DaptoFunlandGuy

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?

Ok, so I got told to get out of the house for a few hours, and I took a leisurely drive (4 hours) up the mountains, across the peak, and back down toward north Richmond. I used to live up that way, and remembered as a Kid going horseriding a lot. I remembered it was within walking distance from our old house, so I figured I could find it if I drove that way a bit. Low and Behold, I found the old Valley View Trail Rides, on Grose Vale Road, just south of North Richmond (which funnily enough is west of Richmond). What greeted me as I entered the driveway was something that made me jam on the brakes, and as I delved further into the property, I realised that while not much else has changed, there has been quite a few additions. Apparently, the woman who owns the place spent close to $70,000 on stuff from wonderland. She also has lights from the front entry, and HB\Transylvania, which she will use in her expansion plans for her business (no photos). Apparently, there are plans for a wildlife park etc. In the photos below are: Entry for Beastie (including a close up shot of the cabling area in the back - can't quite make out all the writing), a miscellaneous roof structure from somewhere in the park (anyone know where?), the paddleboats (obviously), so many bin cages it isn't funny. The bollards near the bins i'm pretty sure are from the front of the park, and there is two old mine-carts that are now used as legs for a table by the barbecue. I also found out she bought WL-X! Bussy - Daniel - there is a pic in there of the WL-X carriage - currently being re-sprayed. A couple of wooden cut-outs from Goldrush area, and there is the mini-fencing from HB that used to be on top of the brickwork in HB, and the last is some additional fencing, all in the same drab green wonderland used a lot - it is weird in its layout and construction, and all piled up, so I'm not sure where it is from, but it was all curved rail... any ideas? See below:

Edit: Forget this post even existed - i was about 3 days too slow.

Good photo Gazza, although the exposure can't have been too long if you weren't trying to hold it still, the background in the shot is pretty sharp.

I don't recommend putting your arms up in the air until AFTER the launch starts... by all means they can be up before you leave the tunnel, just not during the initial thrust - i've dislocated a shoulder that way.

Richo - need to get the acoustics fixed in here, I think we've got an echo.

Richo - need to get the acoustics fixed in here, I think we've got an echo.

This has been discussed many times over. Try searching Disney and Gold Coast on the forums - you'll find quite a bit.

Actually, this is the precise reason why many tall buildings have pressurised stairwells. I'm not going into technicalities - thats something I think Gazza is much more suited for, but needless to say - a higher pressure area, with a door opened into a lower pressure area, the smoke isn't going into the stairwell because the high pressure will blow out the door, rather than suck the smoke into the stairwell.

See the difference between a big warehouse and a Uni building is the kind of building (obviously). In a big warehouse, there is nowhere to stop the smoke from going, and so, to get the smoke out, vents and exhausts to remove it to the open air is the only option. In a multi-roomed building, magnetic fire doors are designed to stop smoke from spreading to other areas, as there is no way you can easily vent smoke out of a multi-roomed building except opening the windows. The building I work in does not have the ability to open windows, and its a tower, so the best way is to seal the smoke in to the affected area, allowing people in all other areas to evacuate without being affected by smoke. Our fire stairs, as with most in office buildings are pressurised, to prevent smoke making its way into them and transferring between floors. Obviously, this sort of system would be useless in a big open warehouse.

Me fail english? Thats unpossible! See the millions of dollars they spent on baseball stadiums, and football stadiums can be justified to have a retractable roof, but when the attraction would cost less than the roof, I don't think so. You could achieve the same result in half the time if you had some heavy duty blowers and a side vent. Yes Nev, laser eyes do come to mind. Perhaps the trainer is the same guy who started both rumors... just for a lark...?

Not to mention that if the residue from a smoke system caused problems with brakes slipping, steam would be even worse - you have you remember that in SE, the steam is used just prior to launch, and the brake fins get a 30 second blow dry before they come anywhere near brakes - besides, the brakes are magnetic, rather than friction that you find on scooby.

I understand the pink jellyfish - my point was they just look cheap. gazza, when I was talking paint i didn't just mean straight run of the mill enamel... i was more referring to a gritted paint - something that grips. Alternatively a spray-crete overlay would be good so long as it was thick enough... too thin and it flakes off.

I think those pink jellyfish on the structure are ridiculous. Someone got the work experience kid to knock something up with a band-saw and some poster paint. I agree with the theming on the ground, but its a week or so before it opens, and that is a very last minute touch to do, so it could still happen. To be honest, If they do paint the ground, I certainly hope its done in paint that weathers well in high traffic areas. It will be very annoying if it fades and crumbles apart... then again thats dreamworld all over...

Nightshifter [noun] - A user who frequented these boards several years ago (last post December 2004) where he frequently made random posts, posts without any basis, or were presented as fact without evidence or even the presumption of truth to them, in my opinion just as an attempt to big note himself. Great statements include: Not only do we now have white water world, but the African Safari World is in planning And these two, posted two days apart: This one, posted august 7, 2004 (4 months after the park closed): Posted 3 months after wonderland closed: Im still waiting for JP4 - Or we will just make it a parking lot for the LG warehouse..... Now - after Skyhawk, there was also demon and space probe - but contrary to popular opinion - apparently: (bear in mind - screamscape is a rumor site - I myself have posted rumors to screamscape, and this was something HE HIMSELF posted to screamscape...) I think thats enough from now, and you get the idea. Looking back over his posts, I think there are some today that are worse... at least shifty usually - for the most part - prepared his posts, typed correctly etc... and besides, we knew not to trust his crap - others are not so predictable.

Yes Nev, that was not lost on me... but you didn't get the idiot part. This was why I felt the need to give that much detail.

Just saw promo for Mega Builders on Discovery Channel (I recorded mythbusters, and the promo was on during that). It started at 10:30, but there is another episode on at 4:30am, 11:30am and 5:30pm. Discovery Channel Digital 610. Roller Coaster: The Longest, Fastest and Tallest flying roller coaster opened in Spring 2006 at Six Flags Magic Mountain, just north of Los Angeles.

Actually, I think this is the one gazza: Established Precedent for Idiocy And no Nev, I don't really think you are an idiot, as a matter of fact, I have quite a lot of respect for you and your experience and knowledge. It's just that so recently after that post, you posting something like that, I just had to throw it in.