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Went to the third AW Nights, last night. The streets around the park were packed. Gwilliam St was full of cars up to Red Rooster and Progress Drive had cars parked along it past the Ice Arena. They have started a new line at the main gate for season pass holders. Managed to pick up a key for a small locker from a couple of staff members with a bucket of keys. Bumped into Andrew, the CEO, and had a brief chat. He said they’re still testing different things out and tweaking the event. He was also grateful for the 38 degree weather and the large crowds it brought with it. I didn’t hang around too long, yesterday. I took photos, had dinner and went for a swim. There were still people entering the park when I left, just before 9pm. One more AW Night to go, on Australia Day.

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I’ve never been to adventure world but thanks for the consistent updates

We were talking to the GM of AW the other week about a certain part of the park that has enough power to supply 5 rides when he told us that they sometimes supply the grid.

The backup generators are being used for animal enclosures. And possibly the resort is being partially powered

Multiple substations on site and their own feeders from the network thats not providing the suburbs nearby. Thats probably a good indication how much power the parks use. Might not have the rides at seaworld and wet n wild, but pumps and filtration suck down the juice before you even talk about heating or cooling the water too. Hate to think what a daily power bill would be worth.

Yeah, I don’t deny that those animal exhibits would need a lot of power and that the two parks are very different. It was just weird as we had just had that conversation with Ross, the GM, and had presumed that the GC parks would be similar.

You can talk to the GM and CEO? They future proofed the park? It’s funny that this ‘water park’ has more dry thrill rides than that marine wildlife park.

Yeah, sorry, I was talking about Sea World. No, I was just wondering why a proper theme park doesn’t have its own power supply and an ‘amusement park’ like Adventure World generates enough power to sell it back to the grid. Are the GC parks that poor?

Don’t GC parks have their own generators?

Wet & Wild closed due to no water supply, then Sea World due to no power. Both within about a week or so. Just unlucky coincidence I'm sure, but not good, especially both incidents being during peak holiday season.

Fixed it...

Misters were present when I went on the 8th Good to see Rampage was actually running full cycles. I must've just gone on a weird day

You mean more amusement rides? I find it funny how butt hurt you get over the tiniest dig at Adventure World. Even if you classed AW as a higher class park (say an action park) it doesn’t change the fact that a park like Sea World has much higher power consumption requirements compared to Adventure World, so its like comparing apples with vomit.

I don’t think you compare the electricity needs of AW vs SW. it’s entitely unproportionate. Wouldn’t be surprised if Shark Bay, Polar Bear Shores & the Penguin Exhibit in isolation utilise more power than the whole of AW...

Well you see that’s the difference between a water park and a theme park...

Source?

You realise how much power an entire theme park needs, right?

I love how Movie World's downfall recently is always blamed on Dreamworld. People easily forget that Movie World were very close to killing people on Green Lantern.