Cactus_Matt

More #fakenews? Damn it Trump!

Because they think people are fine with that kind of thing, minimal effort into design and originality. And maybe Joe public is tricked into thinking coasters like that are worth the time and money but until someone with a lot of money and a vision to back it up comes along to build a world class park filled to the brim with world class roller coasters, companies will keep doing the bare minimum to keep relevant in the public's eyes, or irrelevant in the eyes of coaster fans.

I agree @Richard I think as ride technology advances we either have to expand what the definition of a roller coaster is, or forget about defining the differences at all. I'm sure there were a lot of purists out there back in the day who said "roller coasters can only be made of wood, I'm having none of this 'steel' business!"

I guess I can understand the gravity argument, makes me wonder though, if a park made a slot car style ride that was powered throughout (i.e. not utilising gravity) but had it follow a track identical to a 'typical' coaster track, (lift hill, main drop, inversions, etc.) and presented it as a 'typical' coaster (minimal theming) would that blur the line enough for the people at the RCDB to consider this type of ride as a roller coaster?

Sorry to resuscitate an ancient topic but it's exactly the topic I wanted to talk about and I didn't want to make a new one and invoke the ire of some of the residents here. Anyway, seems like most agreed that Tower of Terror is a roller coaster, as do I, but while I was making a list of all the coasters I've ever been on in a word document for my own bored amusement (and giving them a score out of five) I came upon one I do ostensibly consider a coster but for some reason isn't listed on RCDB as one. Journey to the Centre of the Earth at Tokyo DisneySea, wikipedia calls it a 'slotcar ride' which I get as that's it's technical designation, but you go over that drop at the top of the mountain and try telling me this isn't a roller coaster. I'm sure some would argue its design is akin to a ghost train/dark ride, but come on, it has multiple rises and falls and goes 70+km/h that's totally coaster territory. What say you Parkz folks?

Creature Cruise was something I completely forgot about until you mentioned it, very weird attraction now that I think back on it, at the time it was just dull and underwhelming but in hindsight it didn't really fit with the park at all, felt like something you might find at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary or worse, not Dreamworld.

Well in order to be the tallest attraction on the gold coast it'd have to be taller than the Tower of Terror/Giant Drop, I was just making reference to the hyperbole in that comment. I suppose if its 60m above ground and continues 60m below ground it would technically be a strata coaster?

"will become the Gold Coast's tallest attraction" are we getting a strata coaster now? lol

I'd say more to the east, like MickeyD said, basically where Tiger Island was. Why do you ask @Glubbo?

Don't forget IMAGINATION

The main reason I think it will Joker or villain themed (so maybe even Harley Quinn, though less likely imo) is because of the whole super villains unleashed thing they did for Doomsday, I think this coaster will be an extension of that. Though I do agree they have too many DC themed rides I hardly think that's going to stop them.

I'm still betting on it being a Joker themed coaster, so I'm thinking a predominantly purple track with pink highlights and maybe yellow supports.

@MickeyD Oh good, so I'm not going completely crazy! Thanks for the info, I was so sure it was Dreamworld, glad to get some confirmation. If it was 92/93 I'm surprised I even remember as I would have only been 4 or 5 years old, must have made an impression on me. I do recall it being after the Matterhorn too the more I think back, so in the area Tiger Island is now checks out too.

Huh. I never considered it could have been at a different park, but that actually makes a lot of sense. Now I feel silly about making a whole post about it, but thanks that's probably it.

I can't remember if I dreamed it or imagined it but I'm having trouble finding information about a live pirate show that was hosted at Dreamworld in (I think) the 90's? I'm 100% sure it wasn't the 2007 Pirates of the Pacific show because it wasn't indoors/under a tent and I would have been 20 in 2007 and I remember I was a lot younger when I saw this pirate show. It had a grandstand of seats in front of a mock up wooden pirate ship and had actors performing all sorts of shenanigans on and around the boat. It didn't come up on the Dreamworld wiki of former attractions so I figured I'd ask the endlessly knowledgable folks here to confirm or deny my memories.

Maybe the coaster track has been here the whole time! Invisible track for Wonder Woman coaster confirmed!

The way the footers are all on one side (presumably) of the track make it look like it'd be an inclined loop. Just a guess though as I admit I know little about coaster footings, just something that occurred to me.

Are there any Scottish superheroes? Loch Ness coaster confirmed.

Being out in the weather vs having water on a track for 8+ hours a day is a bit different. I remember when the mist was on that part of the track was always slick with water, made me worry the train was going to slip off (that's before I really understood how coaster trains worked).

#FAKENEWS

I know that feeling man, I'm a retail worker too.

Wonder if it would be possible/practical for DW to install like a two-way radio system on each gondola, so in the event something like this DOES happen (and it will happen again) they are able to calmly communicate with the riders to let them know its just routine. It doesn't matter if they had a sign or multiple signs saying 'ride may experience intermittent issues which are for your safety' or if the attendant said so before each ride because a.) most people don't read/listen to those types of things and b.) even if it is exactly routine nothing will placate like actually being able to hear someone reassure you.

I don't disagree there's much to love about our parks, Superman, WWF and Giant Drop are among my Top 5 rides of all time in this country. But they are rides that are in the case of the latter two are nearly 20 years old (scary right?)! It's absurd that we're making excuses when nearly two decades have passed and we've got so little to show for it. The Australian parks had their golden age and we've been wallowing in mediocrity since, here's hoping whatever Movie World builds can lead to a new renaissance, but I'm not holding my breath.

If it's good enough for the President of the United States it's good enough for people on a Theme Park forum.

I was thinking parks like Kings Dominion, Busch Gardens (Tampa or Williamsburg), and various Six Flags parks. Would never compare our parks to any Disney or Universal parks.