Baconjack

With all that bush near superman, does the ride take place in smallville rather than metropolis these days? it’s like they have purposefully ignored to integrate the land into dc land and left it to stick out as a sore thumb because it’s too hard to move a few churros and drink bottle carts to someplace else.

So this confirms that the main entrance will be as you walk past superman. Walking through DC land to get to wizard of oz is going to be quite jarring (as will be that giant rainbow you will see heading into the final brakes on superman, but I digress) Complete missed opportunity to re use the Chinatown corridor on Main Street imo

Yeah that’s new, when it first opened the pre show if I’m remembering it right would play when the load process started. That’s one very long dispatch cycle then if they are waiting to play the pre show after the restraints are locked. The station pre show is awesome but I don’t think it’s a good thing in terms of throughput. Hopefully for Oz the pre show is not in the station (or if it is, is a bit shorter), but im not holding my breath

Nah that’s not this one. Think you might be talking about the tilt coaster one

There’s footage of the jungle rush turntable being tested in the Netherlands if you look far enough back on this thread. The track/support colour (orange track grey supports iirc) look similar enough to the artwork that’s been released, so it could what they might be shipping everything to dreamworld in.

Yeah I’m aware. OPs comment was referring to “projection mapping” when all we could see in the concept art pertaining to that term in any way shape or form is exactly the same as the leviathan station

Something like Tantrum at raging waters would work excellently for wet n wild. Thrilling enough to fill the gap aqualoop filled in and different enough from the rest of lineup.

* Coughs Loudly *

Hahahaha nice try @New display name

I’m genuinely surprised management even allowed this to happen in the first place - having only blokes at a theme park is an invitation for female staff to get harassed.

Yeah but my worry is that it’ll be a plane plonked on a slab of concrete. At that point may as well just put a lawn on it and a few bushes instead of the plane. As I said the concept art looks too good to be true - and in most cases for parks it is. We’ve never really seen something at that level of detail in Australia, let alone at dreamworld, so there’s no precedent to follow. Happy to eat my own words if construction photos prove otherwise though

This render almost looks too good to be true. Gonna wait to see how this looks in real life, because no parks on the coast have gotten anywhere close to this level of detail and immersion yet

This is not hard to believe but you’d figure village could have made an attempt to buy parts from the nsw government. From my recollection they allowed the demolition company to sell the monorail cars as is

Realistically this is the best option. There’s no reason Mad Max shouldn’t be at movie world, it’s a perfect IP for village to integrate and something they already own. But there’s no logical fit in the park. You could maybe get away with having it next to West but the best option is to have it take up that arena on Main Street. You don’t even need a current ip - Waterworld is a movie that came out in the mid 90’s that the vast majority of people who go to watch the show at universal have probably never heard of let alone watched (throw backdraft in there too when it was open) I’ve never personally watched stunt driver 2 but I did watch police academy and the original stunt driver and thought it was memorable. Based on what I’ve read it seems the stunt show is in desperate need of change. Shows have their place in parks, they disperse crowds around, and having a good one can determine the difference between massive lines and not so massive lines (Waterworld or Lion King at Disney come to mind). Gut everything after all the major projects are done and while lantern & doomsday are limping, and build a mad max show, have some explosions, falling stunts (which mad max lends itself well to) and make it memorable.

I think it’s more likely that Claw is replaced with something new within 10 years. It’s almost 20 years old and doesn’t have the prestige factor to justify spending money at an upgrade like that (see giant drop), i would imagine that kind of upgrade costs near the amount of a new flat

