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  1. themagician
    No not at all. I’m implying that sea world should not be falling it a family coaster.
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    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.
  3. 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.
  4. themagician
    Oh, well that is disappointing to hear then. Then yes, this is a massive downgrade.
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    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.
  6. 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.
  7. themagician
    I’m very much looking forward to your trip report if you got to experience Fantasy Springs
  8. themagician
    Be interested to see what they do on this side and hopefully they fix up that damage to Tweety’s cage theming
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  10. themagician
    Are you getting this confused with the upcoming Donkey Kong coaster at Epic Universe?
  11. 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.
  12. 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).
  13. themagician
    Superman has started testing today
  14. 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.
  15. 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?
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    @New display name where would you propose for this wheel to go if it were to be used during and outside park hours?
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    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.
  18. themagician
    They should do that
  19. 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.
  20. themagician
    Maybe it's a measure twice, cut once technique. They are lifting everything into place, securing in into position temporarily and then once they have confirmed it's all correct they will adjust as needed to make it all fit perfectly. This is probably wrong, but just trying to think of reasons why they would have it like this. Looking at this picture, you can see between the coaster supports that the panels are designed to fit perfectly together. I'm sure there is a reason for it, but it isn't obvious to me why.
  21. themagician
    I doubt they will be using these themed panels as the means to enclose the building to make it water tight. They will need to have layers of insulation, fibre cement/colorbond fitted to the external side of the steel frame before they construct/install the outside of the temple.
  22. themagician
    They do, but I’m sure there argument would be that Storm Coaster and Battle Boats ticks the water based ride box for their line up. What the park needs to do right now is make Trident and Vortex reliable because right now to amount of down time these rides have, they may as well not be there
  23. themagician
    I’d say they’ll most likely be filled in once the external sheeting is up. You might not even notice during the ride because it’ll be reasonably dark during this show moment.
  24. themagician
    @rappa Zooming in on site plan the red line is the entrance/yellow brick road and it looks like the blue (former AA entrance) is the entry to this room mentioned in the video. Unless it’s an emergency exit?
  25. themagician
    Exactly. Which is why the main entrance to the land being by Superman is ridiculous. If they used the alley way you’d get to follow the full yellow brick road, get the wow factor and then head to the left and into the ride entrances
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