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I agree that it would be a better fit for Sea World. And credit whores won't have to visit an extra park to get everything. Nice to see Noxegon on the site, that dude is hardcore.

The pompous rich twats are at it again. NIMBY's limit so many amusement parks. The hoony ride reference is unintentional comedy gold. I want to buy a season pass and marathon hair raiser on the facing the cliff side and scream my lungs out. And then get drunk and fight on the streets.

^Ditto, I was so impressed on Saturday night. The cast on the 7.30pm special tour were hilarious and you've gotta love that special experience on the tour (no spoilers).

I went on Saturday night (18/10) on the Ultimate Tour, this is my first time at Fright Nights though I've been going to US events like Halloween Horror Nights and Knott's Scary Farm for years as a comparison point. I liked the mazes, Evil Within and Wolf Creek 2 were definitely comparable to Knott's and moving towards Universal territory. Ripper had great sets, but lacked scare actors, especially towards the end. Clowns was passable, some good scare actors. Scare Zones lacked a scare actors especially the alley to the soundstages. Main street was better though, especially when they had the rush of characters go through. The event really needs more attractions though to break up the crowds, even if what is there is good quality. It would be interesting to know how much of the crowd are people getting a free ticket from an Annual Pass (or do they have a cap on AP tickets). Overall, the event was tons of fun. The Ultimate Tour was excellent, the Lounge, special tour, bag of goodies, meet and greet with event cast at their briefing and Front of Line privileges were outstanding. They could make it clearer though that there are no backstage tours included in the Ultimate Tour. Luckily a friend knew the backstage tour wasn't included so I signed up for that while I was there during the day - the lights-on maze tour was excellent. One major turn-off is the dire public transport situation getting back from the event, I was lucky I got a lift with a friend or I might have been walking back to Surfer's.

Did anyone have any experience with the public transport bus after the event which I believe goes to Helensvale and then Surfer's? I'm coming up from Surfer's so I have nightmares of being stranded there.

^Ha, I might give it a miss unless I wind up having other people with me.

^The mazes are looking good at Hollywood Universal this year - that place gets seriously chockers, you could watch a good chunk of a whole series of walking dead on an iPad waiting in line for the maze. I'll there a less than a week after Movie World, should be fun. Is 4 mazes the most Move World has ever had at the event?

I asked someone reasonably who was reasonably high up in Universal the same question about Uni Studios in Hollywood and the answer I got was: "Do you know how much those soundstages make?" So it might be a similiar equation for Movie World, and of course MW has a number of other factors influencing theme park expansion like the neighbours. LOL, otherwise, start buiding that indoor megalite.

So can a solo adult male (albeit normal looking) ride this without everyone looking at them like they're Uncle Fester? It looks like fun, though the looney tunes ride was an outstanding attraction, but who knows what MW has in store?

^^Thanks for that, it seemed ridiculous to have to pay park entry. Going to be a busy day, I might see if I can squeeze in the Sea World shark feeding thing at midday before heading up. ^I have limited time, so I want to squeeze as much in one night as possible. For me, the Ultimate Tour was the tipping point in deciding whether to go or not.

I booked the Ultimate Tour for the 18th. I plan to spend the day at the park anyway, and go to Sea World on the Sunday, so it was worth getting VIP Gold. My read of that 15 people thing is that when they take you on the guided tour part of the package the maximum size of a single group is 15 people, I think they would have more than 15 Ultimate Tour packages available on any night. I'd love to be wrong though. I'm hoping the Ultimate Tour has lights on maze walk throughs like Behind The Screams, it wasn't clear about that. My Ultimate Ticket says meet at Stars Cafe at 4.30pm, I agree it's ordinary you need admission to the park as well to do the tour.

I'm looking into a VIP ultimate straight away, just what I want.

^I'm waiting on the options there, that may well decide if I go or not.

^^Behind the Scenes tours would be cool, I've done that at Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando and it was awesome. I'd pay plenty extra to do that.

