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Gazza

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  1. I have seen the big Cigarette , all it is is just a painted smoke stack for a toobacco processing plant. I guess the closest thing my town has is the big soup can at Campbells soup, its just a water tower made to look like a soup can. How many here have gone to the big Merino and looked out its eyes?
  2. Why dont they do a deal with a radio station to have it played throughout the park?
  3. Well, he was a WL ride op, so no.
  4. MaXair, What an Xcellent ride choice, another Xtreme ride for CP, there seems to be an Xcess of rides with X in it, Xcellerator and X flight for Xample. I Xpect this ride will be a hit. XXXXXXXXX
  5. I wondered why they bothered building film studios on prime land anyway. The should leave centrally located land like that for places everyone can enjoy. The film studios should be out in the suburbs. In related melbourne theme park news that was in the herald sun, the showground redevelopment is going ahead and will feature a huge big top for concerts and for use as a show pavvilion, 19 out of 27ha will be left as showgrounds, the rest will be used for something else in a 25 year lease. A theme park is a posssiblity but they are deciding the use over the next 3 years.
  6. Or like tha bazillions that exist aroun oz that open on the last sunday of every month.
  7. Well, apparently according to survey conducted recently the best big thing is the big rocking horse in SA. I like the Big Banana better because it has a tobboggan run.
  8. I agree, slick has commented on the forums about the LCD TV size and they have taken note. But 48 cm LCDs are pretty expensive, they could have got 4 CRT tellys for the price of one LCD, and you would get better picture quality and a faster refresh rate. Sounds cool anyway, what do they show?
  9. In related news, sovereign hill in Ballarat has taken out the "Best Major Attraction" in the Victorian tourisim awards. I guess you could sort of consider it a kind of theme park, but without rides. It does however have some nice shows and a rather cool walkthrough with hollogram effects.
  10. Yeah, i saw them, i dont think that they are that great, down there with pinfari and the like (on second thoughts, pinfari is better) Their pax scream ride looks nasty, but the beer wheel ride looks like fun.
  11. I sort of know the words: This is DW, this it, blah blah blah on your DW trip, Its the TOT and the WO ride, This is DW Never had so much fun you think you've seen it all but youv'e only just begun this is DW never had so much fuuuun.
  12. So, how on earth would a 3 armed version work, would 2 be in the air and one on the ground, which would reverse so that the one on the ground would be in the air and the 2 that were in the air would be on the ground.
  13. College? What do you meant paul, are you changing to a good school for your last 2 years?
  14. And they asy the Alton Towers locals are bad.
  15. Here are a few of those sketches: The first is for Vertigo, a floorless tilting gyro drop, as you enter the queue you wander through a mountain expedition base camp, past parked snowmobiles and other equipment, the queue would also go through tents in the camp, the queue would reach an ice cavern and this is where the loading area would be, guests would be told they were beggining their final climb to the sumit, they would load in and be pulled to the top, but at the top loudspeakers would play the sound of a gust of wind and a fan system would gust onto the cars, at that moment the ride would drop, so it would be like you ahd been blown off the summit. The second ride is The Power of Tiamat, The babylonian goddess of chaos, the queue winds its way through the streets and buildings of bablylon, with the track twisting and turning above, awnings would add to the theme and stop any stray loose objects, at the station the riders would load in and Tiamat "unleashes her chaos" The lift goes straight out of the station and into a great bear style first drop into a trench, then comes a zero g roll and then a wraparound corkscrew. Riders are then whipped up into a vertical loop and around an overbanked turn befre beeing hurled around a imellmann and a u turn and into the brakes. The ride would make use of near misses with the buildings.
  16. I dont know why you would hate a whole coaster type because of just one dodgy ride, if they are well maintained they are lots of fun. Of the mouse coaster that I have ridden, Crazy Mouse (or is it Crazy Coaster?) is my favourite, the two sets of switchbacks are fun and the spin really adds to the ride.
