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@Baconjack Thanks. Purely an imagining, wouldn't it be tragic if they relocated it to somewhere else in the park - just to piss us off lol. Iconic re-imagined - Doomsday Resurrection.

That was quick, happy days. Hopefully the fences come down soon so people can enjoy the precinct again. Did I miss something or was there never any announcement? (MW: Doomsday Destroyer, never heard of it, what's that?). If so, missed opportunity for marketing to lament how iconic it was.

An official announcement would be nice, so we can feel confident to start celebrating lol. Doomsday Destroyed - that's a nice headline. Such a cool precinct, shame about the ride.

^Good to know, it's a cool place for gigs. My partner and I went to Dream Circus and we absolutely hated it, couldn't wait for it to finish (she's total non-theme park person, so an okay sample space of perspectives). Hopefully most of the money was spent on the tech and not the production. Back to topic lol, anyone seen any movement with the Wild Mouse? Last time I checked, one piece of track was missing and there were no cars on site.

@Baconjack I agree with you big top is a cash cow for concerts / functions, so hopefully after the lull during covid they'd look to exploit that fully. Likewise, Crystal palace. Dream Circus was an admirable pivot, but it was absolutely abysmal IMO. I imagine the technology is there to utilise for other presentations, even integration into a corporate function. Not sure when they last had a concert there, but hopefully there'll be some gigs happening in the future. It will be interesting to see what the hospo people do. A vibrant dining/night-life scene combined with the existing amusement park might be good.

@themagician good points. I've been on Orkanen at Farup Sommerland which is the same model, and I agree - that was also pretty good and re-rideable. I'll be driving by the parks on monday on the way to Bris. So if I go, I'll have to choose between DW and MW (& convince my partner to go, she hates coasters).

But which one is more iconic? Put a second sock in for that. Personally, if I had to choose, I'd take DW's coaster over the pretty standard ones at MW. But that's just my preference.

Good to know it's at least running sometimes. I might swing by on Monday when I'm driving up to Bris if I get good reports about the chances of being open, and if the weather isn't hellacious.

What's the current betting market on a soft open? Before Christmas maybe, though maybe I should specify what year lol.

Lol I have a guy in my team at work who lives in Werribee in Victoria. My joke occasionally is : have they built Disneyland yet? News sites have a certain amount of space to fill with content, so they have their go-to pieces on slow days.

I'm sure a lot of operators would have kicked the tyres to see what's what. Though it's not like when it's a real competitor where they do that to get a look at their books. Lol maybe Village could have relocated The Flash there.

Yeah I saw that in the news. I've been to Gronalund in Sweden which is a really good example of having vibrant hospo scene integrated with an amusement park. Will be interesting to see what happens, LPS appears to have partly given up on functions and events given the re-purposing of the big top and crystal palace. I guess things like Dream Circus (utterly excrebable) are expected to make more money.

I checked out Wild Mouse from Hair Raiser on Saturday. There's a straight piece of track missing on the station side turnaround before last set of drops. No trains out yet. Big difference between the front (much smoother) and back row (shaky) of Big Dipper.

Lol it's the Bog Dipper if you eat at the Hungry Horse on the other side.

Checked it out yesterday. No trains on yet. Saw a piece of the old track in the boneyard to the side of Big Dipper. Red train for Bog Dipper is in a highly dismantled state at the moment.