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I havent been there, Is it any good? I have seen that it has some nice flats and turbo mountain looks okay. I remember they had the opening of rampage on rove a couple of years back

I havent been there, Is it any good? I have seen that it has some nice flats and turbo mountain looks okay.

He was probably just counting the two axis of the ride as two seperate rides.

I suppose a gravity powered on would work quite well, and I doubt matinace would be too much of an issue. You could create really cool courses with dual lift hills and steep downhill curves to provide maximum amounts of "wall time" If you did the severly enough the car could even complete a full barrel roll. just thinking about one of these really makes me wanna ride one You really do have a cool idea.

Heres one I drew up last night, It is a front view. The pod holds 6 passengers, one of them controlls speed with foot pedals, the roll of the pod is controlled by a lever on the restraint. There are four sets of wheels, this means the car could run at any angle, upside down or right way up and two swivelling wheels attached to motors that make the car roll. (The top and bottom one turn in opposite driections to make the car roll around its center of gravity) There is also a computer mounted onboard that helps control the pod and a transponder that is used for blocking etc. Power is delivered by two electrified rails inside the pipe, a ring of metalic brushes mounted around the vehicle near the rear is what recieves the power. a non powered version would work, but I had drawn a powered one up already. In a gravity controlled one, the roll mechanisim would be modified so it could be done manually without electric motors. Here it is:

Sorry, I should have worded my post better, Whem I said steering, I sort of meant the roll of the vehicle, Shaun said he would have it so the car would swing up on the sides of the tunnel, and thats what I meant. The roll could be controlled by a swiveling tyre that would force the vehicle to roll, and the swiiveling of the roll tyre would be controlled like car steering. I am assuming the vehicle would take up the whole of the tunnel, so the car could quite happily run at any angle, wether upside down or right way up. If perforated steel was used there would be plenty of ventalation , light inside the tubs, and people could easily ee what was goiing on inside. If you wanted to make dark sections an sheild would go around the outside to darken things up a bit. The ride would look quite cool I think, It would just be a a big pipe twisting and turning around, waterslides are essentally big tubes and they are not ugly so I see no problems there. In terms of power supply, There would be a ring shaped contact around the vehicle that would make contact with an electrified rail, providing power. When I get some time Ill try designing a vehicle an track.

You should try and make your idea,I t wouldnt require as much know how as coasters etc, just make a simple battery powered buggy with an accelerator and brake, and a lever to control lateral motion, the lateral motion could be controlled by a simple steering system. for wheels, there is a very simple solution to prevent roughness, use inflatable tyres. The tunnel could be just a metal duct made out of the stuff they make public bin holders out of, you know, that perforated metal. I wonder waht you could call the ride, The tube twister maybe?

Oh well, Their ride looks pretty cool, but their ride resembles more of a waterslide type ride. mine was more of a boat ride with turbulence and fountains. It would be fun to have more of those touring around. Your Idea sounds prety cool, Maybe a park could actually have a JB themed ride about that part of the movie. A ride similar to what you thought of is made by wiegand, It is called a bobkart ,http://www.wiegandslide.com/en/bobkart.htm but their ride is not fully enclosed but rather just a semicircle channel like on the tobbogan run at the big banana.

Leaving the Two loops as a chilling reminder is a great idea. They are sort of a park icon. Jeez that bolt looks in pretty poor nick, Surprised the thing didn't collapse.

I was kind of talking to Jaggie, but seeing what you have to say will be interesting too.

LOL, good one Daniel, Yeah, I bet the mega drop will be a Huss Shot 'n' Drop, which would be pretty cool, If it is one hopefully it will make its way down south for the Melbourne Show. On the other hand, you may be unlucky and find it is just a shock dropper ride, which is like an S&S frog hopper.

Sounds like a good day was had by all, Any photos from the meet? I assume nobody went for an enema and face spraying on the waterslides at the beach because of the cold weather? Oh cool, 100 posts.

Its been more than 2 weeks since you said you would post the article, Are you ever going to post it?

So it will be a completly new site and URL, not just Total thrills with an improved design. Looking foward to it.

The Demon defintely wont be going to DW, I emailed them and they said they can confirm that they havent bought it.

So your saying the council is setting up a park, sounds cool, but would a council take good care of it or would it be WL all over again? Do you know where in Port Maquarrie the land is for it? On another note, does anyone remember the park that was apparently going to be built in Goulburn. It was going to be called Pictura or something.

Atari have released some screens for Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. See http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/roller...oon3/index.html the game looks pretty cool and the screens so far show arrow loopers and a few flat rides, and the guests all look different. Oh and you can finally ride the rides.The graphics are fairly smooth. It looks as though we will still have the same ride building system as the coaster layouts still look the same. Heres hoping that the game wont wind up like sim coaster, but most of the graphics look pretty true to life except for the purple cobra slide. Im looking foward to the release.

Will somebody be posting a trip report of the meet? I really do wish I could come but I cant so it would be cool if somebody could tell all us people who's thoughts will be drifing to WL all day on the 7th what happened.

Maybe DW could do something unique to the ride , such as putting it in a big shed and make it an indoor "in the dark" ride, It would make the ride less recognisable and DW could just rhapsodise about "Australias first pitch black coaster that goes back and fowards".It could have ample theming options, for example the obvious theme of a black hole. If they wanted to reduce the sheds height they could dig a big pit to hold the station and the bit between the loop and second hill. But i doubt if my idea would work, I have only seen Demon in the flesh once so i cant really remember the dimensions.It would probably need a very big shed. Of course, this is only if DW actually buys it.

Did the Article have a title something along the lines of "The worlds a playground", If it did than it was probably the same article.

Why should melbourne only having 3 coasters prevent the HS from writing an article about theme parks? Melbourne has no tropical resorts, alpine chalets, outback stations etc, but stories about these sort of destinations and many more have appeared in the travel section. I think the article was pretty much a random selection of parks because some of them probably just made it in on one or two interesting features, for example Veega Land got a mention because of a "5 headed serpent statue" and Parc Asterix got a metion because it is based on the Asterix comics. It only had a paragraph or so on each park and a fairly large portion of each description was taken up by park history or by an uninteresting feature of the park. the other half was a brief decription of the park along with a short list of some of the main rides' names. Your right Richard about Tivoli Gardens, That is supposed to be a great park and I think Daemon will enhace it even more.

In todays (29-2-04) Herald Sun in the travel section there was a feature on 10 of the best fun parks in the world (Just a note- It is Melbournes Herald Sun I am talking about, not Sydneys Sun Herald. It just had a brief description of each park. The parks were: 1- Mystery Park (Switzerland) 2-Moominworld (Finland) 3-Knotts Berry Farm (USA) 4-Park Asterix (France) 5-Movie World (Australia) 6-Alton Towers (UK) 7-Veega Land (India) 8-Port Aventura (Spain) 9-Bakken (Denmark) 10-Disney World (USA) The article also had some nice pics including ones of Trace Du Hourra, Pelirious Plunge and Lethal Weapon. Good to see Disney, Port Aventura, Movie World, Alton Towers and KBF made it in, But where is Islands of Adventure, Cedar Point and Busch gardens?

Well im guessing not because its not on www.rcdb.com, which usually has all of a parks past coasters.

Thanks Rich, It does look a bit drab, doesnt it? What is the ride like? Im guessing its a fairly uneventful ride through various loony tunes areas.

Has anyone got any pics of it, I havent seen it before, the last time I was at movie world was in 1993