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I reckon many would rate alicia silverstones arse double over the puntastic mr freeze of arnie.

I can imagine that sort of thing (ie, pulling cars apart, track inspections, etc) happens every year anyway. Im kinda wondering just how much maintenance do people think actually happens if they think they can suddenly take an even more indepth look over a ride and find as yet unidentified issues with safety, mechanics, etc. It is like basically saying the maintenance is completely lacking and has missed years worth of defects, breakages, wear, etc, so its basically just a big death trap waiting to derail and kill people. yeah, ok, the last bit is a bit dramatic, but honestly, I wouldn't get on a ride ever again if I didn't think the ride checks weren't thorough enough that major inspections and rebuilds aren't already done as required. If inspectors had of found a raft of faults with rides that were previously missed, I would have expected them to be contained in statements worksafe made. From the few articles I read, they seemed to pass the rides and commend the already detailed inspections, only noting a few back of house issues, but not anything that could put the public at risk?

Im betting somewhere longer to take it well into the 2min mark.

You would notmally expect a hypercoaster to be heading towards 2km.

Various councils/state governments have setup entertainment precincts to stop venues being forced out when developers move in. Puts the onus back on developers to sound proof buildings exposed to noise within the precinct.

I can imagine with doomsday being such a new ride, you probably have to shut down and check a bunch of things once it has been run for a bit. I can imagine they would have liked to get this over and done with for the school holiday period which is about to start, so it could explain why it is closed. Might not have been able to leave it any later. Pretty sure scooby doo and batwing both had planned annual maintenance according to the website. It might be weird, but I guess you only have so many days in a year to plan things, so it means you are still working right up until the holiday period.

sensationalist dribble gets headlines.

they need more rides for kids and families though. If they are going to build any more rides, they should start by overhauling/replacing some of the wb kids ones and giving it a freshen up.

call and ask? try and book tickets online?

The amount of water encountered in a ride like this, you aren't talking a pool pump. Well, you might be if your pool pump was about 2/3 the size of a car and weighed maybe 6-7 tons. I don't think it's something you can have fail and limp along at half flow. You would probably have a backup and be able to switch over, or have to switch out the pump in the event of the failure.

From looking at the photos, it looks like the conveyor is below the platform. So yeah, youd need something to tilt the raft over so the edge of the bag could be caught on the conveyor otherwise it would tend to just push it forward rather than grab. That or have it deflated or something so it sat vastly lower when it came off the conveyor. It kinda looks like there is a little room on each side (wider than the conveyor) once it drops off. I wonder if its possible to come off misaligned a little so its up against the rails when it comes off the conveyor. Would be like bouncing off a cushion/turnbuckle. Its no consolation, but i hope it turns out to be a freak combination of things that werent able to be accountered for, and not an oversight or failure of the park/employees, etc. Really tragic to have a family forever changed like this

That goes without saying.

They released very little, what they did release was more n64 classics and they were expensive.

There is a platform that's normally submerged that looks like it's to guide/control the direction of the raft when it comes off the conveyor. Combined with submerging the end of the conveyor below the buoyancy level of the raft, I imagine this would mitigate the possibility of a raft rolling back into the conveyor and being dragged under because it could never actually reach the end of the conveyor. The worst that would happen is it would roll back into the conveyor and be punted back forwards towards the unload dock. It's entirely speculation, but if as you said, the front of the raft was lifted so the rear side could dip below the conveyor, and if there was possibly enough room for the bagged section of the raft to make it under, you could see how the conveyor could flip the raft over and wedge it between the conveyor and the platform.

I think if the company didnt make an absolute killing on pokemon, they just produced another device that would possibly bankrupt their console division. You know the biggest thing nintendo should do? raise an online store/network. Start making/producing/licencing games for adults. Start porting your old games across to the CURRENT/NEW console you are offering. Start selling old classic games for under $10 each. Allow your new console to save them to data storage (hard drive or memory card) which can be recovered/transferred to new systems. Sit back and rake in the nostalgia gamers market. When will people actually start to realise that the people you are trying to market to actually grew up with your products? I can't remember the exact year, but there are a bunch of studies that show the average gamer is now into their 30's. They aren't kids, so how about they shift their focus a little? Its untapped potential. Id buy one and spend a fortune just to play games like maniac mansion again. Yeah, I can just buy a cheap emulator that looks like a NES and fill it full of roms, but it's not the same and is still a bit buggy. Sell me a console I can settle arguments (and scores!) with and my credit card would go into melt down. I think they missed out with the NES classic reissue. The idea was almost there. No scope for upgrades and you are stuck with the games they offer you in a pack killed it though.

