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  1. Baconjack
    Yes buying an unproven model that'll probably shit itself 10 years down the track. Because Dreamworld certainly needs another one of those after all they've been through.
  2. Baconjack
    Expensive to maintain yes (Luna Park spend a lot of money maintaining theirs) but you'd ideally want to replace it with something better rather than something some punter's probably already ridden at the easter show. I heard a small regional park in Victoria installed a really good family coaster at a similar price point.
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    Scooby with the original theming working wins this by a mile. But I don't consider it better than Wild Mouse in its current form. Wild Mouse is surprisingly quite fast and intense for a wild mouse and offers a fantastic view which is better than the distracting and poorly timed effects on Scooby Next Generation. Dingo Racer, with all due respect to Aussie World, is a vastly inferior replacement to what sat in its plot before. Probably the worst replacement attraction in a local park in decades, it's truly sad a rare wooden wild mouse had to be ripped out for something straight out of the royal show.
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    Superman for the theming. Taipan for the ride experience. I personally gave the vote to Superman as i feel it's a more well rounded experience than Taipan. Especially when all the effects in the dark ride section are working as they used to.
  5. Baconjack
    The tyres would get a lot of mileage on them between maintenance periods considering Superman does thousands of cycles each year. So not surprised that they replace those tyres every year
  6. Baconjack
    Minecraft is probably a bit out of DW’s price range. Imagine how much Microsoft would charge for the rights. Though I’ll concede that price ranges for our parks have been dying for some years. Animal Crossing and Pokémon are Nintendo, they have a deal with universal so that’s obviously off limits. Bluey I’m not sure is an adequate dreamworks replacement. As already mentioned, great for little kids but I wouldn’t class it as a ‘family IP’ in the vein of Dreamworks/Nickelodeon. It definitely would have been a great wiggles replacement if they weren’t able to renew though.
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    Counterpoint: few amusement parks anywhere had IP’s in 1981. Wasn’t even a thing here, Wonderland was still only a few years away
  8. Baconjack
    Having visited MW and SW this week a few interesting take aways from it. The practices regarding minimum and maximum height checking seems to have gotten more strict since Covid. Now I'm a tall fellow who ordinarily is barely under the Intamin max height restriction (BD, Superman, and JR), and I wear volleys and a weighted back brace to parks to artifically shorten my height as a fail safe (have this down to a science lol). The practice now is basically "feet together, stand up straight" yada yada, much more formalised and standard from when I last visited in 2019. Can't get away with shit like slanting your back slightly like you could before covid. Probably for the best though. Also, ops now tell guests not to do their own seatbelts on Rivals (as well as trident and vortex), instead they have to do it themselves. When did this change because I certainly remember this not being the case in its opening year or at my last visit (2019). I thought otherwise Rivals and Leviathan ran really well. Under 2 minute dispatches usually which isn't bad for Village standards where I'm expecting at least 3-4. But the seatbelt thing adds probably another 30 seconds to the process which helps when you're only running one train.
  9. Baconjack
    Name 1 family IP that will drive gate that’s not off limits for DW to license. I’m seriously struggling to think of one, they are pretty much all either owned by their competitors like Disney/Universal or Village at this point. I think they’ve done very well keeping ABC Kids and the Wiggles on board as is.
  10. Baconjack
    100% this. Have universal ever offered to license one of their IP's to a competitor? That's probably something to keep in mind with renewal. It was always going to go once the ten years was up, no question about it. Wipeout and Big Red Car both needed to go. Wipeout should have been planned to be closed years before it actually did. By watching videos of Big Red Car in its last years it looked like nightmare fuel, would have cost a lot of money to upgrade and is better off being flattened for something new. Why keep a rotting ride going to buff up the ride count. Tower of Terror is an appropriate trade off for Taipan. I'll give you the points on buzzsaw, the trains, tiger island, and the log ride. Buzzsaw was costly to maintain but needed to be kept around for a bit longer than what they did to fill gaps in the lineup. Log ride was an expensive redo but needed to be done or replaced with another water ride ASAP (that's not going to happen for a while). Trains and tigers are self explanatory. FWIW Yong and his people have been spending the last two and a bit years cleaning up 10+ years of neglect by past management teams. It has affected literally everything at the park. Some of that neglect has hastened certain rides' operating lives. That sort of clean up doesn't happen overnight. It's going to take time. I do think Jungle Rush when its finished is that ride to capture the punters' attention which Taipan has so far failed to do provided it either equals or beats Village in presentation.
  11. Baconjack
    Lol who hurt you? Unfortunately not everyone has the luxury of having the parks close by to them.
