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Running out of time to get these trip reports done so I'll do a rushed dot point one for Sunway Lagoon with some general points on the park.
https://www.parkz.com.au/attraction/sunway-lagoon
It's a park ive been interested in for years...I guess seeing it on Getaway / The Great Outdoors regularly sparked my interest in the place, but of course as I got older, certain bigger and better parks took priority.
As many of you would already be aware, Sunway was the company that owned Wonderland Sydney. A small piece lives on with Bountys Revenge having been relocated here as Pirates Revenge. Fun to relive some memories from when I was 14, but the ride seems so much smaller than I remember.
I had no idea until somone told me a couple of days before my visit, but the park is built in an old Quarry, so you have all these natural cliff faces, all planted with tropical vegetation, or used for waterfalls, or stepped temple theming, and of course used to run slides down, so its quite a dramatic setting and more parks could try converting old quarries IMO. The hotels, malls etc are around the edge, providing a natural view.
The only drawback is having to install escalators to get people down.
-The park says it's "6 theme parks in 1" but in reality these are just themed lands. They try and say one of them is "Sunway Scream Park" and this consisted of a single sharknado themed maze shoehorned into a corner.
-Sharknado, haven't seen the film. just "okay", the highlight was a flooded room, achieved by using haze and a flat scanning laser, much like what was on the last drop on scooby years ago.
-The rides area only opens at 6, with some rides opening earlier. A bit of a pain because it means the Lost City of Gold opens late in the day, right when the afternoon storms roll in, and it takes ages to re open after rain, so its a major pain to get a ride. First time on a Soquet coaster, was a bit bumpy in spots but had insane air on the 2nd hill. Reminded me of a mini Intimidator 305.
-Rest of the rides are ok, but not too many of them. Suprised they had a river rapids shoe horned in, which was quite wet.
-The main water park had the star attraction, the Surf Beach closed. Theres a 2nd wave pool, and a deceent selection of AWL built slides, including something like speed coaster, a super 6 racer called Congo Challenge, and some raft slides called African Pythons.
Dont know if anyone remembers the old old original Terror Canyon/River Rapids from WnW where they had foam brake strips glued to the slide to slow you down, and the raft would just bump across them like the lines on the road at the end of the Sydney to Newcastle Freeway.
Anyway, Sunway does, so again childhood memories of being shaken to bits by the slide came flooding back (excuse the pun)
-Vuvuzela is Whitewater Wests copy of a Tornado. Despite a different shape, it felt literally no different to the original.
-Waterplexx 5D was another novel attraction for me.
It's a 4D cinema (but only 2d was working) where you sit in a tiled room in fibreglass seats. The movie went for a few minutes and was a first person perspective a guy flying over the jungle, crash landing, and then being hunted by tribesman, and running for his life. Throughout the show, random water jets would erupt next to your seat, rain would come from above etc. It's a bit of a laugh being randomly doused for a few minutes, but didnt really bear any resemblance to the on screen action, it was more like "hey something dramatic is happening, lets crank the water!"
(so not like at MW where spiders = leg ticklers, or sneeze = mist)
-Sunway Wildlife Park was better than i expected, with very nice looking exhibits, everything from Racoon to Tigers.
-Theres another water park zone called Lost Lagoon. Jungle Fury was a family raft slide with heaps of wall to wall action on the turns. They also had an aqualoop and flatline loop called Monsoon 360, but only the flatline loop was open.
Kids stuff looked superb!
-Aside from the Wave Pool the other hero is the suspension bridge streching across the quarry.
Great views, and there is a random spinning tunnel at the start.
-Overall impressions. The original 1994 vision is great and the theming is still impressive. But over time bits and pieces have been added and the integrity has been lost, so some areas look cluttered.
Was a bit frustrating that they promote 90 attractions, but large numbers just aren't open. There's even that wild chase coaster that has never operated, yet it's still marked on the park map! They also do a bit of the old HK disney approach of counting things like fountains as separate attractions, like theres a separate set of tipping buckets, and a waterfall along the lazy river, and the buckets and waterfall are listed separately.
