AheadMatthewawsome
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The border between NSW and QLD is currently closed until we have no cases of transmission for 28 days. Which will NEVER happen until there is a vaccine! And already it's been so much of a struggle to get to the Gold Coast. that I've never been there.
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1 hour ago, Brad2912 said:
It’s called the TX7.
runs roughly every 30mins.
I wasn't aware of that. I was just going by a previous comment above.
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I think that it would be a good idea to have a bus or monorail line from Movie World to Helensvale Station. Stopping at: Movie World, Topgolf, Australian Outdoor Spectacular, Wet N Wild, then Helensvale Station.
I'm not gonna even talk about closing down Wet N Wild. Good Day.On 03/09/2020 at 5:48 PM, Brad2912 said:Seems someone believed you....
હા, મેં કર્યું.
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19 hours ago, Tim Dasco said:
We have a traveling model called the Scorpion owned by Geelong Amusements based in Victoria.
7 hours ago, HussRainbow87 said:Not a HUSS
Eh, better than nothing.
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13 hours ago, StingRay said:
The rides removal has not come as a shock. Power Surge temporarily replacing it tho. That's a shock. Joyland's (Carnival ride company) are also trying to make a buck. So I understand why they have leased out another ride to LPS. Given they don't have many carnival rides and this one can easily be set up within the confines of the park means it would going to be picked.
As for what goes in moving forward. Who knows. One other ride is currently hidden behind a fence. I've said it before and ill say it again. Troika's days are numbered. It is old and even tho a fan favourite is really annoying to load and unload given its usually only got a ride op and during peak times gets one attendant. I do wonder tho is the HUSS breakdance will survive much longer. This ride as a modification many years ago to allow guest under 130cm to chance to ride while being accompanied by an adult.
But looking at the future. Yes, they need to spend money to make money. But with COVID its ruined many things, Those function centres won't be getting used for some time I imagine. So it might be a while before we see anything special come into the park. SO the Joyland's rotating ride roster is the best deal we are going to get for some time. I just see a bad side to this all. So many old rides being retired and not enough replacements. We can only hope ideas are already in motion for new attractions. It is not good for the park. But thankfully Sydney siders are semi-used to this. Unlike QLD people who do get a large number of parks to choose from.It would be quite devastating if Tumble Bug goes. Because just after COVID started, I felt ready to go on Tumble Bug. But I'm guessing it's too late, what a shame.
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1 minute ago, Gazza said:
There are too many Power Surges in Australia.
Please eliminate three.
I am not a crackpot.
It is only TEMPORAILY!
I think it's a good idea to have a temporary ride like Power Surge until COVID-19 has finished (no physical distancing or any other COVID rules). And once Luna Park can get more money again by concerts at the Big Top, and hiring out Crystal Palace. Then it would be a good idea to start looking for rides. And even if there was no COVID-19. You would have to wait though the planning permissions. And the complaints from the neighbors. So having a thrilling, safe. But also cheap, and temporary is the best way during this period between rides.
And if Luna Park after the contract is over isn't ready to get a new ride in (maybe because of COVID-19 or planning permissions, or the neighbors). They can always get another ride in for a little bit or use a different company. I think Space Jam (if the neighbors are okay with it) would be a perfect spot for now where Moon Ranger used to be! Also maybe Hurricane, or Roundup, or Body Rock would be good for now. I would personally like to see Hurricane there. And maybe also bringing back Pirates Revenge for the Summer? There's quite a few choices. And when you are looking into a permanent ride. There's tons of choices! -
13 minutes ago, StingRay said:
I'm guessing it's going to be apart of the temporary rides? If that's the case, that would be a good idea as money is tight and it would be good to wait until after COVID where there is more money to buy a ride. And having a temporary ride in between building a permeant ride is good as well. If it's permeant. DON'T GO BACK TO THE 2000's, PLEASE! PLEASE! I'M JUST BEGGING YOU, PLEASE!
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3 minutes ago, westical said:
Since when?
