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Doesn't look too bad ? Maybe you'd like something like Colossus for Warner Bros...with a Batman theme maybe. Or a GeForce style ride for Dreamworld:

Wooden coasters have a special feel to them, if a park has 5 coasters, at least 1 of them should be a wooden ride. If they are a thing of the past, why do parks build rides with lifthills if we have launches ? Or sitting coasters if you can lay down ? What about the classic top spin and breakdance rides so many parks have ? And the caroussels ? Aren't those "things of the past" as well ? I think everyone here would love to see a twisted woodie similar to Wildcat, Balder, Thunderhead or Raven at MovieWorld or Dreamworld. No only do they give a great ride, they also look great and appeal to a broad audience.

What about a wooden coaster ? Or maybe one for Warner Bros.

Guess who bought the European parks... ...Warner Bros. !! This is news from heaven. Our beloved MovieWorld will become a true Warner park again. With maintenance !

PKI has a Huss Giant Frisbee...you'll get an Intamin Gyro Swing (the big version, not the Drayton miniride) But I understand what you're trying to say. Now where's Son of Beast ?

It will be an Intamin Gyro Swing, confirmed by Intamin at the Euro Amusement Show in Paris about a month ago. Check www.coastersandmore.de

Intamin had the first "big swing" up and running (at Lotte World), then came Mondial with a similar ride at Canada's Wonderland and finally Huss opened a ride at Kings Island. Intamin then opened a smaller version at Drayton Manor and Huss signed the contract to build a second "giant" at Bobbejaanland, Belgium. Also, Huss developed a medium version of this "swing type ride" for both parks and funfairs, named Frisbee XL. I also translated the Coastersandmore part for all of you: The sale of a Gyro Swing to the Australian Dreamworld has been announced. This is a giant swing, where riders sit in a ring shaped gondola, facing outwards. The floorless seats as well as the large angle of the swings, guarantee a thrilling experience. Similar rides already installed - including a smaller one at the English Drayton Manor - have been very well received by the public. That's about it, my English isn't too great either. My third language actually...first comes Flemish (an improved, more sophisticated version of Dutch, spoken in the northern part of Belgium, called "Flanders"), second comes French (you all know French, spoken in France, but also in the southern part of Belgium, "Walloon") Third is English, fourth is German and I understand "un poco" Spanish as well. So, I gotta devide the knowledge...

The ride should be open in 2005...which will probably be near the end of 2004 during a "down under" theme park season. It's still a long time to go, we'll see. I noticed the German site "Coastersandmore" now has an interesting article about the Euro Amusement Show, but unfortunately it's only in German at the moment: http://www.coastersandmore.de/Rides/eas04/eas1.shtml Bereits jetzt zeichnet sich eine aufstrebende Tendenz für 2005 ab: So wurde der Verkauf eines Gyro Swing an die australische Dreamworld vermeldet. Dabei handelt es sich um eine Riesenschaukel, bei der die Sitzplätze ringförmig mit Blick nach Außen angeordnet sind. Die Sitze mit Beinfreiheit tragen ebenso zum Thrillfaktor bei wie der beachtliche Ausflugswinkel. Die beiden bislang gelieferten Anlagen - eine kleinere Version befindet sich seit 2002 im englischen Park Drayton Manor - wurden sehr gut vom Publikum angenommen.

Again, it's not a Huss, nor it's a KMG, Zamperla or Bussink. It's a large "Intamin Gyro Swing", like the one at Lotte World. Confirmed by Intamin at the Euro Amusement Show, at Paris last week. Flea/Liam -> Maelstrom is the smaller version, quite intense and alot of fun as well, but there's a bigger version of it available similar in height/speed to Huss' Giant Frisbee. http://www.webautor.ch/intamin/webautor-da..._15a_101209.jpg http://www.tokorea.com.cn/san/image/free/i.../2002050904.jpg Above links have a picture of the Gyro Swing at Lotte World. It's difficult to find good pictures of Asian parks tough.

Dreamworld will open an Intamin Gyro Swing...the large version...in 2005. Just like the one at Lotte World.

Well, I can't leave it online forever...it's gone now. :oops: :bert:

Great video ! Well worth the download !

Most of the coasters are rather bad :| But the darkrides and waterrides look very good. Especially Wild West Falls. And the whole ride package at Dreamworld is excellent. That's my opinion

The park manager said there are "plans to modify the Gremlins ride into an interactive darkride with a Terminator 3 theme".

Imagine a Halloween Fright Fest with about 15 000 people...in the Old West area !! That's insane!