Much like Wonderland, new additions are sporadic, and they rely a bit on temporary events, but the water park expansion at the back by Whitewater was decent.
More pics
https://www.parkz.com.au/search/photos/location/sunway-lagoon
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Ocean Park - 23/04/2023
https://www.parkz.com.au/attraction/ocean-park
I didn’t just head to Malysia back in April, I headed to Ocean Park in Hong Kong as well. It’s a huge park split into two parts that are 1.6km apart, connected via cablecars or a funicular.
Ocean Park is located on Hong Kong Island, and very easy to reach via the MTR, a single stop away from Admiralty (literally minutes from downtown). Once you are there you literally walk 50m to the front gate.
First impressions as you come in are quite impressive, with whimsical ocean themed buildings around a lagoon used for fountain shows.
I was advised to head to Giant Panda Adventure first thing since you get to see them feeding, and I wasn’t disappointed, with one of them right up close and munching away.
The red pandas were pretty cute too.
Down this end they also had Little Meerkat and Giant Tortoise Adventure, a pretty small exhibit but again offered a good up close view.
Down here they had a few other smaller exhibits.
And a kids area, which to be honest looked a bit underwhelming on the rides front for a park this major. Guess Disney reigns supreme for families with kids here.
To their credit they did build a big indoor thing with giant interactive walls and so forth recently.
The cablecars can get quite busy in the morning so I opted to head up to the summit on the Ocean Express.
Probably the best themed transport ride I’ve seen. There was also a video playing in the roof of the cars, but it was nothing to write home about, just a mash of ocean related stock footage.
Arriving at the top of course I headed to Hair Raiser, the parks B&M floorless coaster, which looks rather awesome perched on the edge of a cliff.
The ride experience is a bit of a jackammer though, it was kind of like when you lean your head on a bus window and your head is vibrating so much your vision is blurred.
Starts off with a climb up the side of a naked cliff, before a large loop and a dive loop.
Next comes a high speed camel hump, a Zero g roll, and an immellmann right over the ride entrance.
The ride finishes off with a twisting hill and another turn into the brakes.
I still did about 7 laps given the lack of a queue, but it was with my head firmly planted against the backrest.
Arctic Blast is the other coaster, a mack powered coaster which was decent, with a dive into the trench under the entrance and a few helices for good measure. Only steadily paced though, so firmly for the families.
Theres also The Rapids, pretty decent with an animal exhibit in the middle full of rainforest creatures.
Note: dont do artificial rock like this!
Most of the wetness seemed to come from a multitude of fountains on the way.
Spotted the Ocean Park Tower nearby, spectacular views.
Sea Jelly Spectacular was supposedly the inspiration for Sea Jellies Illuminated at SW, and got multi hour queues once upon a time. Was expecting something huge, but in reality the one here in the GC is better imo.
Ferris Wheel offered views of the SBNO Dragon coaster. Pretty bad to have so many rides in plain view but not operational.
The funny thing is off by itself amongst the closed stuff they have Wild Twister, a very modern looking Top Scan. Haven't done one of these in years, and certainly not in the outside seat and they are great fun, with you tumbling about in all directions. Feels like it achieves much more randomness than say a tourbillon.
I think that sums up all the proper rides I did. (not one for spin and spews)
I opted to catch the Cable Car downhill to get some pics and then promptly caught it back uphill again. Really makes you appreciate how HK just clings to every flat bit of available land.
Around the bottom area is a nicley themed "Old Hong Kong" themed zone. Grabbed a drink before pressing on.
There are quite a significant number of other animal exhibits
Pacific Point contains all the seals, I got there right on feeding time but the underwater area was under rennovation.
Didn't stick around for the dolphin show.
Perhaps the most significant exhibit is Polar Adventure, which is divided into both north pole and south pole themed zones.