  12. Baconjack
    Back row has better airtime so guess that’s where it’s best haha
  13. Baconjack
    Yep. One in each section. Wish I could have got more. It ran faster on the later rides for sure. Funnily enough it closed again at quarter past 3. So it was really only open for an hour or so.
  14. Baconjack
    Ok so sea world clutched up and opened leviathan at quarter past 2, which surprised me considering staff said it would be closed all day and it didn’t test for about 3 hours beforehand. Managed to get a few rides in and will grab a few more before close. The AV presentation is pretty cool and looks great. It looks a lot better in person than in photos or videos. It’s certainly not the best implementation (the timing was pretty wonky), but it’s a really good step nonetheless for what is essentially village’s 2nd go and makes me look forward to the next couple of years. The station and pre show stairs is where the theming really stands out. The detail is very impressive. I do think the station lighting needs to be a bit brighter to make the screens fit in a bit more, but I’m being a little bit nitpicky. Queue rockwork and vegetation looks cool but will get very hot in peak summer, maybe some mist machines or fans would be nice. I was initially pretty disappointed with my first ride as it ran quite slow but definitely warmed up to it with a few more laps in different parts of the train. It’s one of those rides that will run slow in the morning and speed up later on in the day. Lots of little airtime pops and the first half had some solid pace to it, feeling very out of control. The roughness caught me off guard at first but given I’ve never been on a wooden coaster before is something I can’t really judge. Leviathan is definitely not going to knock off rivals or taipan as the best coaster in the country, but a really really solid big thrill ride for sea world that’s been needed for nearly a decade. No doubt it will be popular once the teething problems are fixed up and it’s back to peak season.
  15. Baconjack
    And a lot of money to build too. I know our parks like splashing cash as of late, but it’s still out of their budget imo. A free spin would be a more reliable and cheap alternative and very marketable.
  16. Baconjack
    A loop screw like what sea world eventually got would have sucked at DW imo. Too small and it wouldn’t have been big enough to look noteworthy on the midway.
  17. Baconjack
    Lol where are they going to put it? Dreamworld need to get that thunderbolt throwback raptor going in the lazy river plot so gold coaster’s plot can be used to expand WWW down the track
  18. Baconjack
    Down, but sporadically testing. Staff seem to have be told leviathan is not running today
  19. Baconjack
    Fucks sake lol. Guess I’m having a crack in winter
  20. Baconjack
    Big Dipper and Abyss are both great rides that run rough in summer just by nature of the heat. Abyss was a bit rattly when new, can’t imagine what it’s like now. Abyss should have had lap bars from the start too. Layout wise Big Dipper has abyss beat. No ride in this country flies through its layout like Big Dipper does especially when it’s done a few cycles during the day. And it runs a lot smoother in winter except for the valley between the non inverting loop and the immelman Arkham was like being in a violent car accident in its last couple of years. Gold Coaster was pretty nasty before it got the new trains, now it’s just a bit jerky in 1 or 2 parts.
  21. Baconjack
    Do we even have evidence that new trains are being installed? The soft OTSR's like what you see on maverick would be a really nice alteration to the existing ones imo but i doubt they'll be put on SR. Those intamin harnesses aren't very kind to taller people
  22. Baconjack
    Potentially I think village would be taking notes on how dragster goes and see if it’s worth the investment. The hydraulic system at superman doesn’t seem to be having many troubles though it will get expensive to maintain in a few years time. Superman is far too popular for Village to rip out imo so a Scooby style renovation would make sense.
  23. Baconjack
    When the time comes to refurbish superman (which is likely to be the next big thing after oz and Scooby imo) I think it will be an easy quality of life change to change the lockers. Move the lockers later on in the queue, on the wall adjacent to where the current fast track line is, make them double sided so you can open them up in the old exit gift shop and retrieve your items as you leave. Redo the railings so you walk past these lockers as you line up, and reroute fast track to the other end of the building. Pretty easy and not terribly expensive quality of life change that improves the experience for many more people especially when you are lining up for well over an hour in summer. Not sure why they didn’t have this when the exit building had the gift shop in it. 30 minutes without a phone is fine, but when you’re pushing an hour and a half that’s where (younger) people will get put off and will go flood the line for rivals or green lantern
  24. Baconjack
    Getting a little nervous tbh, I’m driving up from Sydney on Friday and planning to visit SW for leviathan on Monday.
  25. Baconjack
    From memory its the face, crystal palace, coney island, the wild mouse and the rotor that are specifically protected. None of these are going anywhere, nor should be suggested as such. Otherwise the rest of the park is fair game. That said, the land is still zoned for use as an amusement park.
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