Hair Raiser removed from LPS website

[jhunt2]

Hair Raiser, which has been closed since March and supposedly in need of a significant maintenance upgrade, has been removed from Luna Park Sydney's website.

I usually wouldn't find this particularly notable, as the marketing teams who run webpages aren't likely to be the first informed of ride alterations or removals, but this is sudden and unexpected. Historically LPS' website usually just marks rides as "down for maintenance", even during long closures like Wild Mouse's, so this is setting off some alarm bells for me. I think especially the fact that Wild Mouse's page was used to provide ongoing updates of the lengthy renovation, and that was so recent... if the needed upgrades were going ahead, I would have expected a similar approach.

Thoughts? Anyone been to the park lately and heard/seen anything about what's going on with it?

[downunder]

That's interesting. It was fun and did have a kick to it. Though it really was a carnival ride, maybe it's gotten irreparable or too expensive to maintain like you observed.

[TBoy]

43 minutes ago, jhunt2 said:

Hair Raiser, which has been closed since March and supposedly in need of a significant maintenance upgrade, has been removed from Luna Park Sydney's website.

I usually wouldn't find this particularly notable, as the marketing teams who run webpages aren't likely to be the first informed of ride alterations or removals, but this is sudden and unexpected. Historically LPS' website usually just marks rides as "down for maintenance", even during long closures like Wild Mouse's, so this is setting off some alarm bells for me. I think especially the fact that Wild Mouse's page was used to provide ongoing updates of the lengthy renovation, and that was so recent... if the needed upgrades were going ahead, I would have expected a similar approach.

Thoughts? Anyone been to the park lately and heard/seen anything about what's going on with it?

It'd be a big shame if it got removed. It's very intense: rather than slowly going up and waiting you just go up and it drops you immediately upon reaching the top. Hopefully they replace it with something intense like it.

Edited 1 hour ago by TBoy

[Baconjack]

What a shame if it goes. Best drop tower in Australia imv, it is very intense.

If its time is up I hope they can replace it with another drop tower however I know the park have pretty strict height limits to work with. Would love to see an Intamin sky jump on our shores

Edited 1 hour ago by Baconjack

[Wil_i_am_not]

Take this with a grain of salt obviously, but I had a source inform me that it was potentially getting moved to a different location in the park. 

Not sure if this is still going ahead as I was told this several months ago.