Amazing seeing a walrus up close, and they seemed to love the crowds, blowing bubbles.
The smelly, but cute arctic foxes.
And of course they have penguins, but the whole room was kept cold rather than an enclosed box like the ones at SW.
Shark Mystique is an all indoor version of shark bay, starting above ground at the rock pools and then leading down a spiral to a huge under ground tank. The sawtooth sharks were probably the highlight.
Catching the ocean express back downhill I saw the last two major exhibits.
Sichuan Treasures contains some long haired monkeys.
But perhaps one of the best was saved for last, the Grand Aquarium.
If this existed outside the park, they'd probably charge $40 for a ticket, but here its a standalone attraction. Several quite large displays, culminating in a massive picture window (since eclipsed by SeaWorld Abu Dhabi)
Could have done without the baby shark stickers getting in the way however.
Overall, its a good park, though disappointing to see so many closed rides in full view. These are not even ones they have boarded up etc, you have to walk right past several to get to some of the newer stuff.
You can tell they are trying to fill a niche not covered by Disney, with a renewed focus on thrill rides and animals, neither of which Disney have.
The rub with the place I feel is that it seems to have way too much in terms of facilities, attractions etc for the attendance that it gets, and they have built a lot of new stuff without getting rid of the old stuff, so the result is a place that is very spread out and empty feeling in parts and needs a lot of staff to actually run it. These comments more apply to the summit area. The bit down near the entrance is absolutely fine.
I do hope the parks financial woes are able to be solved because no other place in the world has a setting like Ocean Park, and their animal exhibits are excellent.
More photos are here:
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I still detest this temporary fence system as tacky.
I hope SW adds a conservation message saying that their decision to use re-usable fencing modules is a more sustainable choice, since those fence units can last for years and years and be used from project to project. 😎
(compared to cutting up, painting plywood etc, only to throw it in the skip at the end)
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When I saw the article about this I thought Google had decided to play up and give me article from 2018 about the previous fire.
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What about a parade in ocean parade?
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15 hours ago, Dean Barnett said:
So they can run rides at night!
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I'm sorry Dreamworld. You should aspire to be better - like the park down the road.
What is this pic proving? This could only be seen if you poke a camera through a hole in the main fence.
And that main "hedge banner" fence is further out, and you can clearly see that beyond in the pic:
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On 27/05/2023 at 7:07 PM, Stevie said:
Lorem Ipsum isn't a language....
It's Latin.
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What about the September holidays?
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To be honest, just switching to padded straps like on Maverick would do the trick IMO.
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With aircraft maintenance, cant you fly the plane offshore to get it done?
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Changing to lap bars also changes the reach envelope of the ride, so it might well end up like this:
![Thunder Dolphin] [La Qua] is back open with new trains from Intamin! : r/rollercoasters](https://preview.redd.it/thunder-dolphin-la-qua-is-back-open-with-new-trains-from-v0-qk4ob2wh1vta1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9adf58bffed92dab5951c1b7c5a26cd76988e2cf)
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Aside from the spelling errors and being excessively verbose, the thing that gives it away is using "Lim" and cutting edge in the same sentence.
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A quick little update for Skytropolis Indoor Theme Park
https://www.parkz.com.au/attraction/skytropolis-indoor-theme-park (more pics)
This park is also located up at Genting Highlands, and in fact when you come off the skyway the entrance is right there a few floors below.
The park is free to enter, with no gates , so I went for a stroll before opening and got pics with crowds out of the way, and then later returned after Skyworlds closed to actually ride stuff.
The theme is a bit of steampunk mixed with circus. So not quite story driven immersive theming, but a lot better than your average amusement park for sure.
In this case the only thing I rode was the Zamperla Volare, Super Glider.
The reviews I have heard previously turned out to be true, its actually a really smooth ride. The turns are still too tight and not well heart lined, but it’s the “best” Volare out there.
The copper colour scheme looks pretty good too! Looks great in the environment.
