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I didn't even bother voting motocoaster. It's better off the list, dismantled and turned into an art piece then placed somewhere in a top 500 list.

The Mitch Hawker Steel Coaster Poll is back this year for another round of entries to be reviewed. For those unacquainted with Hawker's polls, i'd regard it as the only real legitimate coaster poll as it reviews ridden an unridden rides from poller's votes. If you'd like to submit your votes, there's a ballot generator. In the interest of biost favouritism, Superman Escape, Kawasemi, Abyss, Eejanaika & Takabisha topped my list this year for coasters ridden. What's yours?

Avalanche closed, as did the Paddleboat.

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100% agreed. It also died for me the day it went orange. The reality is that Storm is now the park's flagship ride. It visually dwarves Sea Viper when you look at the park from the other side of the spit, and as far as ride experiences go, in my opinion it gets killed by Jet Rescue just next door. It's had its day.

I don't get it though. They've now decided to rip apart an icon of the park but in the same pic they've left those damn chairlift pylons up for how long?

Start of sarcasm I can't imagine who you'd be referring to. End of sarcasm

And last time I checked all of the VRTP parks and attractions were doing pretty damn well.

Start of sarcasm You should call Disney & Lego and see if they'll be onboard too! End of sarcasm My advice? Talk is cheap. Come back when something has materialised. If you're asking us where you should put it instead of talking to councils about land deals or doing hard studies into where the most profitable markets are, in my eyes it's more fiction than reality. In my experience, brilliant execution will get you further then brilliant ideas. I've attached a chart which demonstrates this theory:

Well, no. Regular maintenance on a car, for example, doesn't mean something unexpected won't happen. If I go in for a routine service, they say my tyres are all good, and I pop a tyre, it's not like I can blame the mechanic, there's a million and one reasons why something like a popped tyre would happen in the first place. Same with Sea Viper. Just because they go through regular rehab (and our country is one of the strictest and statistically safest in the world when it comes to our rides, might I add) doesn't mean something unexpected won't happen. We've heard before there's been cracking in the track, i'm pretty sure it's the same thing happening again. You can't foresee things like cracking in the track, by the way. I haven't had a chance to read yet, and i'm happy to be proven wrong in this case, but what our parks are awful at is keeping guests in the loop. They don't have a real history of being honest or open with either new attraction openings or sudden maintenance issues, let alone their real intentions for SBNO rides and their fates. I think our east-coast parks could learn a thing or two from the American parks and even Adventure World - share openly and honestly. It's not hard.

End of an era, folks.

This got flung around recently, thought i'd share it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fyHnZBrUWE&feature=youtube_gdata_player My thoughts, the first half of the video was awesome, I mean, who doesn't want to ride Tornado as a single rider? But the last bit, who does dumb stuff like that in front of guests? I think it goes from cheeky mischief which is cool, to just dumb.

Was the OP supposed to use sarcasm tags?

Start of sarcasm This new feature is great. End of sarcasm

I'd imagine when when the VRTP folk see the Ardent folk at the annual AALARA meetings, the conversation goes like this...

There was a notice on Sea World's Facebook page today mentioning Dinosaur Island was closing this month. AlexB's pun is correct though, on many levels. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

Theme Parks a Go-Go and TPZ/TZI/TAA/G2G/TTYL are credible sources, aferall.

This is so made up it's funny. Ardent management just don't get it. If you want to distill it any further, it's those six words. They're running two parks like the rest of their portfolio, which consists of short term ROI properties like gyms (which, as far as businesses go is the complete opposite of a theme park) next door to a chain of parks who are obliterating them left right and centre because they really get the industry and their customers. That's it.

That's exactly the point though. Dreamworld have reduced themselves to a point where an idea this bad actually has some plausibility.

Where? It doesn't even say Our... Ahhhh, nearly made me say it. Cheeky bugger.

I guess when they removed the steel from the track that had cracks in it they forgot to place new steel back in.

JUST LEAKED DREAMWORLD 2014 RIDE ARTWORK Courtesy of Theme Parks a Go-Go and TPZ/TZI/TAA/G2G/TTYL comes Cyclone 2: The Never Before Seen Experience (We Swear). From what i've heard the inspiration comes from the original Cyclone Roller-coaster's creation, that is, why pay for a new full-sized rollercoaster when you can buy another Aussie park's hand me downs for a bargain?

I've seen a top ten list on another site that was also featured on Lifehacker, so you know it must be right. Long story short, pre-purchase tickets, get there early, eat a decent brekky, travel light and seriously, get there early.

So much for Dreamworld promising "new uses" and all that jazz.

While i'll agree Dreamworld does indeed get alot of negative attention here, and indeed, on the whole, isn't too bad of a park, the reason why everyone feels so jaded nowadays is that once upon a time it wasn't just "fine/okay/good", it was "amazing/sensational/terrific". In the first phase of the park's life saw it receive prestigious titles from the board of tourism like "Australia's #1 Attraction" - the park was literally built with the help of Disney, and for a brief glimmer of time, had a similar, yet entirely different "Australian" kind of Disney magic. Now the park is more Six Flags than Disney, and that's why everyone grumbles (and that's not giving Six Flags credit where credit is due, when Magic Mountain replaced their Superman Escape trains to the ones Tower of Terror 2 has, they also opted for a complete electronics overhaul, something our park opted out for, which is why their ride's carriages reach the top of the tower and ours don't - it's something the park didn't need to do but chose to anyway). From the food to the entertainment to even the attractions, quantity and shareholders trump quality every time.