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A couple of distance shoots from Kopps rd and one as I drove in

Used JWorld's photo to project an estimation of the finished height, please excuse my MS Paint skills.

I feel if I've learnt anything from this it's in Australia not to trust these rides... and in America not to even go within a mile of them for risk of pieces falling off.

You're lucky paint isn't being removed after all

Fountain reacts only.

Took this today on my commute back from the gc to bris of the most recent work on lift hill

MEDIA RELEASE Sunday 30 July 2017 Polar Bear Cub explores Cub Kindy! The three-month old Polar Bear Cub at Sea World has reached the next stage in her development and has started to explore Cub Kindy. Cub Kindy is a specially designed area at the world-class Polar Bear Shores exhibit which allows for the cub to develop her life-skills and explore new substrates such as shaved ice all under the watchful eye of doting mum, Liya. The cub is taking all of the exciting new experiences in Cub Kindy in her little stride, including playing with mum on the ice, interacting with new toys and getting her first taste of solid foods. Sea World Director of Marine Sciences Trevor Long said the cub is doing really well and is becoming more inquisitive and playful each day, with Cub Kindy being a key part in her growth. “The first time to cub saw Cub Kindy, she was a little nervous, but after watching and learning from mum her confidence grew and she began to dig, run and play in the ice and is now starting to spend more time out there,” he said. “The cub has also been introduced to her first toys in Cub Kindy and she’s taken a real shine to a small ball which she enjoys playing with and chasing around the ice, keeping Liya on her toes. “She is continuing to grow significantly in size and is now starting to interact with solid foods including fish, meat and pork and it won’t be long until she makes her public debut. “We are still asking for the public to help us name this adorable cub through the naming competition on the Sea World website, which has had over 20 thousand votes since opening, with Mishka proving to be the front-runner at this stage. To cast a vote in the naming competition and go in the draw to win a family Sea World holiday including three nights’ stay at the award-winning Sea World Resort, unlimited theme park entry during their stay and a personalised Polar Bear back-of-house tour, please visit seaworld.com.au/cubcompetition The Polar Bears at Sea World are ambassadors for their species and play a vital role in raising awareness of the effects of global warming. Current research indicates that Polar Bear numbers in the wild are declining, with 20,000 – 25,000 bears remaining worldwide.

Came right back from Legendia and a 35 ride marathon on Lech Coaster! The ride averages 15 minute waits, but I used the unlimited fast pass (which cost a very cheap 39 Polish zlotys or 13.5 AUD!) and well... chained walk-on re-rides. This non-sense whoring now means that Lech becomes my second most-ridden coaster with... 35 laps, behind Goliath Walibi Holland and my seemingly unattainable 210+ rides on it. I feel very nerdy goony right now, and need to get some sleep!

what was I thinking... I meant cars. Anyway. It's that time of the week. Rivals Update for the week ending 29th/30th July 2017. Comparison Shot 1 I'm still hoping there'll be some visible difference when the first drop is complete... or when the Joker LED head is lit up... (Although, I may have to alter the angle for it to even be visible) Comparison Shot 2 No need for this one anymore. Lift Hill This was the last piece placed for the day. That second lift hill support perfectly frames the Superman top hat Random Panorama Sorry that it's not the best quality, but I've had to crop it to cut out a grey area.

Polar Bear Cub explores Cub Kindy The three-month old Polar Bear Cub at Sea World has reached the next stage in her development and has started to explore Cub Kindy. Click here to continue reading

My contribution (photos were taken today)

So I'd say that the event is officially always called, park after dark, and they change the end part depending on the theme for the night.

Then you're doing badly

no because it is not required. Firstly, it's not a joint and it isn't a weld. So what are you going to NDT exactly? It literally looks like the plate steel sheared completely through where the seat support arm is. If there weren't any visual indications (and if you could actually see the area properly) like cracking in the paint or other distortions in the surface, you wouldn't be able to tell that was going to happen during routine checks and there would be no reason to perform testing on the area. If it's not listed as an area of high stress, if it's not previously listed as an area of failure or fatigue, you can't just randomly go and NDT every entire surface of a ride. Aside from being impractical and just outright expensive, what about the time it takes? The ride wouldn't b able to operate with it closed so often. As sad as it is, looking back through history of engineering (and not just amusement rides), a great deal of previously undetected failures in design or underlying metallurgy issues were found and corrected only when a failure occurred. Sometimes all the best math just can't account for the unexpected. Things like water ingress for example wreak havoc with structural components and often there is no sign anything is wrong until physical signs of fatigue present. People who fly off the handle and blame manufacturers digging up "documents" that they either don't understand, or don't care to read are the same sort of people that fueled the fires when the terrible accident happened at dreamworld. Everyone on parkz hated that kind of coverage and blame game, especially when there was so much completely incorrect and misleading "fact" reporting, but now it's happening on the other side of the world it's ok? You guys are a bunch of hypocrites. Wait until more information is made available and another statement is released from the ride manufacturer and don't jump to completely incorrect conclusions. It only makes the whole tragedy much worse.

It doesn't say anything of the sort. I had a look at that facebook group too and lots of people are sighting the above service bulletin as the manufacturer admitting there was a flaw and this is the reason why it should have been shut down, and the reason for the possible cause of the accident. None of that could be further from the truth, it's clear as day what the bulletin refers to and the failure wasn't in any areas previously identified. FYI, The other service bulletin SB007 is out there for the restraints and also includes diagrams. http://www.caresofficials.org/sites/default/files/technical_info/kmg-international_fireball-kmg_frb24-sb007_1286.pdf where the hell you guys are getting information that links the above with this failure, I'd like to know (or you guys need to go back and read something properly). Edit: Just to further the point that the two are completely unrelated parts of the ride, here is a new bulletin from tivoli placing attention on the seat supports and tubes. Nothing at all to do with the swing arm fatigue found and addressed previously by kmg. http://www.caresofficials.org/sites/default/files/technical_info/tivoli-amtech-sosa019-1732.pdf

That's not where the cracks were found being addressed by that bulletin. http://www.caresofficials.org/sites/default/files/technical_info/kmg-international_fireball-kmg_frb-sb006_1237.pdf It starts talking about bearings and shows a flange clearly in the drawing for the repair. They are talking about the bolted section where the main swing arm joins the chassis that holds the gondolas. Not each arm to the gondola itself. It's the flange in the top right of the above. And in the middle of the above.

And this is why we can’t have nice things.

So TPSN is a place now?

Or maybe it's moving to Sea World for this year

Naa that can't be case.. TPSN has been posting 2 year old photos captioned with "info coming soon" for the past 6 months....

I use the Kool Aid man to say "Oh Yeah" that's an awesome post.

Problem solved. Use this instead of Kool Aid

Most people think I drink a lot of Kool-Aid. Interesting spread for somebody who has just posted 2 photos. 3 people like it 1 person thinks it's funny 2 think his drinking Kool-Aid