Sorry, I didn't notice the coming soon sign on the Sea World Website. My mistake!
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3 minutes ago, Rachelkinks said:
Well someone is definitely right about steel fatigue sadly, yepppp Dreamworld should've checked this before doing a complete repaint but didn't. This explains why the maintenance period is extended to December and we might not even see this ride operate again.
If Dreamworld shuts down this 4 named coaster. Big Dipper, Cyclone, Sidewinder, GoldCoaster. Whatever you call it. There will only be 2 roller coasters and 6 thrilling flat rides remaining in the park. Not even Wonderland in it's dying days was like that!
Movie World seems to be the best theme park now in the Gold Coast thrills wise. Movie World has 5 coasters, 1 log flume, and 2 thrilling flat rides. And Sea World has 4 coasters and 1 thrilling flat rides. Dreamworld is slowly becoming destroyed. Dreamworld is the next Wonderland. And Ardent Leisure is the new Sunway. -
12 hours ago, T-bone said:
There is a nice disko coaster up at Coomera they can have.
You mean Shockwave at Dreamworld? We don't have that much room for a Disk'O Coaster. The only spot I can see is in Lavender Green. And then you will have to get permission to get permeant rides there as well with the planning permissions to build a ride in the first place. And Luna Park just withdrew allowing rides up to 14 meters tall that are temporary to be put into Lavender Green. I think a Mega Disk'O would be best, just like what I said above. And also Dreamworld isn't selling Shockwave yet. Shockwave would be sold or scrapped if Dreamworld goes bust soon. Or Dreamworld sells it in 10-20 years when it gets too old.
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This is all better then Raging Waters! I hear people get it into arguments and get unwell trying to get those passes!
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I can confirm that the Moon Ranger will be closed. It's now public knowledge and staff aren't worried about talking about it. We know that the ride will be replaced by something else. We could see this around mid to late 2021. We don't know what it will be, so we can all speculate!
I'm thinking a Disk'O ride would be a good idea. Specifically the Mega Disk'O with 40 seats. Putting it where the kids rides are now. And have the kids rides being put where the Moon Ranger is now, or at Lavender Green. It would be themed to the Whirler (a former ride at LPS). With the current Whirler sign as the new entrance. The eye of the sign would be on the floor of the ride vehicle. And the track would be coloured red. There would also be a food and drink stand on the side of the ride themed to the ride (like the Helter Skelter Cafe). It would be the largest Disk'O in Australia (by seats).I've seen on the bottom of the ride some wheels that have been put on. Could this mean that the Moon Ranger could become a travelling fair? We don't know.
My final remarks on the ride is: 'The time was going to come, you can see how old it was as you could see it was made in West Germany. I sadly never went on the ride to prevent the park being 9ft deep in vomit. But I hope whatever comes next will be great (like a Disk'O)! -
On 10/10/2020 at 6:35 PM, Ranger said:
2: What did the Wonderland website look like and do any of you have pictures of it
There is too many photo's for Parkz. But if you go to www.wonderland.com.au on the Wayback Machine. You'll find endless information there. Especially if you go to the April 4th 2004 snapshot and go to the Park News section. There's some information about the closure of the park. And about when they had Marvel Characters. There are some items like images that have stopped working now. If you go onto the website now. You have an error because the domain has since been closed.
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14 hours ago, Ranger said:
Hey guys, a bit of a long question but I have three questions about Wonderland Sydney:
1: What was Wonderbuzz in regards to WS as shown in this Seven News report at 0:25:
2: What did the Wonderland website look like and do any of you have pictures of it
3. What did Wonderland look like from the M7?
I think Wonderbuzz might have been the old name for the Wonderland Sydney Youtube channel. I don't think there was a website for WS. But try going to the Wayback Machine if possible and you may find it there. The M7 was under construction when WS closed. You can still find clear satellite photo's of the park on Google Earth Pro when it was abandoned in December 2004. It also includes the M7 under construction.
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21 hours ago, Naazon said:
Or Merlin, although they mostly bought their parks and in terms of theme parks are 90% legoland.
