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to me it looks like cityscape/skyline. I know its pretty sparse at the moment, but I reckon there will be a few buildings going up along the old stage, so between each one the skyline peaks out from behind depending on your perspective. May mean the buildings/facade is going to be fairly tall to give that added depth. Be pretty cool if the facade is tall on all sides, so it would pretty much block out everything in the area (scooby, the stage, toilet block, etc). Could have an entire city skyline behind the facade, so you don't actually end up seeing just a big billboard. Make some awesome photos if they are going to have characters/performers in the area too.

Can't stand wipeout. I've been back 3 times, keep giving it another try in case it was just poor fitment of the restraints, but each time I could literally move around in my seat. Felt like I was sliding down, then having to use my legs to push myself back into place. Last time it freaked me out so much I had bruises from holding on.

There are stacks of reobar laying around the site now too. Some of it looks massive, like, around 50mm. Pretty big lengths, looks like how they build bridge pylons. Dig down, build a box structure out of bar, tie it all together, fill it with concrete and bolt things on top.

where do you propose to put a big expansive track that doesn't just make it seem like another arkham asylum? Even if the info about buildings is rubbish and they don't take up the space, it can't be more than a few meters from the show stage building back to Wild West. That viewing area looks mighty close to the drop. How much space is there really between wild west and Scooby Doo without removing site access or emergency paths out of the area? if it's supposed to be a world best, I can't see it being tight and compact. You'd have to go big to even stand a chance of being considered one of the worlds best wouldn't you? It sounds like it's going to be a landmark attraction, so you would normally at least be able to see it when you arrive. Miss out on that visual appeal. That's why I reckon dmh's post is credible. It backs up what others have suggested. Even if I didn't think it could fit a station in the land next to green lantern. It looks barely a strip of grass wide enough to park your car on, but it does look like a great area for a coaster. Especially if they can build it so it traverses the water. Imagine how awesome a flying coaster would be over that?

I got the info about fences from a friend who is at the academy. Not too happy that they are losing their shady spot. I reckon they are just upset they can't sneak into the park anymore. Edit: it seems more a permanent thing, even some of the buildings will be cut off apparently. She told me they actually put posts for the fencing right through one of the roads.

The semis are gone, so is the big excavator they used to pull things down. Do they still have the jackhammer going? They had a much smaller machine there at the start of the week from main construction company. The other machines were a demolition company. Big difference in size too.

I wonder if the news segment used the same link to the space attack that I linked to weeks ago? Hahaha. i can't believe you guys are still debating that anything is happening with the show stage, either being repurposed or removed to fit in a roller coaster. If they were planning on pulling it down it would have happened when they had heavy machinery and trucks in the area. Besides, Honestly, it, and the land behind it isn't that big an area. We would just end up with another compact coaster like arkham. The insider info dmh posted the other day about a big coaster is the most likely world best thing referenced by movieworld before. Despite posting it'll go to paradise country, I reckon the rest of the info is credible, but it is meant to be outback spectacular not paradise country. That'll make for a massive coaster, I'd be thinking in the realm of maybe 2.30-3.00 minutes ride time, maybe somewhere 2500m (ish) long? Maybe expecting a lift hill a good 50-60m tall? That would be pretty spectacular out the front of the park, rising out from the trees around the swamp. Here's a bit of gossip for you, the park and studios are about to be completely divided and fenced off. Apparently it's partly due to security required for the next couple of productions, but also to do with the commonwealth games. With fencing going in, apparently going to have more buildings erected behind the show stage / Wild West area to accomodate things behind displaced, also a possible location for fright nights if the studios can no longer be utilised due to the segregation. Fencing is going up now apparently, starts just behind arkham at the back of the film school and heads up through the production/build sheds at the back of the park. if it's true about the buildings going in, it ends any speculation about a coaster going in the area.

I think dmh got areas mixed up. Paradise country is way down the back behind movieworld. The area you are talking about is between the park and outback spectacular. Basically in and around the swap lands at the front of the park. That would make more sense and still be a massive coaster.

It's more complicated than people realise. Just because the parent company is the distributor or producer, doesn't automatically give them rights to the property for anything outside of the film deal.

Pretty sure you are right, it was filmed on the Gold Coast and it had sonny as an adult with an animal park. Can't imagine there were a lot of choices in the area in the 90's. Only thing that comes to mind would have been flea's, but it's not exactly open (as in, land to roam) like I remember koala town.

