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Look man, i'm usually the last person to complain or even care about this sort of thing, but please proof read or something before you submit a reply. It is very hard to understand what you are saying or even trying to say sometimes due to a lack of punctuation and what not, and it makes it very hard to therefore have any sort of a constructive conversation with you and to an extent take what you have to say seriously. Your (and i think i speak on behalf of most people on here) opinions and comments are valid, interesting and appreciated by us as a community, just please for the sake of other users try work on a way to convey those without it coming out as jibberish. 👍🙂

No... the film will be good marketing for the ride. Films can spend as much as the ride cost on marketing. VRTP will be lucky to announce a ride let alone market it.

I know virtually everyone has said this but a new mad max is coming in 2023 so a mad max ride where Arkham was in 2023 could be good marketing for the new film

Funny thing is, Arkham was always one of the more popular rides in the park which is why they gave it a new lease on life when the refresh was done from Lethal to Arkham. It was tossed around at that point in time of actually decommissioning the coaster at that stage. They knew that upgrading the control system and the braking system to magnetic brakes would only give the ride another 10 or so years so. I think they were expecting it to last a few more years than it did, but we saw what Kumbak trains did to Sea Viper... so this was to be expected TBH. Even though they used the same Vekoma chassis, I have a sneaking feeling the new hangers etc were actually heavier causing excess wear and tear, which is exactly what happened with Sea Viper. Only difference is that Sea Viper was much older, and in a much harsher environment to Arkham. Honestly, I'm really going to miss it as it was one of my fave rides in the park and IMO the most intense coaster we had in Australia. Was also a great ride to work on back in the Lethal days, sadly I didn't get to work on it once it was retimed to Arkham.

It’s offical

I checked this out yesterday afternoon. Basically no wait aside from the cleaning between cycles. The carvings and sculpts in the area look very sleek and high quality, but maybe the area is a little too modern and vanilla. If they were going for new Atlantis, it would have been cool if it had remnants of the old Atlantis that had been built over and modernised. The landscaping looks good. Not big on the bins. Lots of water everywhere, on the walls around the ride, but also at the queue near the head of the queue where you enter the ride the ride envelope, which actually causes a bit of overspray. The cycle is okay, but too short....It needs about one extra full revolution and a couple times where it stops and has you swinging to feel truly rounded out. By and large this will never have more than a two cycle wait, so they should not be afraid to run a longer programme. Not all fountains are in use, you can see silver/black holes in the pool floor for extra jets (much easier to see when riding looking down, this photo aint great) This place will be seagull city. They should add the brushes seen on a soldiers helmet but do it with bird spikes.

Not too sure, but they’ve actually been redesigned. As you can see in the image, Talocan has those large shoulder pieces, I think I remember them being comfortable but the ones on Vortex are great. The original Top Spins have different ones again and have the bar as a secondary. HUSS Park Attractions aren’t exactly the original HUSS Maschinenfabrik, after the insolvency, the company today basically just used the HUSS name, the build quality is still on par, but they’ll never make a travelling ride again. I don’t even think they offer parts for Break Dance’s anymore, not 100% but they did supply all new gears and bolts for our Rainbow that is being refurbished, so not too sure what they actually do for the existing Maschinenfabrik machines. SAD is a German company that refurbishes and provides parts for many HUSS rides, including redesigned crosses for the Break Dances that are approved by TUV