Still one go was enough. (You can get individual ride tickets, so it worked out to $5 AUD for that one ride)
I had intended to ride a couple of the elevated attractions like the suspended monorail, Ferris wheel etc, but the whole park has walkways for other levels of the mall wrapping around it offering high vantage points, so it seemed a bit redundant.
The rest of the park is a collection of Zamperla flat rides, all looking quite well presented.
The place gave me Dazzeland / Tops vibes with the big columns and a Powered Coaster (SBNO at the moment) cantilevered off them.
Overall, worth a look since the park is open into the evening well after Skyworlds closes so you can easily hit both, though the line up of attractions is perhaps the most generic you’ll see anywhere.
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On 17/05/2023 at 1:27 PM, Dean Barnett said:
I think it would be possible to use floorless or tilting cars on the current tracks.
But the Skyjump option is an entire replacement of the ride, so its a few extra million, and then it’s a can of worms as to whether a skyjump is even a priority, as good as they are.
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^I wouldn't mind if one side was classic seating and the other side was stand up tilt.
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What part of the ride experience would you like them to change? Gravity?
Stand up tilt
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Berjaya Times Square Theme Park 17th of April 2023
https://www.parkz.com.au/attraction/berjaya-times-square-theme-park
A quick little report from Berjaya Times Square.
I went there one evening around 6pm. The park closes at 8pm but there was sufficient time for me to do what I wanted to do.
The park is in the immense Berjaya Times Square mall, which is easily accessible from Imbi station on the KL monorail.
The park isn't well signposted from the entry to the mall, its up on level 5 at the opposite end of the mall, but was soon there after asking for directions.
The main drawcard is of course Supersonic Odyssey, a custom Intamin looper and probably one of the worlds biggest indoor coasters. Park was dead so I did about 7 laps, most of the time was spent waiting for a couple of extra people to turn up, but on a few rides I got the “zen” ride with an entire 24 seater train to myself.
The station is up the top of an escalator. You do a gentle downhill S bend into a slow heartline roll with plenty of hangtime (Paced much like the ones on GL and Abyss) From there the ride meanders around a bit, doing a lap around a flat ride, and then this weird u turn where it was more like two 90 degree turns, but it unbanked itself halfway through.
Eventually you reach the lift hill, getting a nice whiff of Beef Rendang from a restaurant below.
At the top, there are further moderately paced turns, including an elevated hammerhead element, before the train dives down the big drop. From there is quite a large loop (sadly though the walkway through the middle is inaccessible)
. Next comes a quick ascent into a banked turn (I guess its a stengel dive?), passing through a giant mouth in the process. A cool element because it still carries heaps of speed so a good snappy transition.
Next comes a corkscrew (with that distinctive intamin snap at the top) followed by a couple more turns and the final brakes.
Overall, its a decent ride, but I felt it spends a lot of time “stuffing around” with slowish turns, and its really only the final quarter where it goes all in and feels like a true intamin.
Interesting how design has really evolved over the years. I imagine if you built something like this today there would be all sorts of wierd outerbanked turns and wonky bits to spice it up on the first section. But it was designed back in 2001 so it's like having a mine train fused to a looping coaster.
There’s no denying it looks visually stunning. In malaysia I was constantly amazed by the scale of the indoor spaces and malls they build.
And the engineering looks pretty interesting too.
As for the rest of the park, The kids area had a real acid trip feel to it:
I shoehorned myself into Botanic Drive to try and get some pics under the corkscrew of Supersonic Odyssey but kind of failed.
The other ride I was interested in, Spinning Orbit, was closed. You guys might recognise this as the tower ride that was planned for the middle of the Superman Helix that never went ahead, abeit this was a smaller version.
I was only mildly miffed since I’ve been on the huss equvivalent at Tivoli Gardens, and it was ok.
The park also used to have a double hammer ride the same as Doomsday at MW. That too is gone now.
There were quite few closed rides and areas.
