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Sorry Brad - @jjuttp's original statement simply said a film adaptation. Animation or live action fits this criteria.

Could there be something about night time operation - cooler track, cooler wheels that might indicate less speed \ more friction? if the track \ wheels have cooled down, they could contract, ever so slightly which would leave more space for the train to 'hop' ? i'm no engineer - just speculating...

I think a WOC style nighttime show would be really easily achieveable - Waltzing Waters (http://liquidfireworks.com/) can do amazing stuff on a budget - One only has to look at the spongebob show at Sea World to see how simple it can be, yet thoroughly entertaining. As for lowering them - Disney solved this problem with WOC, and the design is fairly simplistic (although whether it's patented would be the problem - if Disney can - they have.) As for the ski show - I think they could certainly do something like the former ski show - but all of the big setups - where the boats went down to the bridge to establish the formation (ie: the pyramid) as well as build up enough speed would be much harder - and i think the show would suffer as a result.

Well, for those who are otherwise occupied on saturday nights - eg: have to work, etc - having it on only one day of the week is a pain. At least if it were on fri\sat, or even a sunday - perhaps Sunday 24th - considering the monday is a public holiday for Anzac day. Side note - have we heard any word from the parks on trading hours for Anzac day yet? My memory is fuzzy but i seem to remember some parks haven't opened in previous years. Opening from 1pm to 5pm is stupid IMO though - so a later night's trade (eg: another Carnivale) could be good (although that would need to be weighed up against those who would consider it an insult to hold a carnivale event on Anzac day - so not sure.... :S )

Pretty spot on Joz. It's sad that MW gets most of the love - I'd like to see them set up in such a way that regular night time events were a thing - as more people would be able to get there easily - and head to surfers afterwards to keep enjoying the night. Putting aside the expensive factors - what could they realistically achieve in a short period of time - ie: what should they start on first? Should they put the coaster in sans anything else? Or should they build the pier and add to it over time?

Practically everything east, south and west of the Giant Drop is in the shadow of the giant drop... at some point. How did we get from a Log Ride age\query to saying Giant Drop is getting on in years too? I don't think anyone is suggesting that GS is in anyway in need of replacement. its still a fantastic ride and should live on for many years.

This is my favourite part so far. I'm quite surprised in all her (obvious) research and information gathering that nothing was said about the court rulings specifically stating "piss off, the park was there first, Nyah Nyah Nyah!" Sounds like a wonderfully perfect trip to the park (sans mouse). I love reading Megan's TR's!

the gameplay looks good. Not sure if its intentional, but after a little while, all of the "missions" take an hour or more - it's a good excuse to put the device down and do something else for a while. So far, the best part about it is their use of music. Worst part is the lack of guidance between the story and the mission - ie: "cheer up pete" in the story, somehow translates to "make pete a sandwich"

Perhaps @Richard could invoke the auto-change feature in the forum software - like he once did with the Wonderland History site - and have TTPSN auto correct to that?

Or, it could be that they had scheduled Eureka to be reopened at around the time the shirts were released, so with forward thinking, they inserted it into the design, and then with the unexpected Cub arrival and numerous other spanners in the works, Eureka got put on the back burner, and someone in marketing and merchandise learned a valuable lesson about counting big thrill rides before they're hatched!

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This is the fault with Bermuda's pre-show. It was a good pre-show, but if it grates on you with repeated viewings, it doesn't work. It was great at telling the story, but it has to be enjoyable regardless of the number of times you see it. (as mentioned though - you were still queueing - so it was designed to 'occupy' some of that queue time) I'm thinking Mystic Manor's pre-show (which is totally animatronic and projection - no live actors), which must be watched regardless of queue. For those that haven't seen that, then ToT in Disney - just a video, short, sharp, scene setting. Both of these cannot be skipped, both of these i've had to endure with an empty queue and unoccupied ride operators ahead, but there was no 'impatience' to just 'get on with it' like I felt when queueing for Bermuda. I'm not saying it's a bad preshow, and it does tell the story very well - for the budget it was probably the best they could do and they do it well for a single ride - but re-rides are where it falls down. Just my opinion.

