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I find it fairly impressive that Dreamworld can keep Steel Taipan open for most of the year. I've visited these parks and I have had coasters closed, yes it sucks whilst your there, but those parks have the ability and resources to condense those closures into 4-5 day turnarounds, where as ours don't. Yes, some of our closures are absurdly long, and it is about 30% maintenance, 70% not operating the ride (however when you think about it, over 5 years this should give the ride an extra year of life), it's unfortunately just the way it is. If you don't like it, vote with your wallet. Don't keep on handing your hard earned money over, the state the park is in at the moment is appalling, they opened a sub par land at the end of last year, and your wallet would be the only way to get VRTP listening. But that won't happen for a while (probably never), DC Rivals & Leviathan keeps me renewing my pass year after year.

And you’ll continue to be every time you suggest it. None of those parks are in Australia. They are not working under the same workplace legislations, operating procedures, staffing levels, financial constraints etc etc etc etc no point comparing apples to oranges.

I've said this - and been shot down for this before - but there must be 20 parks around the world that are open every year that keep their coasters open for years at a time.. with no downtime.

my guess is they are installing mist and the waterfall effects, i guess we’ll see on Tuesday though.

We could be getting mist effects around. Could be cool

Screenshot from Theme Park Ogre's latest video.

Grona Lund is also quite a bit bigger than Luna Park, isn't built on a skinny plot of land and doesn't have big rides and large buildings that are heritage listed (ie: about a quarter of the land) Good luck cramming shit on top of each other (or build things underground) at Luna Park. You'd pretty much have no luck.

Ignoring the neighbours and their complaints

If we’re going by Gronalund they could fit a B&M invert on that bad boy

My visits to Grona Lund tell me there is plenty of opportunity to add more coasters if they try.

Having been on 17 of 25, I don’t have any comment on individual rankings but these are all excellent coasters. DC Rivals backwards row remains something else in my book and is unlike any other coaster experience, easily the best coaster gimmick I’ve ever tried and still a treat despite the price tag.

I've only been on 10 on the list. Iron Gwazi is my #1 (at night, back row, my gosh). Always interesting to see others impressions of rides. I'd love to check out the other 15 I haven't been on.

The only place that they could really expand (and I'm not sure if they actually can for structural reasons) would be ontop of the carpark. But even then you could maybe fit 1 or 2 flat rides at the most. The only thing I can think of is maybe a repaint of the front half of the park and just giving a general refresh. Not really much could be done given the space they have. But any investment is good investment.

If there is anything in the main envelope that is required since there isn’t any drive tires or much else out there you’d only expect track inspection and possibly some sensors and theming. Most parks can get track inspections done before opening so realistically it’s not unprecedented to do those and any larger projects can be done during the day in the closed off station area. most parks being, Europa, universal (look at their BTS of the Mummy things like that).

If I was to guess it's probably an asset sale that needed to be done to fund the cost of the lease and doesn't indicate any plans for park investment. Wasn't the lease quoted at $70m originally? Oscars appear to be asset rich at a glance but who knows if they had the cash to afford the lease. "Revamping" the park is pointless when everything is basically new. The overwhelming majority of the rides are just over 3 years old. On top of that Wild Mouse has been completely rebuilt, the venues have been upgraded very recently and a large chunk of the food & beverage outlets have been somewhat recently renovated. Multiplex did up the place top to bottom before they sold. What could you exactly do with the park? Renovate Coney Island again (it's already in great condition as it stands)? Change the food and beverage outlets again? Luna Park investment wise is an ultra long game - Multiplex spent 15 years milking the existing park to its last dollar before getting new equipment in ready for a sale. It's also a cash cow - Big Top is a money printing license - probably why companies are interested in Luna Park as an asset to begin with. (for the record i'd love the second generation hot racer trains on big dipper which has fixed the roughness issues with the model, but i doubt it'll happen)

Long article with most content non-theme park related so relevant portions, which most again is not directly theme park-related but shopping centre-related, below. From The Sydney Morning Herald:

Their full list: 1: Steel Vengeance - Cedar Point 2: The Voyage - Holiday World 3: Fury 325 - Carowinds 4: Zadra - Energylandia 5: The Ride to Happiness - Plopsaland De Panne 6: Top Thrill 2 - Cedar Point 7: Formula Rossa - Ferrari World 8: Hakugei - Nagashima Spa Land 9: VelociCoaster - Islands of Adventure 10: Iron Gwazi - Busch Gardens Tampa Bay 11: ArieForce One - Fun Spot America 12: Eejanaika - Fuji Q Highland 13: Maverick - Cedar Point 14: Shambhala - PortAventura Park 15: Taron - Phantasialand Phantasialand 16: Hypatia - Thorpe Park 17: Wildcats Revenge - Hershey Park 18: DC Rivals Hypercoaster - Movie World 19: Wildfire - Kolmården Wildlife Park 20: Helix - Liseberg 21: Untamed - Walibi Holland 22: Flying Aces - Ferrari World 23: Pantheon - Busch Gardens Williamsburg 24: X2 - Six Flags Magic Mountain 25: Wodan - Europa Park HM: Kingda Ka - Six Flags Great Adventure

...and further back, Thunderbolt was there.

motocoaster should've been number one

DC Rivals comes in at #18

Yeah basically

Wasn't that the same place the awful Monster Truck show was glad that's in the grave lol.

That’s the graveyard. Not much that goes there ever comes back…

I noticed the old Claw feet are currently sitting behind WWW, so I’m guessing they might be reused as part of King Claw’s theming.