  17. Here is another one of my Theme park designs, It is called "Docklands City" And would be located on Footscray Rd near where the Southern Star Wheel will be. The park has 6 themed areas: McSqeakys Factories, An Intermediate ride area themed around a wacky factroy and its wacky machines, Babylonia, an area with rides centered around Ancient Babylon, Jungle Jam, a rainforest kids Area, Stony Habour, An English fishing village with a variety of rides, Scream Sector, an extreme thrill area themed to Various monsters taking over the area, and blizzad Valley, an area with rides themed to various snow activities.The park also has a 1600 sq/m entrance piazza. The park would have an Emphasis on Quality over Quantiy with its attractions. The park also has nice wide paths to help with the crowds. The rides are: 1) Lunatic Lever – Interactive rides sky skater 2) Wacky Waterworks – Flume 3) Spinsanity – Maurer Sohne SC3000 4) Crazy Cogwheels – Zamperla Telecombat 5) The Beast – Intamin Accelerator 6) Exterminator – Sally Interactive dark ride 7) The Vice- Topspin 8) Carnivore- Huss Jump 9) Iceberg Iceboats – Bumper Boats 10) Half pipe – Ride Trade Half pipe 11) Snowball Fight – Breakdance 12) Vertigo – Floorless tilting gyro drop 13) Trailblazers – Zamperla Jeeps 14) Parrot Chase – Vekoma Junior Coaster 15) Bug Off! – Zamperla Crop Duster 16) The Green Tree frog – Zamperla Jumping Star 17) Treetop Flyer- Zamperla Barnstorm 18) Rafts, Rapids ‘n’ Rocks – Dry boat Waterslide 19) Temple Of the Gods – Vekoma Madhouse 20) The Power of Tiamat – B&M inverted coaster 21) Ocean Adventure – Intamin Simulator 22) SS Green cheek – Zamperla Rocking Tug 23) Sea Storm – Ride trade double hammer 24) Bilge Water Barges – River Rapids 25) Monkey Business – Kids Play Area Future attractions might include a Mack Boblsed, An Intamin Super Splash and a Zeirer Star Shape thrill ride. If anyone has any suggestions for better names for things and comments, post them up. If i get time a i may also post up some sketches of how some of the rides would look.
  18. Yeah, like just have your ear facing the direction of what you want to take a picture of, and just shoot, but then again they might take your mobiles off you or ask for them to be off.
  19. Could shots be taken from the Servie Centre with red rooster, I remember being able to see Demon from there.
  20. A wild mouse coaster is characterised by tight turns and sharp drops, and are usually smaller and more compact than other sorts of coasters, The thrills come from the feeling of going off the tracks on the turns, the more sudden changes in G Force on turns and drops and the headchoppers from the supports. Mouse coasters also dont use trains, but rather single cars that hold either 2 or 4 passengers. Once thing all wild mouse coasters seem to have is a zig zag section at the top. besides providing lots of those "running off the track" moments, they also are where block brakes are.
  21. We could have a volcano: the blast coaster clone????? That would have been so cool, I remeber on a promo video they showed on today tonight there was also going to be a gyro drop. Well, at least there is proof that a prk in melbourne is viable if someone like Paramount were planning it. do you have a scanner or acess to one, Id be interested in seeing a plan for how the park could have been.
  22. No, I think you misunderstood me, People were saying that they should continue the Ocean Parade theme on to whatever attractions are being built on the TB site, I was just saying that the Ocean Parade themed area was big enough as it is and that new rides shouldn't have an ocean theme as it means a large percentage of the ride part of the parks theme would be ocean, and thats too much, you need variety in the types of themed areas.
  23. I remeber paramounts park plans ad docklands, it would have been great, but why did it fall through.
  24. Isnt Ocean parade big enough as it is, why not do a whole new theme and start a new area, or is DW doomed to become just a SW with more rides?
  25. The reson they might try a new park is so they have a clean slate to work with, also, I dont think BLs area would be big enough to build a park to go well against say WnW. If it is completley new then it would look more novel from the public perspective. The land in that area could then be used for dry park purpouses. Would a waterpark built by DW have to be built on DWs land anyway? It could be down the road for example and be seperate, and named something like "Dreamworlds Water City" Then DW could then have their own product to compete with the 3 park super pass, prehaps offering one day at DWs waterpark and 2 days at DW.
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