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No, it's actually a bad ride. In every way a ride can be a bad ride, MDMC is. There are 2 things going for it, they are 1. The side cars. 2. The way loose articles are accommodated on a ride with seperate load and unload stations. That's the plus side, on the downside you have a slow moving queue, partly brought about by poor station design and partly by awful restraints, managing somehow to be unintuitive, uncomfortable, overly restrictive, unaccomodating, and a manual handling hazard for staff. The layout of the ride is poor. A lot of rides try to increase the sensation of speed by getting lower to the ground and having more intricate manoeuvres as the ride goes on. MDMC seems to get higher off the ground, so even with tighter turns it just has no speed to thrill you with in it's latter stages. What is its target market? Thrill seekers? Dreamworld say so, but launch and first turn aside, it just isn't thrilling. A family coaster? The height requirement is 130cm, one of the tallest in the park, which stops a lot of small kids from riding. It's clearly meant to be a thrill ride, it just didn't work out. The side cars somewhat negate this, but they aren't what the meat of the ride is supposed to be. Maybe it just fits into its surrounds so much that it adds to the ambience of the park? Not even. The coaster itself is largely hidden from view so it adds little Kinetic energy to the park, the themeing is at odds with the area it's in, and it takes up a massive amount of prime real estate with its spread out layout. Seriously, in every way that a ride can be a failure, MDMC manages to do it. That's why it's listed as people's least favourite.

I don't wanna hear your excuses! The roller coaster has to be at least... three times bigger than this!

Tiger Island refurb pics for today: Annnnd what's a Tiger Island related post without a cute baby Tiger pic thrown in for good measure? ?? Also Big Brother signage has been removed:

I thought the same thing. Photographer's challenge: take a photo which lines up the trees and the billboard perfectly... a little to the left should do it... Sounds to me like guest services are confusing 'laser tag' with 'scare attraction' considering they call them both 'kevil hill'. I think we've had several sources, including the official facebook page say that the laser tag was not coming back. that's good enough for me.

I find it mildly amusing that MDMC has managed to make nearly every single least favourite ride list posted in this topic lol... not surprised, but amused nonetheless. Poor Dreamworld must be kicking themselves over that costly unpopular investment!

For the love of god don't jump any fences.

It was a long time ago, but we do have photos of an Intamin coaster in that exact spot http://www.parkz.com.au/photo/721-Superman_Construction_Update/gallery/sort/oldest/location/ride-282/offset/42 You're welcome.

Yeah Knotts was pretty dead, don't think I waited in line for more than a few mins for anything. And hopefully I'll be back in November so will have a chance to get on the stuff I missed. I'll definitely upload some pics when I get to a real computer too A few teaser shots from my phone while I'm on wifi

any1 brave enough to go take a peek at what's inside them containers maybe we can get andrew to do it?

from today, shipping containers have been spotted

Went on Friday to checkout Tiger Cub Kindy & Tiger Island. For a temp attraction, Tiger Cub Kindy's pretty awesome. Being up close to the cubs and just being able to watch them chillout and play is a nice change of pace. Tiger Island is gooooooone. So yeah, there's that. If you want to see a few more, you know what to do.