I've always had it in the back of my mind for a Legoland Australia since I was 7 at Warnavale in the Central Coast. I've already found some land next to the station that could be used for the park. It would be something similar to Legoland California. I actually rang up Legoland California multiple times when it was the middle of the night there and talk for about a hour at most talking about this idea, and all kinds of nonsense!
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4 minutes ago, themagician said:
@AheadMatthewawsome thank you for your review of opening day. When you say physical distancing just doesn’t exist, did the park not have floor markings to show where people needed to stand? Or was it just people being incapable of standing on a marker and staff weren’t enforcing it? Because there are multiple slides on each tower, how did that queuing work? Was it just like normal (before COVID) or did the park try and encourage spacing for each queue within the tower?
There were markings. But people just bunched up at the top while announcements went off to physical distance. So there were no staff enforcing it. And at the wave pool, everyone bunch up at the top corners of the wave pool because the waves were highest and roughest. While everyone at Luna Park does physical distance on the line most of the time, and everyone is fine if you ask them to physical distance in the lines. So it was just a normal queue there. Just with markings and announcements asking you to physical distance. This was also the same when queuing up for food. But with no markers and no announcements. And every other queue had markers, but no announcements. And no staff would enforce it, even though they had COVID-19 marshals. It does make me very uncomfortable nowadays when people aren’t physical distancing or wearing masks. As I do need to keep my Dad and Grandmother safe, because they’ve just both had surgery.
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19 hours ago, Coasterlife said:
Worlds of wonder is still in town planning phase because I sent him an email last year Nov and said this
'The project is still in town planning phase, and will still take some time yet.'
Regards,
Ammar KhanAmmar Khan is doing Wonderland Sydney. But David Bala was doing World’s Of Wonder. But since he is now General Manager of Western Sydney Theme Parks Ltd. He would of either merged the project. Or most likely scraped the project. The Wonderland Sydney Project is still going. But I would consider World’s Of Wonder dead.
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Hi there everyone! Today is October 3rd 2020. Which means it's the first day of a COVIDSAFE Raging Waters.
It was good only at certain times. The wave pool was not open for most of the morning. They said it was running. But there were people from maintenance scrambling all around the pool trying to fix it. Queue lines were dependant on the slides. You would be able to get on Whirlwind at most 12 minutes. But it would take over 40 minutes to get on Tantrum! And you only have around 700 people there! This seems to be because there's sometimes a gap of over 10 minutes for clearance to go down.
Physical Distancing just didn't exist here. Especially in the queues and the Wave Pool. Masks could not be used in the pools. So I was the only one wearing a mask in the whole park! And that's only until I got in the Cabana for the first time. Announcements and signs were planted around the park too.
The food was good. But there were some shops have been closed like Luigi's Pizza. And some have had to change what they're serving. So the chicken shop now did all of the voucher orders just for today, for an example.
The Nickelodeon Splash Area is now Raging Waters JR. So all theming to Nickelodeon have been removed. And almost everything has been repainted. Tower 4 has been closed for no apparent reason. It's all filled with dust. And I don't think they'll reopen it until at least the first weekend of term. The Skycoaster has been shut because of COVID Restrictions. And Dinosaur Lagoon has been shut for maintenance. You can see when you are going up to Riptide all of the lagoon empty. In that corner of the park, it's like a ghost town!
And worst of all was the Customer Service! My dad, who was trying to get a cabana. Because he's had Open Heart Surgery recently. So he really needs some shelter where he can rest. So we were gonna get a platinum pass. Then they asked us about 3 times with our phone number, credit card, and drivers licence. So he had to pay more then the advertised price! They said it was a IT error. And got us a cabana for 50% off. And told us to come back at the end of the day when it'll be fixed. We had a mostly nice time. And then when we came back. They did the same thing again. And then everyone behind Dad was laughing at him! He felt like he was going to explode! And he started to feel ill. Because of his heart problems, he's not to have this much stress arguing. So we had to dash over to him with me already exhausted from accidentally swallowing water in the wave pool. And he was very tired and angry. So we had to go home and having to calm him down. I'll have to come back. But he's not coming with me! There hasn't been any response from Raging Waters yet.
