DaptoFunlandGuy

if i remember correctly, around the time the park finally closed, either clint or liam posted a photo of kevin standing outside the memories photo lab (or was it demon shop) with a handwritten sign listing the number of times he had been on the "BIG 3", and how many days he had been to the park or something. Kevin was a very special person, and a lot of cast didn't particularly like him, but there were a couple who really understood, and got along with him. he had his favourites among the cast - all female, all under 30, and he remembered every single name - and even some of the guys as well... Kevin used to meet up with Geoff from guest relations at Rooty Hill, and together they both would walk from Rooty Hill station all the way into the park.

i like the idea of resurfacing the pathways. The area surrounding the wavepool is covered in AstroTurf. Something similar along the paths would cost money, but would be ideal. Or better yet, if we're trying to be cost effective - the paths are generally quite wide in most places. Why not run a strip (say - 1 metre wide) down one side of the pathways. If you have sensitive feet, stick to the astro turf. if you're thick skinned.... LESS CROWDED PATHWAY!!! Sounds like win-win to me...

there were NEVER NEVER NEVER balls in Scooby's Silly Stix. The only balls were in Bam Bam's Ball Bounce, located not far from silly stix in a part of the park that was closed off, and the building was refurbished into a Quarantine area for the Wildlife park. The balls used in this attraction were later used for all sorts of things, from facade decoration, to balls used for skill games (can crash in Botany Bay, Muffin Madness outside HB Skyrider, etc)

Agree with you on that one Slick. In recent years, DW and WVTP have competed on new attractions, hence the current rush for DW to bring out something new to compete with Superman. But WnW have had no competition. As I've said before, another competitor, so close to the market centre will encourage BOTH parks to continuously improve, upgrade, renew, and add attractions to their parks. This can only be a good thing for enthusiasts and tourists alike. Rather than them both buying the same ride at the same time - like when WL built probe, and then DW built GD, I forsee one park building one type of water ride, and the other park building something COMPLETELY different. On Joz' comments about a wave pool, Looking at the board at WnW on how the wave pool works, I can't imagine it being THAT expensive. a standard construction on a pool, with a sloping bottom, high walls, but nonetheless a standard pool construct, with giant fans etc at one end. See http://science.howstuffworks.com/wave-pool.htm for a better explaination..

Article in 'MX' - Monday 5th December 2005 Just when you thought New South Wales had new entertainment hope with the exit of Bob Carr, along comes another premier, who might as well be Bob Carr's Parrot. Its a pity the premier of New South Wales didnt declare the Wonderland Precinct a state significant site BEFORE it was sold to ING Industrial.

good point flasher, but don't forget the pre-opening dress rehearsals. Technically, it was up to a month earlier. Then again if you wanna start talking about ground breaking, or when construction on the beast was commenced \ completed - depends on which date you want, although most would sit with 7th december quite nicely.

Ok so first off - guys check the guidelines again - some of you are slipping.... Second off, i think its great wet n wild has some direct competition - it will encourage both parks to keep upgrading and expanding, which means we will see newer attractions more often in both parks to compete - just like what has been happening with movie world and dreamworld of late. Thirdly - those complaining about the positioning of dreamworld's new park - consider this - the only way left for dreamworld to expand the fun park was either out towards the highway which would demolish the existing entrance, or close down blue lagoon and expand that way - with the talks about big brother ending soon, this means they have TONNES of room for new rides, attractions and themed lands. Blue lagoon currently locks dreamworld in to its existing design... it would be ludicrous for dreamworld to axe blue lagoon without replacing the water attractions elsewhere - because they would lose those who visit to attend the water park to sea world or wet n wild... I was waiting for someone to mention the water crisis. Now, while the dam is at 75%, the whole country is experiencing some shortage of water. BUT a water park is better, because: a) it will attract thousands of people - and thats less people wasting water at home to keep cool. Public pools have always been better for water usage than home pools. a managed pool system like DWWP means a lot less water is wasted, and they would have many safeties in place to prevent excess water waste. All in all - no matter what side of the fence you stand on, this new park will benefit all - it will also benefit WVTP too because it will encourage competition, keeping WnW fresh and new, rather unlike what it HAS been up until recently.

i think this discussion has dragged on far enough in the wrong direction - can we take all our LunaPark conversations to the Luna Parks topic, and leave this thread open for discussions on wonderland....

of course... no one but yourself actually referred to you as a nutter yet.... so - think about it - and decide who the nutter is....

just an update on your info at the bottom of the page -(good stuff by the way) - the wonderland gateway signage was located off the northern road, not the driftway - and it connected windsor and penrith. the junkyard has been demolished, and levelled to the ground, and a brand new built double story house now stands in its place. As for the name of the "lake" area - take your pick depending on which part you are talking about Medieval Faire, Old Botany Bay, International Village, Transylvania were all names of (or names of parts of) that area.

if you look at the email address for contact enquiries - it is CBRE, which is a commercial \ industrial property group. they generally buy vacant land zoned for industry, and sell it off to developers or industrial companies looking for new property to develop on

it's been a while since i've posted on these forums, and it seems to me that people are just getting thicker and thicker... There's sarcasm and deliberate exaggeration all over the place, made intentionally, which completely goes over the head of everyone else - take taronga's last post for example - Oh My God.... what a world we live in. I think the most logical explaination as to why the water rides would be closed is because it is cooler and night and people would freeze. I think movieworld doing a "Screamworld" type event would just appear to copy dreamworld. I dont think its necessary for movie world to do screamworld. out of the major attractions, lethal, and soon, superman, are really the only rides you would truly get any effect out of that you don't already get in the day time. It suits dreamworld because their rides are mostly outdoors, movie world on the otherhand are mostly indoors, so therefore theres no difference what time of day you ride the attraction, the experience is mostly the same...

as far as i am aware, the transfer for lethal weapon is a sliding track, operating similarly to a railway switch track...

