Levithian

Cant have 2 trains in the same block. So the only way you may be able to do an extra train at dc rivals is if you queue people between the final brake and the station with another set of brakes. Given that is where the transfer is, thats probably not something that could happen.

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15 attractions? How many months in the year when you minus the Christmas holiday period where nothing is usually shut down? Along with the couple of weeks in September, what does it leave you? less than 9 months to cram all your maintenance work into? With major rides usually shutdown 7-10 weeks for maintenance, going to have a lot of overlaps there you can't do anything about. It's all well and good to keep adding rides, but in a park with no seasons, you're going to end up with closures of major attractions outside of the peak holiday periods. Unfortunately it means the times when they try to have everything running with all rides open is also the time when you really don't want to visit due to the crowds. What is the answer? you can keep throwing more staff at it I guess, increase your floor space with bigger workshops, but managing more than a couple ride shutdowns at the same time has got to be a logistical nightmare juggling the shutdowns with the train / car maintenance that happens multiple times a year after they have completed a set number of laps. What happens if you find something broken or damaged? kind of messes up your whole system / plans. There HAS to be a expense management factor given our location and the patronage. If Aus parks had double or triple the yearly attendance, I'm sure they could afford massive maintenance teams and push through all the big attractions virtually at the same time to try limit disruption. But we don't, so you have to work within budgets and try to juggle the schedule as best you can (keeping in mind the new government restrictions mean a ride can't run a day past it's 12 month service interval, so you're kind of bound to last year's maintenance scheduled dates).

Err... arent there ride themed shirts / uniforms for most of rides? DC, green lantern, justice league, superman, roxy, wild west, doomsday and driving school? They had them for arkham too. Scooby doo and road runner seem to be about the only ones left out. Wild west, superman, roxy and justice league have complete uniforms. The others look like they cheaped out a bit and went with themed shirts. But at least they arent just a printed tee or something. They are designed shirts kinda like football jerseys.

That michael keaton batmobile just looks great from every angle.

"Confirmation, satisfied with their actions". What more do you want them to do if the regulator is happy with what they have done/are doing? The onus is always on the site manager for responding to the incident and managing the risk internally. You still get issued with notices even if youve already complied with their directives from worksafe prior to the incident being investigated.

It's not exactly a door I guess, the back portion of the seat and padding thats against your shoulder/side is hinged so it can open and make it easier to get into the carriage. https://rcdb.com/1121.htm#p=17514 Hard to find photos of the rear, but see the bit that says "ACME 8 ROCKET" ? can see the join below and the split in the back padding. Whole piece swings open around to the back.

Reminds me of the speed slide at wet n wild. Splash down was just a pool, so flying down at 40km/h used to make for some spectacular wedgies if the angle was just right. Twister too for that matter (along with peeling bikini tops off).

How about green lantern. Its been trouble since day one and has been closed for extended time 😅

Maybe it was because only one train at road runner has what is considered a disabled seat with the opening door? I think it is based on access and if you are able to get out of the car unassisted. So if it was the non disabled train, you need to be able to get out over the sides and walk down the lift in the event of an evacuation I think. The operators can't lift you up or carry you down.

Only got a bit over 3 weeks to get it all sorted though when the first night is the 4th.

When arkham was upgraded they got new restraints. The top of the train with all the running gear is still original vekoma.

Big assumption being made that it has anything at all to do with the train though, nobody knows what the problem is. Maybe you aren't old enough to remember the original restraints?. Id take the kumbak ones over the original vekoma ones every day of the week. The legs really aren't that bad, its not like getting off with smashed up ears and headaches of the old restraints, plus they give you much more freedom when riding. I don't think a raptor would have the capacity village would be looking for even if the price was ok. Single rows, even with 3 trains. If the ride capacity per hour was something like 500-600 guests, village would at least halve, maybe even 1/3rd of that with their slow loads. So I can't see them putting in another coaster that would be lucky to achieve 200 people an hour. They would just look at it like its a waste of money. I doubt it, not until they have news on their future plans and/or it's replacement to share. They don't seem to like delivering bad news without something positive to go with it.

