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Sea Jellies, you can see ‘em in the photo with the red scribble (reflective on one side, black on other). Oh, also Dockside’s reopen.

There’s some bins on the other side of the station, you just chuck ‘em in there and pick them up once you get off. They’re at the bottom of this photo, near the news guy’s legs. Oh nice, I must’ve missed it in the panic. I’ll queue again and see if I can grab a photo

[[SPOILERS AHEAD]] Just got off my first walkthrough/ride of multiple today, so I’m far from an expert on the topic, but I’ll try my best to cover the bases. Theming The whole theming of the area is great, for current-day Village. There’s still some pretty open areas, and as the concept art shows, it could use some more trees to make it feel less empty. Garden of Cyphers is a nice place to sit down, but I’d imagine it gets loud, due to… Leviathan The queue for Leviathan is split up into 3 distinct sections: Queue (the blue shade structure inside of the helix), a sort of Holding Zone, and the walk to/station. There is no single-rider queue, and a mention for a disabled entry, but it isn’t the main queue or the exit. Starting with the Queue, it’s pretty and is mostly enclosed in the helix. I’m sure this will be fine once it’s been open for a while, but it’s certainly caused a lot of overspill now. As for its theming, it’s surrounded by faux rock & plants on all sides, with the ride itself being just above said walls. It’s certainly good looking, but I can’t help but think it’s a bit too short (and, just quietly, the ride isn’t quiet, and people were already getting irritated at the near-constant ride noise from being surrounded by the coaster). The Holding Zone is pretty self-explanatory, after being advanced from the queue, you’re put into a little hallway and wait to be allowed into the station. If you’ve been to Fright Nights, it’s basically just the wait between the queue and entering the maze. If you haven’t, it’s a mixture of Scooby Doo’s post-warehouse queue, and the second boarding row in Steel Taipan’s station. Not much to say about it’s theming (it’s just a hallway), but I noticed there are names on the bolts on Levi’s supports, which is cool. Last queue section, the walk to/station. Seeing as this is completely indoors, it’s definitely got the best theming of the 3. You enter through the sliding door, and are surrounded by faux rock and cool blue lighting, as you advance up the staircase to the station. The station is where it shines, smoke-filled with faux rock blended into the advertised screens, where Leviathan swims around and tells you off from time to time. This is, by a decent amount, the best theming I’ve seen in Australia. (Sorry for blur in the photos, it was completely indoors and I had to keep moving) Now, the ride itself. As you dispatch, more smoke billows out in front of you. Small dip, lift hill, Leviathan says ‘Ride With Me’, then you’re in the layout. Being a wooden coaster, the layout is (as expected) far less forceful than the likes of Superman, DCR, or ST. Thus, it’s more fun and rerideable than insane and physically tolling. Also, being a wooden coaster, it’s not the smoothest thing ever, but it’s luckily far from uncomfortable. I didn’t notice any big potholes, nor did I feel scrambled after riding like you would on Cyclone. It’s a great, rerideable, fun, family-thrill ride, from the drop to the brakes. I’m not skinny by any means, but I’m not the heaviest person either, and it was a bit of a squeeze to fit, so if you’re overweight you might have some trouble getting your restraint locked (and there’s no test seat, so you’ll have to queue before you know). In case you’re interested, here’s its vertical and lateral force graph. Once done, Leviathan tells you you’re worthy and you exit through a similarly-themed staircase to the one you entered through. Then you’re spit out into a maze of tight painted work walls, walk through the ride photo booth, past the main queue area, and are spat out the way you came. Vortex Vortex hasn’t changed since it originally opened, so if you went on it then, you know the experience. If not, it’s just a decent flat, a worse Wipeout with rather generic ‘ocean’ theming (though it fits in more now that the whole area is open, ofc). Also, they may have dulled its squeaking? Idk, but I haven’t heard any. Trident As discussed elsewhere, Trident wasn’t open due to high winds, but the ride experience is pretty predictable if you’ve been on a swingchair before. The theming is a step above Vortex, with a colosseum-style ride platform, some nice murals/detailing work, and Big Man. All in all, the details are good (but the trident at the top should’ve been larger).

Garden of Cyphers the Seaworld VQ says Leviathan is a 5 minute wait. Is that accurate or is it looking like hours to ride it? Hours, and there’s no single rider queue If it says 5mins it’s either just a glitch or no one’s realised that virtual queue would be on today and will be a free fast pass essentially. Also, the like currently stretches out into the plaza, so good luck everyone there. As in it doesn't exist or they're not operating it? Yeah it’s about a 3hr wait

Queue moving

They’ve just begun announcing that at the park, it supposedly won’t open at all today (even if winds die down)

It’s listed as open today @ the park, and the severe wind warning hasn’t extended to SW as of yet, so it’s at least still planned to open.

Should be there will bells on

1 day to go.

I was thinking about that last time I went too, cause it's not like they'd just shut Superman down, but it's main hinderance has always been the launch. If a retrofit to LSMs is on the market, that'd be a great opportunity to fix it's main issue, and simultaneously breathe new life into the theming (and modernize the station/s) as well. There's a lot of relatively cheap things that could be done in a period of renovation to make Superman all that much better.

Maybe passholders the week of, so Monday 28th onwards? Seeing as they only just ramped up cycling/testing the trains, seems unlikely to be any earlier than that IMO.

Officially announced now. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cks9TrCD2jS/?hl=en Website (again): https://seaworld.com.au/attractions/rides-and-precincts/the-new-atlantis

Either quickly removed, or it's not showing up on that link for me. Either way, I guess that's what they're announcing in a couple hours.

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

If it gets repainted, gets a new name, has a queue reroute, gets new trains, uses a new LSM launch, and even potentially gets Kingda Ka brakerun, I'd say that's more than enough to be recognizably different.

The sky is also blue

That's on the 'Maintenance' page, I know they're all displayed as Under Maintenance on there. I'm talking about the main 'Attractions' page, that one only displays GL.

Yet, just going on to the main page to see what's open (like, I'd imagine, any usual guest would), the only one displayed as under maintenance is GL. You've got to go into each one's individual page to see the little 'Planned Maintenance' footer.

mfw i move rapidly to the left 😱

It's okay everyone, all hope's not gone yet, you can still meet Tweety!

Now we just wait til Superman or Scooby go down for maintenance.

Yeah, for me it's got to be ToT, by far. When I was younger, I'd gone on every ride at DW bar Buzzsaw, GD, and ToT, mostly because they were too intimidating for me at the time. And, when I really got interested in the industry, enough to really want to ride it, RR happened so I cancelled my pass and didn't go for a few years, and it closed before I got the chance.

I seem to very much be the odd one out here, but Superman's very near-and-dear to me, so I'm fine with it being short both because of the dark ride section/theming, and because it delivers so strongly with the time it has. Because of that, I've got Superman about on-par (if not above) DCR, with normal ST below and Tailwhip ST above them both (due to the aforementioned cycle I got).

I think Tailspin is pretty much perfect for my wants in what a flat provides. It can be a calming, nice ride if you choose not to flip, and has good forces (namely, hangtime and whip) if you do choose to flip. The Claw's much too restrictive for me, and Pandemonium's way too fast, as well as having way too many positive forces and degrees of motion to be anything more than headache-inducing. So far as the other flats go, I think Pandemonium is below Vortex, and Doomsday is below The Claw, but Tailspin's #1. If I were to pick 1 more flat for DW, though, I'd say some kind of observation ride before anything thrilling.