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Thats pretty funny, but that would actually be a good ride if it were built in real life, you would get the swing of the main arm, the rotation of the wheel and a side to side swing from the gondolas.

I think the claims are unfounded, how can a ride 3 miles away produce vibrations in the houses, thats a load of bull. Also, apparently the couple who had the legal battle against AT acutally own a pottery, and people are planning a legal fight against them due to the industrial noise produced by the factory. I hope they lose so they get a taste of their own medicine. I doubt AT will get rid of oblivion, It cost too much and they would try sand filling and malliboomer style scream guards to make things a bit quieter.

I hope not, They could try scream guards to make things quieter. The complaint about fireworks is stupid too, It only happens once a year.

Were there any good ones to do with SRR? The shuttle I was thinking of was Mr Freeze, but of course, you would have to be pretty dumb to think you could put 2 trains on Demon, I would have said to the person "How do you propose we do it?"

That 2 train demon thing is funny, but some shuttle coasters can actually run 2 trains. And were yo taling to me with that gun comment???

Can you share a few more Daniel? How many people thought the coasters had motors in the cars?

Well, they ended up showing 3 rides at 3 parks; journey to atlantis at SW san diego, TOT at Disney Land and The Mummy at Universal. They also showed some little tidbits of stuff around each of the parks, but nothing more than a few seconds. Oh, and according to the presenter, Sea World is a "World famous waterpark"

Well, I personally wouldnt be too worried about missing superman, its bad and all that they havent bothered to fix it, but at least we can ride one here. BTW, what sort of Gs do you pull in that infamous helix, I wonder if it is as intense as the helix on nemesis, apparently that one pulls 4gs.

Yeah, I suppose, maybe a better post title would be is "Things non enthusiasts say" Anyway, heres one, At the exit of Thunderbolt: "That was fun".

You mean Ettamogah Pub^ The park with it is called Aussie World. Hey NZ, do you have any decent pics of the park? I have only seen the photos on RE's website, and they are niether big or good.

Lol, that body limbs thing sounds funny, it would be halarious if they had a mock up gondola and put it on top of the station, all wrecked with the roof all dented, as if it had fallen off the tower. I know AT scatters things around their rides to scare people.

I reckon the new spoke style looks worse, but the ride still looks cool, but the dropping floor thing looks smaller than the actual ring of seats, or doesn't it have to be bigger than the ring?

This gives me an idea, maybe you could do an Austrailan theme park survey, and have the results as an article.

Maybe they also stop lubricating oil dripping into the rapids then.

LOL, notice the monorail pics are the only ones in colour. That stuff about buisnesses going under during Tramway construction is a load of codswollop, whenever tram works happen around Melbourne, you dont normally see all these shops boarded up. The saftey record is a good point for monorails, but monorail are incapable of level crossings so thats why they rarley screw up. Trams work well if the tracks are in their own section in the middle of the road. Dont really have a problem with the overhead wires myself, they look tidier than powerlines.

So why dont they let people queue closer to where the gates are so the op has to walk a shorter distance.

Just a quick question, what is the problem with cyclones queue house? I haven't been to DW since cyclone opened so I dont really know what this problem people speak of is.

Light rail isn't all bad and the rails arent rusty. They are good because they can have stops virtually anywhere and they are easy to get to, just a matter of walking into the middle of the road, instead of going off the street up staris to get to the station. Plus its rather cool seeing the sleek trams go past. But this Austran system sounds cool, It will be really good when the system gets going.

Its next week. I said they will be doing a story on theme parks

Just informing everyone that The great outdoors will be doing a theme park story of "The worlds thrill ride capital". They showed some footage of DCA and also some footage of colossus at TP, unless California screamin has aqua colored track in which case im mistaken. Should be good but murphys law states that I will pobably be working on monday night so i'll miss it just like I have missed the LPS & LPM stories and the Wild Waldi Water Park story. Then again I may get lucky and be home.

No wait, TT does work, but the captions get cut off. I have found RC enlargments work if I copy and paste into paint, I can scroll around in there.

I uploaded it again for your veiwing pleasure. Your design is pretty good, nice selection of rides, But is the middle coaster an SLC? Try doing it in black pen so you can see it better and use a ruler for straight lines, it gives everything a nice crisp look. Otherwise its pretty good. BTW Im working on a new park design of my own, A bit bigger than the sydney park I Designed but a bit smaller than the one I did above. I was intially going to do it in 3D perspective, but its too hard to make it all fit while keeping up the detail. I think i'll do the design in 2D to scale, while maybe doing a few major rides seperatley in 3D.

One thing you could implement for Roller Coaster and TT is scroll bars on the large versions of the images, some peoples screens cant handle the higher resolutions which makes veiwing the whole picture hard.

I think it will impress the GP, I was on MSN talking to one of my friends and they asked what i was doing, so I said I was looking at the construction of the Claw, and I sent a pic of the DM version, and the immediate reply I got was "F*** that!". Were just coaster nuts so nothing really suprises us much anymore, but the GP who the ride is aimed at will be impressed.

How could it be the most spine tingling one of its kind anyway? If its smaller than Lotte Worlds version, then it would have to be just a bit less thrilling wouldnt it? It still will be fun but it wont be the best, unless DW does a very good job with the theming, then it will be the best. Or maybe they will put the rotation speed up a bit if thats possible, that could give an on the edge feeling as the negative Gs would be really pushing you out of your seat.