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Why are the letters on Top In backwards? Was the photo taken in a mirror? Flipped in photoshop? Subliminal messages?

Dont worry Rich, Im sorry, so hard to tell with just text . I wonder how much Australian Waterslides and Lesiure charge? (they supply WnW for their slides. has anyone seen the factory in Coffs Habour?) Though, The figure I got for Tobbogans was $1000 per metre, but then again a waterslide would use more steel than the shallow channel of a tobbogan.

I think they should make a small park with lots of rides packed in, using the space efficiently, for example, it would be laid out in a style like a subdivision, and all the rides would be directly side by side, like house blocks side by side. A rollercoaster with an out and back design would be built above the footpaths,imagine how cool it would be having a coaster zooming around over your heads, even better if it were an inverter. I dont know if it would be themed, maybe it would be better as a nicley kept park with lots of bright colours etc. A space Hafema saving rapids ride with a fairly rectangular layout would be slotted in, but to stop it being boring there would be lots of water slopping around, rapids etc. IIwouldnt like to see another boomeranf, I think we can move on from that, and Id rather see an SLC boomerang (Face/off) Space could be saved other ways by putting rides above other rides, eg a flat ride above a dogems ride. Parking would be built underneath the park (like at Telstra Dome in Melbourne). There would be other fun attractions above the footpaths, eg Pedal Monorail, a kiddie coaster etc. I think a park like this could work as long as you filter out the unneccary stuff and use good, but small attractions, having everything so close would give the park a great atmosphere, If i get time ill draw up a possible plan.

Sweet, an IOA poster, gotta get my dad to buy me one on my behalf, hope to see more posters in that style. BTW, waht are the shipping fees and is the 2-3 days of delivery in the US, or is that worldwide?

Nah, I meant how the paint was chipped off on the hand rails where you exit the boat.

Hmmm, DW usually do have good PR, they acted on my e-mail about the poor condition of the log ride hand rails I spied on the TV ad. Did they end up getting re-painted?

Richard, were you taking the mickey out of me? A 100m long weigand slide can be bought for that price, not sure if their slides are more expensive or cheaper than fibreglass, but a slide is a slide. If im barking up the wrong tree then sorry in advance.

Cough, IOA Cough

Waterslides are cheap as chips anyway, one cost around $1,500,00 so they could easily add 5 or so for under $1,000,000

Well, you learn a new thing every day , maybe B&M should take a leaf out of Intamins' book and try that, their rails wear down really bad. In todays Herald Sun was a shark bay article, but yours is so much better.

But what about the posters? Are the 2 taht are avaliable the only 2 Avaliable? I really do need some posters for my room, but if I had one of "Sleeping Beautys Castle" my friends would think Im a pansy or something. The cyclone one is cool, but I'd really like to see A dueling dragons poster, that ride is so cool. Ill probably buy some when more become avaliable to put up in my room.

But the pics were nice, did you notice on the main photo there was a bit of rope tied around the track? the rails were worn so obvioulsy the ride was not still under construction. Hope it got removed before the ride started again. Also, notice that the descrtiption of Daemon says nothing about it being floorless.

Nope, The Herald Sun is Melbournes main paper, Anyway, here is the article, sorry about the dots, its inevitable on printed stuff and the lines, because i had to fold it outwards in a wierd way so it would fit in a scanner, then piece it together onthe computer.

What posters are available? ones I would really want to see are a Dueling Dragons poster ,a Riddlers Revenge poster or a Kraken poster

Hey Joz, in regards to Air,(lucky bugger, I wanna go to AT) how do the restraints work? I have heard of a restrain vest, is it made of fabric and zipped shut? also, how does that Y junction at the station work, I still can figure it out.

Only really Six Flags New England, but there would be other parks in neigbouring states.

Just letting ou guys know there was a double page spread about Top Thrill Dragster in Todays Herald Sun (28/5/04) on page 5 in the travel section. Had some really cool pics including one looking down from the top, one showing riders faces on the launch and a couple of general shots of the ride. Also in the article were some pics of Dodonpa, Thunder Dolphin, Daemon and Steel Dragon. The text was just mainly just spouting facts about the rides. One about TTD: "..spirals in 270* flips" I can try to scan it if anyone wants me to.

Thats why you buy a season pass

I doesnt necesarrily have to be hyper or flying, could be a floorless (superman kryptoite coaster SFFT) or an impulse (superman ultimate escape GL) But any of those choices would be good.

LOL, yeah a waterproof thing would work, but as you said, you wouldnt need it. Who wants to release thousands of plastic coated tickets into the environment and filters anyway? In case you got lost www.roller-coaster.com.au

But how would the wrist band work? it cant beep to tell you your ride is due, and spitting a ticket our wouldnt work as I said so how would it work? And Rich, this may sound dumb but why in your sig have you got a link to a site we're already in. :confused:

Virtual queing is where a perk has a set of turnstiles at ride entrances, you just walk through and a ticket is printed with a designated boarding time, you rock up at that time and you get your ride. so you are free to do what you want. Another system is one where you rent a transponder that you scan at the ride entrance, It beeps whem you can ride and you have 10 mins to get to the ride. At WnW, how would you go carrying around a ticket for each slide? they would have to be waterproof and you re-ride slides all day so the park would go through thousands of tickets that wouldnt bio degrade as well as a paper ticket. The other system wouldnt work at WnW for obvious reasons. Now, for DW it think it could work, for example, GD could have one axis for virtual and one axis for standard. On WO have one side for each. On the coasters have the left hand seats virtual and the right hand seats standard. You can see what Im getting at. i think DW would probably go for the electronic system for the extra money it makes. Edit: Darn you beat me.

I think the illustrator of the brouchures was Van Murray, he also did those "Hunt for Hooroo" books (like an Australian veriosn of wheres wally)

Once I had a dream i went to Alton towers, but I awoke before I got to ride Nemesis :mad: another time, I had a dream I was at a really cool waterpark, and I went on this tube slide with all these T junctions and fountains.

Well if you check out http://www.google.com.au/search?q=richard+...le+Search&meta= then you will find plenty of Richard Wilsons, It would be a pretty common name wouldnt it? I remember searching for my name on Google and the first result was my name on the about page of this site. BTW, I think this goes in the Chit chat thread, it has no relevance to theme parks or coasters.