DaptoFunlandGuy

They disconnected the chairs and laid them out in a row when it was dismantled. This level of care with this element suggests that they were saving or salvaging the ride componentry. The ride surrounds and panels had been on the ride pad even after the mechanical elements had left - I would say you're only seeing the surrounds.

The monorail air-con debate has been had numerous times on Parkz. I think the main issues were that the train clearances were insufficient in some places around the park - the most notable being the Plaza roof towards the Stingrays if I remember correctly, but there was also the Corkscrew track to navigate at one point as well.

Now you're just being ridiculous. For starters if you're adding that many coasters, your workforce isn't staying the same size.

Cherry pick to suit your narrative all you want - it wasn't about DC Rivals at all. I stated the 'lineup' was embarassing, and Tboy said "4/5 coasters closed" was embarassing. At no point did anybody say 'how embarassing was that ride breaking down and then reopening'. DC Rivals going down simply highlighted the poor state of the park right now, and as Brad mentioned - imagine entering as a day guest to that line of closures? Flash is supposed to be helping with this given the loss of scoob for so long, but since it won't open until early-mid next year, the park will suffer a bit longer. I just feel like if you have as many coasters as MW has, you should probably avoid having all but one down at the same time?

Obviously they got it back up - qudos to them, but it was definitely down earlier.

DC Rivals was closed today - unplanned closure. Superman Escape is out for maintenance until the weekend Roxy is under maintenance until 4/8 Green Lantern is out until 15/9 Scooby is down for more than a year Today, based on that list, Road Runner is the park's headlining rollercoaster. Justice League and Batwing are the only attractions operating outside of WB Kids with the exception of Wild West Falls (in Winter) and some neutered version of Doomsday... and just so we're completely honest - Carousel and Yosemite Sam Train are also out. So today's lineup at MW: Justice League Batwing Doomsday Wild West Tweety Cages Speedy Taxis Junior Driving School Road Runner And at least two of those are unavailable to almost 100% of the guests in park due to height requirements or restrictions. Speedy and Tweety for the adults, and Doomsday and Batwing for the kids. I know its the off season. This is when you expect your majors to be down to be the least inconvenience to guests - but fuck me that lineup is embarassing.

Yeah - what I'd meant was that if you knew it wouldn't get commissioned for 9 months, why would you rush to get it moved, painted and built now - but then it occurred to me it would be better to shut down SE and do the work in the off season regardless of when the technicians were available.

What does that have to do with the price of fish? This isn't a hypercoaster. It isn't the same manufacturer It isn't built in the same location It isn't a new ride built to current standards and requirements It's subject to current local laws on maintenance and attraction teardowns Just because a coaster can be built ground up in 202 days (or even 174 ) doesn't mean that should be pointed to as some sort of benchmark or yardstick. Every install is different. Here's Leviathan's stats (based on Wiki timeline )

This is the key here. There is absolutely nothing to do with heritage, it is - plain and simply - not worth spending the money on tearing something down unless you need that space for something else, OR it's dangerous leaving it as it is. When Storm Coaster was built, the quoted "cost" of the ride included the costs of demolishing Bermuda. By including the demolition costs in the overall construction, it forms part of the 'new ride' budget, rather than having to find capital works budget elsewhere. It also has potential tax benefits if it was costed as part of new capital infrastructure, as opposed to standalone demolition of end-of-life assets. There are many benefits to doing it as part of your new project. There are no benefits (other than perhaps aesthetics of the park) to remove it at end of life with no plan on what you're doing with it. Heritage doesn't even play a part. No question. End of story. Period.

but.... SURELY they checked with the specialised people when they first began planning, and they made these arrangements with the specialised people, and they always knew that the delay would occur.... and not that they only found out now...? /S

It has nothing to do with heritage.

Pretty sure this was a 'what if' and was purely academic. The study was on 'sustainability' not 'what would you do with this old ride' and can be found here, provided google's linking works properly. The same study references this, but the proposal was for the Sydney monorail, and they simply suggested it could be done here too. They expand on the idea further: The trouble with this idea is either it is an incomplete circuit, or they spend a lot of money building a walkway that goes out over the carpark. There's also a question of how wide a walkway could be, built on top of the narrow monorail supports, and whether it could handle the different forces put on it by a moving crowd. Either way, i think these proposals were entirely academic - they were done in 2019 before the pandemic and before most of Atlantis was built and i'd suggest their currency and relevance today is questionable, especially since they made up only a small portion of the overall sustainability proposals the university actually set out to do. Nope. The entire reason Arkham remained standing as long as it did was because they didn't need the space for something else yet, and it wasn't unsafe to remain as it was. If they decide Monorail is gone, then as soon as Sea World needs monorail space for the next attraction, it'll get knocked down - though this doesn't mean the entire thing will go either. If they cared about heritage - we'd still have Viking's revenge. The bridge. The Ski Show. Heritage really doesn't play a part here (and for the most part, it shouldn't, save for the extremely enduring heritage attractions the likes of LPS Wild Mouse or Scenic Railway.

