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3 hours ago, Stevie said:
On my last visit to Dreamworld I was lucky enough to have a conversation with the CEO, Greg. He seems like a very lovely and open guy. In regards to the Giant Drop, a tilting gondola had been discussed very heavily and wouldn't be too expensive to implement into the current tower. Their main reason for not going ahead with it is purely due to it being too extreme. As others have mentioned, the ride is already quite ominous and it's the minority who enjoy it, adding a tilting gondola would only further scare guests away from riding that gimick.
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.
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17 hours ago, Dean Barnett said:
Don’t forget they pulled a perfectly good ride off the side of the tower
Perfectly good except it barely made it halfway up the tower and was consistently shut for extended periods of time in its last years
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4 hours ago, ShakeShack said:
As far as I've heard, it will need to be fully recommissioned, as it's considered a new plant. The fact we haven't seen vertical work start yet, it's not looking promising.
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
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2 hours ago, Slick said:
Great trip report - did you happen to ask anyone why the twin hammer disappeared?
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.
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On 13/5/2023 at 11:48 AM, REGIE said:
That is spot on. It’s confusing enough that seaworld has 2 blue coasters and they are different shades of blue and different companies. I over hear people at SeaWorld always saying they thought storm and jet rescue was one coaster or them not realising JR exists because it blends in with storm. 🤦♂️
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
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On 12/5/2023 at 7:47 AM, DaptoFunlandGuy said:
I mean, surfing is just the theme, and you could apply that theme to a lot of ride models out there (surfrider, anyone?)
The custom seat movement sounds like an interesting experience (and expensive too). The reality is, B&M is pretty much out of the question for an Aus park at this time. If this were a Mack or Intamin or Vekoma product, it'd be more realistic. the starting price of the most basic B&M is in the upper limit of our park's single attraction spend, let alone a brand new one-of-a-kind prototype.
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 ridesI 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.
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On 05/05/2023 at 1:06 AM, Noll_57 said:
We’ve already seen that happen. Remember after the TRR accident when VRTP announced they no longer saw Dreamworld as competition? That was when investment and upkeep of the Village parks took a nosedive and has been on a decline ever since. It’s only now that DW have started turning things around in a big way and regional parks have begun stepping up their game (combined with BGH Capital’s acquisition of Village) that VRTP have started reinvesting in their parks to a reasonable level again (though their overall presentation still leaves a lot to be desired IMHO).
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.
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10 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:
The loss of the ride specific costumes is a sad day, but it does make operations easier as staff don't have to change if they get reallocated, and you don't end up with a Justice League Host assisting on the parade (or even JDS!).
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.
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14 hours ago, REGIE said:
The ceo of movieworld a small theme park on the Gold Coast had this to say
”after almost 20 years of looking up at red and blue we are getting sick of it. It’s time for a change. DC Rivals looks good in purple. It’s about time superman escape is purple”
after the park was scammed of over 2 million dollars on a life time supply of purple paint they have decided to put it to good use
”you can expect to see all attractions here at movieworld to be purple in the coming years. We might even consider painting at our other properties”
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Just now, New display name said:
Had many problems when it first opened up.
So like Big Dipper or Leviathan then. Plenty of rides have teething problems
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44 minutes ago, Naazon said:
I know even less than both of you, but even I've heard of the "Intamin Curse" and its reputation for unreliable rides, particularly coasters. From what I've seen its mostly spurred on by Americans. As for actual statistics, no idea.
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.
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On 13/4/2023 at 7:46 PM, Callow said:
Movie Park in Germany replaced their LTRR with a great movie studio themed coaster. Which I think MW would benefit from. Away from the super hero and other franchise IP’s they have.
https://rcdb.com/18666.htmWould be a great fit. The building could easily be raised if needed too.
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.
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34 minutes ago, TBoy said:
I don't think the purple thing is part of the track. It doesn't look like SFC track at all, so it must be something else. The grey supports however look like the official supports of the ride.
It is lift hill track. You can spot the box shaped spine on TNT.
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7 hours ago, themagician said:
My guess is Aquaman as that will avoid the need to repaint the ride as it underwent a repaint/refurb last year
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!”
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1 hour ago, Rivals said:
how about a Sky Rocket II? It would be able to fit anywhere and it would be a pretty nice fit and change their skyline drastically.
i would love to see 2 flats, a major thrill coaster and a family coaster within the parks near future.
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
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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.
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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.
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9 minutes ago, jddc7 said:
Just seen on Facebook that The Rampage is closing end of this season. End of an era
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?-
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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.
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On 21/02/2023 at 5:01 PM, Dean Barnett said:
New name confirmed.
I mean if memory serves me right (or if its some weird yarn) DCR was meant to be either joker or suicide squad themed until the dreamworld accident
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On 21/03/2023 at 2:55 PM, New display name said:
How DW's Ocean Parade re-theme is going.😵
TFW Dreamworld of old decided to throw blue paint around areas in public view (not anymore, thankfully)
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9 hours ago, Raider said:
For what it’s worth, I was at movie world a couple of days ago and my son was speaking with a staff member who said they are building a Flash themed ‘skateboard’ ride. So not sure if that’s in reference to what this going to be but could be.
Nah I liked the lex luthor idea better thematically. Red and yellow u shaped coaster next to the red and blue coaster that regularly gets over a 2 hour line in the busiest times of the year is an easy way to make your new addition not stand out. I reckon some punter would get it confused with superman at the fountain. But I guess its just a minimum effort afterthought filler ride and I should expect nothing
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Claw is fun but Goliath is the same thing with better restraints so it wins.
Rebel is the same model as the xxxl from the Easter show no? Wasn’t impressed with that particular ride so I don’t in this case.
Sledgehammer will be comfortable for skinny people below 5’10” otherwise good luck.
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5 hours ago, REGIE said:
RCDB counts wild mouse at Luna park Sydney as from 1990s.. you gotta take what RCDB says with a grain of salt.
Tfw you have never bothered to look at RCDB to see that it's been relocated twice and is originally from the 50's. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Is Project Zero/Buzzsaw from 2022 by this logic?
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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.