Aside from it being about 10m taller, does loops, can run in opposite directions at the same time and can pause at the top of the arc. i didn't say this is the revolutionary, grand, super amazing ride, I actually said from the start I felt they are planning two completely separate rides. Some of the suggestions people are making (that aren't coasters) would see budgets of 20+ million to build. Do you really think they have the budget for that AND a mega coaster? It's not that bad a choice of ride all things considered. It'll appeal to a lot of people just like rides like the claw and wipeout does. Its something complete different for the park, so doesn't really have anything to compare to. If you don't like coasters it's pretty slim pickings for adults to ride. I imagine their choice for a flat ride reflects that.

No im not. We had leaked info based on existing manufacturer, capacity and flat ride as the qualities the new ride will posses. Seriously, if you can't be bothered to go back and read what I posted, why do you keep replying with the same thing saying I just randomly chose one manufacturer and one ride? For starters, I discounted all the other manufacturers they have had dealings with but for zamperla and intamin. I didn't just pick one. Most of the others were excluded because the ride offerings were either too small, or were coasters in various forms. That left zamperla and intamin. I listed a few zamperla rides I thought might be possibilities, but a great deal of the catalogue is excluded because it would be just like copying dreamworld. That's simply not going to happen, pretty much ever, so the few remaining choices I said were credible, but perhaps a bit too low tech/old looking. I thought about a lot of intamin offerings too and came up with spinning star and a double hammer as two good candidates. The spinning star can be built really tall, but it's kind of a viewer not really a thrill ride. Plus as I said before, it's kind of the wrong spot for that type of ride as you don't have much to view or interact with. It's kind of like a different take on a Ferris wheel or a tower, not a thrilling ride. You'd want to place it anywhere you can maximise the appeal of your park and the western area isn't the place for one. that left me with the double hammer which ticked all the boxes and it's what I have stuck with for a number of months now. Besides, why are you just assuming I'm basing all this on wild speculation? If you think anything I've said in the past way off mark or completely baseless, go ahead and find what I said and call me on it. ohh and, as for the buzz about worlds best, etc. like I said a few weeks back, flat ride, park developments, then the coaster everyone is speculating about. That'll live up to expectation of worlds best, greatest, amazing, or whatever other adjectives they want to use if the project doesn't get canned and we are left without a second ride This one? Not so much. Probably the sort of ride the park really needs, rather than the super attraction lots of people want. High capacity, people generally love being spun upside down, fairly compact and it's not going to smash the budget given everything else they seem to have planned.

No I'm not. I gave my reasoning for such ride a number of pages back based on what leaked info we have heard, the price, location, size, etc. maybe you just glossed over it? Im pretty confident that the reasoning is sound, and I've never changed my opinion through the whole course of "what's happening", even when everyone was speculating what coaster it was going to be and suggesting the show stage was going to be wiped out. I always had a different opinion that it was going to be a flat ride and I posted its exact name a couple of weeks ago when the post was deleted to keep the guessing game going. Go back and check for yourself. if you doubt my conviction im willing to put up $100 against it. When I win I'll donate your money to charity

Look it up on intamin. Not like the claw, two opposing arms that loop up and over. I posted a link to one in k.l. Look for Kuala Lumpur space attack on YouTube.

Not really the place for a spinning star, it's a great ride for a view as you can build them really tall. Kind of in the wrong place for that though. near the front of the park taking in the coasters and the entrance would have been better for that ride. id bet money on it being a loop swing. Good capacity, about 20m tall. Compact enough footprint to still be able to retheme the area and provide access to show stage. Gondolas to face forward towards stunt driver. as for designs, I'd say it's 100% complete. They would have to start building sets now, so I'd say it would have already all been approved and licences aquired/contracts signed.

Haha. Probably the safest park in existence with little chance of trouble while Asians keep holidaying here. Tour groups pack that place with people looking to see Australia. Of course Australia is more than some native animals and a few stockmen, but you might as well place the whole country on the back of a kangaroo and ride off into the sunset with a koala on your back as far as a lot of Asian tourists are concerned. Doesnt matter where they come from, had international people here from about 20 countries and they all jump at the chance to feed a kangaroo and stroke/pat a koala. hell, there used to be a small park on the Coomera river a little north of movieworld that was called something like koala town. Guess what the main attraction was?

Given the ride that I suspect is going in there (read back pages, intamin is nothing new), I cant see a good way to link it to a western theme. I suspect it will probably be tied into something else in the park and the western area will simply be the burgers place and the town leading up to the entry for Wild West.

I think they ran 4 theatres wide each side with, at a guess, maybe 40 people capacity per room. So given the entry steps were roughly the middle, it gives you a bit of an idea how much space is on either side before you reach the end of the building. I imagine the original corridor is possibly still there behind doors. If I get a chance to visit on the weekend, I'll see if I can get a feel for placement. I think the corridor might have been about where the current load/unload docks are. Might be used as an emergency exit now as it used to be pretty wide.

