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Okay either I am living in a hole, am really stupid or I just missed it... Seen though you've said as much as you did, would you mind to actualy explain what specifically did hapen with Reptar?? Good update though!

I wouldn't be too worried Rich...if you want a great site with heaps of content and very active boards go to R-C.com If you want some great commic releif, well go over and check out Schwarz's site :-D

WOW I don't know how because it's not like I was reading out loud but I seriously had to take a few deep breaths after reading that report... DUDE full stops are your friend man...reminded me of 'this one time, at band camp' LMAO Oh also good to see your spelling (or lack of) aint limited to this site...you've taken it on board at your own as well. ...I love school holie days and it's always great when a banner gose here :-)

Thanks for that Schwarz... Good to know we've got you here keeping up the representation for the low end of the gene pool!

Biggest problem with that is it's not actualy Catilever seating as you aren't supporting it from the other side. This puts all the stress on the connection of the car to the tower and as we know from X the result of this can be less than desirable... Actualy on that topic just how are the cars connected to the track...I mean they run on those rails but how is what would usualy be 'under wheels' achieved?

Well I'm sure many will have read what's been posted at AAF and if not soon will. It would appear all has been revealed with what we're getting for MW. However let me point out one fatal flaw with the RUMOUR...that particular ride is designed and built by Disney in house. Any use of it would require either Disney being the manufacturer or WBMW simply 'pirating' the design... A)Disney won't come and build a ride in a Warner park and if they did there is no way we could afford it... B)Should they decide to STEAL the ride they will get hit with such a lawsuit they might as well close the doors tomorrow... So either the park is a thief or we can all keep on guesing :-)

No wasn't saying anything personal against you Rabid... I know you wouldn't be able to say anything whether it be true or not I'm just saying I'm not going to buy into anything until it's official...

Without knowing what the other control functions are I would say Park would lock the car down in the 'stopped in station' position either for; a)loading/unloading - car would return to station and then be 'parked' so that restraints could be released and it be safe for persons to dissembark and board the vehicle. There would also be interlocks tied to the braking and launch systems preventing both the breaks from releasing and the launch from being powered up until the car was 'unparked' or b)end of day lock down where the car would be parked and secured so that the ride could be shutdown at the end of the day or for maintanance operations... Am I pretty close?

No the Supermarket is no acceptable and the Bank CERTAINLY isn't. No I don't think the balance is right, especially on Cyclone and why should someone pay the same admission in non peak times as they do in february is this is what you are saying? Are you saying their money is worth less than people coming in peak periods? If you are going to say that wait times are made up for by great customer service, you have to make sure that there is great customer service...I'm afraid there isn't. I'm not condeming all staff but there are a lot... Clearly this is not something that can't be achieved...look at Movie World. I still find those stuff some of the most friendly and fun you'll ever find and they achieve good capacity. And I'm not just comparing to Aussie parks here either.

No Richard is right... Its not ALL about 'pushing cattle through' but it is much about getting people on rides...not the same thing. And we all know that people are not going to wait forever in line and get pissed off but get to the end and go "oh but hey the guy at the front was very nice." They are going to remember the wait, there has to be a balance. IMO DW's customer service does not make up for poor capacity. IMO also this is mainly only a problem on Cyclone... Richard is just saying, he doesn't know all the facts so he can't say how to improve the situation. That doesn't mean it doesn't need to be improved!

I wasn't sugesting you were trying to cover anything up, you just seemed to me to be very quickly making sure no one would think the park would operate a broken/unsafe attraction. ...which is fair enough

Well I'm not buying into any of this crap until it IS announced as I've heard rumours from far too many people on here that were absolute rubbish... I will say though that what they should be looking at is either a flyer (themed as I have said before) of a big kick arse Woodie...country really needs a good one of these, never have had one before :-)

Simple he made it up just like half the crap people come out with! And the restraints is not really the reason S:TE is closed, it has been down for many many months, just glad I got on it when I did last year!

Two things... First I think having the que along the track would be pretty darn cool. Getting it withstand the 'forces' would be no problem as they aren't all that huge lateraly and you can get tough enough material to make it from. Sure would be a pretty unique que style and I know I'd get a kick out of standing there watching! Second, enough of this bloody 'emergency evacuation' crap! Haven't we (and everyone else on earth) all had enough of this theming to make us sick? Every second ride out there tells us that we need to evacuate. It's all a bit old and sad I think. Especially given the fact that you actualy end up just where you started from...

