Jump to content

themagician

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    7,961

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    505

 Content Type 

Everything posted by themagician

  1. themagician
    They do and they've been like that for quite some time (at least a decade?). I don't think I can remember a time when DW had custom uniforms for attractions; I know they did, but I can't remember when they was phased out. I am really hoping the park goes the extra mile for Rivertown and they have custom uniforms for those attractions. To WHSQ it does. Most likely. With the upcoming changes to Tiger Island, it's only a matter of time before its phased out. But it brings in decent money for the park, so I'd say they'll try and keep it around for as long as possible.
  2. themagician
    There is in the waterparks. I can't remeber for WWW, but for WnW, outside every atrraction/loading area there are weight platforms to ensure the person/group is within the weight limit. The exact weight isn't visible to others, but a red and green light system is used. This is standard for most waterparks throughout the country (if not the world).
  3. themagician
    If only Village owned a large area of land that could be permantley used as a storage area (obviously the park would need to build infrastructure to store items inside, but that would free up a lot of area in the parks for future expansions that actually benefit guests)
  4. themagician
    Once Superman Escape and Wild West Falls lost their themed uniforms, that was the deal breaker for me
  5. themagician
    Blander than HSD2? Blander than some of the staffs attitudes? Blander than the theming of the Flash?
  6. themagician
    Sea World lists Storm Coaster as a thrill ride (if I remember correctly, they called it family thrill when it first opened), but to me Leviathan is a lot more thrilling than Storm Coaster.
  7. themagician
    No not at all. I’m implying that sea world should not be falling it a family coaster.
  8. themagician
    Because the cost to do these works at night would be so much higher it would probably cost more than what it would to repaint the whole track. Plus all the other reasons people have given. No need to rush the repaint when they can just do it during next years maintenance. I’d rather have the ride open for the rest of the year than close for a month or two (again) just for a repaint. But also another reason would be because reopening it hours after it has just been painted would cause a lot of issues for the rides operation and we’d end up with a situation where it valleys again (and we know how long it took them to reopen it after that happened). After Superman Escape was repainted several years ago, the ride reopened a week after the painting was finished and it had several rollbacks because the paint needed to wear down. If I remember correctly, the ride was closed for even longer because they had to do extensive testing to ensure it wouldn’t happen again.
  9. themagician
    Looks like the costumes aren’t the only downgrade. This years parade looks very stale. No action, no interactions. Movie World parades always used to be a highlight, but it seems they’ve gone the way of their stunt show. Swing and miss.
  10. themagician
    Oh, well that is disappointing to hear then. Then yes, this is a massive downgrade.
  11. themagician
    And in no way do I see Leviathan as a family or family thrill coaster, no matter what the park says. It may have a lower height requirement, but it’s the most thrilling attraction in the park. In terms of thrill level, I suspect it will be most comparable too TNT at Gumbuya World/Flight of the Wicked Witch at Movie World. But honestly, I think Jungle Rush will stand on its own in terms of what it has to offer.
  12. themagician
    I believe these are guests who have dressed up. The park encourages people to dress up for the event and I think this is exactly that.
  13. themagician
    I’m very much looking forward to your trip report if you got to experience Fantasy Springs
  14. themagician
    Be interested to see what they do on this side and hopefully they fix up that damage to Tweety’s cage theming
  15. themagician
  16. themagician
    Are you getting this confused with the upcoming Donkey Kong coaster at Epic Universe?
  17. themagician
    No neither, but if they want to minimise downtime of the ride that's already had extra downtime this year because of Flash construction, maintenance and hydraulic launch issues, amybe they should. The parks reputation is currently 'everything is closed' and 'it will probably break down'. So if they want to start to repair their image, they should stage or minimisise the amount of time the ride is closed again.
  18. themagician
    I assume this is just a website technical error or they haven’t made sure it’s closed for all future dates on the maintenance page, but Doomsday is apparently (doubt it) reopening on July 2 I suspect that rivals repaint may have just been cancelled for this year and they’ll do it in next years maintenance (I don’t know for sure, but that’s what I’m thinking they’ll do). And for Superman, they may stage the fit-out so the ride only closes on weekdays, reopens on weekends, then closes again. Or they alter the queue and stage the works so they can keep the ride open (depending on how extensive and invasive they are).
  19. themagician
    Superman has started testing today
  20. themagician
    I don't think any of those details have yet been confirmed by the park and there aren't any satellite images recent enough to be able to accurately measure the coasters length. I can't remember the source, but I believe the source is around 600-700 metres long (comparable to Motocoaster and Jet Rescue, but not those kind of speeds) and I'd suspect the ride time could be a couple of minutes because of the show scenes and the train using the inclined turntable a couple times.
  21. themagician
    Intamin’s second ever Hot Racer (single rail coaster) has just opened at Walibi Rhone-Alpes in France. As we know, Intamin’s first attempt at this coaster model was the Big Dipper at Luna Park Sydney. For comparison, I don’t believe the Big Dippers height or length have ever been revealed, but Mahuka reaches a height of 18m, track length of 600m, has 3 inversions and reaches a speed of 67km/h. While Big Dipper has 2 inversions and reaches a speed of 72km/h. For those who have ridden Big Dipper, watching this POV of Mahuka, how does it compare in terms of its layout and what it has to offer?
  22. themagician
    @New display name where would you propose for this wheel to go if it were to be used during and outside park hours?
  23. themagician
    Not surprised at all, even if they did have the intention of repairing and reopening it. Sad to see these cars go as well, but not sad this layout and location aren’t being used anymore. Ever since MDMC opened, I’ve never liked what they did with the vintage cars. While I’m happy that they didn’t just retire them all together, I wished they’d done something better. But now I’m looking forward to seeing how Murrissippi Motors turns out.
  24. themagician
    They should do that
  25. themagician
    Are we forgetting that Sea World did have a Ferris wheel, but was removed due to the locals complaints. They tried that too (not operated by SW) and that went terribly too.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use. We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.

  I accept