DaptoFunlandGuy

Its also funny the comments made about persons in the industry not visiting this site, when the person making the statements is an ex-industry worker, who does consider himself to be quite in the know about the park he worked for.... he should know the levels of management who were at the park he worked for that visited this site regularly during its trading periods....

it will come in good time. WBMW has already made announcements on the type of ride, the theme of the ride, the height, a vague storyline, and the location within the park. They don't have a massive billboard posted out front, but have made it quite plain as to their intention. The rest will come closer to the release date. Many a park have published imagery way before the ride opened, only to find the ride is delayed, or there is a difficulty in getting the ride to "be" what was in the picture.... meaning many disappointed fans. Keeping the "final" ride under wraps until such time as it's bolted to the ground is good for keeping up the suspense.... IMHO.

well then since you have a fear of the unknown, you should be aware that there are absolutely NO backwards drops, sharp turns, flashing lights or tilting elevators on SDSC.... lol..... no... there are all of those things... lol.

lol. and my questions were in relation to the footprints out the front... so while there was a dinosaur exhibition at HBL... they were not related to the footprints out the front of the ticket booths...

flycoaster in goldcoast looks to be about the same as skyscreamer, and i saw a travelling version of this slingshot at the easter show about 3 years ago...

taz did have electronic release of the lapbars... and wonderland used to run tazzie backwards, back in the day it also had an exit and entrance on opposite sides of the ride. I'm pretty confident I can assume this was axed to improve capacity and cut down ride time. As posted elsewhere on this site, Management eventually put all the rides on Automatic operation, where possible, so they did not need to train their operators as intensely, saving money, and possible screw ups...

Commonwealth Bank also took park in these pre opening op-tests. My Father was one of the financial team who handled all the pre-opening finances...

1/2 a point. they were dinosaur footprints, but they were white. try 1991 WRONG - it was an exhibition of dinosauria - life size models and animatronics on display in the park WRONG - the exhibition took place in the sundowner theatre area. Correct! Yogi's picnic Park Yes - the theme was right - it was something to do with Yogi... but the name was what was asked for. well done on pulling out the park map and checking it out. The HBL Faces were cemented into the walls of gardens in several places in the park, and they were covered up with the Blue W, or other nondescript cartoonery. Still waiting for someone to give a reasonable answer on this one...

From : Blacktown Advocate Wednesday June 1st - 2005

lol ... Joz i think you mean fan BOY. i dont believe there was more than 1 seriously DW oriented member..... and who says he left?

or Paul, you could get him to email them to you like he wants to do, and either resize and post them on R-C, or post them on DPA..

See? I told you...

Most parks across the world utilise codewords for all sorts of things, and Protein Spill is one of them. When you are "escaping from everydayland," you dont want to overhear someone go "someone just hurled" or "i gotta clean vomit out of that ride" or something like that... particularly if you're feeling a bit nauseous yourself... Variations on the codewords include: Bravo Protein Spill Code 'P' or Signal 'P', as well as the letters V and S (for Vomit and Sick) I know that the last time I was in Disneyland I overheard "Code P" on Space Mountain.

this has been asked before. Someone (i think it was Huss) posted an image of the internal gears inside the tower, however, absent the image, its basically a network of gears that turn around the central shaft, to keep the seating upright. basically one motor turns the central pivot, and the gearing does most of the rest. I'll wait for Huss to post the image... because I know he will have it.

I think Gazza just said he would email the owners.... looking at what i can see, and the description, I think it is safe to say that that is BooBoo's Balloon Race. It may also be Dick Dastardly's Flying Circus. We shall see..

Well.... the door wasn't open when i started... but it was when I finished...

Honestly... tell me.... what happened to that door? it either: still stands in the same position was moved so other people could get more stuff out of there, and then put back has been bulldozed. Besides.... you told me to break in!.... just because the door broke before the lock did... not my fault eddie didnt have the right keys....

