Gazza
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I dont mind the fencing they did on railblazer, though I'd probably put rust style thematic paint finish on the mesh: Big Grizzy Mountain looks good as well
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What ride should replace Doomsday Destroyer?
Gazza replied to Prequel's topic in Theme Park Discussion
You guys seen the cycle Toxicator runs? Does 5 flips at one point of the cycle ! -
No just has to be part of a theme park. Read the thread title. Picking some random pub several km is clearly not a theme park pub. It would be like picking a random McDonalds and calling it a theme park burger joint. AOS doesn't count because its a scheduled performance, has like 2 options on the menu. Nobody looks at AOS thinks its a pub you just go to. Skypoint doesn't count because the attraction itself is not a theme park / amusement park, which is why Scenic World was knocked out. This is just arguing in bad faith.
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SW doesn't own the TGI Friday's site and its too far away. Dirty Harrys doesn't have pub food. Neither of those points pass the sniff test.
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I didn't mean this to become a thread on technicalities but you leave me no choice dapto. - Banana bender pub passes the sniff test in terms of being a theme park pub. Its not inside the gate line, but clearly any sane visitor would eat there in preference. - ever since scenic World made it clear they're not building their roller coaster. They don't get to be called a theme park in my opinion.
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So as far as I know, there are only three places in Australia where you can get a proper sit-down meal and beer in a pub/tavern style setting in Australia with table service. Considering the preferences of the Australian market, I find this surprisingly low number! If you have eaten at all three, which is your favourite? Also, if you think there is a place that should be in the poll, please tell me and I can redo it.
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^In my experience I thought it was fine. Yeah I had to wait 60 mins a couple of time for rise of the resistance and for Slinky Dog Dash, but then on the other hand I got on pirates of the Caribbean in 10 mins. In fact, here is my trip report from 2023 I stayed at Magic Kingdom 9am-4pm and according to my trip report I took 16 rides on attractions. So that's more like 2.2 units of entertainment per hour. Granted I skipped the line on Tron and 7 Dwarfs, but even without doing that, 14 rides in 7 hours is still very good. I don't think I've ever had a day at a Disney park where I "only got on 5 rides all day". Statements like that are cope, they are well run parks.
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So just on this, in the industry theme parks should aim to provide 1.5-2 Units of Entertainment per hour. That is, guests want to experience some form of attraction about every 30-45 mins On some days this will drop because "you cant design the church for Easter Sunday" and on certain days you'll get 2hr waits because its too expensive to build out capacity if you only get smashed a few days per year. But if a park is routinely getting 2hr waits on more than say 10-14 days per year then that might indicate there's not enough capacity for the attendance.
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Tropical Cyclone Alfred - Impacts on the Theme Parks
Gazza replied to themagician's topic in Theme Park Discussion
It's kinda cool to see this system deployed as intended. -
Get the blue fire station music playing somewhere, particularly from 2:25 https://youtu.be/uS5Ixb0qCdk?si=a_spulOwodycLS3n
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Hey did anyone notice that Dreamworld has started playing the music from Vliegende Hollander around main street. Makes me happy. For some reason I kept thinking it was Pirates of the Caribbean music and then 30 mins after I left the park I was like "oooooh I remember where that's from!". Any other new music that has popped up?
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What ride should replace Doomsday Destroyer?
Gazza replied to Prequel's topic in Theme Park Discussion
No the ride actually had a design oversight where the wiring looms were only long enough to reach between sections, so if the ride were ever dissembled, it would require cutting. -
You can have light curtains that turn on when the train is parked. If a guest walks through it sets off an alarm. Meanwhile in Denmark: Funny story, I was in Korea, I was catching a high speed train and i decided to walk to the front to get a photo of the nose cone. As soon as i got near there, an alarm went off and a message in both Korean and English..."You are in a restricted area, please return to the main area of the platform"...I scurried back red faced. It's common to even have CCTV in warehouses which use AI to pick up if workers deviate from designated walkways etc.
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Damn wanted to nominate Jamberoo for best ops.
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I just keep thinking of parks like Tripsdrill, Hansa Park and Emerald Park that have opened rides with concrete shell stations and zero theming:
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Personally, I love the visuals of the Kansas Twister dueling boomerang on board, impressive! That's such a short runout includes both a flyby and a racing section.
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^Theres not that much space, the track after the station along the "back wall" where the gas pipes break is pretty much right up against the adjacent scene of the car crash, so you might gain like 4m if you did as you describe @New display name
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Where? I thought the bit where you park and hook onto the cable was pretty much straight after the turn around the car crash scene. The launch already starts back as far as it can.
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For superman, I take the view you could continue the LSMs vertically up the top hat (since its straight on the entry), so no need for a swing launch.
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Dunno, then how does Tangerine Twist and Teal Twirler fit in with that? I thought the slide tower they built with Kaboom and Super Ripper was pretty good. Wide variety of slide types, had something for the kiddies too.
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Im over here at the moment. Winter is good for avoiding the crowds but be prepared to shift days if cold weather is predicted since some rides can't run at low temps. As far as I know, Everland and Lotte World noth run above zero. Lotte Busan runs at 5c, and at Gyeongju the B&Ms run at 7c and Skoll and Hati runs at 3c. Getting around is easy, download Naver maps, set to english and it gives very good transport directions. Most parks are simple to reach, particularly Seoul land and Lotte World. For Everland, what I did was catch an express Highway bus (bus numbers are in the 9000s) to one of the stations on the Everline. The last station on the Everline is at the bottom car park of Everland, and a car park shuttle runs you up to the park. Basically just put Everland as your destination and itll pop out some directions taking 90 mins ish, depending where you are staying in the city. For Lotte World, Atlantis, Pharoahs Fury, French Revolution and Sinbad all have single rider. I bought my ticket for the park on Klook and there's an option that you can get three express passes, which was useful for comet express and the flume and the Flyventure flying theatre. Have cash for topping up your T money card, everything else I've used credit card by inserting into the chip reader. For Gyeongju World, the park is in a touristy area. If you are coming from Seoul you can get a bus from the KTX high speed rail station. If coming from Busan, you can get a bus to/from the intercity bus terminal. Very easy, i literally walked up to one of the machines, and could book onto a bus leaving in 5 mins time, for 6000 won ($6.60), bus takes 55 mins and more frequent than using the train from Gyeongju to Seoul.
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Oh gee I didn't realise the menu was gonna be that big, I'm eating there in future.
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Probably more maintaining dispatch interval is what matters.
