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  1. 1. What should happen to seaworld?

    • A complete removal of the Vikings Revenge
    • New rollercoaster/flat ride
    • Refurbished/new waterpark
    • New shows and precincts
    • Renovate the Resort
    • Expansion
    • Nothing, its fine the way it is!


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The GC theme parks have delegated authority to works within their gates which means council doesn't need to sign off on the plans, nor is there public consultation periods. They obviously still have guidelines with height/noise that may require council involvement/approvals. 

Its not out of the realms of feasibility that VTP could contact a few manufacturers to find one with an opening, purchase and we have a ride or 2 in 2017, especially if all we are talking about is flats to get the ride count up 

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@Tim Dasco as I said, history has shown with the construction time line of many new rides at our Parks. I was not referring to waitlists and time taken ordering rides in etc.

As @Brad2912 mentioned a new flats can be bought off the shelf and installed quickly (as DW has done countless times historically).

Looking at the current Hypercoaster project at MW, months of it's installation have been spent on surveying, levelling and reconfiguring the existing landscape. If it wasn't for this need the whole project time frame could have been likely halved, as was the case of LW which was a stock standard Vekoma suspended coaster with the exception of the Horizontal loop - a first for the brand. In the case of Lethal, the levelling of the land was also far simpler. It was originally a gentle slope from the Studio Commissary down to the now Superman show building. You will all have no doubt seen the hill cut away between the Canteen and the first drop.

So customising the ride as well as the land to accommodate it can and does have a dramatic affect on the time line.  Eliminating these issues by ordering off the shelf as well as having available land ready to go (SW) and you can most definately install in a few short months. Not years.

 

 

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On 02/01/2017 at 10:16 PM, ClassifiedLlama said:

As I was on the monorail at seaworld, I noticed out the front in a storage area, there was the carriages for the flume. 3 of them seemed like they had just been polished and cleaned and the rest were being worked on. Could they just be re-doing the log ride with same theming but different track? Or they could just be shipping the ride off somewhere else.

I believe they have been there a while during it's initial maintenance period - probably before they made the decision to permanently close. The answer is definitely no to your 1st question while your 2nd question, the boats could be shipped to somewhere else but the rest of the ride is less likely due to the complexity of it's removal, repair costs, current reliability & age.

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I'd be more inclined to think that the boats are the weak link in the chain as it were.  Most of the ride has been updated/replaced in the past 40 years, the boats haven't.  There's only so many times you can patch them up before it's a bad idea to do any more, as it is the boats are way heavier than they used to be, which actually is the biggest cause of downtime for the ride; heavy boats not making it over the top break.  It also means the capacity of the boats has effectively been reduced from 4 adults to 2 or 3 adults as well as a kid or 2.

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1 hour ago, bladex said:

why did they get rid of all the boats but they are repairing the actual ride? what the hell are they doing are they getting rid of it or not? :wacko:

Getting rid of it but maybe given the 'broken timber scattered across a footpath under a ride' imagery was not something you would want to see while wandering around a theme park, SW might have considered the investment to replace the timber temporarily worthy so it does not give guests the wrong impression (poorly maintained or built rides) than the real likely reason (still safe when not operating but better financially to replace in the future than repair instantly) especially during a time of intense media scrutiny. If you forgot what it looked like, here's a reminder:

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