Gazza
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Maybe it was because it is his first name, which is a pretty obvious choice for many, and im doubting your first name is Obstructure. If anyone wants to know, my forum name is my nickname.Where did I come up with Obstructure? It's a name. Where did you come up with Daniel? -
Maybe if they were really short on space they could put the model T lane somewhere else (like with the australian wildlfe experience) in the park and use the space for a major ride (have to be pretty narrow though) and that area could be an extension of the giant oil company, or it could be turned into a new industrial/danger themed area.
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This has got to be one of my weirdest ideas, but what if they mounted a wind generator atop the TOT, it probably wouldnt be the windmill style type like what is at Arrarat, but rather those verticaly mounted ones that looks like an egg beater. Just a thought.Something for you all to think about is, what will happen when Dreamworld gets more rides? They will of course demand more power, so how will the TOT cope? It may eventually slow down to more the speed of the Skylink if they don't upgrade the power facilities. -
For some strange reason I cannot explain, I have had a sudden urge for an Intamin inverted coaster to be built here, I saw some pics of "Tornado" at Särkänniemi and I thought it was really cool.
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If it is a coaster, heres' hoping that it is a Setpoint swing thing (like Roller Soaker at Hersheypark) In terms of location, I dont know where because I havent been to WnW for 6 or so years and I can hardly remember the layout. If the new attraction were to be a slide, I would like to see one of those bowl slides that WWW makes, riding one of those would be an interesting experience. Hang on, I know, What about a proslide zoomerango, that would be seriously fun!
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What has happened is terrible, they really should have used something to hold the gondola in place like rich said. On another note, did anyone hear about the incident at the Tamworth show? A little kid fell out of the ferris wheel.
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All the sites I suggested for the melbourne park would work because they are all pretty close to the CBD and all accessible pretty much on seamless freeway/tollway. I like the Idea for the olympic park park, I think it would work well.
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Why is land so hard to find and why is it so expensive in sydney anyway? I think Melbourne should get a park too, it has 3.5 million people but all we have is luna park (not that it is bad or anything, but i want an actual theme park) I thought of some locations too, such as next to the new cragieburn bypass in melbounes north (If anyone can rememember that park i drew up a couple of months back, thats where it was designed for), beside the princess highway near weribee (I think this site would work well because an open range zoo is viable out there so why not a theme park, and its near avalon airport, the future home of Jetstar) A friend of mine suggested building it on decking over the jolimont rail yards like fedaration square (this was a cool idea, but i think space and cost limitations would stop this from working. I also thought of building it near frankston (this area is touristy anyway).
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Just out of interest, how much would a big theme park trip to the US cost, I dont want an exact figure, just a ball park figure.
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Oh well, thats what i get for not going to coasterbuzz.
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I found something I thought you guy might be interested in, See http://www.coasterdynamix.com It is a working model roller coaster kit that uses flexible connectable track segments, Extendable supports and a base system to hold it all together. The ride is a B&M inverter and It actually looks pretty life like. I really do want one but it has a price tag of around $650 so I may not be getting one in a hurry.
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What sort of stuff did the people do at WL, did you get to push any buttons on the ride (I remember being at SW once and the guy let me pull the levers on the tobbogan slide to release the riders down) or is it just a sit and watch affair or pointless jobs like lining bins, watering plants etc.I'm sure you'll most likely enjoy it. I presume they'll have a better program in place than Wonderland did, if you could even say they had such. -
Yeah, i think that an intamin Pelirious Plunge style ride would go down nice, but I dont think they will build one because moive world have already got a similar ride, and I imagine DW will be looking for unique rides, Hence the gyro swing. I also think a new looper will go down nicely, I am really just waiting for a park to do something really ground breaking, and blow the other parks out of the water, I wanna see a coaster war. If they wanted to build something low cost, then adding some new waterslides to Blue Lagoon could work. just a big timber tower with a thatched roof and 8 or so slides snaking from it would work well. Maybe something the park needs is a decent dark ride, maybe one with a doom type theme near TOTs entry would go down nice. On another note, I think the LIM section of TOT should be enclosed in a plastic/metal tube. It would make things quieter and it could be interesting riding through a space age tunnel. and in the section over Model T lane could be a timber walled section with metalic lining on the inside, and all those little white buildings under the track should be themed or painted.
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Yeah, I liked hangover better, especialy the floorless vehicles, that was my first ever ride on a ride that inverts you, and i loved it. I would be interested to ride on the one at LP, it has lap bars which would make for an interesting experience. it odes look ugly, they could have painted it tan to mach the theme, no leave it in space ship colours. Im heading to Melbourne next Saturday for the footy so I will ask mum if we can go before the game. DJs' right about the meshio site being useful, it made making thunderbolt for my dreamworld re-creation much easier.
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Our school does it in year 10 (im heading off to a civil engineering/surveying firm). I assume the minimum age for work experience is 14.75 years old, the minimum job age.
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Cool, good effort. you should post some of your favorites.
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Yeah, My first and last visit during the summer holidays just gone was really good. Demon was my first ever ride on a looper, (the last time I was at a park was way back in 1998 and I didnt want to ride back then) SP was awesome fun, and I admit I was a little nervous too, but it was great, I wanted a re-ride but we left at around 2 to do other stuff so I dint get to. Bush beast was good (I rode in the back seat) and SRR was really fun too, they seemed a lot wetter than Thunder river. I really am unhappy about WL's closure but at least I got to experience the park once.
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Yay, i got it for my Birthday Today. its really good but the terrain editor is a a pain to use. Tonight Ill have a proper go and make my first coaster....
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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
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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.
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He was probably just counting the two axis of the ride as two seperate rides.
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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
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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:
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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 really do have a cool idea.
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I remember being in a loo with an LCD door, It was pretty cool seeing the door going from a sort of transperent grey to am opaque silvery color, But i still was not game enough to go! I think the LCD floor will be cool, no doubt many a rider will be flattening themselves to the edge of the cable car when the floor goes. And no the floor doesnt go all wierd when you touch it, it stays the same.