New display name

I don't know why but I think I need to remind you, I know once the car is traveling down the tower it is placing the least amount of force onto the track @Gazza. The only difference we have is the transitions and directionally change of the car and what load that places onto the track. To answer your question, you can’t compare a drop ride to a coaster because the wheel assembly tolerances are different because a drop tower doesn’t have directional changes where wheel binding can be an issue. Different wheel assemblies = different load placement.

I've already acknowledged the track side forces are different on vertical track so naturally the track is going to require less supports, "like Gazza shown" so I don't know what you want me to say about it. I never said the forces at the curve would be the same forces at the top. The car weight I mentioned is what I believe to be an empty car so I did take some weight off the track. Impossible and painful to reply to you properly on Parkz after the Samsung update 😢

Those things are not interchangeable because the coaster is trying to pull away from the track all the way down. If what I was saying isn't true, why did the TOT car have up-stop wheels? The second the car stops on the track at the top and the car starts going down, it puts the full 6 tons onto the track. I'm not debating the forces doesn't change as it goes down because I already know this. Can you go and cry somewhere else. I'm talking to adults here.

@GazzaI know at different points of the track different loads are applied. Load due to forces at the top of the track is close to zero but you still have the weight of the train to account for. TOT train weighed 6 tons, that is what weight is been applied to the top of the track. How forces are applied to vertical track.

An object can only be weightless if there is no gravity. The feeling of weightlessness is different to the physics of weightlessness. TOT is very much loading up the track all the way to the top. Good point.

Isn't that for a MW photo?

When did MW start charging you to say hello to a character?

You would be lucky if the letters added anywhere near 20kn of resistance. The tower isn’t going to fall over with that. Sure, you might have to stiff up the connections, but I doubt it, when you consider the weight of the TOT train and that too would have encountered cross winds. DW’s new greasy signage is the cheap option. If DW has worked out a way for the signage not to end up looking like a mechanics floor, then I’m all for the cheaper option. (sidenote the signage = same letters only fixed from the side)

Didn't the old TOT track remain, and the Drop operated for months, before the refurb started?

Connecting the sign to the old TOT connection points would have solved the problem of the sign getting messed up by the grease.

Now, that's how you build a sign.

That is the end, not the start @Brad2912 Every second square and it ends up at the top.

Somebody has stolen their eyelashes. 🤣

Some things you just don't comprehend.

How DW's Ocean Parade re-theme is going.😵

I didn't waste my time reading all the objections that in the scheme of things, mean nothing.

What does that have to do with anything?

The only objection that has any teeth is the Energex objection, which can be sorted if MW decide to spend the money on it. MW being shocked Energex is objecting is a strange one because the first time Energex has probably seen the flood reports was after the application was lodged. MW would have had discussions about moving the infrastructure under the property and this is what Energex would have agreed to. As seen by attached request by council, MW didn’t submit the flood calculations with the application, so I highly doubt Energex had seen them. The other objections are pointless (it’s really just a way for council letting people have a winge). MW already had an approval for a hotel so 99% of the concerns were delt with the original approval. Besides Energex issues with flood, everything else is a tick & flick.

That's why you get paid the big bucks @DaptoFunlandGuy🤣 It might blow your mind but the Gold Coast council in the last couple of years have created a koala paperwork nightmare with Council zoning anything with a eucalypt tree, environment significance land. MW is on environment signific land according to council.

The Q100 goes up all the time and a big chunk of the gold coast is under the Q100 because of this, but the fact remains, you can't build on your property and make flooding worse on the neighbouring property. All this means is MW will have to create flood storage on their property. Council were already unsatisfied with the flood issues before Energex objection.

The area isn't known as Cades County. The substation was built in the Cades County days and the name has stuck. Quick history lesson for you. The original owner of Cades County had a theme-park approved to be built where MW is now located and was to be named "Around the world in 8 hours" or something like that.

Knotts is for the Australian, that never leaves California, when they travel to the USA.

If you get a private message in Parkz, from a random person, their rides are probably not good.🤪

Dodgem cars MW Little Ripper LP

EC is going to be closed for a couple of months so pushing it back a couple of weeks doesn't change the fact it was always going to be closed over the school holidays.