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Does anybody know what's currently going on with Arkham's VR? It's been down for maintenance for a while. And now it seems it's indefinitely being maintained?? Rather it actually being 'under maintenance' Perhaps they are only running the VR during peak periods/school holidays, due to the extra staff needed to help operate the VR?

dammit! I'm going to MW next week. Fingers crossed both rides do indeed open up on the Friday. No more push backs please Movieworld.

Very excited about this! I loved Soarin' over at DCA, so this should be good. Like other forum members, I've always thought a flying theatre/Soarin' style ride would be perfect for either Movieworld, Seaworld or Dreamworld. Pity it's not going into one of the parks; but will still make the travel up to brissy, when it's built.

Thanks @Gazza & @themagician. They say the tour starts at 7:30am, and to check in 10mins prior. So i'm going to have to take an uber.

I'll be doing Movieworld's Star Tour on Saturday the 17th of December. If anybody is also thinking of doing the tour, feel free to join! It would be great to do the tour with other fellow enthusiasts and/or meet people from the forum I'm going up for a short holiday mid-december, and won't be hiring a car. Do busses run early in the morning from the Gold Coast to movieworld? Or would it be best to just get an uber/taxi?

This seems like a very interesting project, that has had some great concept art and master planning backing the project. The Sanad company have a youtube channel with some great official concept art videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk2vOv-38MusA-GrfETOxEA According to this article, if built, the park will boast the "world’s largest interactive aqua play structure, slide-boarding and Australia’s biggest wave pool".

@T-bone It's only my graphics card that is below minimum requirements. This is what I'm running: - Windows 10 64-bit - Intel Core i7-4702HQ CPU @ 2.20Ghz (8 CPUs), - 2.2Ghz - 8 Gb RAM - NVIDIA Quadro K1100M (2 GB dedicated RAM)

This is probably a dumb question. The laptop I want to run Planet Coaster on does not meet the minimum graphics card requirements . Will I still be able to run the game on low settings?

No Limits 2 is designed more towards rollercoaster simulation. I was thinking PC could be used for developing park layouts, generating landscaping ideas, and getting a rough idea of a themed ride concept and queue line. The themeing is a lot simpler to apply and customise in PC, especially if you are not well versed in CAD modelling programs and understand how to import/place models into No Limitis.

If the devs keep on producing quality content, whether it be new rides, coasters, themeing, I can see DLC just flying off the shelves! Cannot wait to give this game a play. I could see this game being used by professional themed entertainment design companies as a tool for initial concept generation / concept development.

Please Movieworld.....DO NOT build pay-per-use external lockers for this new coaster. It's a horrible idea, it makes guests upset, and you loose the immediate purchase at the gift shop. Make a cupboard for loose articles in the station, with a sliding door, to allow for the safe enclosure of multiple trains worth of belongings.

Just out of curiosity, how much does a rollercoaster train cost these days (e.g. a 20+ person train, like on Superman)? 1-2 Million would be my guestimate?

Well we know it's being manufactured by Mack Rides, so if you do a quick google image search for "blue-fire megacoaster trains", you'll see the restraint and seat design present on existing Mack megacoasters. Chances are that MW's hypercoaster will have similar, if not the same, seat, harness & train design.

Well they might not have to buckle everyone's redundancy safety belt; passengers can do that themselves. They'll have to check if it's fastened though, when they do the mandatory safety check on the harnesses. KMG have managed to make their most extreme rides on the Aussie carnival circuit, such as Speed, XXL/Rebel, The Beast comply with strict Australian ride harness safety standards WITHOUT the need for a redundancy seatbelt. I'm not sure how they've done it, but yeah all those rides are so easy to board/disembark.....So yes, there are ways to redesign the safety restraint to eliminate the old seatbelt.

^I second this. As enthusiasts we know that for instance Superman can operate with 2 trains. And on days when they only run 1 train, the line can get to 40mins - 1 hr long.....it's very annoying.