It's quite clear that these new employees for this season don't have enough training and caused a ruined day for my Dad! And it's also quite clear that Raging Waters is losing money with only getting on average $100,000. And with expenses even more then that. They're had to shut down a quarter of the park, and are still losing money! I really doubt the future of Raging Waters now. The 2019-2020 season seem to be the peak. And it's all going downhill fast.
Really, you would only expect a reopening day like today in the Gold Coast. I think Luna Park Sydney is the leading example of how to open and operate a park during this Pandemic in Australia.
Come for the slides, food, and wave pool. Then get out! And drive as far away as you can without turning back!
I've also put some photo's of today below for you all to see. I do apologize if it looks rushed. I was being rushed when I was already exhausted from the wave pool and was becoming shaky.
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3 hours ago, Brad2912 said:
No, but responding in emoticons is as ridiculous as the notion that there was ever $1b in funding (or even anything near that)
You would need around $300,000,000 dollars at average to build something like Wonderland. But they're just gonna make it over $1,000,000,000. They did that for the South West Rail Link!
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When I asked Billy about a month ago about Moon Ranger and Tumble Bug, he said “we can only hope”. Seems like that hope is lost. I’ve seen that fence on Tumble Bug before. But Moon Ranger is now a goner. With the loading platform, and especially if the motor is gone. The Moon Ranger is going to scrap. And I think Tumble Bug is next. It’s very disappointing for me. As I never got an opportunity to ride either ride. As I was so worried about getting sick and covering the park 9ft deep in vomit. Does anybody know is there’s any rides in Australia or in the world that are the same model as either ride? What could be coming next?
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8 hours ago, A.H said:
We haven't got news on Wonderland since 2016 so where did you get that David Bala's news?
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On 24/09/2020 at 6:31 PM, Zanstabar said:
This is the best advice you’ll get. There’s no real objective statement of what rides are scary and what aren’t because everyone has different fears.
I’m scared of heights, conflict and @AlexB so Giant Drop is a nightmare for me, but for some it’s a cakewalk. I ended up finally riding when I finally felt ready to do so rather than forcing myself, and now it’s one of my favourite experiences on the Gold Coast.
To echo Prequel, take your time and exposure yourself to similar but smaller experiences.
Yeah, you're quite right.
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The NT Government spent $500,000 taxpayers money on a feasibility study on 7 proposals for a water park in 2017. The NT Government deemed them 'unsuitable'. The NT Chief Minister said "The people who put forward those ideas for that water park want Government essentially to underwrite it or cover costs," "I don't think that's a fair or reasonable use of taxpayers' money, especially when we have got a business case that shows it is viable, so we've ended that process.". Clearly the NT Government thought it was unreasonable to build a water park in Darwin, using taxpayers money. That's why.
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What about World's Of Wonder here in Sydney? It was a proposed park by David Bakas. David has since become General Manager of the Wonderland Sydney project in 2019. So I think World's of Wonder has been scraped. There has been no new information since 2019 on Wonderland Sydney. I would still consider it going to happen, rather than proposed. They still say it will open by 2021. It's pretty much impossible to build it by 2021, even if they started right this second.
There was also going to be Darling Walk in 1988. It was going to be "a tomorrow's world of entertainment and technology". It was going to be just a small indoor theme park. It was canceled, and instead. Sega World opened around 1997? But the area down south of the IMAX Cinema did become Darling Walk. It's now some offices and shops called Darling Quarter. Merlin International was unable to build it by the 1988 bicentennial, so it was canceled. It was also know as Discovery Village. A sports faciality was built between 1988 and Sega World. There is only one photo left of Darling Walk.
Here are some concept photo's from both parks:
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I haven’t been to the Gold Coast yet. But does it normally become full during the peak (like what you said above)? Do they need more capacity (like longer or double decker buses or monorails or trams)?