DaptoFunlandGuy

I must say, for all the time taken with that support, I kinda expected it to be a much better fit. As well as one big engineering whoopsie!

You mean Dragon? Holy shit! How are you still alive?

During the days of VIP gold early entry to Movie World I managed 24 cycles on Arkham not long after it had finished it's conversion, but my record still stands for a quiet day at Wonderland where, having finished my shift early for the day I spent 4 hours on bush beast, never leaving my seat... so long that I couldn't count. (it did give me an inkling of what the "Whirl till you hurl" contestants went through though, and i'd probably not do it again!

i think they just gave an extra 6 months to all passes.

Well that's changed - originally the maintenance was planned to be 10/7-17/9?

I don't buy that at all Tim. For a park of it's size - every major investment should be touted from the rooftops. it is "MI-3". You know what the MI stands for right? Maximum Impact. Hell - when Dreamworld installed the Claw, they had one of their biggest marketing \ teaser campaigns i've ever seen.. So as you rightly point out - in previous times under previous leadership we had teasers and trailers and all sorts of marketing hype. This time around it seems we're going the way of VRTP and remaining mum until construction is well underway... oh look - there goes a ball rolling down the hill into a mud puddle.

...like not picking up the ball to start with?

Great! Now instead of $5000 from 5000 people, you only need $1000 from 5000 people (i've rounded up to $5M to allow for immediate reinvestment and expansion \ operating costs), or $5000 from 1000 people.

Thanks for the really nice update. Does this positive trip report mean that they've now sold to VRTP too?

I think he's saying its currently a bastard for anyone who wants to ride the claw.

^as in control \ comms cabling? Of course - but I wouldn't have thought it would ship in a crate like that. Surely boards etc would come prewired, and then it would require them to be connected, which locals could do running cable off reels? I wouldn't imagine they'd have pre-cut and wired every cable run they need and then shipped it in a crate like that - what if it's too short? I mean - sure, i don't build these things so what do i know, but running lines from say a sensor, or controller would be spec'd for gauge\size etc, but surely they'd let a local run it, rather than ship pre-made looms?

not sure if this has been reported yet, but I can't see anything on the front page of discussion... http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/breaking-news/dreamworld-owner-flags-ongoing/news-story/904d651551dd3df66373f77acab6a90f

Message received loud and clear sir. Taking on board the previous resounding feedback, would anyone care to hazard a guess on what else a box labelled "CABLE" from Mack would be? (Shhhh - don't say 'lift'!)

I absolutely had faith that it would be @docoaster, and i'm sorry if my post implied that you hadn't done a great job at replicating it precisely - I guess it was my soft approach at asking why the caption was implying that it was the tallest when all other imagery suggested it wasn't. Nevertheless its all cleared up now.

First picture - Cable? Are we looking at a cable lift rather than a chain lift? I wouldn't imagine they'd ship control (data) cable like that, so all I can think of is that its a launch\lift cable? Second picture - I'm sure this will be station or similar, but does anyone have specific detail on how\where these pieces go\work?

I'd say probably a big part would be the absence of a certain staff member. I've noticed a massive shift in a lot of aspects of the business since his departure.

Umm... question: The image associated with that caption is the top left in the image below. The top right image shows Rivals compared to green lantern - which looks nothing like double the height. The bottom image shows (what i think) is the same support in @docoaster's rendering, which also clearly shows that the tallest point of the lift hill (according to the render) is a flat-top, supported by two separate supports, rather than an a-frame with the track mount at the absolute top point of the A. (Green lines are pointing to what I believe to be the same support in each picture.) So my question is is the caption wrong, or is the render incorrect?

Yes, tell us precisely how many fries were in your lunch combo meal, and the precise number of ice cubes in your post-mix! Seriously - power's out. they haven't checked the whole park but are letting people know the power has gone out again... Thanks @SuperV for thinking to let us know about it.

INB4 someone spouts about the castle being part of the park's heritage - yes it's been there a long time, but so has the bridge, which was virtually demolished a year or so ago and nobody said a word about it. Getting rid of the castle, and whatever is left of the bridge will really open up that 'mid-station' space in the park. I know VRTP have dropped a tonne of money onto the hyper and the cupboard is probably bare for a little while longer for anything major, but i'd really like to see them start on something for sea world - make it look like they care, and not that they've just left a whole bunch of crap to sit and rot.

Wind (Willyweather.com) 2017 to date 2010-to date Strongest (Cedar Point) 40.7km/h 48.2km/h Average (Cedar Point) 14.8km/h 14.1km/h Strongest (Main Beach) 87.1km/h 320.4km/h Average (Main Beach) 20.1km/h 19.4km/h Cedar point might be similarly surrounded by water - but its a lake - not an ocean. Sea World is not protected by any land mass in front of the south pacific ocean, and it is almost THE most eastern part of Australia. Sandusky is not exposed to the open ocean. It's nowhere near Tornado Alley, and is much farther from the tropic of Cancer than our Sea World is from the Tropic of Capricorn (the closer to the tropics, the most likely to have extreme weather conditions).

In Sea World's location, I don't know how comfortable I would be with a tower ride. Most tower rides use cables to hoist the gondola to the top of the tower. In high winds, to prevent damage to the cable, the ride is closed down and the gondola \ catchcar (depending on what ride it is) is hoisted to the top of the tower so slack cable doesn't bounce around the tower causing damage. Sea World San Diego has an observation tower that shuts down in the lightest of winds - we get quite a bit of wind on the gold coast - and that would be my primary concern. (I have no knowledge of the windseeker mechanics, but would assume a cable would be utilised - happy to be corrected if thats not the case - i've based the above on many other tower type rides that have this problem.)

the park has two rollercoasters, and not much else though. i know (because i say it myself) that coasters are what brings people in, but what SW needs right now is a lot more non-coaster attractions that appeal to - *families riding with small kids *thrillseekers *middle of the road types that enjoy both. Don't forget in addition to the water park, sea world now has both the vikings \ castle land, as well as the former corkscrew and pirate ship sites. You'd never have imagined a few years ago, when we were discussing how landlocked and land poor sea world was, that we'd now have such a glut of land available... but they need to fill it.... FAST. Perhaps don't fill the corkscrew site straight away - and do what AW did - host a circus of some description in a big top. easy filler, makes the park more of a full day attraction, and offers something different (especially with the soon-to-be loss of COTD)

Mer- Mer-mim Mer-Mim-Bula? ...sounds Fijian...

NSW, VIC, ACT and WA didn't finish term 2 until 30th of June. For them, this is day 4 of the school holidays. take into account travel, colder days in the few days prior, the fact that there are other parks that they could have visited on their passes, and it kinda makes sense. QLD school kids likely wouldn't do WNW during the winter holidays, since their passes will let them visit once it warms up - but for interstaters who might only visit once a year - why not take advantage of the fact that the park is included in your multi-park ticket?

All good mate. You obviously put quite a bit of thought into your idea - even so much as marking up an image to show what you thought. I figured you at least deserved to have as much thought and detail put into explaining the opposite. It doesn't mean you're dumb. So long as you learn from it - ie: next time you have an idea - check into it a little to see if it makes out, based on what other info is out there. I'm glad you're excited about it. that's really what this community is all about, isn't it?