Well I think that is what Big Mal was pretty much saying...broken (ie something wrong with it) but not broken causing it not to be operated (ie unsafe)... No need to fly off protecting your park

That's great to see some DW ops on the boards. More than just on the boards I'd say its great to see a couple who seem very enthusiastic about their job, that comment on customer service really hit home with me. I don't want to bad mouth your co-workers but that sort of attitude is not something I've seen from some of the employees in the past. I think that is what is needed, staff who care how thier park looks and what guests thing. Only thing I would say is yes its not just about hearding cattle but it is about getting riders through your attractions. IMO TOT does this just fine, as does GD...which only gets bad if its just one car but I still think the throughput is great. Cyclone certainly is the exception, there is NEVER a case when a single op operation is acceptable, you always need at least 2 and in busy times jack it up to 3. As for shift a funnier load of crap I've never read :-p No you do not make it free entry, that reduces it to a crappy pay per go park, I'm afraid that's just the luck of the draw with parks. If you don't ride the idea is the park should still have enough for you to do...perhaps that's what DW needs to improve. And yes great idea to add rides which the park pretty much already has!

Okay I won't go on a huge thing about what I'd do for the park now as I'm pretty tired... Just wanted to say a couple things. What I think the park needs more than anything is some prettying up, get the fountains beautiful, the gardens and all that top notch. Really get Main Street back perfect, bit of a Disney thing... You guys seem to want to rip out any of the old stuff and get new thrill rides in... It was a damn shame they ruined Model T with TOT and I'd hate to see more ruined. Keep Imax how it is, maybe just a new film. Keep Model T. Get Rivertown booming again I say, something for the parents and I certainly have font memories as a kid. Get Cap Sturt back to its former glory with the show and all. Do something with the old theatre...just the same damn show would be great enough. Perhaps another attraction, I'm not sure what but in this style (not thrill) in the area would go a long way to 'round' off the park IMO. I really don't know why attraction to put in but am open to sugestion. I really don't like the enclosing of TOT idea... for me half the ride is wipping along past the park and with a tunnel you'd loose that. And I'd say no way to a clear tunnel because we all know DW would never keep it clean.

Yeah but funny that I don't really here of guets running amuck on live sets over at Universal... Perhaps they could get some less than cheap trams and just monitor them adequately and they'd solve the problem. No offence intended (my problem is with mgmt. not staff at WL) but those trains are pretty cheap and nasty and go so slow that its pretty easy to jump off. I wouldn't be stupid enough to jump off but then again I'm not many of the turds thats used to hang out at WL. I have not really seen many such undesirables at MW.

Well I totaly agree. I still remember my first visit to MW just after it opened. We went on the studio tour. Stopped off at some sets then onto the SPX stages. Was great at the time and with updating could be just fine. I think thats a load of crap about security issues. It can't be that hard to either keep people in the tram or just stop it if they manage to jump out. But I honestly don't thing too many people are going to go jumping from a moving vehicle.

HAHA nice one Richo!

The thing I never understood about Bounty is just why the hell the OTSRs were so heavy, its not like they need weight to be effective, without the weight of those things it would have been a much more comfortable ride! Old design I guess :-(

It is indeed Intamin and I think it's more or less the same (minus the dressing) to their looping space ship models so maybe you can get your nitty gritty measurments from that??

**** Alex! Actualy no even worse, despite the swearing rules... **** ME! If half of the stuff you're saying is true that is serious stuff!!! Anyone else care to share some info on this train ripping through the station with the Catch Car attached incident?

Well personaly I wouldn't put a ride in that park, WnW is for slides, its a water park. If I did have to do a ride (and I dont know why anyone would *have* to) then I would go for one of those Flying Super Saturator things... Personally I would like to see a water coaster of the slide type. Like the thing Cedar Point is puting in. That would be an excelent major attraction for Wnw.

Nope adventure land was/is on Camden Valley Way. I went there once many many years ago and remember it exactly as you describe. We went out there once in the school hols and it was certainly up an running, just basically a bunch of carny rides dumped around the joint. I was much more interested in the things you decribe when I was there too. The boat ride, slide, waterslides, train and who knows what else used to be there. I know that it was called Walley World when these things were running but don't know anything more about it :-( Does anyone? To throw another one into this mix there was also another park just near Magic Kingdom called Dizzyland... all I ever saw of it was an old defunct sign outside what used to be the entrance many years after it closed and that was back when i was 12 or so. Maybe I need to go for a drive out that way... the only time I ever went to Magic Kindom was after going out to WL one day with dad in the first week of the xmas hols. Some of you may recall WL never used to be open the first week but that had not been publicised, many people rocked up to admin unhappy that day, us included. We were offed free return passes, dad took me to MK to cheer me up :-p