Gazza

Well, to tell you the truth I would rather a whole new park than just one new ride. It also makes more sense to open a new park, for a new park they can charge a good $40 for admission, and on top of that food and merchandise sales. Whereas with a single ride being added they would be very lucky to jack up admission by that much, and you would get prehapds just one new gift shop to bring in money. I think it will encourage people to stay longer. If i were travelling up it would mean an extra day. Also, being close to WnW wont really effect it. Once upon a time DW was the only Dry park in the area, but WBMW opened up, and both have since thrived. The same would happen with WnW and DWWP side by side. I dont feel any sympathy for WnW. QLD is one of the sunniest parts of the world, you cant expect WnW to have a monopoly on the waterpark market forever. Have you noticed they have only started investing good amounts of money when they had competiton. Without it all we have had in recent years was a whirlpool. Things are really picking up now an this can only mean the GC growing to become one giant theme park conglomerate.

Presouming that the admission fee collected from each guest was higher than the costs incurred in accomidating the guest, then yes it would make money.

This sounds really good and will be a great addition. I like the sound of "The water park will offer a range of new generation attractions never before seen in the Australian market, together with an expansive wave pool in a themed environment" Hopefully this could include master blasters going around the park. 12 months also sounds like a very short construction time. My only gripe is the name Dreamworlds "Water Park" Sounds a bit boring, maybe something like "Dreamworlds Aqua City" or "Dreamworlds Paradise Island" would be a bit more emotive.

Well, going by the website, vistors seem to be pretty positive in their comments about the ride on the message board, so it must be pleasing some people. All the website needs is some more pics and stats, one idea could be a table comparing the rides rate of acceleration to other things (Eg V8, Skydiver, TOT, Space Shuttle etc. But I think they have done a good job on the TV ads, and thats what matters since TV gets out to more people here.

Ill be going in early January, it should be good staying there but i thought $100 a night was a bit much when its only 3 stars with no linen. I should be good because I would be able to walk to wnw at night and see a movie, have a free run on the slides. Just a question though, is there a supermarket in walking distance>

Thats where I will be staying, how was it?

If you want to save money, its actualyy cheaper to book from the airlines direct online, not from flight centre. Also, use RACV as they can save you a fair bit on tickets. Also you probably wont be able to get booked in anywhere till after new years so keep that in mind.

Thanks for that Rabid.

So has anyone seen much happening with the extreme H20 zone such as the tower or slide segments? Its getting pretty close to opening so I would hope a fair bit has happened.

Becase the place is called "Interchange Park", rember the word park doesnt just mean a theme park, it could be car park, a raceway (Eg Calder Park), a pubic open space (Eg Albet park) or in this case "park" is referring to the fact that it is a buisness park. Sorry Bussy, i think your brand of humour is just not understood by some around here.

Or you could just roll a die with a ride assigned to each number except for one (Because there are 5 rides, not 6)

Whoops, i just realised thunder river isnt a big five ride, so ill just go out on a limb and say the claw.

Nope, 5 is the number of cars that there will be.

I havent been for ages, so my favourite ride from my last visit is THUNDER RIVER

The ones used in california are the stacked type so there arent any 270 degree ramps. they are all 90 degree ones that are built up over each other. It looks more like the ones used here.

Just a question, where is the rides entrance?

The other good thing to help capacity is 5 car trains, many other Accelerators use 4 car trains.

Yes, you missed probably their best, mission space .

What about giving realistic answers, but being nice at the same time, I think once upon a time we all thought of some crazy ideas, but as we learnt more about rides we saw how some of these things would be impractical.

Personally, I think the old one looked better. Even without the slides the building could have been done better. Still its pretty cool.

I guess it will have the advantage of discouraging me from TV during year 12.

So is there now absolutley nothing left of the park?

And how many trains are there, If there is only one I would be a bit annoyed.

Well, Isn't that what the ring of seats is supposed to do, turn right around.

I guess they have never heard of a rail buff. Anyway, good work there Paul.