I'm not one for spin and spews so was happy to watch.
I did spend a bit of time riding escalators and lifts to try and get some good vantage points of the coaster.
The park is cheap enough to go there for the coaster alone, at around $25. I probably lucked out because ramadan was on so that often kept places like this quiet during daylight hours, so effectivley having an ERT session on the coaster was a nice bonus.
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I only raised it as the suggestion was 'leviathan level station' which to me implied pre-show.
Not necessarily.
Eg with Leviathan, the serpent could have been on a separate loop randomly taunting you, rather than being triggered by the ride system.
Think of it like Justice Leagues loading area. I would consider that nicely themed, but the preshow doesn't interfere with the throughput.
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2 hours ago, REGIE said:
Just the theming without the preshow but you are probably right. It could possibly still slow down operations more.
How does that make sense?
Scooby Doo, WWF have themed stations and it doesn't slow ops.
I swear people in this thread are just posting contrarian stuff for the sake of it, regardless of it actually makes sense.
@DaptoFunlandGuy it's pretty obvious you can do well themed stations WITHOUT programming a preshow.
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Oh yeah - we get enough grief about how slow DCR operations are. Imagine if the pre-show had to run in the station before dispatch too?
You can have the style of theming with rockwork etc but without tying the dispatch to a preshow.
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I think what they should have done was make the launch track a steel on steel structure.
Timber always settles and that is enough to disturb the alignment of the LSMs.
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Genting Skyworlds - 16 April 2023
https://www.parkz.com.au/attraction/genting-skyworlds
I went to Malaysia for a couple of weeks in April and had the opportunity to visit Genting Skyworlds, a park which finally opened back in Feb 2022 after countless delays.
This park was originally going to be Fox Studios World until Disney bought Fox. Coupled with the park continually missing deadlines, it was all fuel on a fire, causingthat licensing deal being dropped. Eventually the park opened, with some of the themes scrubbed out, but it still has plenty of other IPs like Ice Age, Night at the Museum, Planet of the Apes etc.
Genting Group are also the ones who run Resorts World Sentosa and Universal Singapore, so in a way this feels like the long lost brother of Universal Singapore. It’s a compact, yet highly themed park, with a good mix of dark rides and flat rides, though only 2 of the 4 coasters are operating due to Dynamic Attractions basically running out of money to finish them (though to be fair, one of them has been testing and reportedly wont take as much to finish). (see https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinereid/2023/03/22/leading-disney-ride-manufacturer-puts-itself-up-for-sale/ )
The huge orange SFX coaster still has half the track sitting in a lot behind the park you can see when riding Acorn Adventure.The whole Genting Highlands complex is immense. Imagine you took somewhere like Mt Tamborine or Katoomba up in the rainforest, and just chucked in huge high rise developments, malls etc at the top of the mountain. Locals love it because its a bit cooler and less humid at that elevation
Theres also a temple you can stop at on the Skyway for free, which had bizzare business going on.
Getting to the park is easy enough. You can get a coach for like $5 AUD up from KL Sentral Station. This coach takes about 90 mins and drops you at the Awana Bus Station up at Genting, and from there you catch a cableway up to the top, where there is a huge mall, casino and hotel complex, and of course the park.
Theres a whole indoor park inside the mall too with a Zamperla Volare (More on that later) and some other touristy stuff like VR attractions, a Ripleys etc.
It’s quite cool coming in and seeing the whole park below you.
The entrance is well done, and they do a nice little 5 min dance routine as an opening ceremony.
With the app you are entitled to 3 Virtual Queue booking, no paid option as of yet. You pick from the available time slots and come back at that time, which is nice bit of flexibility since you dont have to rush back to whatever the first slot availble is.
Started off on Samba Gliders since I figured it would be low capacity. A continuous belt loading system in the station helps, but there still were a few stoppages.
Ended up with a backwards facing ride. Nice and nippy, especially after a bigger drop halfway through which leads into a highly banked helix. Though this was better than Canopy Flyer at USS.
