Cactus_Matt

Which one are you @Lightning? I swear I've got a similar photo like this from the early 90's, it'll be hiding somewhere in the folks' house.

I thought this was interesting. RCDB themselves calling a 166ft roller coaster in Japan a hypercoaster, it does by all appearances meet the physical definition of a 'standard' hypercoaster. So maybe there's more wiggle room on the 200ft minimum after all? Edit: Link https://rcdb.com/1194.htm

Sorry poor choice of words on my part, I meant like ground level photos or better yet a youtube vid walkthrough of the place.

I'd like the ride to go right over the top of the tower and continue down the other side then circuit through/around the old river and back into the station like an air powered coaster. It'll never happen because it would cost 10's of millions to do and the launch speed would have to be at least 200km/h.

There's no way it'd be used for emergency access/escape for guests, it'd be strictly for maintenance if that is indeed what it is for.

Not big enough for coaster tunnels. They look maintenance/emergency related perhaps.

Could be an above ground tunnel, certainly cheaper than digging and concreting one.

Seeing the abandoned Blue Lagoon like that makes me want to see what it looks like up close. So many memories of that place as a kid.

I doubt Dreamworld will be doing much of anything for the 2017 period, announcing or building of rides. Considering how much money they lost last year investing money in new attractions will be far from the accountants and shareholders minds, no matter how much the park sorely needs it.

April Fools?

Yeah but he wasn't pink!(magenta/whatever)

As much as I'm sure they pulled that info out of their respective arses, it WILL be faster than Superman Escape, and who knows given a couple of years TOTII might end up launching even slower

50/50 chance it'll be themed to popular villain character Two Face from totally still relevant film Batman Forever lol...

I can't tell the colour of the track from the pictures it keeps changing between blue and black and white and gold every time I look at it. #trackgate

I did say a couple of months ago I was betting on a Joker coaster as an extension of the whole "bad guys" thing they were doing with Doomsday Destroyer. Still my bet. As for supports, maybe green but that could be too similar to Green Lantern considering the proximity so maybe purple.

I'd love one side of the Giant Drop to feature stand up variants of the gondolas, and by love I mean would be even more petrified to ride than it currently is.

On the topic of 'e-stop' I remember the very first time I rode The Tower of Terror it went past the station, I didn't even know it wasn't supposed to do that until I heard murmurs from other riders and then having the carriage slowly brought back to the station by ride operators, quite the experience! As much as I hate to say it as it is now Terror of Terror 2 is a pale shadow of what was once a great (very good?) ride, and not just because of the reduced launch speed.

I only got a chance to ride the 'pre drop' version once, personally I thought it was preferable if only because the way it is and has been since (i.e. straight drop) does a number on my nerves, I suppose that's the point but The Giant Drop is the only ride that instills the same fear I had the very first time I rode it every subsequent time, I'll never get used to it.

The article kinda read more like an angry blog than something you'd find on a news site (though given the quality of theme park news from supposedly 'reputable' news sources these days, I don't know). Having said that... I agree completely with the article, if a billboard shows a canoe ride outside a theme park, I 100% expect to see said ride in the park. Not all visitors have the benefit of the doubt of knowing the park as well as we do, and the language barrier some foreign tourists have will only add to disappointment and frustrations for some.

Imagine if the media ACTUALLY did its job for once and report on things without sensationalism and hyperbole, what a world that would be? Guess it's easier/more profitable to stretch the truth to the point of breaking just for more clicks and ad revenue.

I miss the, 'do Dreamworld just for fun' song, that's pure nostalgia for me, not a song from a movie that has little to nothing to do with the park. But each to their own I suppose.

You could have every ride themed after a different Doctor, rather than having to deal with the cost of updating EVERY attraction when a Doctor regenerates. You could so easily theme the Vintage Cars to the 3rd Doctor.

Surprised no one brought this up with all the Doctor Who talk http://www.insidethemagic.net/2016/07/sherlock-holmes-doctor-who-london-paramount-bbc-theme-park-coming-to-kent-england/ To put in my two cents, as a massive Doctor Who fan both past & present (& future lol) I think there is merit to the idea of a Doctor Who themed park/area, however I fully concede that many people I know still consider it dorky and niche, which for a park like Dreamworld is probably the last thing they wan't. They want broad, dare I say, generic appeal, as is the way with many things on the Gold Coast. I lived on the Gold Coast for 21 years and I know that while there is some audience for this kind of thing, it would be looked down upon as 'geeky' and 'lame' by a large portion of the park going populous. There's a time and a place for Doctor Who and Dreamworld isn't it.

I was at an advantage that I spent like a whole day researching this about 2 months ago, practically read everything I could on it. I go through these obsessive phases about things like this. There was a period of a week a couple years ago where all I read was about Disneyland related accidents.

This one did.