AllegroCrab

Hey, come on now. What is there to hate about Frozen? It's just a kids movie, and the music is well done. Just because you aren't the target audience doesn't mean you should hate the movie. I think anyone can appreciate that it was brilliant at what it was trying to be.

There's a massive difference between a ride failing safely and what happened on The Smiler. It's not like there's a single scale that you could slide up about how bad incidents are. Does anyone know whether we'll be able to learn all of the details about this once a report is released? Or will we just be stuck speculating from news articles forever?

I don't see how it could have happened without the ride being in manual mode. Has a block system even completely failed before?

Andrewh is our own personal Vice documentary maker.

​*A staff + Andrewh only area.

​You're forgetting the African animals on the river rapids.

I hope the Andrewh circlejerk continues forever "Realistically, the Low-Low gap can't be filled." Mick Doohan would argue otherwise.

That trailer that they show on repeat in the queue line is so old that it's sponsored by AOL! Always a bit of a nostalgia trip going inside that building.

I think we need someone with a particularly long selfie stick to go and have a gander.

Mad max would be an incredible fit for a HSD replacement. That movie was advertised like crazy towards the car scene, and rightly so, because the cars in that movie are things of beauty. They're just incredible. For a bit of insight here's Mighty Car Mods' latest episode where they test a Mad Max themed car that they built in previous episodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3phb0uF2sPQ I could see the HSD set being replaced by a desert setting with sand dune ramps. We could finally bring back those explosion effects and they would actually make sense. The cast could have some pretty ridiculous looking costumes akin to the movie. We could have a proper hero/villian kind of situation. It would make for a real show, where the stunt driving is just an accessory, rather than the premise to the whole show. I think the biggest problem with HSD is that it's just regular blokes driving cars erratically in a car park, there's no magic to it. You could find the same thing in a Western Sydney McDonald's car park at 3 in the morning. Also, am I right in saying they would have the rights to make a Hobbit themed attraction? Just another recent title that could be the setting for a pretty good attraction. A series that appeals to pretty much all ages. Also, about game of thrones. It's an extremely popular series at the moment, but the audience is way too specific. It's not (well at least I hope it's not) something that the kids are into. I find that generally, someone has either seen every episode, or they've seen none. It's not the kind of series that has engaged people of all ages, but rather just a selection of older teenagers and young adults. (The key here is the word "generally"). Personally, if they do something good with it, and pull it off well, then I don't care, but I think the Hobbit would be a better series to make a ride for, it's more encapsulating of all generations of audiences. I also don't think there are any GoT rides you could make where they wouldn't work just as well with a LotR/Hobbit theme.

I never rode the mine ride, but having spoken to people who have, it's definitely a very unique ride to Dreamworld that people remember as a really out of control and thrilling experience, telling me that the ride "surely broke the safety rules" (which I doubt). I think if it gave the illusion that the regulations were broken, then it was doing its job well. A ressurection would do well because everyone who went to the park when it was open remembers the ride as a classic.

I don't think a couple of fences is a problem for our resident Andrewh.

Perhaps you should take a close look personally at the trains and track and determine if they need upgrading/repainting or not. Don't forget the pictures!

Coming back here, I noticed colliric_855 has some sort of dodgy clickbait virus shit in his profile, should be checked out admins.

That's the one thing I seem to forget every time I don't go to parks for a while, just how big these rides are. You see them from a distance and say, "Well that's 30m high, not too big", but when you're right up next to it you see how wide the track is, how big the cars are etc. It's still only 30m tall but it just feels like a massive beast up close because of how thick the components of the ride are.

I think it's a bit ridiculous that the price is so low that most of the people entering the parks are buying the pass. Heck I've only gone once in two years and I've still got some expired thing lying around somewhere.

^ "Throw in an Intamin Hyper" Just another typical suggestion on the forums. Why not a B&M floorless looper while they're at it?

Jeez, the park is looking a little empty now that Corkscrew, the kids area and that whole building are all gone. It's a sign of progress I guess, but in the meantime it doesn't look like there is much to do at all.

I hadn't heard of these smoke effects, it's been way too long! One thing that's always been a bit corny for me on WWF was the TNT explosion on the bridge. Just a sound clip as you go past the boxes of TNT, I assume they still haven't done anything to spice that up. That kind of thing works for the TNT before the drop, where you are busy worrying about the drop and it's just the sound of hissing fuses, but the explosion on the bridge is just pointless and lacklustre. I can't think of much they could do to spice it up other than remove it altogether and not get your hopes up about a cool effect in the first place.

Yep, and they've dug themselves such a deep hole it'll be hard to come back out without everyone assuming they're being ripped off.

