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Just ask Tony how loud I was my first ride...

Did you use wet and Thunder River Rapids Ride in the one sentence? But yeh dont trust wikipedia!

Before you go into engineering, learn how to spell hydraulic The capsule weighs 6 tonnes.

Ah... the wonders of a Drive Trip on the TOT... But yeah, when I went 2 weeks ago, the station was just a wooden frame and it was being demolished very fast. I wonder if this ride will be re-built or not?

^ It looks worse in person...

Now that would have been interesting to see...

Well without further adieu I have uploaded my On Ride Video of slingshot. The video can be found here: Warning... Low Level Swearing, and The titles are back to front as I just realized! So sit back and prepare to laugh!

I'm comparing dreamworlds best (unfortunately) roller-coaster against what I feel to be tied for 1st place for thrill ride (Claw and Wipeout) and I know that it's based on personal preference. But from a business point of view, getting 2 or 3 flat rides instead of a roller-coaster is often seen as a wiser move, but roller-coasters are still needed every 4 or 5 years. The cyclone opened 2002 if I'm correct and the new coaster is 5 years after the Cyclone, and Dreamworld was getting to a point where they needed a new roller-coaster, especially after the additions at Movie World.

^ Saying that Dreamworld needs all the coasters it can get is a bit of a stupid thing to say, while coasters are fun and exciting, they are not everything. From what i've seen in the past, dreamworlds FLAT RIDES have been alot more popular than rides such as the cyclone during opening season. Roller Coasters only make up a small portion of Dreamworld. So saying that is biased as they don't NEED more roller-coasters to be successful at this stage but they have decided to so that they can be sure to be on top of the theme park chain in Australia. And also remember for the cost of 1 roller coaster averaging $20,000,000 you could buy 2 or 3 Flat rides at $6,000,000 such as the Claw and the Wipeout.

I sense we have another LPS situation on our hands where residents will find anything they can to complain about...

Ah... the SBF Visa Traffic Jam... from the videos i've seen the one with the lifting arms (shown) is the best out of the 3 designs. You have a single car, the 2 car design, and the one with the lifting sweeps. I think this ride would go well where the Tweety Bird Cage ride is, and could be themed to the Tazmanian Devil spinning out of control.

Yeah, and are we able to pay in cash or not, due to the fact that I don't have a credit card, and my parents won't let me use theirs. I do think the "subscription secrets" deal is fair as they are showing there support for the site (not that other members aren't) by helping to fund the site upgrades, and paying for year passes so that people can get photo updates which you see on this site.

I do see the logic in it, but there are some people who want to subscribe but cant due to no credit card etc... so it can be a little hard at times.

I think thats different due to the fact that its not actually on the spit. So the height restriction may not apply for Aust. Fair.

I was there today, there are 2 shipping containers near the cyclone exit, however they have been there since White Water World's opening. So I'm not sure if this is actually the track but we will just have to wait and see...

New mats on the BRO? Thats quick, If anywhere needed them it is WnW, White Water World's ones were fine when I last went 2 weeks ago...

I keep getting stuck in the B.R.O! It gets quite annoying after a while!!! Anyway, the T.O.H Exit is a little bit sharp at times... i was riding with a mate and when we came out of the Cut Snake (Green and Yellow Slide) We were going so fast that we got a bonus ride up the stairs at the exit of the pool...

The Taipan is partly owned by Max Laurie, and Peter Short

Yeh... you should be able to go to the front of the line if you are involved in a breakdown, they wouldn't give us a push in pass when we had a fire evac on the Looney Tunes River Ride on Saturday, we had to line up again

^ That trick is so old... but it still gets a reaction every time! I still think the best op in Shrek 4D is Grant! Daniel "DuLoc, The World's Happiest Totalitarian Dictatorship on Earth" Harmer

No... what do you look like ash?

I just downloaded the park, and i'll play it later tonight, and with Movie World fresh in my mind from yesterday, i'll post what I think of the park tonight, but from what i've seen and the limits of RCT3 It looks very good!

Being walked off Scooby Doo in the High Section isn't anything that spectacular... you just walk across a few bridges and to a door and down the stairs. However I will admit the view is good as you get to see the whole layout. It seems as though you enjoyed your visit very much, and I love reading peoples trip reports. It just seems with SDSC that it was having one of it's "I don't want to work, so i'll just turn on my lovely floodlights" days. Which has been happening very often lately, it did it about a month ago if I remember, I wonder whats causing it though. It might be all the extra laser's they have added.

Probably for the Peak Season so they could say they had a "All New Ride" So it was just a marketing ploy. Also remember that they didn't pay multi millions for it, It is only on lease for 6 months to Sea World, and they had the option of making it permanent, which they have obviously decided not to do that.

Well... the Wipeout has been sped up a touch and it felt like the claw was doing a few more swings...