DaptoFunlandGuy

of course... no one but yourself actually referred to you as a nutter yet.... so - think about it - and decide who the nutter is....

just an update on your info at the bottom of the page -(good stuff by the way) - the wonderland gateway signage was located off the northern road, not the driftway - and it connected windsor and penrith. the junkyard has been demolished, and levelled to the ground, and a brand new built double story house now stands in its place. As for the name of the "lake" area - take your pick depending on which part you are talking about Medieval Faire, Old Botany Bay, International Village, Transylvania were all names of (or names of parts of) that area.

if you look at the email address for contact enquiries - it is CBRE, which is a commercial \ industrial property group. they generally buy vacant land zoned for industry, and sell it off to developers or industrial companies looking for new property to develop on

it's been a while since i've posted on these forums, and it seems to me that people are just getting thicker and thicker... There's sarcasm and deliberate exaggeration all over the place, made intentionally, which completely goes over the head of everyone else - take taronga's last post for example - Oh My God.... what a world we live in. I think the most logical explaination as to why the water rides would be closed is because it is cooler and night and people would freeze. I think movieworld doing a "Screamworld" type event would just appear to copy dreamworld. I dont think its necessary for movie world to do screamworld. out of the major attractions, lethal, and soon, superman, are really the only rides you would truly get any effect out of that you don't already get in the day time. It suits dreamworld because their rides are mostly outdoors, movie world on the otherhand are mostly indoors, so therefore theres no difference what time of day you ride the attraction, the experience is mostly the same...

as far as i am aware, the transfer for lethal weapon is a sliding track, operating similarly to a railway switch track...

There is very little that can be done with the Beast's remains. The chemicals used to treat the timber back in the early eighties is highly toxic, so burning and the like is out of the question. As far as using it for woodchips, im not sure how safe that would be, given woodchips are generally in public areas - and what would happen if baby johnny picked one up and licked it? not a risk worth taking... no - Beast's remains will most likely because hazardous landfill and no more than that...

i still think Melbourne is the wrong place for a Disney Park. I honestly think somewhere in NSW would be the best, but thats with a residential bias. Queensland or NSW would be the best possible places, both for climate and existing local and international tourism destinations. Put down to the bear facts, Australia's three biggest destinations are: Sydney - landmarks, icons, and animals Brisbane\Gold Coast - sun, fun, and heavily "Aussie" tourist attractions Melbourne - Shopping Now as an international tourist, if i could choose only two of the three, the loser would be melbourne. As a domestic tourist from another state, the shopping would not be too far from what I would pay at home, so again its still not that much of an attraction. Spreading the tourist attractions so far apart, where there is nothing else in between is just too much. To see everything worth seeing in the US, it might take a year to do it properly. To see everything worth seeing in Australia, im confident that it COULD be done in under 6 months. Bear in mind that the size of our country is very close to that of continental america... they just have so much more to see...

The christmas 2001 party at panthers was my only christmas party with Wonderland :cough: Supervisor was a bitch :cough:, but it was probably one of the best christmas staff parties i have been to. the red faces acts were quite funny, and the only problem with being underage was if you didnt have another staff member who was legal to get the drinks for you... lol. That was my job for a bit of that night as my GF at the time was underage as well. we got pretty tanked, ended up staying at Panthers Motel, and woke up with 20 minutes before we were due to start at the park and screamed frantically down the M4. For those who remember the parties following that one, the Parks photographer - Brendan Fox - was on hand doing photography for a lot of the external events. Brendan now runs a Camera and Photoprocessing store, I work for him, and he lives out the back and pays me rent! lol. so anyway back on with the story... So maintenance did a strip tease Retail did a revamped version of "my guy (my god)" from Sister Act, with the Retail supervisor playing the part of god Entertainment - well.... they couldnt act even when they were being paid, how did they have any chance of winning??? - the exception being the Magic Movers who worked for Tony Laffan. I forget what operations did, but i think it involved the shrek costume food - ??? park services???

personally, I like the old version on Vbulletin, however since Richard is still ironing out creases and changing the styles etc, I'll reserve judgement. I do certainly hope the changes will see the return of the "quick reply" area, as going to a new page to create a post has its problems, I also hope that the "please wait while we direct you" message will not be hanging around long, and basically that the forums features we have had to this point won't be lost in a compromise for "better" features.

