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When I mean 'permanent', I also mean that MW owns them and only installs them for the nights rather than hiring out a contractor and filling in all the paper work for a rarely conducted pyrotechnic display. Using the Wayback Machine link @AlexB provided, I found that they did have pyrotechnic displays listed in Oxenford last October each Friday/Saturday night (and some Sunday/Thursday nights) at 6pm, 7pm & 8pm - I can only assume this was for last year's Fright Nights. So whatever it is, it is something that features at Fright Nights but not Carnivale. Is it this?: In the end, after this, I'm starting to conclude that fire effects isn't what is so special about DD at Fright Nights. I suspect it is just extra G-forces on that 2nd revolution like @Luke speculated.

Plus, a hotel & lakeside/entertainment precinct. TopGolf's construction was due to commence around September (or more accurately "in the next few months" - said in late June). I read in the Gold Coast Bulletin that the planned hotel was to be placed on top of a MW carpark (which carpark I don't know). You're probably referring to my post: The only way to figure out if Movie World is associated with this is if someone can figure out how many rollercoasters Mack Rides are manufacturing. If 2 are currently scheduled for completion in the timeframe given above & Movie World's one of those, Movie World's rollercoaster could be one of those designed specifically for virtual reality.

That's what I'm assuming about the southern supermarket too. How up to date are those plans? I saw very similar plans (Page 23) from August 2013 last weekend. There are noticeable differences but the retail section is very identical. I found these plans near development applications for 'Westfield Coomera - Stage 1' so I assumed it all was for Stage 1 with a 'Westfield Coomera - Stage 2' across Foxwell Road.

No. A 'world's best' rollercoaster is definitely not going to come from a scrapyard. The photo is completely unrelated to MW's rollercoaster. Need to be more specific on what you are talking about.

If you say so. I read in a very large document (Page 15/16) that accompanied that map that said Precinct 1c is to include a supermarket so I assumed the Westfield development includes that too (even if it isn't the main part of it). There is plenty of extra DW space just east of the southern end of Precinct 1c which doesn't include the Vintage Cars too - this is a separate precinct known as Precinct 8, which features in that very large document on pages 27/28.

The "themed entertainment, ride & retail outlet" development application they are referring to is very likely the DC Comics Super-Villians Unleashed area and not the rollercoaster. Like @pin142 said, it seems like the Gold Coast Bulletin only just discovered RCDB, Parkz, the recently added development application or even the large construction site at the park (How could they not notice after nearly a month?). The only thing that can be defined as 'new' in the article is a possible announcement date - "near future" - which still follows what I said back at the start of this month: This would indicate an announcement no later than the 20th of November 2016 (otherwise instead of saying "In the coming months", he would have said "Next year"). They didn't say that. You mixed the VRTP spokesperson's quote up with the RCDB paragraph. According to Theme Park Review, an extremely identical one was recently seen in southern Los Angeles. This pretty much:

Well that would definitely not be an illegal fireworks display. It is more likely that display wasn't added to the list at those points in time. After all, the lists we have found were either 5 months prior to the display (which is still very early to be added to the list) or after the display (which would mean it was removed).

I know but I thought I'd just give a reminder to @pin142. You probably know more detail information about the development than me (as I've only just recently returned to discuss Gold Coast theme parks) but from what I know, I think it is on both sides of the road but built in stages. The northern side of the road being built first (Precinct 1a) then the southern side (Precinct 1b) and if all the main retail anchors are operating, then DW's end of the southern portion (Precinct 1c) will be built. If there is more up to date plans, just share them with me so I can be more up to date if I'm wrong.

If VR (maybe with the head strapping too) becomes a mainstream consumer product, I wouldn't be surprised if in the future you could just go to a theme park with your VR headset and purchase a temporary download of the VR experience at a ride's retail outlet (one that expires each day at closing time & only works upon entry at the ride though scanning of a code etc.). Lasers. There would be no problem with speed. If the ride has a sudden stop in block brakes etc. due to malfunction, the VR 'world' would stop in the same spot too. The opposite also applies - if you are waiting in the station, the VR 'world' wouldn't travel. This is, of course, assuming the VR is working.

If they are permanent, they wouldn't be on the list - the list is usually for temporary pyrotechnic displays. I don't know the display you are referring to but from my experience regarding these types of lists, any display you see that is not on the list is usually an illegal firework display plus if it is anything like NSW's list, displays can be added up to 2 days prior to the display. I stand corrected.

