DaptoFunlandGuy

I'm guessing we'll be back on his radar in a year or so...

I really dislike these 'fill in a form' things the parks have. Most people buy online - surely this information can be captured and transferred to the pass-printing system relatively easily.

I get reverb on almost every enclosed slide - all one has to do is shout loudly to hear the effect...

Ive said this elsewhere and i'll say it again here. If the park doesn't want people taking photos of shit. they cover it up - completely. Weeks ago they had bedsheets and such over the statues - now, nothing but a temporary fence \ hoarding, which is easily shot over \ around. Having been a photographer in a theme park selling licensed photos where people were not allowed to take their own, you make it almost impossible to police. TBH - By having staff 'on and off' trying to stop you taking pictures of various areas, all that does is create animosity - you see someone else take a photo and get away with it, and you want to as well, but then someone tells you you can't, when you clearly saw someone else do it seconds earlier? I think this 'respecting the park's wishes' thing is bullshit. GO back and read my thoughts on the confidentiality thread again if you need to hear it all again, but in short: ANYTHING VISIBLE TO MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, EVEN IF OVER \ BEHIND A FENCE IS FAIR GAME. If the park came along and asked you not to take pictures of their new rollercoaster until opening day, would you? (Don't say its different because it isn't - its still 'respecting their wishes' - Unfortunately the park doesn't really get to determine whether someone takes a photo of something in a publicly accessible area. In todays modern media world - the picture can be on the internet before the staff member can get close enough to you to tell you to delete it - so if they want privacy - they need to cover their shit. End of story. TPG - You say to Skeet that it's ok that you took photos of the shop, even though you earlier had a video of someone telling you not to do it - yet you're up in arms about someone else posting photos of the back of house area, and point to a video proving that staff are asking people not to take photos of the statues. Did you stop to think perhaps that the same 'loophole' you've used to justify your pictures of the shop is perhaps the same one used by those who took pictures over the fence? #takealookatyourself #getagrip You've shot loads of images over these sorts of fences. But you aren't showing images of the statues over the fences because someone told you (at a PRIVATE TVC SHOOT) that they wanted them kept under wraps, and you think that should now apply to members of the general public who have been freely admitted into an area where you can clearly see whats behind the fence? #FFS

For the love of god, don't buy an intamin parachute tower if you want to class it 'maximum impact'. I rode one of these in toy story land, and it was a heck of a long process to load, and over extremely quickly. I'm sure the kids loved it. For me it was very yawn.

Usually you like to give your marketing people a heads up on things so they can start formulating a marketing strategy. You don't do that overnight. I'll weigh into the debate with my 80 cents. There has been a lot of discussion here about MW vs. DW. TBH - I don't think that is a fair comparison. It has been mentioned that DW offers families more - by having animals, and kids areas and such, and this has been pointed out where MW is lacking - but I don't think many of you realise the model VRTP have going. You cannot compare DW to MW. What you need to do is compare pass to pass. The VIP \ VRTP Membership vs. the World Pass. Both passes get you into all of the relevant company theme park property both offer a waterpark gate both offer high thrills both cater to families both offer various children's branded entertainment and themed areas both have animal experiences Once you broaden the comparison, those few areas where DW is regarded as 'better' suddenly lose a little shine. #MyOpinion

How then did it fail? either they debited the old, or the new - if both would have worked, how did it decline? Reserve bank...

i think old faithful, like most geysers on flumes and rapids have a 'winter' and a 'summer' setting - and are timed specifically to either just miss, or soak the boat. it could be that you always ride on the 'winter' setting, as i've personally been soaked by the geyser. (it doesn't have to be winter to be on the winter setting either). I'm not saying WWF has this setting, just going off experience with other similar rides.

replacement parts are always needed for general maintenance. Its still technically possible - however unlikely we've already ruled it out to be - it could well have been the case. As I understand it - the crates we have seen did not come straight off a boat\plane either. I believe they were already on site at MW and were MOVED to that location afterwards... so someone at the park made the decision to put them there... was it intentional? were they just making space without realising the boxes had stencilling on them? I mean lets be real - we know the contents of those are damn heavy. And there's no urgency to them - they can be shipped well in advance rather than being flown... and if they were shipped - they'd have been in shipping containers - like everything else we usually see arrive on site...

Well, this somewhat suggests that the WANDA angle isn't happening anytime soon. It also suggests the park does have things in motion before the CommGames - something I know @reanimated35 had been (until recently) pushing for more info on from 'Belinda Brown' But it seems since they've been asked to pay for the privilege, DW has clammed up on us.

Don't forget your facebook team!

the thin strip of land leading to GL lends itself perfectly to a station house, and accompanying lift hill - roll out of station, do a u-turn just like GL does, then hit the lift - by the time you reach 'open land' you can be at the top and ready to roll!

I'd like to see small spurts throughout to give that 'who's gonna cop it' effect - i'm thinking like the raptors on Jurassic park - but in this case not an animal - maybe just a leaky overhead water channel - spurts a constant stream of water into the middle of the channel, and the boat goes right under it.

What you say sounds logical, and of course that is what they would do, but the park has been dropping hints - leaving a red herring out to fool people would have been genius.

It depends on how close to the debit date you changed them. Our organisation processes direct debits and we need 7 days notice to update account details.

I think we've seen doomsday for some months now... TBH they've modelled the ride so much on the character, it would be strange for there to be a second 'character' in the area...

I'd say more likely that the building behind that facade is not part of the new fit out, and it is probably used for something else, so they couldn't tear it down. I have all faith we are not seeing some weird dutch style barn lego store.

Nothing is official until it's on the website...

You can, of course, plant trees which do not grow that high ever.

You can fix that you know. Learn how to use that fancy camera of yours instead of running it in Auto.

The longest ride time of any rollercoaster in the world is 8 minutes - a scenic railway style coaster called Hochschaubahn, in Austria, which closed in 1944 (Darn Germans!). It had three lift hills, which is likely the reason for much of the ride time, since it was only a mile long, giving you an average speed of 7.5mph or 12kph. The next closest coaster to that ride time is Daidarasaurus (Expoland Japan) which closed in 2007 - At almost 2.4kms long and a ride time of 6:33 whilst its top speed was 72.5kph, its average was a mere 21.4kph. RCDB's ride list shows all of these by ride time here - Our own Scooby comes in at 7th on the list (and beats the Beast by 3 seconds). So whilst its entirely possible, you would need an INSANELY LONG themed pre-lift or pre-launch, and an INSANELY LONG track with a relatively slow average speed. Given what we have heard about this coaster, and what we have seen so far, I think it is safe to say that it will neither have a huge pre show, or a huge track, or a low average speed. Hell - even Arkham hits a 27kph average.

I think you'll find somebody goofed. http://www.funpark.ciderhousetech.com.au/index.php/freefall says that Freefall is 52 METRES high.

Until it hits the new roof it won't fit under...

This - thanks to coaster 101: