Gazza
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3 hours ago, rappa said:
But as I said… how many of these ‘several others’ or ‘everyone you can think of’ are located with ‘Ocean’ on two sides and in a sub tropical Australian climate?
The answer is none, so not sure why it makes any sense to compare what is happening here with any other coaster. Its not like the park would WANT to have it’s drawcard attraction closed any more than is needed.
There's also the GCI on the island in Southern Vietnam, but that too only opened in 2022.
https://rcdb.com/19740.htm#p=130440
We are in uncharted territory here folks.
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1 hour ago, Naazon said:
I don't think our parks can afford the luxury of a coaster that's "better than I thought it would be". Our parks need something that people see and go "I want to be on you" not "hmm this could be okay, oh wait it's good".
To be honest I think that's more of a thoosie sentiment of not really liking stand up and finding B&Ms boring, so there was a lot of scepticism
We haven’t really heard enough in terms of what the broader public thinks of a surf coaster.
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Just now, DaptoFunlandGuy said:
I don't know @Naazonthat well, but i'm pretty sure thats a big WHOOSH.
It was both R and G
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5 hours ago, rappa said:
Let’s hope they aren’t colour changing and running heaps of tacky colour patterns. Single big bold colour is a statement and looks classy and impactful.
Last thing we want is a 400’ high impression of a kebab shop.
OMG.
I hate it when they go to the expense of lighting a building and then it gets put on the default "cycling through the rainbow" mode.
In particular, going past this one at Helensvale.
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Flash or Wonderwoman?
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Was there a max width for the letters so it wouldn't be too far off the surface of the tower?
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On 05/05/2023 at 5:38 PM, Nifflez said:
Obviously these rides take up a lot of space with their long layouts, so I cannot see a place where this might be put
Adventure World has heaps of space
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Here's a newly opened launched Gerstlauer family shuttle at Bayern Park. It has a double switch track so you do the layout in both directions. Would fill the gap well between Dragon Express and Abyss IMO.
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Can the skyway be an open loop like the one at Kolmarden?
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9 hours ago, REGIE said:
I find it funny the spike is not a little closer to the hot hat honestly. A swing launch would surely not need so much room.
If I had to guess it's because there's not as much land for the big vertical spike structure if you build it any closer.
Out the back there is more space.
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How much capacity is currently available?
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The others literally don't matter.
Does JL still have those grey ARGUS military type uniforms?
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Or LSMs to speed it over the top to give ejector air.
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That's not a thing. Nobody ever said 'Warner Brothers Sea World' or 'Warner Brothers Wet and Wild'.
There used to be the single colour button up cotton shirts at WnW and MW that had "Warner Village Theme Parks" embroided on them, so maybe thats what they were recalling?
That was the same era as sea world having the white polos with blue collars.
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Pretty much with Ohio you need a hire car.
I waited till I was 25 and old enough to rent without excessive young driver fees.
Once you are actually in the US, getting to ohio is no problem. Plenty of domestic flights to secondary cities, where you can commence your road trip from.
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Could they do something where it is a slow reverse cable lift like Deja Vu had, release down that drop, add some more speed on the launch with LSMs, and then finally over the top hat?
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I think the reason you might choose to do it this way is to avoid an obvious chamber with a switch track at the bottom of the drop. You can fully theme the entry and exit tunnels (presuming it has them) and then the room with the inclined turntable can be one big impressive space.
Could also allow some more flexibility in the design, eg the entry and exit points can have more curved track on the leadup.
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a guest walks onto a ride and is immediately dispatched, do you think they're going to care if the operators take 10 minutes between dispatches?
What if you are in the station and are sitting around for ages. I've experienced that too in some places. Or worse still waiting for a minimum number of guests to cycle.
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I think the reason they recycled the bounty ship is because it fits in with the theme of the nautical area by itself.
But the rampage gondola doesnt really fit in with a theme, it will still look like part of a ride.
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I agree that an intermediate family coaster is what the park needs to round it out. Would have said a family shuttle but everyone has these now right?
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Oh so the fact it was a one and done for me was just because its legitimately more intense than the others?
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When surfrider was originally built it literally did go up in a matter of days, so it very well could pop up quite fast.
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also there’s a fairground setup in Fairfield right now that’s doing unlimited rides for $35.. and $2 entry.
Do they have any Intamins?
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Does AW need 2 coasters with "steeper than vertical drops" and small cars?
What about a more different type of ride?
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I'm so happy they used that font for "SLAYER".
Pipeline - Sea World Orlando
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Im curious to know what the loading is like on this.
Stand ups could be a pain to load because they need to lock the height of each seat, and sometimes if a guest was not standing correctly they would need to unlock and adjust the height. But now with the bouncy restraints it seems like that is avoided?