What I am saying here, is that the ride is shut down when winds reach a certain level to protect damage being done to certain vulnerable parts of the ride... So when Skyrider goes Delta, the cabins are all secured in-station, and the cable stops. If the ride is charlied, this means the vulnerable parts of the ride (the cabins) are then exposed to a wind at height. Im not saying Delta was a higher alert level, im simply saying what if delta levels of weather began while the ride was already charlied, leaving people stranded in a cabin, which is no longer hanging gently high above the park, but swinging violently in a heavy wind. Lets say Maintenance's response time from their current location to the ride is 10 minutes. (Our TL's and Sup's could go from Beastie to Beast in 6 minutes) they spend 10 minutes determining what the error is, and how to fix it, if possible. if they could not have it fixed 10 minutes after that (so no more than 30 minutes since it went down) ERS should have been called in.

yes well we all remember when the "water troughs" in goldrush collapsed from the wood rot and almost landed on top of a woman who was sitting on a bench breastfeeding, while watching snowy... oooooooooooooooo Zoe had fun that day... and the next day..... THEY WERE ALL GONE WITHOUT A TRACE! lol just because you hate the 2000, doesnt mean it is not a good multi-purpose mover. I never said a profile would make it look bad, i was talking about a number of things - if you use a mac, you need a controller, someone who knows DMX, and an expensive bulb. in a profile, the bulb is generally cheaper (depending), and can be positioned prior to the show by hand, and plugged into an analog dimmer, or hell - even a quad pack or single dimmer would do it.. and you have the same effect. The point i was making about lighting was simply that in that particular scenario, you have two things that will do the job... one will cost more to do than the other.... both delivering the same result.... which one are you gunna pick? so taking that analogy to the Maintenance aspect of WL, why replace the bearing, when it can be turned over? yes thats right - theres nothing wrong with it, but the comparison i am making with the lighting comes here to say - why use a mac (replace the bearing) when you can use a profile (turn the bearing over) ?

90 minutes by the paperwork maybe. i still disagree that it can be claimed to be "exactly 90 minutes". there are variables there that can not, and will never be accounted for. i was working right next to skyrider during that incident. i never pulled out a stopwatch but i can tell you it was wayyyyyyyy too damn long for the woman in the cabin closest to the station with an infant and a 4 year old. Skyrider goes delta in high winds. this is because of the safety of the passengers in the cabins during high wind. what could have happened if we got high winds while it was charlied? My only insistance here is that for the time the ride was down, no emergency services crew, police rescue, the S.E.S., fire brigade, or the local brickie with a cherry picker were called to aid the passengers stranded on that ride.... for 90 minutes or 120 minutes.... WHO CARES? it was too long either way.

yeah but clint - do you use a MAC 2000 P for the static placement of a gobo, when you could use a profile and get the EXACTsame result? EVERY company goes with a cheaper option... and if its cheaper to say... turn the bearing over to wear it on the other side, than buy a new bearing... then most companies would do that... One company I used to work for had many locations around the country, each with a single laser printer. there were 130 locations, and they had 260 printer cartridges. when you finished your old one, you sent it to head office, and they had someone there, who spent all day refilling the toner cartridges out of a drum, and sending it back to the location who sent it to them... we generally got our "new" cartridge within the week... which was plenty of time before the one that was in there died. its a fine line between money, and usefulnessefficiency

actually he is kind of right.... i think... Boolean is true and false I THINK (in other words yes and no) if i am not mistaken.. Binary is ON and OFF (which i suppose you could say was yes and no), but i dont see how yes and no is digital... so whoever is right... zordy is... once again... wrong... and thats really all that matters in this argument...

Buzz if i had the money i would have bought the park... whatever the cost... if i had the money i would have. the same with the souvenirs we got from the park post closure. if i could have bought them, i would have. i bought what i could afford... and even then i was a little short on the rent that week because of it!!!

I have nothing against the maintenance team at WL. i knew a lot of them and was good friends with some as well.... personally, i believe the blame for most of the incidents you could classify as "band aid" were due to management's niggling over money. can't fix a ride without the proper tools and parts.... there were however some incidents that cannot be faulted on anyone except maintenance personnel... like bussy's picture of the plc board at SP... with the little RIP notice taped onto it...

*changes "over 2 hours" to "a heck of a lot more time than it should have taken to either repair, or call emergency rescue"* Geez.... these maintenance and operations people get really defensive dont they? however long it took to fix skyrider... something more should have been done in that time. And how do you know it was EXACTLY 90 minutes? is there a stopwatch on a ride that starts automatically the instant it breaks down? i dont think so. so add on extra time for the operator to realise there is a problem, bell it to the other station, wait for the radio channel to be free, then call in to the control room,also bear in mind that once it starts up again, its a minute or two before the passengers make it back to the station, and many other little bits and pieces, your 90 minutes can balloon quite quickly... tell us.... how DO you know it was exactly 90 minutes?