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More conveyor belts for the rafts/inflatables, so that guests don't have to painfully lug them up stairs and ramps. That's one of the major advantages I think that WhiteWater World has over Wet N Wild, despite it being the smaller park. It's a lot more convenient.

How can we look at rides that dont exist? They dont exist yet.

City Museum truly exists in its own liability universe it seems. *********************************************************************************** After a bit more time in St Louis, a horrendously delayed train trip to Chicago which saw us sitting in the middle of Illinois for 4h, and a few days exploring Chicago, the next park was Six Flags Great America. http://www.parkz.com.au/parks/US/Gurnee/Six_Flags_Great_America (A couple of hundred pics are in there) The Park is actually a solid 55km north of Chicago. I didn’t have a rental car, but a Metra commuter train runs to Waukegan, and a 10k bus/taxi/uber trip to the park. It’s one of the more loved properties by SF management it seems, with regular additions of decent attractions, and signage that regularly proclaims “the worlds cleanest amusement parks”. ( it was clean compared to the other CF parks, but there are cleaner ones out there) Inside the gates the first thing I did was head up to Demon which has recently had “Flight of the Gargoyles” added in VR. The ride is a standard arrow looper similar to the one at California’s Great America (Both of these parks are very similar due to being owned by Marriot at one point). A couple of loops, a couple of corkscrews, and a helix. The ride starts in a similar manner to the alien attack storyline on the other VR coasters, with you in a fighter jet rising out of hammer, but soon gargoyles appear and rip the head off your co-pilot with lots of gratuitous survival horror FPS game blood. The rest of the way you are looping around a destroyed city with gargoyles attacking. It was ok, the operations were horrendous as you might expect. The set up was so bodgy: Nearby X Flight was broken down, so it was onto Goliath, which I believe was the first “new” coaster built by RMC. In summary, it’s really big and tall, and has some cool elements, but it is very short. Basically, it’s a steep first drop, overbanked turn, airtime hill, dive loop, zero g stall, turn, dip and brakes. Nothing wrong with anything technically, the first drop is insane, the zero g stall is one of the coolest inversions ever, but it lacked the epic length of ones like Twisted Colossus, Lightning Rod or New Texas Giant. The huge steel arch lift hill and zero g stall structure is pretty impressive engineering, as is the dive loop held up entirely by a wooden cathedral structure. My usu al strategy at major parks is to do VR, “new” and low capacity rides early, so next one was Vertical Velocity, an Impulse coaster. It’s an inverted coaster with vertical tracks at each end, one twisted, one not. Decent acceleration, and the sense of speed is enhanced when you breeze through the station a few times during the ride. Cool stuff. Next was a bit of coaster history with Batman the Ride, the first B&M coaster ever, and running very well for a coaster built in 1992. Continuing back around the park I headed into Raging Bull, saw the huge wait, and decided it was time to get a Flash Pass. Booked in, then headed up to Justice League, which has single rider. This one was much the same as the one in St Louis, except the building was a bit bigger, and they actually had a proper scene of an office interior between the two big screens that I complained about re the STL version. A really good dark ride, and I’m quite happy that SF are rolling them out across all their parks. X Flight was re-opening, so was able to grab a front row ride with minimal wait. I quite like wing coasters, and this was no exception. Except the only issue is that the first drop just felt a bit too small for the rest of the layout, so it lost a lot of speed during the inversions. With the wide trains, the feel was more like what you get on an El Loco (Which is cool, but not very “B&M”) Otherwise, the near misses were well done, and the layout had a good amount of variety. If they cloned this layout, but with a few extra meters on the first drop , and perhaps dropping a row off the train to make it less lumbering, it’d be perfect. I returned a few times during the day to try the various seat options. With wing riders, I try to ride in all 4 corners of the train. My time for Raging Bull came up. It’s a hyper coaster, but its mostly got overbanked turns and curves, but a couple of airtime hills, except that’s a bit of an exaggeration because they have trim brakes so you just cruise over the top with no actual airtime. The next ride I reserved was Superman Ultimate flight, but whilst wating for my slot I tried out the Condor, which is like a scrambler ride, but rising up a tower. It was quirky enough, and a nice near miss effect with the way each group of pods rotated against each other and swung out. I also headed up the observation tower and got lots of photos, and had a grilled chicken burger at a token healthy food place in the New Orleans area. I would have done the train, but not open today. My time for Superman Ultimate Flight rolled around. So that’s all three Superman flyers I’ve been on now. I reckon enthusiasts can be a bit harsh on flying coasters in general, they have good forces in the pretzel loop, and flying is fun. It’s just a shame this one is over a field of grass. Even a few trees along the track would make the flight more interesting. Next door was the Dark Knight Coaster. I booked a time for that then went up to ride Spacelys Sprocket Rockets which is a medium Vekoma roller skater, but with a Jetsons theme, complete with sound effects from the original show. Nostolgia overload! why hasn’t this show been rebooted? All the rides in this area were Hanna Barberra themed, and it clicked that this SF park had no Looney Tunes rides. It’s probably some historical quirk as to why this is the case, anyone have any ideas? Next was the Whizzer, an old Schwarzkopf masterpiece, where you sit in trains that have seats like a log ride, and just a seat belt. The lift hill is a spiral the train powers up itself, and from then on it’s a a few long drops through trees, and forceful turns at the bottom of the drops. Very smooth considering its age, and very enjoyable. Whilst Arrow was pumping out crappy mine trains, Schwarzkopf was building quality like this Heading back to the Dark Knight, it’s a standard wild mouse, but indoors, with a Batman theme. You might even say it’s a truncated version of Scooby, without a vertical lift or backwards drop. The preshow involves you watching a Harvey Dent press conference on a news ticker screen in a train station, but the broadcast is hacked by the Joker, who has taken over the city. The room goes dark, and when the light comes on again the words “ha ha ha” are plastered over the walls. You are then hustled into the station, and board little wild mouse cars that look like half destroyed subway cars. The track is standard wild mouse stuff, with Gotham city building facades between the zig zags. On the big drop is a near miss with a truck being driven by a baddie with flashing headlights and horns. The theming didn’t really seem to convey the storyline, apart from just being a dash around Gotham, but it looked nice enough. American eagle was up the back, and had no flash pass, so I booked in for X flight then joined the queue. One side running and a break down made this a bit painful. It’s a racing wooden coaster with a whole bunch of straight hills, and a very long helix halfway through. Not bad actually for something out of the 80s. Normally I don’t miss anything when doing parks, but in this case I missed both Little Dipper and Viper, two other wooden coasters. In the case of Viper I got as far as the station, but it broke down. Little dipper always seemed to have a long line whenever I walked past. I ran out of time because of having to leave early to get the train back, and partly because I was more interested in re-riding X flight and Goliath. This was a failure anyway because my uber turned up late, so I missed my train and had to bum around in a Waukegan McDonalds for an hour waiting for the next one. Ah well, my sister lives an hour away from the park, so I imagine I’ll get back in the future. Overall, I thought the park was one of the better SF ones out there, and has a good variety of coasters, with the new Justice League rounding out the place well. There’s plenty of stuff I skipped, but looked great, like the drop tower and the water park. The new Joker 4D coaster will complement the place well too. If I were to add anything, I reckon a full circuit launch coaster would be excellent, but it seems at least for the present time, SF are out of the business of big coasters for a few years…