Looks like RMC will have to use a lot more steel supports for the lift hill than planned. It appears to have been their fault, the speculation being that sparks from cutting out the old lift hill assembly set it alight. Based on that, I'd assume RMC will be liable for the extra work and materials. Should be a pretty good coaster as long as SFMM doesn't neuter it with too many trim brakes.

If the Ripper maze is anywhere near as good as Terror of London at Knott's it'll be excellent - London is one of my faves at Scary Farm. I'll be ineterested to see what the ticket options are this year, iof they have a decent fast pass type option that will be a tipping point for me.

I'd like to go, but it's difficult to find a window with sporting commitments. I'm also worried I might be a bit jaded because I do stuff like Halloween Horror Nights and Knott's Scary Farm every year (including late October this year). Doing the Gold Coast Rugby Sevens and a couple of Fright Nights would be an awesome double.

Twisted Colossus makes Magic Mountain a place that I'd actually go back to now, and Wicked Cyclone at New England, means I'll have to divide my time between between Bizarro/Ride Of Steel and Wicked on future visits. The S & S at Fiesta looks like an improvement on the Intamins like Insane and Green Lantern. Everything else is kind of meh, it will be interesting to see how legs the year-round haunt at La Wronge has, we know how much Six Flags like staffing things. Those Looping Flats are kind of lame, I'm surprised they don't make them go around a heap of times and try and claim the roller coaster inversion record.

Is it better with crowds to go to this earlier in the month, or is it just packed all the time? I've been putting off going to this for years, one of these years...

I agree it would fit well at MW, it's balanced nicely between being a full-on adult ride and an older kids ride. Looks like so much fun.

I'm in the process of doing mine. I'm doing it from scratch just so I can put some thought into, but with almost 500 steelies in my count (albeit Mitch has rationalised it a fair bit) it's a bit of work. After some sensational rides on Maverick and Millennium Force last, they moved up my list. Once I'm done, I'm confident Goudurix will be at the bottom. My top 15 steel is pretty much set (plus my fave woodie at the top): 1. Favorite Wood Coaster - Outlaw Run 2. Expedition GeForce 3. Bizarro (SF New England) 4. Maverick 5. New Texas Giant 6. Millennium Force 7. Goliath (Walibi Holland) 8. X2 9. Piraten 10. Top Thrill Dragster 11. Nemesis (Alton Towers) 12. Montu 13. iSpeed (Mirabilandia) 14. Kumba 15. Katun 16. Vortex (Canada's Wonderland)

I believe the housos Wet and Wild is at the nearby sewerage plant. It will be interesting to see how this goes. If it's successful maybe it will encourage other similar development. Just put Balder and Expedition GeForce clones in a parking lot and I'll be happy.

IV bags cool, they have sexy nurses selling them at Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando. I tried one there, but I didn't find it too alcoholic. So many people stumble around drunk in Orlando HHN (they sell alcohol on every corner just about), I saw younger people who could barely stand-up and a few up-chucks. Movie world Halloween sounds like it is getting better every year.

There's also single rider lines for some attractions, so if you're willing to split up, that can be good value for especially non-e-ticket attractions. Totally concur on Matterhorn, hit it first. For SFMM, the most painless way to get there is just book a tour and they pick you up at your hotel and take you there. Worth a visit if you haven't been before, so many coasters. A Flash Pass is worth it if there's lines and you want to get a lot of rides in. I recommend going to SFMM on a Sunday in off-season (not open weekdays generally). I'm going next week, though I'm mainly there for Halloween attractions like Knotts Scary Farm and Halloween Horror Nights. I might be able to squeeze in a visit to one of the Disney parks, but I'm not a huge fan. Decided to skip SFMM (been on everything a million times except YOLOcoaster), doing a new haunt and some bands instead the day we were thinking of going to SFMM.

I imagine rich people often rent out entire parks when the mood strikes them. I've been to Stricker's Grove on the list, It opens to the public 2 days a year. The food wasn't bad, and there's a couple of cute wood coasters. OMG as if it wasn't scary enough to go to Neverland Ranch, I see they had a Pinfari death machine.