Next up i headed to Ice Age Expedition Thin Ice, a trackless “Hockey Puck” dark ride just like the Antarctica one at SW Orlando (Which I followed being built, but never got to ride)
Impressively, the whole ride is underground below the main park level (or IDK i think the park is basically just one huge elevated slab) so you head down into a cave to reach ride level.
The theming in the queue ranges between “awesome” and “why did they bother”, but the ride is good fun. The story centers around Syd losing track of the kids at his summer camp, and you having to go around and round them up, and of course in the process getting caught in dangerous situations like an eruption, avalanche etc.
A few ride vehicles are sent out at once, and they follow and interact with each other in each scene, and then all typically stop in front of a big screen where the action happens.
A great family ride.
I had snagged an early VQ slot for Acorn Adventure so headed to that.
The story centers around scrat trying to find his acorn, so you see him throughout the ride chasing after it.
This is my first experience with a chinese built coaster, and it actually was quite good!
Was seated in the back, and the best way to describe the ride is that it picks up speed but the turns dont get any bigger, so by the end you are just hauling through the turns and transitions. It’s a bit like the ending of Phantoms Revenge where the train feels like its going a bit too fast for the layout.
And the theming is top noch too, like this full sized 3d dino trapped in ice.
My next priority was Invasion of Planet of the Apes, another trackless dark ride using exactly the same hardware as Acorn adventure, though this one has you wearing 3D glasses.
The queue had a bit of a post apocalypic theme. You are led into a preshow where you discover a virus has wiped out most of humanity, but made the apes super intelligent, and now everyone is at war. You are a friend of the apes and need to find one of them before the anti ape league does.
The ride vehicles move really well and do shake you around a bit, which was quite cool. The first part has you scooting around inside a warehouse as various teams of soliders try to shoot at you. 3D wasn’t always synced well with the vehicles, so you'd see some weird stretching of the graphics since the vehicle wasnt quite programmed to be at the correct vantage point. SFX were ok, but there was one bit that seemed a bit crap where it was just static soldier mannequin props shooting at you from behind a plastic curtain with flashing lights.
Did i mention the ride is set in San Francisco, so there is an unintentionally hilarious sequence where you smash out of the warehouse and your ride vehicle is then running downhill along a stereotypical SF street. And of course you are being shot at by some bad guys in cable car tram, also skidding downhill. Felt like something out of an 80s cop show lol.
Not too far away is Night at the Museum, another trackless dark ride, but this time using the Toy Story Mania type system where you pull a cord to shoot at a screen.
The queue theming is great. Taking you from the museum halls to the Back of House area, where they need new night time security guards.
The actual ride area was very plain. Just totally black apart from the screens, with each screen being themed around a museum exhibit coming to life. My favourite was the neanderthal one, where they learn how to make fire, proceed to set their rags on fire, and its up to you to shoot to extinguish the flames.
Another sequence has you being chased by hordes of terracotta warriors, and you shoot lollypops at them, which causes them to pause and be placated by the sweets.
Great concept, but i just wish the bits between the screens had been properly themed like the galleries of the museum to match the standard seen in the queue.
The other “Good” ride available was Epic: Voyage to Moonhaven.
It’s a film i hadnt even heard of, but its by the same studio that did Rio and and Ice Age, but in summary it's one of those movies where tiny leafmen creatures live at the bottom of your garden and war with each other.
The theming was well executed, and actually spoke to me because I immediately recognised the house was based on Olana house in upstate NY (A place ive been to)
The house is themed around a professor who tries to spy on these leafmen. You board a boat for a garden tour, and go down a drop, which causes you to shrink to bug size. A warning, this drop is WET.
Like ice age, the main dark ride is below ground level. Lots of colourful garden scenes, leading into darker more ominous scenes inhabited by the bad guys.
Eventually you escape, up a lift hill and into a short outdoor section where you are welcomed back and congratulated for helping beat the bad guys by sitting on your arse on and riding.
