Richard

It is protected under U.S. Title 17 (Copyright) Laws - specifically Chapter 1, Section 117, the "Fair Use Clause", the video and included song is used exclusively for not-for-profit purposes, and does not detract from the copyright holder's own ability to profit from the song. In other words, my video won't result in reduced sales for Ben Lee's 2000 album Breathing Tornados and I'm not making any money from it, so legally there's not much of an issue there. The issue with the shirts would be the profiting off of another person's works, which in the case of the video, I'm not.

It's not a vertical drop - my memory about it is a bit sketchy, because I only rode it once about six months ago, and at the time I was concentrating more on the fact that it was absolutely freezing - rather, it's a "regular" drop that curves to the left. I believe the system was a tilting, so it does appear to be a waterfall, but it's not like those freefalls they've got on some rapids rides in Europe.

But what good would it do, when clearly you won't look it up? For instance, there's currently eight Wonderland videos on this site - as seen here: http://www.roller-coaster.com.au/park.php?pid=4. There are more coming some day, when I find the time to get the rest Flea's videos up.

Waterfall element? You'll have to refresh me on that one. It's a good ride - if wetness is your thing, then this is the ride for you. You won't leave this thing without being head to toe wet - and usually you're there before the thing's half over. No way that it's better than Grizzly River Run, or Kali River Rapids at Disney's Animal Kingdom. Grizzly River Run is definitely the best I've ridden, out of a total of nine - with not one but two full fledged drops during the ride, one of which spinning, nothing comes close, and its theming personally does it for me a lot more than IOA's painted concrete. I'd compare Popeye in terms of the ride (leaving theming alone) to SeaWorld San Diego's - Popeye's just a heap longer and a heap wetter.

http://www.parkz.com.au/forums/sh...hread.php?t=847

And while we're off topic, I'd assume you've got permission from the parties concerned (David Burton etc.) to use their photographs on your items. I'm not sure who'd want a t-shirt with a photo of a coaster or ride on it anyway.

And also, Dreamworld has four coasters currently operating. I'm also not sure why you wouldn't count toboggans. There's not a definition of roller coaster that wouldn't include toboggans.

13 coasters? I think you're missing a few. Even if you're not going to count the toboggans as coasters (which wouldn't be correct), we've certainly got a few more than 13 currently operating. As for my favourite theming, nothing in Australia has ever really taken my fancy. I don't mind Dreamworld, but they're really doing their best to ruin a lot of the nicer areas of the park. Warner Bros. Movie World is OK for the "Hollywood" style of theming, but it's well and truly far from the best in this class (see Universal Studios Hollywood, Orlando, Disney's California Adventure and Disney-MGM Studios for the ultimate in Hollywood theming), and the way it's also been bastardised, with no real thought put into the overall aesthetics of the park, doesn't impress me. Sea World's scenic, not really what I'd call themed. I love the park, but I'd hardly consider it themed. My favourite to date would probably be Disney's California Adventure's Golden State area, surrounding Grizzly River Run. Disney's Animal Kingdom was also up there for me. That park doesn't do it for a lot of people because it's not exactly jam-packed with attractions, but it has amazing grounds and the African and Asian areas of the park are great (forget DinoLand USA).

Cedar Point was chosen because it's probably undeniably the best capacity park in the world. I don't think there was too much ambiguity about this in the article. Warner Bros. Movie World was mentioned in the article and came out to be over twice as efficient as Dreamworld. That there should serve as an appropriate guage for Australian parks.

There wouldn't be a park in the world that doesn't operate like this. Including Cedar Point, the comparison subject and both parks down the road. They don't have the problems with capacity that Dreamworld does. The problem with those 10-15 minute queues is that normally there might be a trainload or a trainload and a half in the queue in front of you. 15 minute dispatches on any ride is not cool. Umm, there's nearly 1:30 every cycle that's disappeared from that equation. A two minute cycle includes load/unload, else it wouldn't be a cycle. So where's that extra 90 seconds going? Inefficient operations anyone? Back to my first point - Dreamworld's operators are in the exact same boat as every other park in the world. To try and use that as an explanation or excuse for slow operations is arogant and narrow-sighted to say the least. I don't believe anyone's even directed any specific blame towards Dreamworld's operators, or the operations department or anything. Please also take a read of the Community Guidelines.

I had a hunch that I'd be proven wrong with the Giant Drop example. I should have remembered Rainbow's End. I also doubt that they get many customers through their website. It's more of an example of the rides they have produced. Take their listing of the Reverse Freefall coaster - with the introduction of their hydraulic launch system, I see absolutely no way Intamin would even dare to try and sell one of their Reverse Freefall coasters with the hydraulic technology far more economic and efficient than their LSM technology. Anyway, I still think it is a fair assumption that Intamin won't be too forward about sending you the plans for their Impulse because it's one of their flagship products, and there would natural hesistation to giving out plans etc. to just anyone. Tried contacting Six Flags or Cedar Fair who have the rides? They've got the public relations people who might be glad to help you with the Impluse dimensions.

The park issued a media release yesterday regarding the ride. No pictures yet - if I can I'll get out there next week once it's opened and check it out.

Regardless, B&M still own the patents to their design of four-across Standup coaster. What the situation is with Shockwave I don't know exactly, but it was done when Intamin was still very much related to Giovanola. You'd probably find Intamin paid B&M for the use of the design as a once-off project. Intamin certainly don't own any of the patents or technology associated with the Standup coaster. This is fundamentally why Intamin coasters sta The Flying Dutchman is also listed, and yet there's only I believe one still remaining in the world and they certainly haven't been produced any time in the last 20 years. I doubt Intamin are exactly setup to build any Giant Drops either these days with Gyro Drops available.

http://www.roller-coaster.com.au/article.php?aid=16 Enjoy.

B&M took the patents for the Standup coaster with them when they left to form their own company, yet they're still listed on Intamin's website.

Just a stab in the dark, but their looping ship would probably be out of production, so they'd be more likely to give the plans to a fan, as opposed to one of their current flagship products, the Impulse coaster.

There are two photographs of the mountain in the Nickelodeon Central Gallery here.

And of course by 'met', you actually mean 'stood and watched from a distance'.

Having never seen it, I'm guessing ThrillRide's Wild Rumors section. This sort of thing would be so ridiculously expensive and require so many huge changes to the ride that it's not funny. Adding fifty feet of track, and the subsequent speed to make that height would push G-forces from beyond 4.5Gs up towards around 6Gs or more. I know it's garbage, but it says SFMM are talking to Intamin about it. Then it throws out of nowhere that Dreamworld would do the same. Where's that come from? Our ride runs with a high level of reliability, and there'd be absolutely no reason for such changes.

17 an overkill? I'd say about three would be an overkill for a park of the size suggested. Sea World really only has six places (you don't need to count each individual section of the Plaza or the Terrace because they're more or less just different sections of the same place). Dreamworld has eight. Luna Park in Melbourne only had a single place last time I was there, and that's more the size of park you'd be looking at.

http://www.roller-coaster.com.au/ride.php?rid=43 That height is measured from the top of the complete revolution, so the the support frame would hence be about half that. Check out the accompanying gallery, and do some measurements here and there and you should be able to come up with the dimensions and angles etc. of the ride.

I hardly think this discussion's appropriate given the topic of this thread. Take the model talk to the appropriate thread.

Not a bad suggestion. If you're saving them in Paint, you should be able to select what you want to save it as by using the drop-down box when you go to "File - Save As". Choose JPEG or GIF for best compression.

Gum Tree Gully. I'd personally not count Tiger Island as an area - the whole "area" is a single themed animal attraction. It's no more or less its own themed area as say Tower of Terror.

Another piece of news, fresh off the press, that I don't think's quite front page-worthy. My suggestion at this stage would be that this guy's going to hit the ground running and play the "bring in heaps of new and fresh ideas" card. I'd say look out some quality ad campaigns when the time comes later in the year.