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Just now, Brad2912 said:

Just won’t happen. They don’t have the space or the infrastructure (vacant building) to do so. 

Yeah true that, would require a major renovation. Movie World doesn't have much land to the North, West or South do they? For any future rides that take up heaps of room they'd have to expand into the car park i'm assuming? 

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The beauty about Driving School, is that it literally can be picked up and moved elsewhere relatively cheaply. Same goes for whatever is in storage on the other side of the shed. With Driving School, if they get the models and props water and weather proof, it doesn't even need to be inside. It wouldn't take much to build a ride of similar vein to Looney Tunes River Ride, it just requires someone at the park with vision and willing to spend money. 

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6 hours ago, T-bone said:

The beauty about Driving School, is that it literally can be picked up and moved elsewhere relatively cheaply.

Good point. It won't happen though.

6 hours ago, T-bone said:

It wouldn't take much to build a ride of similar vein to Looney Tunes River Ride, it just requires someone at the park with vision and willing to spend money. 

We will never see Village build a dark ride to the standard of LTRR, with the current Clark & Bikash dynamic duo running the show.

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1 hour ago, Luke said:

We will never see Village build a dark ride to the standard of LTRR, with the current Clark & Bikash dynamic duo running the show.

I see this as such a pointless comment, did we see any fantastic dark rides built in the last 20 years under management prior to Bikash & Clark? It’s just having a pointless and baseless dig at 2 people for no reason

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14 minutes ago, Brad2912 said:

 I see this as such a pointless comment, did we see any fantastic dark rides built in the last 20 years under management prior to Bikash & Clark? It’s just having a pointless and baseless dig at 2 people for no reason

Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster (original version) could be considered as a fantastic dark ride built in the last 20 years, under prior management?

True. Clark & Bikash cannot be 100% responsible for the gradual degradation of the VRTP themepark product offering. This has happened over many years, prior to them in top management roles. I just don't think either of them have the true passion and vision to steer VRTPs out of the current "cedar fair/six flags" product quality, and more towards busch gardens/europa park/universal quality.

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Have found some interesting stuff on old waterparks etc. in Perth recently, and felt like sharing/asking questions so if anyone knows they can share. Left out Great Escape Hillarys because it has its own thread.

First up: Armadale Aquatic centre waterslides.

Opened December 1981, closed circa 2015?

3 waterslides, built by someone knows that isn't me. 'Dipper Tube and 'Corkscrew Tube' slides (see second picture) opened somewhere around 5 years before the far right and locally dubbed 'fast tube'.

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Note the layout of the furthest right waterslide (bottom photo) and how a 'head first only' rule was in order (see second photo).

Mirrabooka Action Park

Opened sometime in the 80s in and closed <1994

Consisted of two open air, identical, mirrored slides and a green tube slide in the middle. Yet another small park to be accused of having 'kids stick rasors on the inside of the slides'. Also appears to have had a Pinfari coaster of some kind for a period of time (No rcdb listings or anything)10448516_685697291501328_3605112980288038917_o.jpg.28af6d0cb1fed63333860b62a9dd6db7.jpg10505037_685697318167992_5959283850925802701_o.thumb.jpg.3d448a8d10a6b95e9772cbb8a7a77a26.jpg10380616_685697368167987_5671630091477004604_o.jpg.9a6bc11ded9f9eb5ee1d3161135cd5d3.jpg

Now, my questions to the community:

What is the story surrounding the coaster at Mirrabooka?

Who manufactured the slides at both parks?

Who manufactured the Great Escape slides? (Rumour has it Action park sold the middle slide to Great Escape. However, looking at the Mirrabooka aerial and Hillarys on Google Earth, none of the slide layouts match up, and the tube support structures on the Great Escape slides are different to those at Mirrabooka)

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And, if Action Park didn't sell to Great Escape, were the slides just sccrpped?

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That coaster is a S.D.C Galaxy Coaster, and the color scheme looks oddly familiar to the Thrillseeker that was at Sea World, but that opened in 1982 at Sea World. It may actually have been the Metropolis that went to Luna Park Melbourne as that opened in 1990 and an early photo of the ride at Luna Park Sydney shows the same track color scheme

https://rcdb.com/1134.htm#p=1494 

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4 hours ago, Gazza said:

It doesn't look like the Mirrabooka body slides are identically mirrored, different number of turns

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The Hillarys slides are Australian Waterslides and Leisure.

Yeah my bad @Gazza, they aren't mirrored.

And look what i found...

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These were taken 1987, and there are no bumper boats but there is the coaster. Perhaps they were down on funds later on and sold the coaster to LPS to try stay afloat and replaced it with the boats?

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1 hour ago, Aw hype said:

These were taken 1987, and there are no bumper boats but there is the coaster. Perhaps they were down on funds later on and sold the coaster to LPS to try stay afloat and replaced it with the boats?

You mean LPM of course. No Galaxi or Pinfari coaster has ever been at LPS.

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