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Dominos is no more and instead the same as SW’s pizza place The waterfall in Calpyso Beach hasn’t been replaced and still remains as a steel structure Surfrider is looking good with its recent repaint Aqualoop is under maintenance Despite closing for good the buggy’s frack and buildings still remain Mach 5 has no visible changes Black hole has its roof missing now too

I've been a huge fan of the new Vekoma designs (particularly Lech Coaster), so it was an incredible opportunity to meet the mastermind behind the manufacturer's incredible transformation! Benjamin's answers were fab - really informative and definitely engaging in the way he talked me through the thought process of designing coaster elements or layouts ❤️ Also wanted to apologize for not posting here much. Been a hectic few months travelling, doing all sorts of projects and montage. But here are a few pictures from my trips Steel Vengeance lived up to the massive hype. Its airtime actually isn't the most extreme, but it's still strong ejector, and there are so many of it! The second half just keeps going at an incredible pace, and the sections through the structure make the ride even wilder. Special mention to the exhilarating wave turn - sideways airtime is so much fun! Maverick ain't bad either. The layout shines with its diversity of forceful moments, the drop is awesome at the back, and the Stengel Dives are among the snappiest transitions I ever experienced Fenix is incredibly photogenic! The ride itself was a pleasant surprise, delivering a very fine sustained airtime hill as well as an unexpectedly sustained forceful helix. It's short, but really sweet. Hyperion was pretty fun, but didn't exactly live up to my (overhyped) expectations. It doesn't have the same pushing the envelope extremeness of other Intamin masterpieces like El Toro or Expedition GeForce. Some moments are almost dull, like the floater airtime hill, and other could have been more intense to really be exciting. Still, a great ride and the twist and dive inversion is fab! Martin & Vleminckx then The Gravity Group interviews are coming next

Friend works at WNW. Black hole is closed due to the lack of water in the tunnels. 2-3 times a day the ride is closed because tubes keep getting stuck on the dry spots.

I’m gonna beg to differ on this one. Ringers is a marketing face selling poor quality cheap ass China made wears at large markup. RM despite is foreign ownership and diversification remains the iconic high quality Australian brand it always has been. The two don’t even compare IMO.

@-nick.white.1543 just routine check and clean

That ‘waterfall’ just looks awful. And I mean the disused Buggy attraction is so obvious, this is not an acceptable standard.

A woodie would be an excellent fit for Sea World but it is just a case of 'wait and see', as already mentioned SW has advertised attractions that were never built. Building such a ride would be unique to Australia and a Gold Coast first. Because Sea World is a family oriented park I could see them building a Kentucky Flyer or Oscar's Wacky Taxi style woodie. Something which is in between Spongebob and Storm. However we'll have to see the scale of the Star Flyer first before I make further comment on where the park might go with a new coaster.

Do you think so? How many Wooden coasters have there been on the gold coast? I'd suggest to you that most of those that know of wooden coasters would be from television shows such as step-by-step (SFMM Colossus) and similar, and many would think that woodies are old technology, replaced by steel, hence why we only have steel coasters in our GC market. Few would think woodies are somehow still 'today's' technology, and most would be confused if a park started to build one.

I try, I really do, but comments like that make it hard... a ‘mere’ coaster?? you mean the biggest drawcards at any park for their major target demographic? Unfortunately you don’t fit the major target demographic Push... we will never get another Bermuda style ride at SW, the shed/studio is utilised by storm and they are not building another You’ve totally lost me on that one... I don’t think I could disagree more.

I welcome this news and talk of both the star flyer and a coaster. Whilst it's a bit early to board the hype train, we must remember that we've seen Sea World advertise attractions a few years out, and that turned out to be WILDly inaccurate... so backstage rumors, that don't even have a billboard in park are to be taken with such salt. I would like to see them build something akin to Incredicoaster \ California Screamin - the seaside pier 'woodie' look, but in a modern steel construction. Much as i'd like a woodie, we know what the maintenance requirements are, and I feel like a steel coaster, built to reside close to the sea is probably easier to protect than a woodie with our tropical weather. That's just opinion, i'm not stating fact, and i'm sure a park could make a woodie work on the gold coast - I'd just rather they didn't.

Have to say, unless they plan to do something with the Murrisippi that actually works with the river, they should just drain it, fill it in, and develop it, so that they stop cramming shit into ocean parade.

The new parkland is much better for families than the old river... can hire footballs & frisbees from Billabong to play with too...

If SW literally drops in a portable carnival version of this ride as their major attraction in the past 5 years I think I’d be done with them, that’s DW level stupidity. Reckon it has to be 50-60m to be a drawcard attraction

You couldn't buy anything from the Superman Escape shop anyway since your money is in a locker.