Slick

edit: just realised it has hot wheels on it. It's like they took a decade old design and made one change and figured "she'll be right."

This is a point worth raising, what's the update with height restrictions for The Spit these days?

That seems to be my view on it. Good games cost money upfront.

For nearly two decades running.

I doubt Village will buy anything from S&S again. @joz - this is freaking great. This is why I like coming to these forums. It's such a grounded, practical, realistic yet totally awesome idea. I would love to see some more screencaps of the area as a whole and how it fits in etc.

This guy gets it. This and the River Rapids have some of the longest waits in the park during Summer. If anything i'd like for the park to give the ride just a little more love. It's not hard to add a little bit of ominous Banjo music as you stroll on by, and having been on Rainbow's End's log flume just recently, i'm convinced that if a smaller, regional park can do something quite genuinely surprising and entertaining for at the very least the kids riding then Dreamworld definitely can.

From my memory, when the ride was scrapped, then CEO Tony Braxton Smith told the media that they were going to put the train on a piece of track in the park to pay homage. He also said they'd replace it with an even bigger thrill ride on the same spot. With that in mind, a piece of track, slightly curved but long enough to put nearly a full train on was left behind for many years in what would eventually become a ride boneyard of sorts. While this idea was coming into fruition, there was a single carriage left near the old staff smoko area for the team to jump in and get photos. This was all back during 2003-07. Girls replaced my focus for quite a few years after I left high school and I stopped going to theme parks for a while, and by the time I managed to hitch one for a little while and started heading back to the parks there wasn't a trace left. I have no doubt at this point some of the boys in engineering have most of the pieces and bits in their own stash sans the piece of track. From my own passing observations I haven't seen anything in the last few years now.

Another article popped up today from MyGC, i'm not going to post it as they've copied some of imagery without attribution and the last thing I want is for that sort of thing to be supported by giving them more ad money. In saying that, I wrote up a rant about it all, which you can read here: http://ourworlds.co/theme-park-safety/ TLDR?

Here's a whole album I saw posted this morning courtesy of a friend - not sure if the forum software can handle Facebook Embeds yet.

From my knowledge it makes that sort of noise when they're wearing in new parts.

I've actually had a few OurWorlds photos copied onto that Facebook page with the watermark purposefully cropped out. Both times it was mentioned and sure enough photos were instantly removed and all traces deleted but no apology or anything for the poor effort in ripping someone else's work off. Sounds like another website I know.

For the love of god don't jump any fences.

In news that'll surprise no one, there's still a gigantic hole where the cemetery used to be. I'm more sarcastic over here, but in a nutshell, nothing's changed much.

Went on Friday to checkout Tiger Cub Kindy & Tiger Island. For a temp attraction, Tiger Cub Kindy's pretty awesome. Being up close to the cubs and just being able to watch them chillout and play is a nice change of pace. Tiger Island is gooooooone. So yeah, there's that. If you want to see a few more, you know what to do.

I heard in the grapevine it's going to be renamed "Six Flags over Time Warner licenses for the financial year ending 2017."

Hah! I had a good chuckle at this. Actually unlike Cyclone it really rips into the station quite fast. It's almost a little un-nerving the first time you experience it. Personally, for rigging gear, enclosed stations are the best, less pressure when you're setting up if any guests end up watching. Why thank you! I don't want to go into too much technical detail out of fear of copy-cats, I personally go to great lengths to ensure there's a series of redundancies in place (as per manufacturer spec) to avoid something becoming a projectile. Agreed, in saying that, from what i've heard it's quite easy to change the track should they want to. I'm thinking they could jazz it up every month, or go that extra length and swap the music out for Christmas, Halloween etc. etc.

Correct. Most parks (here and abroad) will always want to minimise impact to paying guests, so filming is generally done when the park is closed. In saying that, the rigs I use to get the shots safely (and by safely i mean not just duct tape, no doubt some readers will know who i'm implying there) are designed so that for the most part I can setup most shots in the time it takes to load on a new cycle of guests. Cheers, despite it being shaky, I put opted to put it out there as ironically it's still the best offering out there. This answer I like.

Just to update, here's some on-ride footage I shot recently. I'm still writing up my thoughts about the ride, I think overall it's a nice update. I quite like the Brock's Garage part. Good stuff there. The new train is nice, but Freestylers? Really? That's the song you want to pick for hundreds of thousands of potential riders to hear in the future? Note: Just before @AlexB chimes in (hah), i'm aware of the overall averageness of this POV.

At roughly 30-46 million USD depending on which install you look at, they're unfortunately not in the realms of any of our theme parks, let alone many others around the world. For perspective, with 30 million USD you could essentially build two Superman Escapes. Hopefully down the track (hah) a company, maybe even S&S find a way to bring this idea back in full scale at a pricepoint that makes it more accessible.

You're aware of how big Eejanaika is, yeah? Hint: it's massive.

Itty Bitty coaster

4D coaster

4K POV of Abyss. Happy to come out and film it for you if you like.

That's not the Giant Drop, that's FearFall at Sea Paradise, Japan.

When you Google Dreamworld... this silly little thing should be fixed.