Whilst this will give them a great "most-weather" venue in-park for events, i think the park as a day-guest has been in desperate need of this. With the exception of queuehouses, the park is severely lacking in covered areas for shelter, other than main gate. I look forward to it I wouldn't read too much into it - the artist's impression is meant to paint the 'picture perfect' look. I doubt sea world would ditch these. I would like to see them open the railway gate as a result of this however and finally allow a bypass. I feel like they will have to open the gate for the construction period anyway - and once they open it - it will prove that there is no reason for it to be closed!

See - the screenshot @OceanGirl posted doesn't represent that they had arrived 'today' just that they had been spotted. If the photo was the same - credit is due. if the article is reproduced from another source - credit is due. but if he took a trip down to the park, took a photo, and posted it saying 'the first parts have been spotted' - i don't take issue with that. He isn't claiming to be first from what I can see there. For the same reason with things like Kevil Hill, and green lantern - if his source is this site - credit is due - but if he found out from the park the same way members on here found out from the park - then it isn't really an issue, is it? How do we prove it, unless either the photos, or the article are the same? Take a look at nightly news - big stories have reporters on scene from all networks. Does that mean if channel 7 got there first that all the other reporters have to give credit to them? No. Likewise though - where the network is the only one with footage, when it is reproduced on other networks, it usually has a watermark showing the network who owns the footage.

Did You Know It's Much Harder For The Eye To Read A Sentence Where Every Word Is Capitalised?

The colour of CNY says they'll be back sooner, rather than later.

You could theoretically slow the launch down, and install a kicker wheel at a strategic point in the track - just as Jet Rescue has a second launch... If we're trying to make it more family friendly - then more sidecars, less motorbikes. Hell - make it all sidecars. then theme it to a luge, or paint them brown and call it kangaroo poo express. At least it would suit the environment around it...

Could not have said it better @bjkaus - thankyou for sharing your views on this. The video is couched in terms of 'making people aware of this discrimination' but it just reads as 'everyone should get on the bandwagon and abuse this place because they were mean to me'

He said anything "in particular"...

A leaf, floating in the murrissippi, and a Kangaroo holding a coke can.

I would have gone with 'mast'.

Isn't that what they already did?

I won't profess to be an expert on building codes or the various DDAs in effect across the country, but being built in 1991, wouldn't the current guttering and pathway be grandfathered or something like that? The foothpath is themed to the roadway for mainstreet - it needs guttering. The footpath has pedestrian ramps \ dips scattered along both sides of the path all the way up main street. The guttering was laid prior to park opening, when the attraction in that area (the studio tour \ MMSFX show) queued back down near batwing - conveniently right next to the ramp I'm not aware of the BCC issue, but i'm guessing the lift was a long distance away from the stairs? The park has a ramp on the other side of the cul de sac, not even 10 metres away - and when you enter the park, you do enter on the level of that path - you'd have to go down onto the roadway and walk across before realising you have to go back up? If that was where you were heading, wouldn't you just walk around in the first place rather than negotiate two ramps, when you have to go around the fountain anyway? Edit: Just looked at nearmap, and my estimates are a bit out - the ramp on the opposite (entrance) side of the cul de sac is about 25 metres away, however it appears there is a path ramp approximately 7 metres to the right of the SE entrance - in front of the ticket\tour sales booth, and I seem to remember this area being fenced off on a visit quite a while ago. Given the obvious access issues relating to a single pathway during construction, I don't think a ramp 7 metres away should be cause for an issue. I stand by my previous post that it'd be nice if they had a ramp AT THAT POINT, but 7 metres isn't really a hardship, is it?

end of financial year fire sale!