The only winged coaster I have ridden is The Swarm at Thorpe Park. I thought it was a great ride, very fun, thrilling and smooth; it accentuates the feeling of gliding and swooping like a bird. It's a very re-rideable ride. I don't get the comments that winged coasters are all 'forceless'. That's an over exaggeration. The coaster has forces, but the forces onset gradually and change smoothly. There is no ejector airtime, but you experience hangtime through the loops, and pull some good G's through the turns and at the bottom of the first drop.

This looks awesome! I would love if MW's new coaster was a mix between this, and Lewa Adventures' 'Flash' Mack coaster. That shuttle launch at the start looks like a ton of fun.

I kinda forgot about Planet Coaster and decided to check up on how the game is progressing. Wow....the game is looking incredibly solid! You'll be able to 'rollercoaster people bowl'. You can do this in RCT2/3 for a bit of a laugh. And now you can do it in PC. The marketing video for it is amazing haha

Talk about fast operations! Unload, and load of 32 riders in less than 40 seconds.

Funfields really is a great park for families. All their rides and slides are all 'family-thrill level friendly' (if that makes sense). As a melbournian I have visited Luna Park, Adventure Park in Geelong and Funfields many times. Out of the three I would recommend FF hands down as Melbourne's flagship park. The biggest draw at the park, sans the toboganns, is the large grassed grounds, trees to sit under and covered seating areas. Heaps of people bring in large eskies, use the barbeques and have a picnic. It's what makes the park unique; Funfields feels like a large local park with rides/slides, vs. rides/slides with a grassed/shade area. It's unfortunate that park doesn't have much for thrill seekers, but my bet is this will change in the coming years (starting with the tornado wave). @Jobe The park doesn't have much room for expansion. @Gazza I like your idea of removing the go karts. Removing the gokarts will free up a nice plot of flat land. I will not miss them, but the majority will; they are always super popular. Red = (what I think) might be available expansion area.The hill gets very steep up towards the end of the land....probably unusable, unless they spend major money on earthworks. Orange = The dream would be to see a terrain hugging coaster utilize that steep land. Yellow = Existing picnic, grass grounds and shade area. Cross hatch light blue = They could use this hill and build a coaster, or multiple waterslides that fly over the toboggans. Purple = This is where the new toddlers water play area is going. http://www.funfields.com.au/rides/birdy-cove-waterplay Green = Overflow carpark, which is definitely needed in the summer. I've seen this fill up completely before.

There is a trend that Funfields seem to follow, where major investments occur every 2 years. The Wacky Waters water play area opened in late 2011, then 2 years later, the Typhoon bowl slide opened in late 2013, and then another 2 years, the Kraken Racer opened in late 2015. My bet would be for next season, a late 2017 opening for the the new Tornado Wave slide.

@AlexB Yep!

Funfields is getting it's own VR experience, transforming the Blackbeard's Fury pirate ship into "Dragon's Fury VR". Very interesting to see if the pirate ship motion will translate well into a VR experience. It's cool to see a small park dive head first into the VR craze. Fingers crossed they pull it off well.

I think I have made some sense of Jamberoo's decision of installing a very similar slide. This is not the first time something like this has happened in the industry. In 2010, Holiday World & Splashin' Safari installed a Proslide Hydromagnetic watercoaster named Wildebeest. When it opened it was the world's longest watercoaster. It was a huge success for the park. Based off of that success, Holiday World thought: "We need a high capacity ride to soak up these crowds we did not anticipate, we've proven that the public loves watercoasters; everyone loves this type of ride! Let's build another to improve our capacity and differentiate it slightly by themeing it differently". The new watercoaster, aptly named Mammoth, opened only 2 years later. Essentially it was the same ride experience/ride type but with a different layout, round 6-passenger boats and longer than Wildebeest; becoming the longest watercoaster in the world. Although I still don't get why Jamberoo chose the same sort of colour palette.....weird.

Proslide just posted a set of photos of the new slide on their Facebook page. The 1st small tornado is open, 2nd is closed, and the big/standard sized tornado is open.