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Well there aint much point if they are all not operating is there! Just out of interest could you name them and their location so I could take a look?

To answer your question Bus Man SOB is actualy the World's only looping wooden coaster. It has one inversion which is the one you see in the pic. The loop structure itself is suported by steal but the track itself is still wood. Its a pretty awsome looking coaster I must say!

What is that coaster? I know I've seen those pics before...

Hey Chippy we can see you've done that just by looking at the post. No need to waste time posting that youv'e been here...especially twice!

I wouldn't be too worried if I was them if it meant it stopped you from being able to get a job there :-) But in all seriousness they would have that sort of thing sorted, perhaps if you really wanted a job there you could take the initiative and phone them...and practice your grammar for that application.

Last time I checked The Bolt aint exactly open for business dude!

From today's telegraph: "The head of Wonderland Sydney's Wildlife Park has quit over the lion cub debacle." Just shows how wonderful the park is doing, not only does it attempt to illegally house and profit from exotic animals its now managed to piss off its gamekeeper over the whole thing. Perhaps they could try a bit less focus on 'award winning advertising' and bit more on running a decent theme park, keeping guests happy, not breaking the law, keeping staff even remotely happy. Hey they don't have to go for all of them, just try one! :-)

Hey Guys Just wanted to let you know I'll be heading up to the Gold Coast next month. Will be in town for a few nights from 16/02 till the 20/2 staying at Sun City. Plan to hit DW, MW and W&W. Hopefully can maybe catch up with some of you and put face to the names :-) Rabid do you know at all if its planned for WWF to be down during this period? Sorry Joz, fraid I don't think I'll be getting over to SW. Time constraints and unfortunately there is the least new stuff here for me to see...next time!

Couldn't have summed up my thoughts better myself! Extremely well put, don't think anyone could disagree with you there.

Hey Jack I have been talking to Daniel and I honestly don't care if I don't know. I know we will find out eventualy and that's fine. Point is WL has done thier thing again and thats all that matters, don't care why. What gets me going is how a heap of people come on a have big winge for you to tell them, can't they just get over it and find something more constructive to do??

Okay for those of you who know, have 2 gold stars :-p As for the rest of you, does it honestly mean that much to you to desperately know why they are gone? They are gone, simple as that, so who gives a sh1t?? Don't we all have better things to do with out lives than sit and worry about some stupid bloody lions? I know I do... If you've been on these (or any really) forums for a while you will know there are those that delight in coming on and telling everyone they know the latest secret, however "due to their sources" can't devalue the info. Do we honestly by that crap? If it is fine for them to know, trust me its fine for everyone to know, but I think you'll find most of the time they don't have a clue either. So I suggest you just ignore these folk, let them come and have their song and dance alone, and maybe they'll go away :-D Because I for one am sick of listening to it, and all those that then waste time begging them to tell their secret.

Knowing SL they probably worked out it would be more profitable not to feed them and then collect insurance when they all fall over and die... A little extreme but wouldn't surprise me.

Thanks for another cool report Richard. In regards to Goliath (and titan) did you do the tunnel with your hand up? I just couldn't bring myself on Goliath, no matter how many rides I had to leave my arms up. Just messing with my brain too much that hill! On the roughness issue Flea. I seriously thing they are a bunch of girls. They winge about every bloody ride and its just crap. And hey Scream (a brand new BM) was not at all what I'd consider 'corkscrew smooth.' Same could go for Batman and Riddler IMO As far as I'm concerned I've found Intamin to have the smoothest coasters...

No we're saying you should type properly, not that you're saying we have to type slang. I for one find it extremely difficult to read your posts (or anyone’s for that matter if they are like this) with all that **** in them because they don't use proper words and have any punctuation. Its one thing in a 2 line sentence in a chat window. Its another when your writing an extensive post on a forum. All I said was I don't have time now to comment on the sheer crap that you wrote, I will later...and don't you worry I'll be sure to let you know what I think of it then :-p Over to you Danny boy!

Hey Rewinder Here's a tip. Go back, rewind and try again until you can make a post that legible for us to read. I'm short on time here so I won't even attempt to reply to all that crap you just posted. Your so out of wack its not funny on all that stuff.

LOL good one joz! And hey, now its 7 posts in... However I would greatly appreciate the initial post answered if anyone does have any info.

See what happens when you're in a hurry! Twice in as many minutes my friend! Good thing we have you here cleaning up the filth that some of us try to pass off as the english language! "YOUR fingers are TOO fat. To obtain a special dialling wand...mash the keypad now"

Recently I've become somewhat intrigued with the Scenic Railway in Melbourne. I was just wondering if any of you have any links or whatever to some more detailed info. on it? I'm most interested in things like how the lift works on this ride and exactly what is the GO with the brakeman. IE what does he actually do and how all that works. ...I really love the technology on all these old rides :-)

Sorry to hear the place being pretty much closed. Yeah CB isn't a bad arrow, but nothing more than that. The whole rest of the place I found pretty dodgy like you said and the casino itself just has an off smell about it :-) Hope the Grand Canyon is good, we didn't get teh chance to make it out there but wanted to. Being that way inclined myself I was pretty impressed with Fremont St, but I can see your point. If so do happen to get the chance, which doesnt look likely you should really try to get down and see the Belagio fountains at night. That was the most impresive thing I saw all trip!