Looking at the Westfield development plans I found on the GCCC website last weekend, the Big Brother House is located just inside the Westfield development site in precinct 1c, approximately where the '800m walking radius' circle intersects with the western side of that precinct. If the Westfield development begins construction later this year, I'm very confident the Big Brother House will be demolished (if it hasn't been already). I wonder what they would do with Dreamworld Studios then?

I think you can find it here in the media pack (174MB) that was released in relation to the fine. It is 32 pages long with 222 pages of appendices. The media pack accompanied the press release.

That would seem more likely than fire effects though to the general public, it wouldn't seem much different to normal operations? The RPM is at it's highest in the 2nd revolution because that would be when the ride 'peaks'. When there is 2 revolutions, being an even number, there is no 'peak'.

I wonder if it is just a coincidence?

Round 2! And the trend (thankfully) doesn't exist!...yet.

Be patient. Whilst there was talk of an announcement in August, do keep in mind the rollercoaster is not due to open for a maximum of 15 months. If they revealed everything now, apart from the occasional construction update, what will us Parkz forum members have to speculate or discuss until then? All the questions would have been answered. There are also many other reasons to not announce something such as licensing agreements, industry competition or generally, just the state of progress in the project. We also speculated that any announcement won't come until well after the DC Comics Super-Villians Unleashed area would be opened so the general public won't get confused between the 2 new additions.

They were posted on August 24, @Gazza but the image isn't working anymore. They are already in the Parkz photo galleries too.

Just to add to that... If name change is approved, it would take effect late October/early November - depends on when the Australian Securities & Investment Commission amends the Company's registration. Source

I thought that originally but after looking back at previous photos, the high voltage box has been there a while (with it's theming completed for the launch party) & I don't think fire would shoot out that hole in the high voltage box if there is a railing in the way (unless it is removed for the nights or the camera angle gives the impression the railing is in the way). Also, given there are 2 separate rotating arms on DD, I assume whatever happens on the 2nd revolution would happen on both sides of the ride (unless it features at the top/bottom of the ride). You never know - it might be related in the end.

I'm taking a wild guess and saying fire effects hence "turning up the heat" and I don't mean on the ride itself (like the smoke effects as that might be a bit of a hazard to have fire there) but somewhere around the ride that would allow their safe usage whilst being close enough to the riders to add an extra dimension to the ride. Also, I don't know if pyrotechnics are used at Fright Nights but the QLD Government's list of upcoming pyrotechnic displays mentions displays in Oxenford on each night of Fright Nights. If pyrotechnics are rarely used at Fright Nights, maybe this could be referring to possible fire effects?

Unsure if this is old news (I feel like I've read it somewhere on Parkz before) but this Facebook comment says DW has been "working on"...something similar to a history talk about DW's old rides etc. that would happen while travelling on the Dreamworld Express. I guess I should cue Eureka Mountain Mine Ride comments then...

I meant 5 posts in the whole Parkz forums. And in case you're thinking it, I wasn't questioning the number of times you've been on WWF and/or been to MW. I haven't been to MW for over 5 years myself.

I guess they mean fastest WorldAlley ever then...

My apologies if I caused offence. When I said this...: ...I was only trying to be helpful. I saw you only made 5 posts at the time so I thought you were relatively new to Parkz. Even if you weren't a new member, I probably would have posted that anyway as from what you wrote here...: ...I thought you might not have known that Gold Coast theme park management look at the forums regularly. In case you were thinking it, I also definitely did not think you were being sarcastic or thinking I'm pointing out something obvious. Again, apologies if I offended you.

True - Behemoth Bowls are very well known to incorporate lights & internal/external theming. I still think they could have left it as a Behemoth Bowl finale & themed it to a dust storm with the ride called 'The Dust Bowl'. In the end, I was only pointing out where The Perfect Storm is distinct from Funnel Web. Yeah, Jamberoo were not technically accurate there. In the end, it depended on how they defined 'waterslide'. It is clearly a tube waterslide & not a body waterslide so they might mean fastest tube waterslide at least? The general public won't notice the technicality so 1 less word would make up heaps in visitors numbers & revenue. That was originally the plan (but with 2 smaller Tornadoes rather than just 1 large Tornado). I don't think they would've built a Kidz Tornado when they already got plans for an interactive water play area. Well according to Jamberoo Action Park: Jamberoo residents are highly concerned about the colours of new developments at the Park - the choice of colours was what mainly held up the Kangaroo Island development for about 5 years. They probably chose similar colours because firstly, the residents would be happy with it & secondly, it fits the storm theme.