My other VQ slot was for Boot Camp Training, a combined ropes course / climbing wall / zipcoaster complex. You HAVE to use VQ on this attraction, so if you wish to experience keep one of your slots spare.
Right on cue the Malaysian afternoon rain storm rolled through, so after getting to do the ropes course I took cover until the zip coaster opened again. Was reasonably fun, good amount of swinging on the turns, and the finale was interesting because instead of a brake run the track turns uphill sharply and anti rollbacks catch you.
The clip n climb walls had you climbing to the top, where you then had to jump off and let the belay system take over as you lowered back to ground, which is admittedly somewhat nerve racking. Was funny though seeing ,multiple people coming back to earth but not having their legs ready and kind of just butt planting on the ground, It reminded me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKpitX0k4Nc
Of course, I knew already Mad Ramp Peak, the motorbike version of Radiator Springs Racers wasn't going to be ready, and as for the SFX coaster, who knows.
But it was a bit disappointing the Independence Day Defiance flying theatre was also closed, as was the Terraform Tower Challenge space shot ride. As the day wore on, breakdowns seemed to become more frequent and it took a few attempts to ride some stuff.
Both of these rides have been open for a while so was hoping the soft opening jitters were long gone.
The flying theatre i've been told has quite a good film, and the ride system looks interesting because it actually lifts you up from the floor (a bit like how the bonnet on a car opens)
And the space shot too I was curious to try because spoilers (there is a trap door below the load area, so you drop down into a show scene before being launched up)
There was also supposed to be a fountain show at 4.30. Turned up at the lake where it was supposed to be on. Nothing. Not even a message on the screen to say it was being cancelled.
So, the rest of the day I spent trying most of the smaller attractions.
In no particular order.
ESD Global Defender.
Aerobat ride Just like Apocalypseburg Sky Battle at Legoland Billund. This was part of the Independence Day area, so had a cool little ultra modern queue building.
Tilt the wings to make your seat flip but you do have to work at it, and it was easy to get stuck upside down and end up with blood rushing to your head.
PS anyone else think its odd the original park was supposed to have Alien Vs Predator AND Independence Day?
Epic Hummingbird Flyers
Dumbo type ride with a lever to move your bird up and down. Gorgeous theming on this, and there was a sound track with the good guys instructing you to avoid the water squirts from the bad guys by flying up or down at the right time. (so potential to get wet on this)
Bigwelds Zeppelins
Turns out Disney is not the only place to have more than one dumbo ride in the same park. This one was more gentle, but the whole robot town area also had a great aesthetic.
Rivet Town Roller
Took a few attempts to get on this since it seemed to go down a lot. I actually could have ridden this at Nick Universe in 2019 but was a bit jet lagged back on that day so skipped it.
Its like a matterhorn ride crossed with a 4D coaster. Your seat has a joystick and a motor, so you can make your seat flip forwards or backwards. Whatever direction you tilt the joystick the seat will continuously flip in that direction. If you let go, the seat will reset to upright. I worked out you could emulate a flying coaster by tilting the stick till you were face down, and then repeatedly tilting and correcting it slightly back and forth to remain horizontal. Good interactive ride.
Blue Sky carousel
Double deck carousel with some really creative things to ride on, eg a Rio moped, a mammoth, a baby T rex, slugs etc. Clearly the brief was “imagination” and being whimsical and they pulled that off well.
Did re rides on Acorn Adventure, Planet of the Apes and night at the museum.
Overall, its a good park with great theming and plenty of details to spot if you look.
The rides they have open are pretty good. If they had the other two coasters open it would totally be A-league and really balanced. If you are in KL definitely head up and check it out, but I probably wouldn’t make a dedicated trip just yet until they get those two flagship coasters sorted.
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The Giant Drop Refurbishment 2022
in Theme Park Discussion
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The queue now has a mesh floor and open windows where the theming in cages used to be, so it should get some better airflow.