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So with El Toro, RMC were previously a company that just assembled rides (A bit like RCS GMbH) hence the RMC. So they put up El Toro. Then they eventually started manufacturing their own rides from scratch.

In terms of outward banking turns, there is one on Green Lantern.

So both Chessington and Legoland Germany are getting family versions of the B&M wing coaster They already make family inverted coasters so i guess a gentle wing coaster is a natural progression. https://www.bolliger-mabillard.com/product/family-coaster Wouldn't mind seeing one of them here as a unique family ride.

I think its more if you want to see more of the shows, have time to eat, or just not physically stand in a crowded line. People may want to do rides since riding at night is a different experience. And of course attendance is not uniform, some nights will be busier.

Matterhorn reaches speeds of 140km/h? Righto.

IDK there might have been a breakdown on the day you visited so they had a backlog. Did you get plenty of rides prior to 5pm?

Because it takes longer and the staff would want to just clear the tailwhip queue and go home, not muck around dealing with a whole trains worth each time.

I think over time if it became known you could get a quasi ERT at the end of the day there would be enough people wanting rides at 5pm you'd have to let new people on. Hence them just cycling quickly to pump them through so the staff can go home.

I think the reason they wouldn't allow others to join would be to just speed up the throughput for those waiting for their tailwhip ride? Checking an empty train is quicker than letting people on / waiting for them to deposit loose items and sit down / waiting for them to exit.

Yeah. I think people voting perhaps didn't realise how few "action" attractions Jamberoo has. Maybe when it had Grass Skiing, Go Karts, Wet Races it could have been, but clearly now 90% of the offering is water park attractions. I dunno why you would give Adventure World a separate category. Plenty of parks have slides and dry rides but you don't call them Action Parks.

Action park is marketing speak though. It's overwhelmingly now a water park, with a couple of toboggans. Wet n Wild is a water park despite having a skycoaster, halfpipe coaster (And even ziplines and wild buggy at one point) I'd lol if people started calling it Wet n Wild Action Park.

Yeah WTF, what developments in Australia have been opposed on the basis of Covid 19? Maybe if it was koalas, traffic or height (or perhaps a lake with black swans) you'd get the local nimbys. It's Just the developer trying to save face.

Because its privately owned.

Would moving it attract new visitors to the VRTP chain or sell more One Passes?

Is it really worth going for the international crowds though? Are you talking about the international GP, or international thoosies? I mean FLY fits all of the above (highly themed, worlds first, amazing looking) and I doubt Phantasialand gets much traction outside of Germany and the neighbouring parts of the Netherlands. And I'm literally the target market for that ride, and I want to ride it, but I wont get there immediately. Re steel taipan, I dont think members of the public really get into the nuances of swing launches, or even have an opinion on them since they are uncommon still. To be honest, theres no rhyme or reason to it. Eg in content farm videos that end up your feed you get POVs of random B&Ms with a caption "Would you ride this" but I doubt it translates to people booking tickets to these parks, or even being able to find it on a map.

The only reasons (IMO) to be a strictly family park is if you're so small its too expensive to try and cater to thrill riders (But you can afford to do kiddie rides, play areas etc) The other reason is if the park had an IP that doesn't lend itself to thrill rides (Eg Peppa Pig World Florida) Personally I think having all parks offer a mix of attractions keeps it interesting for a wider variety of visitors. SW is in the heart of a major tourist destination, so could easily be a broad audience drawcard, it shouldn't be a place you go check out only once because it happens to be on your 3 park pass.

Millennium force has an inspection car that runs up beside the lift: https://www.parkz.com.au/photo/9128-Millennium_Force/gallery/sort/newest/location/millennium-force/offset/29 As others have said youd still need to get onto the track itself to check equipment mounted on the track. I think it's just Intamin being Intamin. The other Giga Intimidator 305 has a staircase https://www.parkz.com.au/photo/9889-Intimidator_305/gallery/sort/newest/location/intimidator-305/offset/11

The Sea World eye was “transportable”, but it’s not the same as a typical carnival ride that is painted with cheesy airbrush graphics and looks temporary and only stays for a couple of weeks. Those Ronald Bussink wheels seem a bit more involved for set up, and stay at their location for long periods (The Wheel of Brisbane is a good example) and the install doesn’t look as “cheap”. I think the main giveaway with the sea world eye was the metal flooring and the ugly modular fencing. But it still looks a lot more tasteful than a regular carnival ferris wheel I think SW eye got a pass because it was a big ride too, in an iconic location.

Perhaps one solution is to have more attractions, particularly smaller rides with shorter maintenance periods so even with a couple of major rides closed the park is still a full day.

If I had to guess, Fonix at Farup and the long awaited opening of Monster at Grona Lund prompted people to go to Scandinavia and do everything else. I can't really think of any other big thrill coasters in Europe this year. Certainly, I had been holding out for Monster given that project has been known about for several years, but in the end it's swings and roundabouts because I missed Balder due to its track replacement.

Is that assuming a shutdown takes a full month per ride?

So, as I interpret it, a clone in the theme park world is something with a identical or near identical design. Eg Vekoma SLCs, or the Transformers rides at the Universal parks. But I mean aside from sally designing both they're clearly not clones @Dean Barnett You wouldn't say Superman at SFMM and Superman at MW are clones, would you? (Despite both being Intamin launch coasters) So why here? In terms of differences: Our JL has 4 person standard cars, shorter layout, and a storyline based around Starro invading, The Six Flags JL has 6 person cars with a full motion base, a longer layout and a storyline about Lex Luthor and Joker kidnapping the Justice League. I think the only similarities' is the preshow room is obviously the hall of justice, and the load station has a similar look with Cyborg, but beyond that every scene and set is different. FWIW there's another JL dark ride at Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi and its even more sophisticated than the Six Flags one and also not a clone.

Bonus video: The launch at the start of DrageKongen PXL_20220713_080946827.TS.mp4

Do you have a pic of the permanent queues?

The six flags versions aren't clones of the MW version....