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Yeah @reanimated35 a few more typos than usual in these last few... sorry about that! The original caption for the SpongeBob coaster if you're interested. We do actually try not to be too critical... I guess there's something about feeling the seat belt slowly soak through your clothes with the trapped moisture of the 50-odd other cycles before you that day. You then hope that they at least fully extend the seat belts each night for drying, but wonder just how dry they'd ever be able to get in a building full of water anyway. It never struck me as the most healthy aspect of Storm Coaster.

USS was celebrating Chinese MNew Year when I visited recently.

I said shit. Nobody read it. The end.

If you really wanted to hide Superman, how difficult is it to use the technology where you can have plain glass, but can also instantly frost itself? Although I see all sorts of problems with that and it getting dirty.

It's a theme park forum, for social discussions of the topic of theme parks. Relevant information is helpful, but pages of in depth technical details on the development process only causes people to skip your whole post. I was joking, I read the whole thing, what I was getting at was a small piece of advice to summarize such matter. I was attempting to be humorous about it, next time I'll be more clear.

Thanks for the photo @djrappa I was looking at it he other day and never noticed the service stairs. I might need to get my eyes checked. Relating to our last discussion I think I need to mention why a BA has a completion by date. The National Construction Code. The National Construction Code or the NCC which once went by the Building code of Australia. Around every May each year a revised NCC is released. NCC is, it’s the Bible for construction. Skeet story time. When I first finished schooling I worked one of the biggest house builder in QLD. The company I worked for had enough land in stock to last them for the next 20 years. Every year leading up to the new BCA which it was called at that time. We would go over what was going to be changed in the new edition. Most of the times it was minor things but sometime it was major changes. Anything that added cost to a new dwelling would be consider major. So what all the major builders do is before the new changes come into effect they lodge as many application as they can. The upside for the builder was say when we had to start energy rating houses to get a BA. The change added around $3000.00 to one dwelling. If the builder prolonged the new change as long as possible it would mean the builder could sell the house $3000.00 dollars cheaper than another builder could. The problem with this is if a builder had 20 years stock of with BA on all of them, by the time they were complete they would be 20 years behind the NCC. That’s the reason why you get a completion date. It’s the governments way to inforce the changes into the buildings over a 2 year period. When a certifier goes out to do his/her inspections during the build he doesn’t goes of the current rules but the rules at the time of approval. This is the reason for stage approvals. A good example is the for ever coming Coomera Town Centre. This had a building approval a while ago but between the approval process and the build Westfield have changed their mind again for whatever reason and now don’t want to build the new centre all at once. If BA lasted forever Westfield could have just built to a point and finished the rest of the building 10 years later. Westfield have ended having to lodge a new stage approval for the part of they want to build. As per my example this means when the 2nd stage goes ahead a new application will be lodged and it will be built to the correct code. Because no one can confirm or deny or even share how close they are to the source which is 100% ok, this is the best I can come up with. We all know there is a lot of application but the trouble is we don’t know how they are all link together. My theory is below- It’s pretty safe to assume that the roller coaster has nothing to do with the camp sites. So I put the camp site to one side. The lakeside area or the Entertainment area may both be connected to the roller coaster or have no connection at all. The Roller Coaster is going ahead first. The lakeside and entertainment area are going ahead but not for a while. The Roller Coaster is going to be part of one of the new areas, if not both but the new areas will not be built till a later date. Because the Coaster is within one of the new areas then the work needs to start as it may not be able to be completed once a roller coaster is in the way. That is the reason for the stage approvals. Theory only until I’m proven wrong again.

Your friend, who works at the park, telling you a new ride was coming, but not telling you anything more about it is not an "official statement" Also - this doesn't make you 'one of those several members that knew what was happening' as you've just admitted that you knew nothing about it - except that it was coming. If that's all it takes, then i'm going to make an official statement on behalf of Disney, Universal, Six Flags, Cedar Fair, Merlin, Ardent and Village Roadshow, and i'm going to announce that each of these companies will be installing new attractions. Unfortunately I can't say what they are, where they are going, or when they will open... but they are coming.