Actually, it's average on that picture. The right carpark is for the people who arrive early. They can park near the park entrance and don't have to walk to far. The left carpark is partly for the staff and for season pass holders. The leftover spaces are for others. However, if both are full, the park is 'normally crowded' like it should be. A good atmosphere, many many people, but not 'too busy'. You see the grass fields in the bottom of the picture ? This is when all hell breaks loose. Those are carparks too...for the really busy periods, such as mid-summer or Halloween. If these get filled too, expect about 22 000 people in the park ! The record number was more than 24 000 during Halloween last year. :shock:

Maybe you are interested in the European parks too ? BOTTROP, GERMANY: 1996: Another one , but huge, 1999: http://users.pandora.be/coasterland/wbmwAIR.jpg MADRID, SPAIN: 2002:

Back on-topic then It would be cool to have Thorpe Park become Six Flags London and Heide-Park become Six Flags Germany... but I'm very sure Six Flags won't buy Tussauds. As a matter of fact, Tussauds has said they are not selling anything right now. Keep an eye on Hansa-Park But I don't think Six Flags would buy Warner Bros. in Australia. However, they might build a new park in Florida or California. Warner Bros. on the other hand should look around in Japan, people are crazy about American themeparks and they adore movies. Universal Studios and Disney are both a huge success ! But Six Flags in Australia, not tomorrow...it's like expecting a "Six Flags South Africa" or "Six Flags over China".

Loads of off-topic and nonsense in your post, Richard... Anyway, Six Flags did many things for Warner Bros. Madrid. They used their contacts to change a Premier Rides coaster to two B&M coasters. And a woodie clone was changed to a huge custom design. They also made our Giant Inverted Boomerang (SF Belgium) go to the park. We got a normal one instead. Jazzland was good value yes, but it IS a new park. And believe me, there are more coming soon. They are finishing some new deals. About competition, they might compete with Dreamworld. Six Flags Magic Mountain is competing with Cedar Point, a park that is hundreds of miles away. If they can keep the contacts with the waterpark and SeaWorld (or buy it, like they did with SeaWorld Ohio), they can make the Gold Coast a good themepark vacation destination ! About the managers...you say they're faceless. Well, in Europe, you can meet one of the big bosses every week. The park managers usually walk around in the park in the morning, vice-presidents of the European 'chain' are often seen in the parks too and the park manager of Warner Bros. Germany is the former Six Flags Marine World manager. Also, the big boss of the European parks was the manager of Six Flags Great Adventure. They're definately not 'faceless', they're friendly people who you can meet and talk to about their parks, about the good and the bad. B&M...Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabilard are engineers, nothing more actually. They design and calculate rides, mostly with the help of extra engineers such as the people at the Stengel bureau in Germany. They make very detailed blueprints which can be made by several companies, depending on the customer's location. For the United States, most parts are made in Ohio. For Europe, the big parts come from Spain I've heard. GTec makes some things, also for Intamin, the launch system of the Rocket Coaster for example. Small things, such as wheels are made by companies who don't even know about the destination of the product they're making. Polyurethane wheels for Intamin and B&M are made in Belgium for example, about a half hour drive of my house. 8) Anyway, as mentioned before, good luck with a Six Flags management in the future. It could be great, but also less great. They are known to build great thrillrides, themed to the max, but coasters can be bold and dirty. Grand openings are a huge funfilled party, they're festivals rule bigtime, but maintenance can be awfull. Much depends on the people who work at the park, but remember they only get to use a limited budget.

I have some good contacts at Six Flags and they are looking to buy new parks all the time. Even in bad times, they don't care. Last year they opened a new park in Spain and took over Jazzland (now Six Flags New Orleans) in the USA. However, if Six Flags takes over WB in Australia, don't count on anything spectacular. A B&M is made in Europe and it's expensive to transport one to Australia. For example, in Europe, we only have a handful of Arrow coasters...because they are expensive to transport from the USA to Europe. Anyway, if some day the park would be managed by Six Flags, I hope they respect the parks atmosphere...we have some bad maintenance here and some of the new 'bold' coasters don't fit in. They did a fairly good job in Spain, but look at the differences between Rio Bravo and Wild West Falls...many many original details missing. I hope it stays a real Warner Bros., good luck if it becomes Six Flags.

No, it has been open since 1996 and still is till the end of 2003. However, the ride is closed in august-september to modify some scenes in preparation of Halloween...

It's a darkride with boats

As many of you know, the German and Spanish WB-park belong to Six Flags Europe. They recently built a Sally Interactive Darkride at Six Flags Belgium (a darkride where people have to shoot at moving targets, to get further...the car reacts and spins or shakes...there is smoke, fire, 3D effects, ghosts, etc. etc.) During a visit of the company's president at the park, he answered the question 'Where will the next ride go to ?' He answered: 'Paramount in the USA' and 'Warner Brothers in Germany' Yihaaa, yipee A new darkride, finally. This will be the first new darkride since the park's opening in 1996. It will be the 5th darkride in the park (assuming Gremlins stays, which could be going so they can use the building for the new ride) The theme would be related to movies ofcourse, but he could not yet give details. Some pictures of Challenge of Tutankhamon at Six Flags Belgium: The cars/guns (called Ankhinators in this Egyptian themed ride) Scary villains: Great realistic animatronics: Ride review / pictures: http://gettheloop.com/ena/enatut.html

In fact, I have a similar picture ! It's a bit noisy and blurred, because it was véry dark. A group of people on the so-called FUN DAY got nighttime ERT (exclusive ride time) It's Eraser at Warner Bros. MW Germany... It looks as if I'm véry scared, but it was my 8th or 9th ride in a row, it gets painful if you don't hold on... (I put a little arrow where I sit )

Great picture !