Hey Richard Glad to hear the trip is going well. Strat should be good, don't know if you want to waste your time with that coaster, however I did just for the credit :-) Don't forget to catch Speed while your there, thats one pretty full on little coaster. 12 times made me sick! As for the rest of the place, the Arrow in CC isn't too bad but nothing special, the rest of the place is pretty yuck. However make sure you grab a ride on the coaster at NYNY it is actualy pretty good. If you can grab a ride at night its great. Where abouts are you staying?

What I don't understand is why they ever closed it! If they wanted to be half arsed about it (which we know they always do) they could have easily closed off the rest of the land bar maybe a game and a food outlet and left beastie open. The Skyrider station is right there too. To say people wouldn't want to trek up there for it is wrong too. You only have to look at Rocky Hollow or WWF to see that. They are both off on their own and people still go and ride them. Same goes for samurai (sp?) summit at SFMM. Oh and the other thing I left out of my previous post... The fact that WL have sold off their land to industrial use is completely inexcusable. MAYBE the very back car parks would have been okay with a separate entrance for them but the building going on up front is a joke. How can you call yourself a family fun park when you have a giant friken SHED as your centeepiece to welcome guests. Its clear their total priority is profit at the cost of everything else. I'd sooner jump on a virgin and fly to a GC park for a day than save the money and go to WL.

To say those rides were "low excitement" so removing them was OK is a load of crap. The park isn't just for the thrill seekers who want to go fast and get thrown upside down 16 times in 2 minutes. The whole idea to having a great park is that balance to cater to everyone. By closing HBB land WL really drove home that they really don't give a sh1t about families anymore! Thinks like the boats, Scooby’s, the silly balls, Judy's and all that were what a lot of the smaller age bracket went for. IMO Beastie was the worse of all of these to go, you would pretty much have any member of the family on that, even your 'merry go round mums.' The only justifiable removals I can see are Ned Kelly's and Flintstone’s. It only made sense to get rid of NK with the opening of the Beach and it was a stupid ride with rules anyway. They should have however ported a toboggan type ride over to the Beach. As to Flintstone’s that should never been built in the first place. It was a cheap, run down, crappy 2nd hand ride that had no place in a 'proper' park. These days it is completely obvious that WL don't want young kids at the park. To say it was too big was crap because a good majority of people who came for HBB land weren't interested in the attractions down in Gold Rush. And after all, why did they buy Skyrider as a transport system, to save people from walking all the way from one end of the park to the other... so their whole argument as we know if total rubbish. Any of the other removals were not crap, and simply replacing them with existing rides is just not good enough. WL has by no means even come close to running out of space so removing rides to build new attractions isn't justified. From day one the park was always very spaced out with not much substance in between the sparsely dotted out rides. There is a hell of a lot of room to fill in before you need to start pulling things out. They always went on about being bigger than Disneyland, doesn't really say much if there is nothing in that space. Its about as thrilling as a giant car park.

What I really love most about the park is its POTENTIAL...Wonderland really does have the potential to be a world class park. At this stage too will put my vote in for the landscaping and layout of the park. In its hey day it was wonderful with the whole Botany Bay area entrance and then with the addition of Transelvania it just got better. Do we all remember how it was when they first opened with all the stuff up in HBBL like the boats, the slides and the silly ball place! And how can we forget beastie. Goldrush never really did it for me that much but the upper part of the park I realy like. I also like the new fresh look Wonderland got when they started the 'Get out of Everydayland' promotion. The new funky colours and stuff were great. Up until they started work on the business park I also loved the enrance and drive to WL. It was nice and landscaped and all those coloured 'flags' up the long road were a nice touch... See I don't totaly hate the park :-) It just sadens me to think what it once was and what it could be!

Okay well your trip is a lot like mine was too earlier this year just not quite as long in LA... As for USH yes you should visit. It does have rides and new stuff opening too. Jurassic park is awesome for the final drop, I'd say better than WWF. Backdraft is great and the Terminator 4D attraction is the best you'll ever see. Also be sure to catch the Waterworld show, and get down early, the pre-show entertainment is as good as the show! I spent two days at SFMM and that was always the plan...first day X was closed (I didn't know about the Wed thing) and second DJV was closed so at least I managed to get on both. 1 day is probably enough but 2 is better :-) We spent 3 hours lining for X where as the rest of the park was walk ons. Knotts has got to be the most underestimated park ever! And for me it was the cheapest too as a lovely lady have me a voucher just as I was going in for only $25 entry. You coudl easily spend two days here too (see if you can beat my 50 rides on Xcel for one day) but 1 is adequate. Be sure to visit DL AND DCA, no matter what anyone says DCA IS A GOOD PARK with some great attractions, and don't miss Jungle Cruise at DL. We stayed at NYNY in vegas and let me assure you the coaser (Manhattan Express) is worth riding. Its not a slow coaster and in the front at night is great on the first drop...The dive loop is to die for and the restraints are a very cool and comfortable design. Yes get up to the Sahara to ride Speed, another great ride but after 12 back to backs you can start to feel a little ill :-p Also if you can stand the smell of the casino the Arrow in Circus is worth one ride just because its there :-p As for the rest of Vegas be sure to check out all the free entertainment, You can easily spend hours outside Belagio watching those fountains, easily the most impressive thing I've ever seen. Finaly I can't stress this enough...shell out the money and go and get tickets to BLUE MAN GROUP at the Luxor, the most amazing show you'll ver see and I GUARANTEEE you'll love it. Well thats all from me...can anyone tell I can't wait to get back over there??

I think thats a pretty imature and childish remark to make Richard really... Its pretty obvious to all of us that most of those incidents have been caused by reduction in maintenance so your really just reinforcing that point. Other than that the DL accidents have been human error in nature...