Why? Because it's IP and he was popular at the time? I imagine it's why the other one has alf, Germans had a thing for alf. lets not forget that beetlejuice was essentially a guide. Obviously haven't seen or paid enough attention to the movie if you missed that. Not a long step to having him guide you out through their film faults to safety. Hey, he's the host with the most afterall! 100% right about him being at the console too. Had a spiel about gremlins opening vaults and film canisters, opened up a bunch of them so never know what they let out. it wasn't stupid, it worked. You're just forgetting the whole deal of moveiworlD back then. Once you walked through the arch you actually entered the movies. So in a ride like gremlins, them opening film canisters released beetlejuice and a whole host of other film property that basically made up the ride. It wasn't themed like the gremlins movie, it was themed like the gremlins opened up all these rolls of film and released all kinds of chaos from within. Kind of like last action hero with the gold movie ticket.

I was just rummaged around trying to find some old photos of visits, and the building that houses the coaster section of scooby doo had always been there. It just looked more like one of the studios buildings. To visualise, take the existing building, follow the roof line as it rises to a peak in the middle, then falls away towards the show stage end. It was the same back in 1998 when I found a few photo from a visit. It looks like they simply cut through the sides for exits, then added on box sections in the roof for the high rise parts. The building itself doesnt appear to have changed, always ended a bit behind the front of the show stage.

the photos of the crashed cars is actually taken from the part looking away from the roller door area. That is the show stage you can see in the background before the sides were closed in. All those trees you can see in the photo behind the container would have been roughly where the rear of the western town was. I think if you walked there now, to your left there is one of those staff/crew doors which is where you used to come out from gremlins, straight ahead is another door that allowed you to travel along the back of the western town set. I think it even had a few trees there until recently?. Might have even been some of the ones seen in the photo. The brick wall is between scooby and the western set, i think you are right, there is a services building for power or something behind the wall. I could imagine it was erected to cordon off whatever is in that corner now. From memory, there is virtually nothing left of the theatres now. If you look at the current photo of scooby, i think the hall way you walked ou into from each theatre was about where the smaller door is between the gift shop and the roller door. It used to be raised in the middle and ran off in each direction. You exited the show which was just a kind of documentary with classic wb films, filed out doors either side of the screen when the gremlins took over and ended up in that hallway. That would put the actual theatre rooms where the inside of the castle is used for the entry queue. In the middle of the hallway was a big opening that lead on to the load dock to head out through the vaults. That was the reasoning for all the different themes, you were supposed to be actually heading through the film vaults. I remember there was basically no waiting once you reached the load dock, you were sorted into lines for each row of seating and pretty much jumped in cars and made you way through different scenes. As for beetlejuice, I remember the carousel looking beetlejuice, the one with the little things hanging from each corner on his hat. Cant remember where he was though, but I do remember he appeared more than a few times. There were all kinds of scenes in the vaults with the gremlins wreaking havoc. At the end, he appeared again thanking everyone for riding. He was suspended above the entry door to the unload dock. He was electrocuted as you passed under, could hear him sizzle.

The cars used to be around the corner, you used to exit out the side of the building around to the right of that roller door. The building goes back into a courtyard which is where the exit was. Then you used to walk to the right, then left and past the police car which I think had smashed into the commandants golf cart? (Or was that from the stunt show?) I'm pretty sure I remember gizmo was in the back seat looking out from the police car through the window. As you walked past an out into the western area just next to the roller door. As for what will happen, I'm still sticking with my original feeling. Show stage to stay, won't be part of new ride, but may get a makeover. Flat ride in the area, no coaster.

You could see where the town set used to exist in the show stage when you went into the wolf creek maze. Where the blue ute was parked, that used to be lined with a building facade that followed the line of seating. If you moved the curtain a little, the steel (like stunt show) seating was still on the banked concrete. The maze wound it's way around what used to be the main thoroughfare into the arena, the stage itself, and some of what would have been behind the set area. They used the old show exit/entry doors as entry/exit for the maze. When you walked in, if you turned to the right it used to be the performers entry/exit where horses and the coach could come through from the backstage area. I have no worries that the show stage will be pulled down. From standing at the Wild West viewing area, all the air con (considerable amount) still appears to be on the roof. Things like that would have been removed before any deconstruction. If that starts being hoisted out, then I'll start getting worried. Didn't someone post a photo in the last couple of weeks showing an aircon ute parked on the back road to the show stage?

Anyone got time this arvo to head down for photos? Apparently the whole facade in front of the show stage is gone now and they have started cleaning out the site a bit. Sounds like only Boot Hill and the rotunda thing to go.