Dictated by politics, but all parties refuse to open the borders fully and instead state they will follow health advice which says to keep things closed? Where is the great change going to come from? A 40,000 people grand final didnt go ahead. It was a 25k one. The capacity has been part of the increase in restrictions, we've gone to stage 4 since october which now allows sporting venues to 75% capacity. Previous to stage 4 it was 50%. Then previous to that 25%. It's slowly been inching its way along since june. You know? following that whole road map the government put out about covid restrictions. Months ago..... This government cops it from both sides from people, if they deviate from the plan they will be crucified. If they follow the plan, they are destroying the economy and ruining peoples lives. You know what the majority of people seem to be saying? Great. You guys are sticking to your plan and not bowing to interstate politics, not matter how hard the other states (and even the prime minister) scream and shout. All this grandstanding has gotten both nsw and certainly victoria in trouble and the majority of queenslanders seem to be saying what we do with our own state is our business.

Says the man fronting the company that said previously the government money provided to them should see them operating through the next 12 months. Why not just come out and say we are in the business of making money and the government is fucking with our recovery plans instead of trying for the sympathy vote? The state took a poll and the majority of people are happy to keep the infected zones under quarantine vs risk it spreading here. Crying foul at the goverment who just offered you millions of taxpayers money doesnt generate you support and good will, it just makes your company look bad.

Everything you guys are talking about with the light rail has been proposed. They intend to branch it off and run inland from a number of locations, its not just going to follow the gold coast highway down south. Look up Gold Coast City Transport Strategy 2031.

It's going to sit and rot for a few more years before its removed.

There is a major flaw in your analysis. 2 groups of passengers vary in weight a LOT. 2 rafts carry differing levels of water onto conveyor, which varies the weight a LOT. How do you calculate the minimum force? raft fully loaded to the maximum carrying capacity, then filled with water? You are assuming that the amount of torque generated to pull a fully weighed down raft out of the water and up a hill would not be enough to lift a raft from a horizontal position on the run out. Remember, the lifted raft was pushed off the conveyor, bumping into a stranded, empty raft on the steel rails of the runout, using the empty raft as a make shift ramp, pushing the loaded raft up to the point it could be caught in the gap at the end of the runout and pulled down into it by the conveyor. It used the other raft for leverage to help invert it and from reports it happened very quickly. Without being too gruesome, an average height adult often sits with head above the seat backs of the raft. The report makes it pretty clear what happened to people stuck in their seats and those ejected from the raft into the water. You are also assuming that these motors don't already have current limiting.

Alternatively...... 😂

Should just fill in the lake and get it over with already. They keep eating into it, getting smaller and smaller. The stunt show is just a shell of it's former self, will anyone really miss it? Think of all that space for new rides!

You only have to look back over the breech notices handed to village roadshow across all their parks since the government stepped up their game to see who had their house in pretty good order prior to the dreamworld accident. In one way, its kind of good it happened because it didn't just create a lot of change for theme parks, but those same standards are supposed to carry over to all amusement devices. So that means we all should be a lot safer going to regional shows, etc and using the rides. One downside is that it might force a few operators out of business, or force them to sell/scrap some rides though. One thing im not sure of though, if the accident hadn't of happened, would village have opened the purses to allow such a big spend for DC rivals? They wanted a big statement to turn crowds back to them and it was the result. We probably would have been due a new ride, but it might have just ended up a replacement for arkham asylum, so the budget might have been substantially less. Could literally be the catalyst for australia getting a hypercoaster, and now a pretty sweet launch coaster too.

Everything about how they ran and maintained their attractions was a disaster waiting to happen. Highly likely they would have seriously injured or killed other people. Potentially on the same ride.

How the hell was this at the top of the forum listing? Only just noticed the post dates now. Something been deleted before my reply? I didn't go looking for threads to mine.