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Should have sent this guy over when they handed in the paperwork

Actually, what you will find is that parts that are certified overseas are not compliant to AU/NZ standards. Now this dosn't mean its unsafe or dosnt work, it means that the part hasnt been tested and approved by an Australian regulator. It happens in the gas industry where parts haven't been tested to the AGA standard and cant be used. Someone like Bunnings and there supply chain get the overseas parts tested to conform to the AGA standard because they will sell 1000's of the unit at a time. However a ride like this may have a part that has never been used in Australia and will never be used again for any other purpose, So when a part that is EU Certified arrives in Australia that is not wildly use, it need to have an Australian approved part to replace it. This often cant happen because there is no AU/NZ part that can do the job or the certifier cant do the test for months. Now apply that across the board to an overseas ride that arrives in Australia with 10,000 moving parts, valves, hose, hydraulics. Each part has to meet the Australian Standard and also be certified. Its the certification issue that takes so long because our backwards regulators dose not have a prior certification recognition system in place that will allow tested and often superior parts from overseas. This is not just happening to Dreamworld but across the whole amusement industry, its harder to get things certified with much longer lead times and the introductions of the new rules. Also it would not just be WHS involved, it will have several government agency who will require different requirements and from experience they will change the goal post with out notice.

Nothing visibly happening at WWF Work has moved into the other half of the Gotham City Hall And the carousel has completely gone

I'll get around to posting all my pics from Kennywood, but I rode this a couple of weeks ago. It's the multi looper for the 21st century, so if you love coasters like Kumba or Medusa or Kraken this will be up your alley. Has a good level of force and feels pretty relentless speed wise, the back to back inversions are dizzying, that zero g stall is taken pretty quick. The ride works with its speed well. Big impressive inversions early, but even as you reach the end it's sort of combines a corkscrew, helix and cut back into one continuous element taken at a fast pace. My final ride was on a warm night just before closing so it was really belting along, with good pops of air on the small hills it has. The main mark against it is that it vibrates constantly. The actual trackwork is very smooth, with no jolts at all and a beautiful flow, but in the seats it's basically a sybian. The friction drives and lift hill are horrendously slow too, which is strange. As you know on green lantern, it's very nippy in terms of advancing trains in the station, with minimal wasted time. This thing engages the lift hill at a crawl, and when it finally clears the station, the following train takes its sweet time moving in. Hopefully this is just temporary whilst the ride is new, but they are clearly losing a lot of capacity this way. The rest of the area wasn't done, though the gift shop was open. Thematically, its fairly basic, though the safety announcement is done by NFL commentators with some nice touches "we dont want any items going offside, so leave them in the locker room".

Yeah, the design freaks me out a bit, if you were to get a limb in the gap beween the paddle and the edge of the slide. A flat LSM hydromagnetic launch seems better as Joz said. Also, the layout seems a bit bleh, like why not use that speed for big elements like a wall or a bowl?

Nothing wrong with being lazy. As a design though it looks kinda stupid. Much as I'm not a fan of Supertubes, why not just that but starting at ground level without the need for the big coaster arms of death thing?

Eeeeeew

I prefer mine battered.

CONFIRMED - SW have a new breading programme.

There was the new for old replacement of Super 8 too.

My favourite part is that you can so clearly see what words she is saying after it. It just makes it so much better

what relevance does this have to the MW MAINTENANCE ?????

The whole kids area needs to be replaced. For such a great theme park its such a shit area.