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Maybe i missed something in past posts... but did they ever do a pull through of the car? I would have assumed we would have seen footage and pictures of this before test cycles... And i thought a pull through was standard to make sure the track was complete and the train can cycle without obstruction. Have they created new devices/technology/processes to avoid the need for this?

Here here! I read the latest round of media crap today and i think i need to just stop paying attention or i am going to drive myself mad. I heard one brief mention of the reopening on the news. The media continue to churn the same negativity with hardly a mention of the reopening.

The cost of construction is also different between Australia and the USA. The Theme Park industry is much larger in the US and so they have more demand for rides and attractions which makes it more affordable for attraction companies to operate in that country. We are buying a very small amount of attractions in a year, just look at Six Flags they alone has bought as many new rides for their parks as all of our parks combined this year. There is also an enormous cost in getting any attractions to us from over seas because very little is fabricated in Australia. Australia is geographically very far away from the vast majority of locations where goods are produced. Hence why we typically pay so much more for things here. The usual price you expect to pay for a t-shirt in Australia is $49.95 (Think Industrie) a comparative brand in the US lets say Hollister you pay about $29.95. The same for video games, new release here is $99.95, new release in the US is $59.95. The same basic logic can be applied to roller coasters. In the US you get more for your money. So its not that we cant afford big attractions our parks spend big dollars to a similar value, we just need to spend a lot more to get larger attractions. Our 'Maverick' is the Storm coaster. We spent $20 million dollars (Some cost was saved due to the existing building as well) on Storm however for only $1 million more Cedar Point built Maverick. Maverick as a total investment is of a much higher value. They got a lot more for their money. To start with it is over a much larger area with a lot of landscaping and the coaster is a unique model not standard like Storm.

I want to see them upgrade Calypso beach to an action river or perhaps create an off shoot area with action elements. As far as lazy rivers go there has been a bit of advancement with this type of attraction since it was installed. The wave pool could certainly use a bit of attention now that the movies have been removed. The whole thing could be revamped and re-themed. The building is looking very dated. Perhaps they could add a digital LED screen that would work in the day time, like on cruise ships near their pools. The screen could be used to play video clips to entertain people in the pool. They could then construct a small over pool stage area. Giving a place for a DJ, speaker or entertainers to perform from during seasonal park events or corporate events. I really like that the Surfrider dry ride in water park experiment that appears to have paid off. Perhaps there is an opportunity to install another dry type ride, that could feature wet elements. The Super 8 Racers could be upgraded to a similar model like the one in Sydney. Maybe built in such a way that it intertwines with Aqua Loops since thats the only way it would fit from looking at the land it sits on. They seem to have strategically gone from structure to structure replacing any old slides over the past few years. The ultimate would be a double massive Master Blaster elevated and built around a section of the park. Perhaps around Calypso beach and the wave pool. Since there isn't a lot of land left using vertical space will let them build something big. Since White Water World has multiple versions of a bowl slides perhaps they could install the Behemoth Bowl and to give a different experience enclose them and add a lighting package with music. Maybe even theme it with a licensed property like Rabbids from Ubisoft. Imagine a Rabbids themed ride themed to being flushed down the toilet. Would be something different to just installing another slide with a generic name.

I have been on three Theme Park Review tours, one of which was to Japan. I have made friends for life from the trips and plan to keep doing them, i plan to do one maybe next year or the year after. Last year i went to South Carolina to meet up with my friend Jenn who i have travelled with on all three tours. The trips are heaps of fun and very well organised. I have recently travelled with Intrepid a travel company, and they did a good job but had a serious lack of attention to detail. The Theme Park Review trips are the best organised i have been on. Robb is a great person and i agree he has done great things for them Theme Park industry and community.

Okay putting it out there.... maybe there is a topic about it but not that i could see... has the top of Batwing been removed? You know where the current trilogy of movies bat symbol was? I drove past on Sat and couldnt see it. Wondering if it is another re-theme. Or maybe they no longer have access to the rights for the current trilogy of movies and thus they need to use a new bat symbol or just flat out remove it.

I am sure this has been discussed so excuse me if i am slow on the uptake... BUT... The roof from the Friday Night Games arena is the roof that has been used to cover main street inside the park.

I think its great Wet n Wild is getting something new but i cant quite figure out what good a constrictor will do.... It just seems like another slide... nothing special.

