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Isn't that mostly empty because it was cleared for the lazy river that was never built? Plenty of room for the globe in BOH I would have thought

The concept artwork kind of gave that away as it looked similar to lethal weapon/arkham in layout. Most of the buildings in that lethal weapon courtyard area will be kept (such as the petrol station entrance & theatre pre show building which will get the emerald city facade). If they weren't being reused they would have been ripped down along with the coaster, a number of the buildings will get new facades. I think the pre-show won't be like lethal weapon where there is a film, I suspect it would be more of a photo op as the queues for the coasters look to be outside that building.

12 months of refurbishing and they still haven't removed the calibri lettering. Hopefully this job gets done before re-opening when they apply the new decals

LSMs are almost impossible to integrate into the layout too whether or not you raise the top hat. They simply aren't powerful enough yet to get a train to 100 km/h in the space required. Superman already crawls over the top hat so you'd need double the power if you were to raise the top hat which cannot be done without a swing launch (which is straight up impossible to fit inside the show building) There is almost no reason for them to replace the system yet. Perhaps within the next 10 years it's a possibility but for the time being it runs well and Village take good care of it. I think it's more likely that Superman gets updated trains like Roadrunner or Scooby than a launch system upgrade.

I would have expected Village to wait and see the performance of Dragster before going down the Superman Escape Next Generation route. (now I don't think TPSN is gospel by any means but broken clocks can be right twice a day, they've gotten a few things right in recent months re: surfrider but this a can of worms worth opening)

My understanding is that it's a retrack in most places. Last year I saw newly fabricated track pieces sitting under Big Dipper on one visit.

Yong probably reads these forums. Everyone on here wanted the dreamworld tower to be converted to a sky jump back when Tower closed. Would have been pretty awesome but he’s right - the average punter is already put off by how high giant drop is (which is why it never gets a line), let alone adding a feature which makes guests face the ground at that height. Also Tower wasn’t being launched anywhere close to that speed in its final years. The LSM’s and control system could only handle about 100-110km/h and the care that dreamworld put in (or lack thereof) pre 2016 made that problem worse. It also sat closed for months at a time unscheduled every year. I think six flags are lucky to get that much height out of theirs.

Perfectly good except it barely made it halfway up the tower and was consistently shut for extended periods of time in its last years

Well to be fair surfrider was taken apart and removed from wet n wild overnight. It won't take long for this to go up

If I were to take an educated guess it probably had the same mechanical problems that Doomsday faces currently and the park couldn’t be stuffed keeping it around. It closed before we got ours.

This is a bit different though. It’ll be even more confusing for punters given both track types are very similar if not the same. It will look very strange when you walk in towards the fountain and see Superman and red Surfrider next to each other. The catwalks and supports don’t look like they’ve been repainted so maybe they’ll do that during the install. I’d take a guess at this opening during the September holidays so there’s still plenty of time for this to get done

Mack is easily more expensive than B&M these days anyway (from my understanding their American projects have been quite expensive just like ours) and yet three of them exist here costing at least $30m each. There is no way one of those small scale dive coasters would cost more than the likes of Rivals or Taipan. Also the cost of shipping from America (where their parts are made) is probably a bit cheaper as opposed to Germany. Jungle Rush will probably end up costing more than a basic B&M too with all its demo, theming, landscaping and show buildings considered. From my understanding Village considered B&M products to replace Arkham before they settled with Oz. I for one think a dive coaster is a slam dunk for our parks as those things are huge attention draws and crowd pleasers. Surf coasters probably not, I would wait to see Pipeline’s reliability given our parks don’t have an excellent track record with installing reliable rides I think back in the day this was correct but saving a buck (ie Buzzsaw, green lantern, motocoaster, jet rescue) is a thing of the past now, especially after one park killed people trying to do just that. Village/Ardent are more than keen to splash the cash for something signature which is what they have spent the last few years doing.

Lol this is straight up wrong. Atlantis was announced in mid 2019 a couple of years after building Rivals & Topgolf (which weren't cheap either). Many years before BGH were in the picture. Village weren't healthy on cash and the parks lost a lot of foot traffic post 2016 (which people have seemed to forget). Not unlike down the road. Presentation is improving. Superman has opening day effects back which I hadn't seen before since I was too short to ride last time they worked. Rides are being renovated, repainted & removed. Hedges are being trimmed. Say what you want about the cheap printed signs, non working effects on West & uniforms (among others) and I've never been a fan of these but cleaning up the mistakes of the past takes years (Dreamworld have done it for 6 years and still aren't finished). Look at Atlantis and that seems to be the standard going forward.

I don't really get this from an operational standpoint. Surely it takes about 5 minutes tops to go into a staff room and change a shirt. Or wear an MRT polo over the top of the existing shirt. What makes this more bizarre is that it's not even specific for each park. Surely it's not that hard and not that more expensive to make a MW/SW/WNW specific polo with the park logo instead of a generic Village one. Some rides are affected by this worse than others. Superman and Scooby are the big ones pointed out previously but Justice League, Storm & WWF can be added to the list. You can probably get away with it on Lantern, Rivals, JDS and most of the shows. LPS have specific operator shirts just for Big Dipper, I would like to imagine Village Roadshow who charge a triple digit sum for a day ticket would be of a similar standard.

So like Big Dipper or Leviathan then. Plenty of rides have teething problems

Ok let's assess: Superman, Jet Rescue, Surfrider, Motocoaster, Big Dipper: Generally problem free, maybe a few issues here and then but that's roller coasters for you Tower of Terror: Mostly reliable in its first 15 years however got more unreliable as it aged (common with most roller coasters) Doomsday: Lemon flat. Claw, Goliath, Giant Drop, Space Probe: Not lemon flats. You be the judge but that's not a terrible track record.

Studio tour next to green lantern & dc rivals in the middle of dc superhero land? No thanks There’s a certain building that hosted our LTRR that I heard could be repurposed for a new ride.

It is lift hill track. You can spot the box shaped spine on TNT.

This would make the ride even more of a lazy afterthought addition than it is right now. ”oh look it’s literally the surfboard ride from next door plonked at movie world!”

A park the size of Adventure World doesn't need another big coaster. They need a legit family coaster because at the moment there's nothing between Abyss (major thrill) and Dragon Express (kiddie) - a nice spinner or a drop track coaster would be appreciated in the spot the castle & paddle boat lake used to take up

A star flyer would be a very solid ride at that park. Imagine the views if you put it at the hill where the drop tower sits.

Paramount were never going to buy Wonderland. They didn’t want it for reasons mentioned above and also the fact Sydney was a tiny theme park market back then (though they tried building a little park in Melbourne, which didn’t happen either for various reasons) A real and more likely possibility that Wonderland lives today is through somebody else that we all know. Village seriously toyed with the idea of buying Wonderland around the time Sunway bought it during the mid 90’s. They asked consultants to study the park, but decided against it. I think a lot of the money they had for Wonderland was instead used on things like Lethal Weapon and WWF.

Wow this hurts. This ride had an intensity factor to it that neither Vortex or Wipeout have. There’s quite a few of these rides they built in the early 2000’s that are running out of time. Surely the power surge or the drop tower doesn’t have much time left either?

Intamin blitz replacing it and Superman, please & thank you. Extra points for Batman theming (looking at you, Gotham City Escape) I think both would be due for replacement at about the same time, and a dark ride would be far better appreciated in the looney tunes/jds building. At the moment justice league is the ride that you do to cool off on a hot day and nothing more.