There is very little that can be done with the Beast's remains. The chemicals used to treat the timber back in the early eighties is highly toxic, so burning and the like is out of the question. As far as using it for woodchips, im not sure how safe that would be, given woodchips are generally in public areas - and what would happen if baby johnny picked one up and licked it? not a risk worth taking... no - Beast's remains will most likely because hazardous landfill and no more than that...

i still think Melbourne is the wrong place for a Disney Park. I honestly think somewhere in NSW would be the best, but thats with a residential bias. Queensland or NSW would be the best possible places, both for climate and existing local and international tourism destinations. Put down to the bear facts, Australia's three biggest destinations are: Sydney - landmarks, icons, and animals Brisbane\Gold Coast - sun, fun, and heavily "Aussie" tourist attractions Melbourne - Shopping Now as an international tourist, if i could choose only two of the three, the loser would be melbourne. As a domestic tourist from another state, the shopping would not be too far from what I would pay at home, so again its still not that much of an attraction. Spreading the tourist attractions so far apart, where there is nothing else in between is just too much. To see everything worth seeing in the US, it might take a year to do it properly. To see everything worth seeing in Australia, im confident that it COULD be done in under 6 months. Bear in mind that the size of our country is very close to that of continental america... they just have so much more to see...

The christmas 2001 party at panthers was my only christmas party with Wonderland :cough: Supervisor was a bitch :cough:, but it was probably one of the best christmas staff parties i have been to. the red faces acts were quite funny, and the only problem with being underage was if you didnt have another staff member who was legal to get the drinks for you... lol. That was my job for a bit of that night as my GF at the time was underage as well. we got pretty tanked, ended up staying at Panthers Motel, and woke up with 20 minutes before we were due to start at the park and screamed frantically down the M4. For those who remember the parties following that one, the Parks photographer - Brendan Fox - was on hand doing photography for a lot of the external events. Brendan now runs a Camera and Photoprocessing store, I work for him, and he lives out the back and pays me rent! lol. so anyway back on with the story... So maintenance did a strip tease Retail did a revamped version of "my guy (my god)" from Sister Act, with the Retail supervisor playing the part of god Entertainment - well.... they couldnt act even when they were being paid, how did they have any chance of winning??? - the exception being the Magic Movers who worked for Tony Laffan. I forget what operations did, but i think it involved the shrek costume food - ??? park services???

personally, I like the old version on Vbulletin, however since Richard is still ironing out creases and changing the styles etc, I'll reserve judgement. I do certainly hope the changes will see the return of the "quick reply" area, as going to a new page to create a post has its problems, I also hope that the "please wait while we direct you" message will not be hanging around long, and basically that the forums features we have had to this point won't be lost in a compromise for "better" features.

Ok, reviewing these images i have some comments and questions - 1) there are two photos of the launch on the first page (outdoor), but one looks like its a really short length (closeup) and the other from a wide angle makes it look long. The caption there somewhere says most of the launch is indoors, so - how long is the launch from station (or launch staging area) to the pulleys? (eg: what is the length of acceleration before its just travelling on its own?) 2) the highest support is already standing, however the top hat will reach the top of the crane... how big wide is the top hat going to be? time taken to travel from vertical UP to vertical DOWN through the top hat - would this be more likely to be measured in milliseconds or seconds? 3) the turn post-top-hat appears to be near a public area - which public area, and how close? 4) that same turn - wasn't there going to be part of the movie setsnew sets built so that the track went through the cityscape.... is there still room there to have these built, and will that public area still be able to view the coaster at that point? 5) based on all of the track sections delivered, has anyone been able to determine the approximate total length of the track? 6) in other coasters, a lot of the track pieces were welded together. the closeups of these track pieces look like its just a bolted flange, with a "ball and socket" joint for the track. will it still be welded, or should the flanges hold be enough? and if they won't be welded, does this mean that the onstruction time will be a lot less? look forward to some answers.... this is gunna be one rockin coaster....

yes they pretty much went bust. I enjoyed Intencity Parramatta. I used to go there quite a lot during school holidays when i was younger. Red Planet, BattleMech Warrior, The Chameleon, and Flight Simulator.... all were favourites of mine.... the other arcade parts of the place, i wasn't really a fan of, although the Wide World Of Sports area was better than the rest...

I am usually really lazy, and dont visit links to news articles, however this one sounded interesting, so for all the other lazy people out there, here is the original article.... Mammoth River? now where have I heard that before? It is good though. I enjoyed the mammoth slides at WnW, and if they are the same, It is probably going to be very similar, but without the massive queue lines..... Come on Jamberoooooooooooooo.... show QLD what New South Welshmen are made of!!!

actually.. there were rabbits... but yes, rats were more wonderland's mascot by the end of it all...

i think you're referring to tumbleweed...

The only other place I can think of besides galaxy theatre and outback woolshed that would have had any of this "application specific" equipment would have been in the probe tunnels and launchpad. I am fairly certain that probe's tunnels and pad were stripped of everything of value very early after closure, and I guarantee you that nothing "concealed in boxes" would have been overlooked by the people who stripped that place.

also - do not forget that you can pre-purchase your tickets right here at www.roller-coaster.com.au .....

i know someone who has done that on Zodiac....