I'm sure the guys in charge of thunder river thought there was no chance they'd kill someone either. The point is, institutional knowledge gets lost over time. People know 'what' they're supposed to do - certain things in certain orders, but oftentimes forget 'why' things were done that way over time (i'm speaking generally, not specific to the park or even theme parks in general). For some reason, the shroud has been removed. I don't know why and don't claim to. But it makes sense if that has had to be removed, to also remove the components the shroud was there to guard. Monorail's power might well be disconnected and isolated. However that doesn't mean that in 5 years time they decide to reconnect it and give it a test, and all the new guys in charge of it don't realise that once upon a time there used to be a shroud there. It makes it fail-safe, in the not-entirely-zero chance that something happens in the future that nobody could foresee.

Given they've removed the electrical componentry, this may just be risk minimisation - since the shroud is gone, they've made it safe by removing any live electrical componentry. I suspect the rail is not energised at present, but this prevents someone energising the entire circuit without reinstalling the shroud. Without the shroud, I wonder how long that stands without some idiot trying to climb it during Carnivale etc.

New Updates - 8/7/2023 - Movie World - WOZ, Flash and coaster track in the storage yard. Sea World - 8/7/2023 Dreamworld - 9/6/2023

Here's a slightly better angle from the latest nearmap 8 July 2023 (Side note - surfrider surfboard is still back of house bottom right)

Yeah I don't think the timing is evidence of anything to do at Dreamworld. USS had Madagascar & Shrek for over a decade at this point - it's nothing new, just their latest expansion.

Sitting there for 7-8 months without operating? Sounds like Surfrider, situation normal.

That was filed in 2019, well before the incident occurred. Polaris was rumored to be a front running name for Orion at Kings Island. Given that opened in July 2020, the 2019 registration of the trademark makes sense. (Polaris is the name of the North Star, part of the Little Dipper constellation, Orion is a constellation in its own right) The more I re-read this, the more the language feels off. Someone tried a little too hard to make this genuine, using 'high point' and 'top thrill' - and I think they've just took it a bit too far... It's still possible some of these things ring true - park insiders have dropped several hints both personally and on their socials (many of which have been reposted here) that the joining of the dots presented here seems believeable. There's less than 2 weeks until we have an announcement though - so all will be revealed in good time.

Steel Taipan has an actual layout beyond the launch, not just a top hat and return. They may well give it a layout beyond the hat though - especially since the launch takes longer, additional blocks could still allow them to pump trains through - but I guess we'll have to wait until the official announcement to find out.

It's ok, by the time flash actually opens, it'll have been through a QLD Summer and it'll be just the same faded arse red as Superman.

You've clearly not been a parent with a child under 6. Every time we went near Sam Train, there was at least two cycles wait. WBKids already has a coaster (although MW persists with keeping the height requirement artificially high for some reason), I honestly don't think Kids needs another coaster - what it needs is a solid attraction that can accommodate kids, but is suitable for adults to ride too (Let's be clear, Although Sam, and previously Tweety Cages could accommodate Adults, it really wasn't a pleasant experience). I'm thinking Dumbo, Casey Jr or Storybook land boats style attractions. This is why LTRR holds such strong memories for people - because that attraction was suitable for all ages. If you look at early versions of MW's kids land - you had LTRR, Speedy Taxis and Marvin. LTRR did some really heavy lifting, and since it's closure, nothing else has entirely picked up the slack. The one issue with your ridiculous statement is that i've been advocating not losing attraction space to back of house tasks. Removing superman is obviously attraction space. I'm not arguing to return the park to it's prior state, i'm arguing for back of house facilities to stop taking over 'on stage' spaces, and return them to the stage. Exactly - nobody is out there telling Thor they can't take over an AOS horse paddock for set construction. It's one company. The very idea that somehow all of the facilities within the studio precinct are somehow sacred, immoveable and untouchable is horseshit. (The sound stages are very much unlikely to move, but the support facilities and other premises aren't as hard) I've always known it as 'Spielberg's shack' and I believe he has occupied it at one time. It was an editing suite for a while IIRC. According to the studio siteplan, that building is currently used by PROXi VR. What you can ALSO see on this siteplan is that some of the buildings are "Movie World Buildings" (white) and are very closely connected to studio buildings (green): (The surfrider surfboard has been stored out near one of these buildings for several years)

The catch car has a spring loaded hook. when it reaches the gondola at the bottom, it connects (and if you happen to be sitting in the gondola when it happens you'll hear and feel the loud clunk as it slides into position. ) When it reaches the top, the hook mechanism is disengaged. If you look closely at pictures of intamin giant drops you can see the hook in the catch car - and its why the gondola usually has a 'raised' part in the centre where the catch car hooks on. What exactly triggers the catch car to release i'm not sure, but I assume it is something mechanical and fixed at the top of the tower as it isn't possible to trigger the release in any other position on the tower.

What has been changed can be changed again. There are plenty of alternatives. And as many have said, there are many things done onsite that don't need to be.

The latest i've heard is the ride requires a whole new 'lot of things'. I've heard the track went vertical today so i'd say the halfpipe will be standing within a week or two, weather depending. Getting it open will be subject to the new rules and laws on amusement devices post-TRRR. I had also heard whisper that a new train was coming too. This might not have always been the plan, from what I recall of the earlier details i'd heard - that may also contribute to delays if it wasn't ordered day one. I've got no response to the rest of what you said though - Amen.