Valid point but having superman go down in March is not a cause of those constraints it’s an effect. It’s an aging ride it needs more downtime but at the same time it needs to be up at every peak, so it’s hard to really make a choice. It doesn’t have to be this way but village have mucked around at movie world and it’s set them back a fair amount of years. Ideally village would have had a replacement for Arkham online by now to spread around the crowds, but they didn’t do that, they left it standing for 3 years with no activity to speak of. They knew this ride was going to get replaced, it was always time limited after what happened to corkscrew, but there never seemed to be a solid plan. Blame Covid and Atlantis fair enough but a replacement should have been locked in during 2019 realistically. Moreover scooby’s renovation seems to me like a very last minute thing - they realised that the ride in its current condition was unsafe and went “oh shit need some new track and trains and brakes” and ordered them hastily, which are yet to arrive at the park and probably aren’t coming for a while because Mack’s backlog is massive. Then you add poor ride decisions - for one, buying a twin hammer from Intamin whose only other install operated for 10 years and went defunct before you bought it is not a wise choice. Then making s&s put the 4 across trains on lantern - el locos operate reliably throughout the world with the normal trains, while movie world’s one comes within a sliver of killing people and is down constantly. While we’re there, packing up and moving Surfrider, thinking it was going to be a quick fix solution to those aforementioned capacity woes caused by poor planning, and fucking up at the install is just another thing on a long list of stuff that’s gone wrong.

Things get old therefore they need more time to be worked on. who knew?

At this rate it’s probably not going to open at all, it looks like nothing has been done on the ride so far. You’ve got 4-5 months left of it tops before it gets moved

Doesn't Taipan's figure exceed Jungle Rush's cost too or was the koala research grant they used added to the budget statistic in the end?

If the Indiana Jones rides at Disney are anything to go by id say the theming improves with a bit of weathering too. An ancient temple facade with slightly overgrown vegetation looks even better than when new

Do you have basic reading comprehension? It’s quite the opposite these days They’re clearly going for something similar to the Indy rides at Disney with jungle rush and Rivertown more generally. That said the ride doesn’t look very tall (given the turntable has been testing in the Netherlands) so you don’t need a tall show building to enclose everything. The one in Japan is outstanding so I’m quite excited to see Dreamworld having a crack at the adventure theme

Nah the restraints on those rides are awful if you’re either tall or fat or both. I’ve been on Sledgehammer and even if you’re below the max height limit the restraints dig into your shoulders and have an enormous amount of clearance between the restraint and the seat because of their design. I almost didn’t feel safe on my ride. Goliath on the other hand is far more comfortable. Not to mention the height restriction for zamperla models are far higher. You’d be looking at yet another 140cm ride for a zamperla model (its 132 at Luna park but would probably go up to 140 on the coast). Whereas claw and Goliath are at 120, far more accommodating for different types of guests and body sizes because of the lap bar it uses

I’m pretty sure that land in question is not being used by the park it’s all allocated to the studios but feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. And even if it is, if you were to put a coaster in there (which they will need in 6-8 years time) you’d have to either pull down the building, or re use it as a queue/station or extend it out for something indoors (both requiring major alterations) If you read what I said I already nominated a use of that space so what you’re saying is very confusing.

How is doomsday not on its last legs? It is barely open, and when it is, it runs at a third of its power because if it doesn't it shits itself. Once flash & wizard of oz open and scooby re opens that thing is for sure gone, with the strip down and repaint deadline quickly approaching. Only reason they are keeping it around now is to keep the ride count up while other things around the park are being built or renovated. Lantern is time limited as well. I think it lasts a little longer than 3-5 years, I'd say it goes either shortly before or shortly after the next major gets built in 6-7 years time. As for superman I think village will be looking very closely at how the two LSM conversions go, if they are reliable i think it's more likely it gets that revamp over being removed altogether. As for the showcase building the park has no room to expand so at the end of the day they'll use whatever space is available. The land doomsday & showcase occupy lend themselves well to a major wild west coaster to complement West, and any non superhero ride is always a plus. Lantern's plot is too small as it stands and doesn't allow for much. As for the other attractions you mention: Walkthrough? The old intencity building exists (you know where there used to be one) Dark ride? Justice league (and the junior driving school building exists too), you can arguably fit scooby in this category while you're there. Show/theatre? Stunt driver and roxy already fill that need

I love the idea of a 4d free spin in Australia but the likelihood that village buys something from s&s again is pretty much zero Obviously doomsday is on its last legs and we don’t know how long showcase will be open for. I’d say any green lantern replacement uses that combined plot of land as it’s quite a significant space for a coaster. There’s more than adequate space at green lantern for a flat ride there though, you could easily plop vortex or something else there down the track