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This is a real tragedy but we can't yet confirm what truly happened. The restraint coming undone report is just a rumor at this stage, and restraints coming undone during rides is extremely rare and unlikely. Chances are her lapbar wasn't pulled down enough, leaving enough room for her to be ejected from the ride due to the powerful airtime of the ride. Very scary, worrying incident though. I feel for the deceased's family and friends, as well as the park and ride operators and anyone who was unlucky enough to witness the event. Today isn't a good day for theme parks though - a separate incident occurred at Cedar Point where a Shoot the Chutes ride fell backwards on the lifthill into the water, flipping upside down and leaving riders trapped underwater by the boat's lapbars. Luckily people managed to save the riders before this scary incident became a full blown tragedy. UPDATE: A new report claims that the woman was quite large and felt unsafe since her lapbar only went down one "click". However, the ride ops claimed this was fine and let her go. The part that makes no sense here is that Texas Giant has hydraulic lapbars which don't "click" at all. The restraint system has a light that lights up when the lapbar is just low enough, signaling that it's safe to go. It seems the woman's restraint only just made the minimum, which means that with the strong airtime it may have been pulled upwards a fraction, allowing it to come completely undone.

Just a quick reality check for you here: People don't travel halfway across the country for a water park. Only the smallest, most insignificant number of people from interstate will decide to take their holidays to the western suburbs of Sydney rather than the Gold Coast because of one water park. Here's why: The reason WnW on the Gold Coast is so successful as a destination is because there is a critical mass of theme parks:beach/other attractions to make the Gold Coast as a whole a destination. The park manages to get as many tourists as it does thanks to some clever ticketing, leveraging off the other theme parks. Now, that won't work in Western Sydney since it really doesn't have that critical mass of attractions, (Sydney does, Western Sydney does not) but there are a buttload of locals that will support the park. The Government approved the proposal because it will provide jobs and would be popular with the locals. The website might say it aims to attract tourists from around Australia because the promotional website is supposed to say things like that, but the reality is that 99% of tourists who visit the park will do so as part of a holiday that they were already taking, and maybe they'll do a deal with Sydney Attractions group for combo tickets, but make no mistake, this park is predominantly for locals of Western Sydney, and as such there's no reason why they couldn't build another WnW in Melbourne to go after locals there. I agree that The Sydney park would have to be a success before they they seriously thought about another, and it's unlikely to happen for a while since they've sunk so much money into the Sydney park, but if you think a WnW in Melbourne would be competition for the Sydney park then you are well and truly mistaken.

I don't know why they didn't just go with the slide colours in that video. Dark blue, purple, green and lighter blue works much better for the master blasters than 2 SLIGHTLY different shades of red side by side

umm Pretty sure he is talking about Sydney RWC...

Looks like we might have another Tony Teluan on our hands!