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  1. I'd be interested to hear how people would suggest they fix the queue issue. I completely agree that it's not the greatest, but how would you do it?
  2. Multibuy special on 360o Looping Coasters?
  3. Spending 2 weeks in London at the end of October. The friend I'm staying with has said he's keen to go to Disneyland Paris, and I'm keen to get up to Alton Towers while I'm there. Has anyone been to Disneyland Paris and can tell me if it's worthwhile staying overnight and doing both parks? Also, any tips on getting to Alton Towers with public transport? Off-topic - any tourist attractions that are must sees for a first time visitor to London?
  4. Shall we just rename it Luna Park Gold Coast now?
  5. If you were to do it, it would be a big job. The BuzzSaw already has a ghost story to it, so you'd have to re-theme the rapids ride plus a similar theme to the new (replacement) coaster. Make it a ghost town where the population left because of unexplained happenings many years ago, which explains why it's all still timber-built. The mountain probably does share common walls with the adjacent buildings, so it could mean closing down Main Street shops to the left of the fountain while they did it. That's a lot of area to close. It could be done, particularly if you employed workers through the night as well as a day shift, but that all involves outlaying large sums of money, which you probably won't ever fully get back. The question as to whether that happens or not comes down to whether the decision makers value having a full, complete, quality product or a collection of rides.
  6. Where I grew up was about an hour away from Port Macquarie where a small park existed called Peppermint Park. It had two large waterslides, a smaller one for young children, a swimming pool, giant bridge over a pond, some pedal carts, basketball hoops, and other sorts of stuff. My parents had become friends with people in the town and we ended up getting season passes for the park. Even though we only lived an hour away, I'd say we went maybe 4 or 5 times throughout the year. I now live in Brisbane and it takes me just on 60 minutes to hit Movieworld, and in the last year I think I ventured down there 7 or 8 times. I obviously love theme parks more than the rest of my family, but I still haven't managed to attend even once a month. Point being, travelling for up to 8hrs is ridiculous. I once drove from Coffs Harbour to Dreamworld, arrived at 10, spent the day there, left and got back around midnight. It ranks amongst the stupidest things I've done. Nobody could feasibly do it as a road trip. I think Newcastle could do with a decent waterpark. I remember visiting my nan who lived on the coastal fringes just north of Newcastle and there was an aquatic centre who had just put in a waterslide - it was the best part of visiting nan. They also had a toboggan park but we never ended up visiting it. When you think about it, Newcastle has an airport that serves jets (VA, JQ) so they surely have enough of a population to support a waterpark. Depending on the train you get it can take 2 to 3hrs to reach Sydney from there, and any excuse to get traffic OFF the F3 is a good one really.
  7. I think the area will be filled in shortly. I saw many pipes running from The Storm construction zone and exiting into the creek. I suspect that once construction is completed to an appropriate stage, they'll remove said pipes and continue with reclamation.
  8. What I took from that response was that Dreamworld is getting out of the coaster business
  9. What about a time-limited, limited number of passes. Between 10 and 11 they use Red armbands, 11 til 12 uses Blue, 12 til 1 uses Green, etc. Only issue 20 per hour. If all 20 were sold at the beginning of the hour and those people ran to the same ride, you'd have a maximum of 5 cycles to wait until the regular line started moving again (assuming they got to go ahead of everyone waiting, and not alternating). Those 20 people could go and buy another band again, but they'd have to wait til the next hours' bands went on sale.
  10. Just thinking about this, wristbands would be a fantastic idea for Movieworld. If I'm in the park on my own for the day, I grab an all day locker. I then have to return to the locker any time I want to buy something. If the Splash Cash system from Wet 'n' Wild could be implemented at Movieworld, that would save me a huge amount of time!
  11. If the alleyway through to Arkham Assylum was opened up again, the placement of Gotham Cafe makes sense
  12. Let's hope they can shell out for a proper hard plastic card again like the old style Annual Passes
  13. I recall there being an outdoor play area at Westfield Helensvale, and something in my mind thinks that has a water play structure.