Stumbled across this on you tube just now, it absolutely made my night, especially the footage of the old Ghost Train (which there has been NO photos or video whatsoever of until now!) which nearly made me wet myself with excitement, hahaha. So many fond memories. Enjoy, guys ❤️

they need to add more one person waterslides.

I would doubt that the incident on what was effectively a prototype ride would mean they'd abandon the companies other attractions.

The family friendly kind of vibe Sea World had before as far as rides go really worked great for them IMO. I really think they should bring the Pirate Ship back, as it just fits in so well with the area, and is a great family attraction.

Doesn't an alpha release come before a beta?

I hope it's not too soon, but I'd like to start fresh on this one and turn to a positive note... Dreamworld is one of my all time favorite parks and I would love to see it recover and flourish. It's time to move on from the tragic occurrences of October 2016 and start thinking about the future of the park and where it will move in the future. With 4x SBNO attractions (TRR, Eureka, Skylink, and the BB Ampitheatre) in one corner of the park there is going to be a clear push for a drastic change in this area. Dreamworld has typically been focused heavily on the Australian lifestyle and while the theme's may not always make sense: see turbines, the main areas lean towards Australiana and I think this would be a great direction to head for a retheme as well. The whole "old west" and "gold rush" thing is a bit played out now, it's all about the beauty of nature. What would you like to see for Dreamworld in 2017 and beyond? Personally, I would like to see a complete overhaul of Gold rush into a leafy green lush Australian Rainforest theme, bringing in some of the amazing beauty we have in the Gold Coast Hinterland. We have the Ocean theme, we have the Bush theme, I think something a little more tropical complementing its location would be a great addition, and truly distance the area from its current situation.

Unless the hotel is 300m wide, it won't be blocking the sight lines. I wouldn't be surprised to see the hotel purposely built in the northern most area of the grass (closest to Kopps rd) to ensure sight line visibility is minimised

For those who haven't seen it already, here is an article from the Gold Coast Bulletin about how DW is caring for the animals during the park's temporary closure: The article also included photos of DW staff with the koalas.

Personally I just think they need to focus on some maintenance, the lazy river requires new inflatables, and the paths are due for a total revamp, they have now worn to a point they are porous and actually hurt to walk on for extended periods. I don't think a synthetic would work long term (ie. polyflex), so some basic stamped concrete would be just fine... Something like this: http://static.wixstatic.com/media/e9b480_a4bf7d871abd4fe1d25d884d4e595bcd.jpg_1024

Sorry, @Jamberoo Fan, I wasn't aware that post I had made from the VIkings Revenge forum was moved onto this one.

It would be fairly safe to say that the people responsible for designing theme parks would have this covered pretty well.

I am planning on build a Movie World recreation

@XxMrYoshixX, I don't know if you realised but you already pretty much posted that?

Yeah, I don't see any reason why they'd not purchase from S&S again. If it's a concern over safety then I don't see why they would still be selling rides, let alone movie world still operating GL. And I don't think MW got terrible treatment from them, as it appears that they were very quick to prepare a redesigned wheel assembly. If anything, I'd think MW may even be more inclined to purchase from them again, given adequate assurances over the design from the beginning.

Well they are now recruiting for xmas, interview sessions are being scheduled. So that's one good sign that the park intends to reopen soon ?

I'm so pumped for next year, I'm already hoping they can do an American Horror Story maze!

Based on the video that feels... underwhelming. I know the park didn't promise anything much on this part, but it didn't feel as polished/tight as a ride that has just come out of a heavy refurb should.

I will also never visit DW again out of respect for the victims. I've spoken of this to my family and they also feel the same way

add TRR at the top of the list

because it's the most recent DUH