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With the issue of alchol being sold, I thought you werent allowed to go on rides after drinking. Can someone clear this up?

Yep, I know what is being talked about now, but they are better referred to as guard rails becasue they are more to stop you falling off, not to run your hands along (who'd want a hand 'o' splinters anyway?) thats what confused me. I always wondered how hard it would be to shift a woodie, and wether the effort would be worth it.

This is just another one of my ideas, what about making the aquarium sort of themed, my idea was a marine biologists lab, it could be a walk through a high tech type lab with modern design, lots of tanks of fish, mock up equipment, a completly circular tunnel surrounded by water (like at the Melbourne aquarium) and some good theming. Maybe there could be a plankton of the world in the form of a rank of microscopes people could see them through. it would have nice wide areas to make it high capacticy. There would of course be some sort of show and maybe a simulator could be incorporated as a ride in an exploration sub, with a screen at the front but also at the sides in the form of portholes to give a better experience. The complex would almost be like a mini park with lots to do and it would work a treat on wet weather days.

Yeah, they wouldnt bother numbering something if its just going to be ripped out. Are you talking about the handrails in the queue area?

I know the accident was caused by a hat, but In the paper there was a photo showing a few cars piled up behind it, a result of incorrect blocking.

If they wanted to get to the land behind it, they could just build a bridge/boardwalk over it. The ride should definitley not go, it is a fun attraction with broad appeal and the theming wasnt too bad, i rember being scared that we would go under the waterfall, so the theming did its job. I have not seen it recently so I cant really comment on an upgrade, but did they re-paint the handrails?

Gee, that will keep you busy. Do you have to assemble each of the towers cross beams etc individualy? Be good when its done though, make a nice coat rack

It has a computer, how cool! Now I can see where some of the money is going. The fair you have made looks cool, but do the dodgems do anything? What other ones are you considering getting?

$100 isnt too bad for the breakdance, but Im more of a fan of the flume, freefall and the coaster. Too bad they cost so much. With the rides you have done, are you going to arrange them into an actual park diorama type thing with paths, trees, concession stands, adult stands and pensioner stands ?

Of course it wouldnt be 7000 slides or whatever, I was just having a bit of fun, and just showing the outrageous sort of things you could do with it, in a similar style of like when you go to a tourist attraction and they have facts like, "this tower is as high as 100 girrafe"s or "there is enough electrical cable here to go round the world 3 times" Notice the words in my post "If they wanted they could..."

yeah, City Link is only like 0.80c per toll gantry, a far cry form 4$ on the eastern distributor. One interesting thing I read in the paper, Federation square is attracting more visitors than the Opera house and to my shock, the Eiffel tower. I agree both have their good and bad points, but Sydney always seems to win because its bigger and it has the opera house habour bridge. I sort of agree with some of your 10 reasons scrammachine such as Trains only encirciling the CBD, but thats where the trams come in useful, criss crossing the CDB. I also dislike the Level crossings and I think they should build bridges or tunnels. I do like the Melbourne CBD, its easy to get around, a lot of nice buildings and there is no freeway horseshoeing around it. The yarra is murky because it is tidal. As for beaches, well the city is on a bay so the surf beaches are down portsea or torquay, but Sydney definitley has better beaches. And I do care about melbourne becasue it si my state captial and becasue Im down there every couple of weekends. Back on the park topic, $700 million will go a long way, 1 waterslide costs around $100000 so if they wanted they could build like 7000 slides if they wanted Or maybe 35 B&Ms maybe they could build around 200 flat rides. In any case, a waterpark is good enough If the rest of the park is kiddy I dont care, but if is good than woohooo. I think it has the potential to be a sucess becasue its right near a major freeway, has a train station right there and its not out in the sticks like Wodnerland . Lets hope this goes ahead.

What ones are the cheapest? Also, does the Wildwasser use real water or is the channel just empty with gravity driven boats. BTW, do you work for a carnival ride company. I saw that coaster dynamix thing a couple of weeks ago, cool eh? Watch the video, the thing goes real fast and its funny watching peoples heads move while they watch the ride.