  14. There is a "Splash Bay" based in the US, at a Holiday Inn resort. Holiday Inn is owned by the InterContinental Hotel Group
  15. There's no hard disk space allocated to apps on iOS (or there wasn't when i last looked at it), so if you want to store anything you have to build database tables and store them in there. However, opening Safari with a customised toolbar and pulling an iOS optimised website is 10x easier. I haven't seen the Dreamworld app. I think it's probably premature, unless they're one of the parks that Lo-Q is planning to install the phone-based queue-bots.
  16. I went to Singapore two weeks ago, and took a whole load of photos at Universal. They were preparing for Halloween Horror Nights, which looks like it'd be quite good, unfortunately it wasn't on for another week, and my flight home was that night. New York Alleyway Standing at Hollywood looking at New York A crash on the street corner in New York Chopper crash. There's also an air compressor plugged in on the ground behind it, so something may move The tail from the chopper Medical tent in front of the library Laneway from Sci Fi City to Waterfront New York Filled with boxes and drums Leads to a designated smokers area But no love for dinosaurs I'm picking a chinese theme for this walkthrough area Meanwhile in Egypt... They have some interesting contraptions A whole lot of closed tents line the street of Egypt Welcome to the Insanitarium It takes up the queue of Waterworld Public Hangings anyone? Covered up sets line the streets of Hollywood Some not so covered The most horrifying site of all
  17. I may be wrong, but I saw that video a while back and came about it from searching for Sally Corp - I think it might just be one of theirs. So if Sally Corp are saying it's a world first, and the ride in the video is one of theirs, then we must be in for something good.
  18. I forgot about MDMC. Easy mistake to make.
  19. After seeing Cirque Du Soleil's Ovo in Brisbane, a friend told me about their show "O" in Vegas. After looking into it, it seems they built the theatre to suit the show, and the hotel/casino is all attached. I'm also potentially visiting Universal Studios Singapore shortly - a theme park with a casino and hotels attached. When you put the two ideas together, it seems like it would work. Now, out of the existing theme parks, I would apply this concept to Movieworld/Wet N Wild. I would get rid of Paradise Country (never been, but other than the MyFun website had never heard of it either), and move the Roadshow Studios up the back there, then use the old Studio space to build a casino, hotel and theatre. Plonk a Village cinemas in there too, so you get some local traffic too. Install a monorail from the hotel down to the parks and across to the nearest light rail station once that gets built It wouldn't be outrageously costly to move the studios really - they're just a large tin shed - pull it down carefully and you can put it up again fairly easily. Go one building at a time if you need to continue to use the existing facilities until it's all done. Would also give them the opportunity to upgrade the facilities if it needs it too. Would love to hear your thoughts on this!
  20. I let my VIP Pass lapse, will grab a new one soon though. Visit probably once every 6-8 weeks or so - just depends if I feel like driving the hour to the Gold Coast. I prefer visiting MW, haven't had a pass for DW for a few years now. WnW is good when you have someone to go with, it's not much of a single rider park, and SW is a little out of the way, but Jet Rescue can be enough to drag me over there, particularly if MW is a little busy or a ride is on maintenance. Last time I was at MW I grabbed a hot dog and coke for lunch, then got ice cream before leaving. If I visit on my own I can knock over most rides before lunch and I'll grab McDonalds across the road before heading over to SeaWorld or wherever is next. DW could get my business back if they installed something worth going for - TOT2 was the last update they'd made when I last visited. MW need to advertise better and/or get more rides. The most common reaction to suggestions of going to Movieworld is that there isn't enough to do, even with more coasters than Dreamworld. SW could get me to visit more if they added more attractions. There's a fine balance between being a theme park and being a zoo, and I'm not sure they've got it right for my liking.
  21. I'm just thinking, if you had a vertical lift system that incorporated a turntable on it, you could use it as the "eye" of the storm - have it pick you up, spin you round and spit you out the top of the funnel...
  22. For those who have been to Singapore - what's worth seeing? How many days would you recommend for a trip?
  23. Wet N Wild posted a picture of a crocodile's eye on Facebook today, with a comment about it coming soon and mentioned a length of 166.7m Does anyone have any ideas as to what this may be?
  24. Thanks so much for the help guys. I think one day will do fine.
  25. Bumping an old thread I know - but, is USS a 1 or 2 day park? I'm thinking of heading over the during the second week of October this year.
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