Around 1999-2000 - I remember being scared of the animatronics and effects on the Bermuda Triangle until my dad said that they were friendly aliens, after that I was fine and enjoyed the drop/splash at the end. Years passed where I thought he just made up the friendly aliens story to calm me down, but when I went back on the ride in 2008, I was surprised to see that they were actually friendly aliens helping us get out of the volcano. The feels were quite strong that day. I also rode Vikings revenge at that time but the memory isn't as clear. I remember being intrigued by the flowing water flumes in the station, and for some reason I remember rounding one of the corners in the castle more than I remember the actual drop. I also remember riding the Wild Mouse at Luna Park pretty soon after the place reopened in 2004. My first roller coaster and safe to say I still regard it as the scariest one I've been on. Not so much nostalgic compared to some of the posts on here, but when I visited the Gold Coast in 2008, that's when I made most of the memories of parks that I will cherish. - Riding the Corkscrew with white track and red cars. - Seeing the Dolphin show at SW - The batman ride at MW - The Cyclone at DW - The Claw My best and most favourite memory is riding Wild West Falls. Being caught unaware by the reverse drop. Plunging out into that beautiful environment, it's just a completely different world on the other side of that drop, a. Riding WWF made me realise that there is more to parks than just having the fastest/tallest rides, and that message has really stuck with me since then. Superman Escape also gets an honourable mention. I already knew all the statistics, I knew exactly what to expect and when everything was going to happen, but there was one thing I didn't know, and that was whether I would like the ride or not. I knew there was nothing to be scared of, that the ride was completely safe, but I would have been lying if I wasn't anxious about it. What if I didn't like the ride? That would be the worst thing that could possibly happen. All those hours I spent watching roller coasters on the internet just to ride one in real life and hate it? I wouldn't know who I was as a person. I wasn't scared of the ride at all, I was just scared of myself. Because of this, I didn't ride it in 2008. I went home, kicking myself that I didn't ride it (I was only 11 to be fair, but still hated myself). I went back two years later in 2010 with a friend who had been on it before. There was nothing stopping me this time. Got into the park and first thing we did was line up for Superman. I was thinking to myself, "what will the launch feel like?" I knew there was going to be force, but I also knew it wasn't going to hurt at all, this led to me seriously underestimating how powerful the launch would be. My friend was adamant that we ride in the front row. Anxiously, I obliged, I mean, he had ridden it before so he must have known best. So we get the first door, and I hear the train roll into the station. The door opens and there it is, the train that I could recognise from 100 metres away, up close and personal. We went and sat down, him on the left me on the right. Once the harnesses were down and locked, he confessed all. He told me in a panicked state that he actually hadn't ridden it before, and he suddenly decided that sitting in the front row probably wasn't the best idea. Suddenly I was the more confident person in the row, but that hardly mattered now because we were both going to ride it either way. So we get to that part where you round the corner and the light at the end of the tunnel is visible (as well as that glaringly obvious piece of track above the tunnel but we'll ignore that and carry on worrying about the launch.) My friend says to me, "Believe in Superman, he will protect us." We had a laugh in the moment, and from then on I knew it was all in the mind, I knew I was going to enjoy it because I told myself I was going to enjoy it. Then the ride launched. Was it forceful? Holy Guacamole was it forceful. I was amazed that there could be so much force with absolutely no pain, truly an incredible experience. The way my vision seemed to widen as my eyeballs were pushed back into my head. Seconds later we were 40 metres up in the air, and without any time to ponder we were at the bottom again in the first bend. The airtime hills were great, something I also wasn't expecting to be so forceful, complete ejection from your seat and up into your harness. Safe to say that ever since that launch I have never looked back.

Never rode it before it was rethemed to the angry beavers. Went on it a year before it closed and safe to say it was in a bit of a sad state.

Jeez this CotD place is looking swish. Particularly that giant squid next to the shipwreck is really nice looking. Is this going to be a permanent and theme-fitting version of dinosaur island? This 'dinosaurs unearthed' company must have made a mint with all the traveling shows, permanent and semi-permanent exhibits they sold all around the globe.

It's stories like these that remind me how much parks can impact people's lives. For me it started as wanting to ride coasters, but the more I went the more I have been to parks, the more I have realised that the atmosphere is what really got me obsessed. I have a very brief and faded memory of Wonderland, I can't lay claim to an emotional attachment to the place like most of the older people on this forum, but I know enough about the park to respect it as a true centrepiece of Australian theme park history.

A good kids coaster can be a well-disguised masterpiece. Something you can get anyone to ride, but still provide a decent experience. SW have a really good chance for some world class theming here. The atmosphere can make or break a kids' area. Will the older folk bear to stand around while their kids ride everything all day? Will the kids bombard parents with requests to keep going back to the area all day?