That reads a lot like you'll be in there until you get out, we aren't letting you out when you give up. That's certainly one way to ratchet up the terror.

You're a troll. Big hydraulic and electric motors don't stop when things get in the way. They run until they break something or someone switches them off. No more needs to be said about how 4 people lost their lives. No matter how much bait you throw out.

There is a large amount of rushing water that heads under the platform, but it the trough the rafts drop into to allow them to unload is pretty calm by comparison. The pumps look like they are positioned just to the side of the conveyor as you come towards the unload dock, as you start climbing the hill. If I remember though, the conveyor is clear out of the water at the top, so you were actually hoisted out of the water, everything drained off a bit, then on the other side it kinda dipped down a bit again before the end of the conveyor. So you kinda just plopped off the end of the conveyor and into the trough where a small current floated you along to the station. It didn't have really fast moving rapid type current, there must be a bypass or diversion from under the station as it seems pretty fast flowing when you look off the right hand side of the bridge. It's normally pretty well timed when you ride though, so at the worst you end up with a couple of rafts unloading just floating in the trough until they wedge the raft in place to unload. Such a sad loss of life. RIP.

Not sure if its just simply the difference between someone being injured/killed, and someone being injured/killed by equipment or machinery, etc. Like, someone having a heart attack or slipping and falling vs something like this. Industrial accident kinda made the tone sound like it was staff not the public? Do they have scheduled maintenance river rapids? It's a bit dark, but you can see in some of the aerial footage, one of the gondolas is on it's side.

It's not the fence line that I was thinking is the problem. Its the fact a big support would be right on the edge of the road, waiting for things like trucks or inattentive drivers to drive into it. Like you posted above is in pretty much no danger of traffic plowing into it.

They literally cut out the kerb channeling and into the road to place it though. Its not just close to the road.

Went this afternoon for a couple of hours and they had part of the entry road closed off and what looked like steel footings going right on the edge of the road. Wonder if they are changing the access road a bit if its a support, looks like it would be really difficult for the park fence to pass outside of the footing with the road right there. Might be unrelated though, could be maybe a big lamp post or a sign or something I guess.

That's where the dam is I was talking about. You can see it from the road driving in. See the one on the left? there is one equally as big on the right, it's just hidden by the trees in your photo. Isn't that where what looks like the grounds and gardening people are? I've only been to paradise country a couple of times recently, but aside from looking a bit like a dumping ground for stuff from the park, it looks like there are vehicles like trucks and loaders, plus stuff like soil and gravel the area? doesn't really look like it's not being used even if it is messy. Regardless, its AGES away from anything resembling kitchens and stuff. The people who cover the most ground around the park have got to have something at least resembling a central location for ease of access. Never mind what do you do with the staff parking now that everyone is up the back? thats a LONG way from the car park to walk. I could see maybe maintenance being up there, but not warehouse space for other departments too.

Theres a dam where you are talking about, isnt there? you can see it on the right just before you get to the start of the paradise country car park. Unless you meant where they are building the sets for thor?

yeah, it continues down in as much as it is a street, but once you turn towards kids WB, the building facades end. I was talking about more continuing the 2 or 3 story frontage, especially if you were to build a multi purpose area, so you'd want to maximise the space by building up. I don't think there is much space behind west at all anymore. not since those sheds for fright night went in. Walking around on frightnight, it looks like it runs pretty much right up towards fencing, with some containers and what looks like a road behind them. Not sure where you would build a big warehouse that incorporates maintenance, food and bev and storage. Those areas by themselves already take up a very large foot print, anything new would need to be an improvement providing bigger space, not just condense it into one.