Parks" will buy all SixFlags and Busch Parks. ----- All Six Flags Parks to become Warner Bros Movie World (crap thats a lot of theming to change..... A B&M has been coming to <insert park of interest here> in Australia, at least once every year. I'm still waiting Oh Yeah - Scooby Doo's Roof is designed to retract like a stadium in case of fire too Apparently Banana Benders can't get Banana Milk? Sea World - Killer Whales - Nuff Said (thats been going on for how long now? they killed the plans decades again) Heres a Shifty Classic - Apparently, Dreamworld is buying Bush Beast and will relocate it, one beam at a time The same rumor as above, with about half of the rides from Wonderland Here's a CRAZY Rumor - Everything wonderland did up until closure was for the benefit of their guests, and was not just a measure in cost-cutting Expedition Everest does not contain the bodies of two workers trapped during construction The Berries at Knotts Berry Farm are not freshly picked on the premises daily. Yes, Tigger has belted the crap out of kids in a Disney Park. Yes - They deserved it. WikiPedia is your best source of information on the goings on in theme parks and the amusement industry. Don't check any other source - if it's on Wiki, you can take it to the bank, the forums, and the papers. There is a section on the Cyclone track where a second train can be housed Dreamworld Executives had been planning WhiteWaterWorld long before Wet n' Wild was built. As with everything else, Dreamworld just didn't build it as fast, and so it appeared like they were "copying" Dreamworld WILL be renamed Ocean Parade, since this is the only place they ever bother to improve or expand on a regular basis. All other worlds to shut down. Motocoaster to be renamed "waterbikes" to fit in No, Big Brother is NOT watching you. But you can tell your sister the bathroom is free, and to make sure she doesn't fog up the mirror. We all have nothing better to do than to help high school kids with their assignments, just because they happen to loosely tie the assignment to something theme park related Disney is coming to Sydney err..... Melbourne wait...... Brisbane hang on - Sunshine Coast no..... Perth wait a minute - due to the absolute lack of anything else to do and the fact that land only costs $1 per acre, they're building in Adelaide (Mickey Mouse seen with some unusual looking barrels in the back of the Disneyland Bank yesterday) This one goes back a few years - <Insert Name of Big Theme Park Company Here> "will buy out wonderland sydney in a bid to save it from the land developers" (the funny thing about this one is that half the park was already closed and deconstructed, and you had LG and several other companies building on the parking lot. Thats about it for now... I'll drop back as I remember more...

Agreed. Perhaps this could be reposted in the thread for stupid rumours?

I'd love something like Pirates @ DL Ca. If indoor coasters don't really count (a-la Space Mountain), then Pirates would be my fave dark ride.

Which in itself was a pretty easy statement to make.... Anything worthwhile doing, never ends up in Victoria.

....or the comment about NSW could just be pointing to the existing attractions Village already has in place at Wildlife World and the Aquariums. I don't see a theme park happening in NSW for quite a while.

I think that answers your question Gazza. Now, I'm no technician, but thinking of the way the ride mechanism on probe works, you have the fixed magnetic brakes at the bottom, designed to slow, and the cable winch to haul the cabin up. It would be an astronomical expense to fit any other sort of supplemental braking system to any sort of freefall. It is probably easier and cheaper just to fit guards to the cabins so there is no injury as a result of the cable snap. If the cable snapped while the car was halfway up on probe, I would expect that the cabin would just come back down, with catchcar attached. The danger here is that if it were too low when it snapped, the eddy currents generated by the magnets may not arrest the car falling, but again without being an engineer or the like, the more technically minded could correct that or not. I cannot see how a freefaller would stop halfway up the tower if the cable had snapped. To me it just seems unlikely, given that the cable is the only thing that makes the cabin go "UP", that if the cable snapped, it would most likely go "down". Some sort of ratchet device like a chain dog? one that disengages at the top and doesn't re-engage until it hit the bottom?

well - you have to ask where the line is drawn? Technically the twists, loops, and that kick ass curve are before the chain lift.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA...... I do love the description - almost exactly how i would have described her. Esther is a very nice old lady, heart of gold, and do anything for you if she could, but she can talk your ear off. It had been so long since I'd been up there I wanted to ask permission to take photos because I didn't think they would remember me (we used to "work" up there in school holidays"). So - asking permission to take photos, asking permission to take photos............ and 90 minutes after saying hello to her, I was able to get my camera out of the car.... I guess thats enough said about talking your ear off eh?