Ok, reviewing these images i have some comments and questions - 1) there are two photos of the launch on the first page (outdoor), but one looks like its a really short length (closeup) and the other from a wide angle makes it look long. The caption there somewhere says most of the launch is indoors, so - how long is the launch from station (or launch staging area) to the pulleys? (eg: what is the length of acceleration before its just travelling on its own?) 2) the highest support is already standing, however the top hat will reach the top of the crane... how big wide is the top hat going to be? time taken to travel from vertical UP to vertical DOWN through the top hat - would this be more likely to be measured in milliseconds or seconds? 3) the turn post-top-hat appears to be near a public area - which public area, and how close? 4) that same turn - wasn't there going to be part of the movie setsnew sets built so that the track went through the cityscape.... is there still room there to have these built, and will that public area still be able to view the coaster at that point? 5) based on all of the track sections delivered, has anyone been able to determine the approximate total length of the track? 6) in other coasters, a lot of the track pieces were welded together. the closeups of these track pieces look like its just a bolted flange, with a "ball and socket" joint for the track. will it still be welded, or should the flanges hold be enough? and if they won't be welded, does this mean that the onstruction time will be a lot less? look forward to some answers.... this is gunna be one rockin coaster....

yes they pretty much went bust. I enjoyed Intencity Parramatta. I used to go there quite a lot during school holidays when i was younger. Red Planet, BattleMech Warrior, The Chameleon, and Flight Simulator.... all were favourites of mine.... the other arcade parts of the place, i wasn't really a fan of, although the Wide World Of Sports area was better than the rest...

I am usually really lazy, and dont visit links to news articles, however this one sounded interesting, so for all the other lazy people out there, here is the original article.... Mammoth River? now where have I heard that before? It is good though. I enjoyed the mammoth slides at WnW, and if they are the same, It is probably going to be very similar, but without the massive queue lines..... Come on Jamberoooooooooooooo.... show QLD what New South Welshmen are made of!!!

actually.. there were rabbits... but yes, rats were more wonderland's mascot by the end of it all...

i think you're referring to tumbleweed...

The only other place I can think of besides galaxy theatre and outback woolshed that would have had any of this "application specific" equipment would have been in the probe tunnels and launchpad. I am fairly certain that probe's tunnels and pad were stripped of everything of value very early after closure, and I guarantee you that nothing "concealed in boxes" would have been overlooked by the people who stripped that place.

also - do not forget that you can pre-purchase your tickets right here at www.roller-coaster.com.au .....

i know someone who has done that on Zodiac....

ok sorry i posted the wrong word, the word was memorabilia, but the word i took issue with was "official"

well having the house in central sydney would be a lot better than out in the middle of the bush. A lot of international series are filmed in sound stages, so I dont see a problem with a completely indoor BB. Southern Star Endemol are the owners of licensing to the show. Dreamworld would want to hold on to it, but looking at the sour ratings they are getting, and being that Southern Star's offices are in Greenwich, North Sydney, Sydney doesnt seem like too much of a problem. The logistics and broadcast equipment set up in Sydney are much more convenient than at Dreamworld. Its a logical move - and the only person who would really lose out out of the move would be Dreamworld - and thats no great loss... besides, once Big Brother is gone, Dreamworld will have much more room to expand as well - demolish blue lagoon, build the waterpark near cyclone, and then they have the blue lagoon land, AND the Big Brother land which has already been cleared, to build whatever they want to build in that area - expansion plans sound good at the moment, and also getting back the Big Brother Studio, means they could house more permanent style shows, like Milennium Magic at WLS.

so if that ticket you have is "official merchandise", can we see the certificate of authenticity??? lol.

yes but was there a need to quote the entire post?

don't forget that all the waters in tomb raider rainforest sets generally had anacondas or something similar in them. Australiana? Aint no clear blue waters in that billabong mate... Arabian? A Waterpark? Sure, and while we're at it, lets send some alaskans a freezer. Wild West? Show me one clear blue pool in the wild west...? the same goes for Africa... and as far as Snow and Alpine? Snow and Ice themed waterpark? only if you plan on SKATING across the swimming pool... But I will give you the simple unthemed waterpark, the pacific islands, and the carribean... i think on the whole that shows why its better just to theme it Ocean Parade... two "tropical paradise" type locations, with two different themes, right next to each other? blechhhh!

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Im not so sure that sunway sold them... I am pretty sure that ING Industrial fund owns the land, as of January 1st. Therefore all the infrastructure and rides would transfer ownership to ING... so maybe its ING trying to recoup some of their purchase costs on the land?

what else could you theme a waterpark Gazza? they've had blue lagoon - oh wait - blue lagoon 2? they can put it in ocean parade... or else they could try.. the beach? nup its been done... ummmmm..........? nup Ocean Parade looks like a good idea for a waterpark...