DaptoFunlandGuy

Here's a site overview at June 5

Here's the site as at 28 May - this is a stitched image for log ride and orange snek so you should be able to zoom in a fair bit...

Howdy folks - here's the latest nearmap overview taken last weekend - 6 days old and hot off the presses!

Is it just me, or is that train facing in the wrong direction?

I wonder if that circle is wide enough to accommodate a vintage car pathway. Clean it up a bit and have a nice waterside turnaround... pfft. it's queensland so it'd probably need a pool fence. dare to dream.

That looks real chintzy - and fun fact - that's pretty much how they accomplished the same effect in the film.

Oh sod off.

MW is doing a collab\crossover with Disney - it's Memphis Belle meets Honey I shrunk the Hangar!

PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STOP ADDING POLLS TO EVERYTHING! *This is more than just a minor annoyance. Polls interfere with adaptive technology and keyboard shortcuts make replying to threads far more difficult. This is an issue with Invision, rather than Parkz - but ask yourself - does this REALLY need a poll?

It can't. The Queensland.com front page for the voucher promotion includes imagery of Superman Escape. Pretty misleading since none of the parks are 'participating operators' (though you can book Sea World Helicopters or Cruises, as well as Paradise Country FarmStay). Nevertheless, the new pricing is still at an opportune time when the gold coast is about to see an influx of local visitors (you must be a queensland resident to win a voucher) who may not otherwise have chosen to visit at this time. Offering a cheaper option than your competitors at that time is still a clever way of driving gate. I also appreciate Dreamworld offering a 'bare bones' pass without extras - although they would have done well to offer WWW as an 'add-on' without all the other stuff - there are folks out there who will get the top pass just to have WWW included, unnecessarily giving away free tickets to the night events they probably didn't want but will still use because they're included.

I don't hate this... it's better than the space laying dormant in the middle of ocean parade... and it's not the worst theme crossover ocean parade has ever had...

I heard he sounded like a broken record repeating the same 7 word phrase every 6 seconds in an extraordinarily poorly executed example of queue special effects.

There's good sentiment in that, but it is hard to decry it as shite while simultaneously refusing to watch it. It's not to say you're wrong for your stance on it - but film critics have to watch the shit ones to truly appraise the appropriate level of sewage. I said before it aired it'd be a hatchet piece. I even predicted some of the angles they'd take. I wasn't far off the mark - but I watched, so my opponents couldn't shut me down simply because I hadn't seen it (and despite the consensus today, i'll still watch the other half tonight).

Helicopters aren't exclusive to theme parks. It wouldn't have fitted the narrative. If they focussed on everyday items that don't exist outside theme parks, then their subject matter gets diluted. I can almost guarantee I can give you the winning lotto numbers, so to speak. That's a pretty bold claim bud. I'm not a big fan of some of his work, but the guy has been very successful in theme parks and entertainment. You're pretty narrow-sighted if you think he would have consented to an interview, on property, and allowed them to grill him. That doesn't mean that Village paid them off. If you've got anything beyond circumstantial evidence, i'd be interested in hearing it.

Jamberoo should 100% do a sponsorship deal with Virgin. (Although, they'd better not install anything by Polin)...

Gizmo's look has been commented on a lot over the past week - but that is 90% of his appearance in the films - quiet, shy, sad.

*Mostly on purpose I'm fairly certain that there are certain roller coasters out there than can be judged without riding, based on who the manufacturer is. Your point that a lot of upset people who haven't seen a piece is tempered by the fact that those upset people have history, and certain pre-existing knowledge of how these things go. 100% guarantee the monday morning board meeting is full of high fives as they lead the ratings on Sunday night... which is all they aimed to do in the first place.

That isn't how I understood that piece. He wasn't being used as a scapegoat - he was on to say that the park failed its safety audits repeatedly, and that Thunder River was the safest in the park - you are meant to draw from this, if TRRR was the safest, that everything else in the park is literally a human mince-maker. As soon as I saw the load of Las Vegas footage, I found myself asking "what the fuck are they doing in Las Vegas? Ok there's a few adrenaline attractions, and they've had a couple roller coasters over the years, but it's hardly the 'theme park \ amusement ride capital city of the world' that you'd want to base your story in - I then concluded that Natalie probably just felt like going to Vegas for a bit of a Junket and this was the best idea to get all expenses paid. I only saw the first hour last night (it was enough) so I won't regurgitate everything that's already been said (also, wasn't there another thread already discussing this?), but i've got two things to add - First - I don't believe that the Fully Six case has been resolved at this time - To comment publicly in prime time, in the middle of a razor piece on theme parks - while there's still ongoing litigation regarding the matter seems to me to be a little near-sighted. I find myself wondering how much (if anything) Channel 7 paid for their time, and whether it will impact their legal case in any way. Secondly - and this boiled my blood - I take issue with the segment on TRRR - they've confused a few facts about the incident. As best as I can recall: The button the 'newly trained' operator could have pressed likely would not have saved those people. The button at her station was a slow-stop button for the conveyor. The emergency stop for the conveyor was some distance away from her, and she almost certainly could not have reached it in time. From what I remember, Thunder River had a series of 'stop' buttons, none of which were truly an emergency stop - nothing initiated a full power disconnect of the ride. The story stated that if the operator had pressed a button the ride would have stopped in 2 seconds instead of 7. It did nothing to address the culture that trained them not to do that, or the literal decades of poor modifications to the ride, or the multiple previous incidents where the same thing had happened. The Dreamworld angle pinned all the fault on the human element of the operations, which I find absolutely abhorrent, and entirely against the coroner's findings of the event. I will make one positive comment about the TRRR piece though - and note that instead of sensationalising the operator as 'on her first day with 1 hour training' they played that down as simply 'newly\recently' trained.

I think you've misunderstood some of what i'm trying to say. I don't disagree with you about a lot of this, and a lot is more nuance and specifics. My long rebuttal only repeated a lot of what I said originally - so instead i'll just clarify - I didn't say SFX was better than Superman, just that it was different. I'd like to see a park that had room for both (although the SFX sorely needed an upgrade) - and the old ShowStage would have been a perfect place for a modern special effects show like this one: [4K] Special Effects Show (July 2019) - Universal Studios Hollywood - YouTube As for the 1993 park, I can't speak for that - my first visit was 94. I do think post-West&Lethal, the park would easily round out a 7 hour day, and I don't think it can do that currently. Ultimately I think i'd prefer a modern park with some of the classics left in.

I guess that's fair. Mario Kart is still better than Sonic Team Racing though.

if only they had like - a kids dark ride with continuous loading cycles to offer more than 60 seconds of 'spin in a circle'

That serves only as a failed yeeting. Adventuredome knows how to yeet properly - you need to prepare the guests by removing their legs before they ride.

^It is when a large majority of the rest of the kids rides are also down at the same time. The entire ride was missing from the pad. They knew it wasn't going to be up. Probably 4 days prior to the due date, due to the weekend - its piss poor regardless of which ride it is, but especially because their kids offering right now is severely lacking.

I think the interpretation of 'overly unique' is that although Rivals and GL aren't clones, they're still standard variations on standard coasters the world over. The clue is that he's referencing Scooby and Superman - both of which have an added uniqueness you can only get on those two rides - they both have a dark ride element prior to the 'standard coaster' part and those elements are unique to them and them alone. Non inverting loops aren't unique. Backwards facing seats aren't unique either (even before Rivals). I think you're being far too narrow on your definition of 'overly unique'.