DaptoFunlandGuy

Only if you aren't keeping up...

Artistic license @Skeeta Just like the track without any cross ties here: http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/25aa53b5ed1a2c079862776e16a4b2d1

Wow, they've cut 11 days off the schedule since last week... Me thinks someone in site administration jumped the gun - this image is not there as at 11:53 EST.

My first reaction was - wow, is he still active? checked his profile... nope. joined April 2004, last seen August 2005, and last reputation was May 2015!!! Talk about rising from the dead! I wonder where he got to these days...

Great contribution @Aimsley81 and thoughts I fully support. Including: It sucks hard.

I took 3 kids to Sea World two weeks ago - my son (18mths), my niece and my nephew (5&7). We spent most of our time in Nickland and had a ball. The animal exhibits took up the rest of our day. We didn't see a single show (mainly because the show times were really stupidly laid out), and we were out of the park by about 3. We skipped the monorail due to the wait time, got on Jet Rescue once, and rode nothing else and the three adults that visited still enjoyed the day. I'd suggest at this time that Sea World really is only suitable if you have kids that will enjoy Nickland, but it is well worth the trip if you do.

I think you might have something there...

Welcome! Its a nice quiet time, but really - with the behemoth that is the new Hypercoaster being so close to (but very unlikely to be) opening by then, in all honesty if you have the flexibility, i'd be planning dates for AFTER september holidays, for a chance to get on this beast. A trip in August - September likely wouldn't be much different to your trip in April - except for perhaps the weather.

Further to the block ladder logic I posted above, heres some additional info on translating it: CRxxxx is a coil reference - which are outputs. INxxxx are inputs. So for example: this ladder logic says if coil 133 is on and input 41 is off and input 47 is on then turn on coil 129 a coil being a relay coil, relay contacts would switch the load, like the lift motor, air valve etc...

I guess it depends on the age of the attraction, and the complexity of the ride control system, as well as what safety features are built into it as well. For example, this is the block ladder listing from a 1984 family woodie, operated by a westinghouse numa-logic PLC controller. Naturally more modern rides would have more modern features, and probably be driven by a lot more complicated systems as well - especially since they do much more than just roll, and coast these days. I'm not sure if he's still around, but at one stage, one of the forum members here was involved with the relocation of the boomerang from Wonderland to Alabama Adventure, and knew alot about both that at the SP7 (giant drop) ride systems. Can't remember who it was though...?

At the risk of derailing the thread, and hoping that perhaps one of the mods might split this off separately.... The best source of info for SP7 is actually the Wonderland History group on facebook - find them here

^ This. That is all.

^i thought it was pathetic myself.

It's outside VRTP, but how would the Claw's campaign compare?

The only place it really counts puts Wonder Woman second behind Batman and Robin:

Since it's maintenance period wraps up at the end of this week, I didn't see a point including it. it was deliberate.

I appreciate that they need to do maintenance, and with Scooby's theme issues, Green Lantern's proximity to construction, along with regular annual maintenance periods of everything else, it is a very unfortunate time - but that doesn't make it acceptable. Like Sea World's total of RIDE, Movie World is very quickly approaching similar status, and although it might not bother passhole-ders too much, those who come for a single day pass or a short week's holiday are going to be sorely disappointed. So i'll say it - why can't they do annual maintenance on GL at the same time it is closed for hyper construction? Likewise, why can't Scooby have maintenance done at the same time they reinstall the theme elements? I'm not sure the situation for Superman, but two maintenance periods (ok, I assume they'd straddling a holiday period - kudos to them for not totally screwing their customers) totalling almost 4 months is outrageous given the recent lengthy downtime for repaint. Of note is that SE and GL are both down at the same time throughout June - but I wouldn't have thought that SE would be impacted by construction??? Now i'm guessing they're probably putting in a lot of work to make sure they're looking their best for GC2018, but without some sort of compensation to the average full priced joe punter, its very disappointing. And after writing all this, I decided to crunch some numbers... and here is what i've come up with: The worst time to visit will be from 14-26 August - a total of FIVE attractions will be closed, including Dodgems, West, Superman, Doomsday and Speedy's Taxis Close runner up with 4 attractions closed will be 5 June to 11 June - Superman, Lantern, Tweety and Yosemite A tie for second place - 17 July to 13 August - total of FOUR including dodgems, West, Superman and Doomsday (and likewise on 27 August also) Also a tie for second place - 4 September to 8 September, again FOUR closed - dodgems, Superman, Scooby and Batwing Coming in third, 12 June to 23rd June - Superman, Lantern and Tweety tie for third, 28 August to 17 September - dodgems, superman and scooby closed also tie for third - 9th october to 4th november - dodgems, JL3D and Yosemite train also tie for third - 6 november to 19th november - dodgems, green lantern and JL3D. I've included the WB attractions in the list as they are still attractions. Basically between now, and boxing day, the only day where the park is scheduled to be operating all of their attractions is the 25th of June. On every other day this year until Boxing day, at least one major attraction is closed for scheduled maintenance* *ok ok - theres ONE more day where all the big ones are open, but tweety is set for maintenance - 24th of June, the day before ETA: for anyone looking for a visual representation, here it is. THe ride names are visible but the dates are illegible - the first date (left) is 29/05/2017, with the last date (right) being 28/12/2017. yellow rows are major attractions, blue rows are WB Kids attractions.

There is a limited number of them you know... It sometimes happens, delays forecast due to a need for parts. parts shipping time quoted as 'up to 42 days' ends up taking 6 days = not as long required as initially forecast. #win?

^but as Joz said, a new flat ride might be a better place to start, and wouldn't be much more expensive than moving Surfrider.

Wanna share for those of us without ESP?

And you think The Joker doesn't?

hehe. yeah. enforce that.

Only issue I see for marketing it that way is that anyone stopping in there to use it for that purpose (ie: like a service centre \ truck stop \ rest stop) isn't going to want to park halfway across the carpark and walk across a football field of cars. service centres don't have a lot of carparking because their spaces are high turnover. most people don't 'dine in' as they're in a hurry to get going onto their destination - so at most, it's *run inside *toilet *order food *collect food *maybe fill the petrol tank (which Dreamworld cannot offer) and get going. You can find a parking space very near the entrance (within 1-2 rows or so - rarely more than 100 metres). by 10am most days, you're walking double that or more to get to the lego store \ P&G. I think your suggestion misses the market. Sure there are people who would go to the park JUST to visit lego etc (ie - not enter Dreamworld itself) but unlikely to be roadtrippers needing a rest-stop.

I did cue the clip up to the specific one I was referring to. I didn't intend for you to have to watch the whole thing. If it were a Disney ident compilation, that'd be a different story however.

Thing is, when you're on a roadtrip through back country, and you come upon a truck stop, serving greasy food thats been sat in a food warmer for hours, its bloody terrible, but you'll still buy it, and still eat it, because where else are you gonna go? If dreamworld were in the middle of surfers, no way would they get away with serving up lacklustre fare (note: i haven't been to the P&G, and i'm not suggesting lacklustre fare is what they're offering, i'm simply allowing for the fact because that is what SOME individuals imply) - but since the park is isolated - to get anything else requires transportation - that if you're there during a particular mealtime (breakfast, lunch or dinner, it doesn't matter), you're likely going to buy it anyway. If a 'downtown' precinct were to develop, all controlled by Dreamworld, they could simply control what alternatives were present, and continue serving to their current standard. Whether that standard is a low or high one is entirely up to the diner - for myself personally, having seen the menu, i'm already impressed enough that I wouldn't call their offering a 'poor choice' in any sense (the preparation and consistency of which is a different matter entirely though)