If they are putting in a water coaster does this not in some way render the Viking revenge flume ride somewhat redundant? Could it be possible that they will remove this ride also to make way for the watercoaster. I could imagine the foot print for the watercoaster will be quite big,

This woman is clearly cashing in on this whole thing. I mean come on the tube has a communication system so they can speak to you in the tube when you get stuck.

Seems like more of a reactive announcement rather then Movieworld's proactive announcement about Justic League. Surely this would have caught Dreamworld off gaurd to some extent. Theme Park's are nearly always working with some foresight into the future expansion plans for the park. Maybe this is a future project being brough forward to compete with JL? I dont expect much... Would need to be something fairly epic to compete with JL. I really cant see how Ardent Leisure would have any more additional capital expenditure after last years big spend.

Scooby Doo was $13million... Although it did include extensive building work being the extension of the roof of the old Gremlins ride building. However $9million is still alot of money. Funny enough Mick Doohan's Motocoaster was $10million.... Justice League shooting Dark Ride... such better value for $9mill then MDMC!

I have a logo that was included but i cant upload... not sure how. Technically challnged here!

Press Release i just received: Dinosaur Island is Coming! See Dinosaurs Come to Life at Sea World! Sea World on Australia’s Gold Coast today announced that it will be stepping back in time more than 65 million years with the launch of a brand new interactive dinosaur attraction that will take visitors on a journey into the prehistoric world. Launching in mid June 2012, Sea World’s Dinosaur Island will include a stunning indoor jungle display, a fossil centre as well as an outdoor forest featuring life-size Dinosaurs, skeleton displays and fossil replicas from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Village Roadshow Theme Parks Chief Executive Officer Tim Fisher said that Sea World’s Dinosaur Island will be a world class attraction allowing visitors to enter a world where Dinosaurs reigned supreme. “One of the attraction’s best features is that it’s highly interactive. Both the young and young at heart will be in awe as they watch the dinosaurs come to life, moving their heads and tails, breathing and roaring. Visitors will even be able to control the movements of some of the Dinosaurs using special interactive panels. “The kids will love the interactive Excavation Site where they can become real life palaeontologists and dig for fossilised Dinosaurs footprints, just like the ones coming to life all around them,” he said. Sea World’s Dinosaur Island will bring to life the lost world of Dinosaurs allowing visitors to walk among enormous herbivores and fierce carnivores that inhabit Dinosaur Island, including a massive Tyrannosaurus rex.

I wonder if they will ever do anything with the existing theatre building and that big open plaza? Seems such a black spot of wasted space..... Heres hoping maybe one day we will see another flat ride in this space to fill this in and complete Arkham Asylum. Looks like a really well thought out solution for updating the whole area though. Whats meant by 'First of its kind in the world' on the stats tab of the ride information panel on MovieWorld.com.au? Are these the first of these new Kumbak trains? Are there any current inverted coasters with in board audio? This might be the significant difference over and above just being an inverted train thus warranting the claim? Clever that they create the seat in a series of modules to lighten the train.

So your okay with the 1st and Business class passangers be able to check in faster then economy, getting on the plane before economy, being served their food before economy and my personal favourite economy stopped from exiting the plane behind the closed curtains to allow business and 1st class to leave the plane first..... How is this not EXACTLY the same thing as a fast path system for a theme park? Sorry but business and 1st class aren't just a nice seat they are a range of previllages. What about people who buy their tickets online at Event.com.au and can jump the queue at the box office?? These people were just smart enough to download the app and buy the tickets before they got there... What about founding members of Madonna's fan club IKON being the first people in the world to be told she was touring again and giving them the first pre-sale access to tickets? What about VISA card holders getting first dibs on the Lady GAGA pre-sale tickets? What about people with Mastercard? What about the MovieWorld locals pass when it was first introduced for $149.95 for access to the 3 parks until June 30, but of course you needed to prove you lived in a BNE or GC subrub with a specific post code. Wasnt this unfair to people who did not live in QLD? Communism is a theory and system of social and political organization that dominated much of the history of the 20th century. In theory, communism is a classless society in which all property is owned by the community as a whole and where all people enjoy equal social and economic status. We live in a society which has a structured class system. Does it only make sense that this structure would develop along with other aspects of society?

