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After years of SBNO, the day has finally arrived

Its about time! The real estate it frees up is not huge, but hopefully room enough for some sort of new attraction. Would love to see some sort of immersive dark ride experience.

My reason is because they all look tacky as hell. From the kebab shop style lighting package through to the fact I could see Bloody wheels underneath the thing, that sky flyer at Seaworld looked awful. As does nearly every other traveling ride no matter what you do. Yes I would say the exception was the Seaworld Eye, and if you could do that with something sure. But I highly doubt that’s what you would get. Id hate to be a park operator. One day its “they suck because they didnt build a fully themed immersive attraction”, and the next “oh just wack some carni rides in there.” I dont envy their position

Going to make a call to close this thread. Good on the bloke for turning a negative into a positive. 🍻

To be fair, even if Cedar Point was built here, people would go bonkers if a new ride wasnt a thrill coaster despite being almost the entire line up. The coaster riding public only want their tastes catered to and nobody elses.

Agree they must now have a clear picture of what will become of the site. Although we'll have to wait and see, I'd be surprised if they just leveled the entire area and will assume they'll incorporate at least some of the structure already there. I'd say an announcement is imminent, but that surely won't be coming until Leviathan/Trident open just in time for the Olympics very soon.

Could be on the orphan movies could be Esther from the orphan movie, first movie was distributed by Warner bros.

Yes Karen. /s The prices went down because the sell off so now Ardent needs something to bring Ardent back to life.

I went on Brisbane Ekka Holiday and the park seemed to be the busiest i’ve seen it in a while, with everything being 30-45mins with even GC’s line coming outside of the indoor section and down a bit of the outside spiral. They seem to be doing fine🤷‍♀️

isn't that just because Main Event was divested from the group? it sounds like the end of financial year would be a good time to effect the change, no?

Hopefully when Arendt announces its Y22 results next week, Arendt can kickstart its hart with some big announcements because Ardent has flatlined.

i agree, the image definitely has Annabelle vibes, i mean even the dress flares, height, piggy tails, it all looks very familiar to each other; besides annabelle, i don’t really think there’s another IP that this could fit, so many an original maze?

Wouldn’t bother, it was having so many issues prior to closure. If you were just talking a re-theme as the ride system itself was still in good nick, then sure - but I believe it’s a long way from that. Better to gut the place and do something new, or demolish the whole building and utilise the space

The Sea World eye was “transportable”, but it’s not the same as a typical carnival ride that is painted with cheesy airbrush graphics and looks temporary and only stays for a couple of weeks. Those Ronald Bussink wheels seem a bit more involved for set up, and stay at their location for long periods (The Wheel of Brisbane is a good example) and the install doesn’t look as “cheap”. I think the main giveaway with the sea world eye was the metal flooring and the ugly modular fencing. But it still looks a lot more tasteful than a regular carnival ferris wheel I think SW eye got a pass because it was a big ride too, in an iconic location.

I thought the Sea World Eye had no grossness about it at all.

Perhaps one solution is to have more attractions, particularly smaller rides with shorter maintenance periods so even with a couple of major rides closed the park is still a full day.

Let’s see… Much larger maintenance crews, on cheaper wages, at parks making more in a month than ours make in a year. Different govt and regulator requirements. Easier access to parts/components without them needing to be on a ship for 4-6 weeks to get there. there’s a few off the top of my head - I’m sure there are others too