Hey Huss, are they blocking the Mad Mouse correctly though, im not going on it again till they do? Also, how long has crazy mouse been on the circut for?

There are a lot of good parts of melbourne, and according to a recent worldwide survey conducted, Melbourne is the worlds most livable city (In a tie with Toronto and some other place i can't remember). Sydney came in around 8th. Gimme 10 bad things about Melbourne

Is it really a good Idea to spend so much money on such a low spending and small age bracket? Wonder what the coaster mentioned would be like? I too wish we had gotten Studio City, It is a really fantasic part of Melbourne and it would have been excellent, especialy since it would have been a Paramount park, and their parks are pretty cool, we might have even gotten Australias first B&M. They have opened the Docklands Studios anyways, you get a good look at them when you drive on the Bolte Bridge, they are a modern affair and are not as ugly as the WBMW studios . But we are still getting a london eye style ferris wheel, and that will be good.

I'd have the magent turned on to hold onto the car (It would be on by default), but a press switch integrated at the top could deactivate the power long enough to let the car fall. The switch would be placed so when the car lifter gets to the required position it presses on the switch and drops the car. The Electromagent would be in the car lifter. When the car lifter is returned back to earth the switch is released and the magnet goes back on. Obviuosly you would need a switch that works in reverse to a normal one, so the power goes off when it is pressed instead of on. Now, for the brakes. An Idea I thought of is having angled permanent magnets in the tower all in the same orientaion and an angled permanent magnet in the gondola. The North ends would be facing diagonaly up in the tower and the North end of the magnet in the gondola would be diagonaly down. As you already know, like magnetic poles repel so the magnets would repel each other as the gondola arrives in the brake zone, slowing it down. You would have to toy with the angles of the magnets to adjust the braking power. Here is a diagram of what i mean (a bad one though)

Hey thats cool, I have heard the Top spin is one of the less painful models to make, Is this true? What other ones have you made? One I would like to get (If they werent so pricey) is the log flume.

Hmmm, Its just that he bought up that subject a while back and I was just wondering if he was gonna do it or not. Hope you had a good easter too. Edit: Oh god, I just noticed my mistake

Nah, its not too hard Canadian, I just thought a fromum would make more sense.

Have you given any more thought to a Coaster Game Forum? It would be pretty cool to exchange tracks with each other outside of a competitive environment like coastersims. And if the forum fails you can always just remove it.

If it were desgned for midgets, the ride looks about 4 body lengths high. A good pic though,Rabid maybe for your next one you could edit a B&M in the Thunderbolt site

Has the re-opening of the park bought about higher ticket prices? I remember when LPM re-opened individual ride tickets had been bumped up to $7.50. Is the Ski Slope Slide one of those things where you hang of a bar wearing a low friction suit and let go?(Like at Questacon in Canberra) Those things are really fun, and you never seem to get bored (There was one at School camp, so I was spending my free time there)

Hey Huss, How hard do you think it is to take apart / put up the Mega Drop, Is it worth the effort to bring to Shows other than the ones in the Captial cities? (Id love to see it at the Shepp show, but wether they bring it....) BTW, I know SC uses recirculated water, I thought the Issue would be filling it up in the first place. I mean, at one stage we couldnt even fill up a water feature, let alone a large flume ride.

Hmm, I have only ridden on Demon once and have never ridden cyclone. Id found Demon to be exiting soley because It was my first looper (and what a fun ride it was) also it was exiting because I didnt know when the train was going to be released. But I suppose the exitement would go away. Both rides dont really have much theming but Ill say cyclone has better theming because I am impartial to tropical plants. i did find Demon to be a little bumpy but it wasnt too bad. So because I havent ridden both I cant fairly say which was better. But for intensity i think the Dee would win. BTW, has anyone ridden Demon as Titan at World Expo Park?

Almost, Wipeout was made by Vekoma and i think rampage was made by either Zamperla or Fabbari. Gee, 3/4 of the budget on themeing at Disney. Other than themeing of the station DW wouldnt really bother would they, oh well we can still dream.