We also buy images from a stock photo site and during a meeting with Val Morgan they showed us a presentation that included some slides made using a stock photo we have used for a website that we are launching soon. My collegue and i looked at each other in amazement when the slide appeared.

It amuses me when i read people that are against the whole 'pay to get ahead of the queue' all i can say is welcome to the present and get ready for the future. Paid levels of privelage are coming to basically any form of entertainment... turns out people want to pay to get a premium experiences... I travel the world doing all sorts of crazy stuff and i am so thankful whenever there is an option to pay for a better experience or a more 'gauranteed' experience. When i was in Magic Mountain i had a platinum Q-Bot which was over $250 plus my entry ticket... plus $30 to get on X2... so a total of $310. Worth EVERY penny. I got on Tatsu 3 times... we walked past literally HOURS of queue. At the end of the day if you cant afford to buy the higher privelage pass then dont buy them and stand in line. Whats the big deal? What ACTUALLY effects you? I will never be able to afford to fly 1st class... so i sit back in economy happily watch a tonne of movies not sleep and land OS and have a holiday. Should they not be allowed to have classes of airplane travel? Gold Class and VMax cinemas? What about different classes of a car.... Special edition movies with extra content... Blu-Rays with a 3D version and 3 copies digital/physical... What about a game with extra features? So why not a theme park?........ Disney doesnt charge for their system because they make an ABSOLUTE killing out of a huge range of other aspects of their parks over and above basically every other park around the world. A huge component of their customer dollar spend comes from travel, accomodation and shopping. Along with being large enough that they literally capture people for days on end, sometimes weeks! In my opinion Disney has implimented the Fastpath system to combat crowd management. However rumours are circulating that even they are looking at creating a paid tiered system of better fastpath access. And in true Disney form it wouldnt surprise me if this was built into the program from the begining and its a flick of a switch to activiate it. You scan your entry ticket to obtain a pass... simple update scan ticket and the ticket range determines that amount of time the person waits...

Are yep... Plus lets ALL be honest as much as our studio tour was a GREAT attempt.... it was NEVER and would NEVER be Universal Studios LA studio tour. That is not a studio tour its a ride and it very likely cost as much to build that one attraction as it would to build the entirity of MovieWorld.

I have heard it a few times.... i am pretty sure it is music they have purcahsed from a licence site. To use a commercial track it would cost a lot of money and they are only licensed for a set period of time. Universal Music for instance has a service. I have used this before for commercial purposes, you would be amazed at the vast range of music styles available. Why not download the Shazam app and next time you go try and capture the music an analyse it see if u can find it.

I am more then happy with Arkham Asylum 2D theming and a 2nd attraction for 2012 at MovieWorld.... over our parks being in enough trouble to be going bust. What appears to you as budget cuts is just a company spending wisely. Sorry but gone are the days in basically every industry of careless spending. You drop the ball in this market and BAM! Your WOW Sight n Sound in QLD or nationally DickSmith or Harvey Norman. To be honest MovieWorld is in enough of a positive financial situation to refresh an old attraction? I'll take that. To all the 'what happened to it being themed to making movies' haters well turns out that didnt work... if it did there would still be a highly active studio and a studio tour and effects show etc. Things change... get over it... stop living in the past.... because they arent coming back!

I cant help but feel... its just all the same stuff they really already had wrapped up in another theme.... Where are the new rides to compliment the existing ride structures?

I reckon once we finish with 2012 and Arkham Asylum and the Spring addition they will move onto WB Kids area next year. Imagine that area completely re-done maybe even expanded with River Ride replaced. Then in 2014-2015 i really think they should address the Western area its dying to be expanded and have more attractions. It seems such a waste. I reckon they go for a wooden coaster with most of it out towards the studio and some passing through the show building with themeing.

Has there been any discussion regarding what the handles on the newe trains are for? In the promo pictures and the pictures of the trains it appears the top of the handles have green buttons on them? Could they possibly have added some element of interactivity to the trains in conjunction with the speakers......

Was just my guestimate but i reckon $4-5 million is pretty close.... I reckon this is why Superman is so super..... I mean if you were to build Superman Escape as a brand new attraction with no existing show buildings AKA Studio Tour closing down leaving a vacant sound stage. Then one could argue that a dark ride begining would not be neccessary. So things lined up well to give us an awesome coaster/dark ride fusion... Hence my excitement thinking about what MovieWorld has been cooking up.