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When I went just before Christmas, which I've been meaning to post a trip report of for ages now, SE was running with 5 staff for 2 train operation. 1. loader, 2. Loader & Sorter, 3. Unloader, 4. Entry, 5. Supervisor.

I always thought a Soarin' concept ride would be great for Sea World if you could fit a smaller version into their old 3D theatre. I know DW is an Aussie park I just think SW could pull it off better flying over Gold Coast or Australia or through different oceans and places like Canada where the Polar Bears are. In terms of what I'd like is to see the park continue refreshing itself and open Euerka, let MW have their big coaster this year and come back fighting the year after.

I really wouldn't classify us in the peak period yet. Boxing Day is when you hit the peak period time through to the rest of the holidays. In fact Friday is the last day of school for QLD and next Friday for NSW. Otherwise I'd ask why didn't DW start work earlier on Cyclone and the V8 area earlier to have it open for right now, the peak period. I didn't say a check-up was why the coaster was down, it could have already been through that, simply that shutting rides down not too long after opening is standard procedure. With the carousel, pulling it down so there's just a mast left does sound exactly what you'd classify as a rebuild, pulling it down to its bare bones and putting it back together and yes Fright Nights could have triggered that. What I am surprised at is the ride not being on the website as being down because even though you might call it a carnival ride there is one at every single theme park here on the GC and even the Disney parks, so I'd also classify it as a theme park staple.

Alex B is right, every ride closes a month or two after opening for a check up. Just like the car analogy he gave. It's to check that when it was commissioned everything is still working as it should as these are new parts wearing in. I think you'll probably find nearly every piece of machinery has to go through this. Whether this is the break-in maintenance check or something else, I don't know. But go back through every ride opening and you'll all find they went through a brief check up. Also the carousel, that could just be a complete rebuild, we've seen a lot of rides go through it and even when coasters are down their cars go through rebuilds.

Well considering VR owns Intencity & Village cinemas you'd imagine they'd both of those brands in as well as probably a WB Store

MW is due for another big one, but SW is also desperately missing something big!

But are we sure it was MW that asked for them, or did S&S already have this design in planning/ready to go? I'm sure it wasn't just MW that wanted this, it's also beneficial for S&S because they can then sell the model with an extra option. Just like how Mack can sell their wild mouse with a lift instead of the standard lift hill. Or what about SE, that might be a similar system to others around the world yet carried risk because that design had never been built before. I'm just saying we have no idea what pressure was put on S&S to create an 8 seat, if any was at all, and that's something I doubt we'll ever know.

Not from Sea FM, written for the entire HIT Network. Probably from Melbourne or Sydney. You'll find it on all their HIT websites, you'll also probably find the article pop up on the Triple M network as well as their Local Works stations like Gold FM.

When you look at Disney Hollywood Studios they seem to be following the same path as Movie World, instead of just showing you behind the scene of movies they're want to take you into the movies themselves.

And until SV had to be demolished & they filled in part of the lake for Wild they were very land locked and I don't really want to see anymore of the lake filled in, give the park a real charm. With the car park, I'm not suggesting build a second across the road just acquire the land for future expansion, most animal exhibits need large plots of land, just look at Shark Bay & Dolphin Cove. The car park could always just go up

Well I'd love to see the park start to expand past the DC area and bring people to the back area of the park around the Stage Show & WWF. Or the entire WB Kids area get some love. However, around the DC area I'd love to see something go into the helix of SE and the unused cinema of LW/AA and open up the LW shop as a food outlet or something.

If the State Government is happy to give out/lease some of the land on the spit, which it seems to be at the moment, could SW perhaps make the move across the road to give it plenty of room for expansion in the future?

So I heard this on the news on the radio in Sydney going back nearly half a month now. However, I haven't been able to find one single article about this on the Internet so I hope someone knows what I talking about. But while listening to a breakfast radio show every half hour in the news break they airing the story of the possibility of VRTP's opening a new theme park in Sydney following the massive success of WnWS. I mean this news doesn't surprise me at all, my guess was we would see something like this in the future and the VR was using the WnW brand as a testing ground; if it is true it seems to have come together a lot quicker though than what I thought it would. What I didn't like about the story is they said VR were exploring the possibility of building another Movie World in Sydney. I just feel like really with only a population of only 22million, can't we get something we haven't seen here in Australia yet?! What is surprising me is for a radio station to air the story but not find it anywhere else, I mean they're a news organisation so I'm presuming they must ave heard it somewhere to report and not just get my hopes up for nothing Just wanted to know since I can't find any info online if someone had heard of something as well (I guess not though otherwise someone else would have already started a thread).

Wait, how do we know the island where the dinosaurs were located has anything to do with Wild?

Being I'm not an expert at law I can't be certain here, but wouldn't Wet'n'Wild's response of 'we have the correct procedures in place' be a way specifically not to take the blame, because if at any stage they admitted to being responsible for your food poising they are then liable for you to sue them. Unfortunately these days even when someone gets stuck in a slide or **trips** over they see $$ signs, so now ALL companies these days seem to deny, deny, deny and demonstrate the procedures in place to ensure it doesn't happen.

Although I don't watch the show form what I saw on Instagram, the Today have also been to Wet'n'Wild and Sea World. I guess Dreamworld would be still to come then!

The Project last night did a cross to SW and they showed that exact same footage

^ The way I see it though as Storm is more family friendly, Abyss aimed more at thrill seekers. Less thrilling means less airtime. I'm presuming you mean world class. Without riding it, and working on the budget they had this definitely is very impressive and looks to be up there with some of the best coasters we have in Australia. But I'm going to add Scooby to that list, it might be a standard wild mouse in the coaster section, but lift, added 'haunted' section theming, puts it up there. It may not be thrilling but perfect for families and crowd favourite (look at it lines everyday). I'd add Jet Rescue as well, it may be short and a family coaster but TPR constantly talks about how much they love it and how solid it is. And surely back in its hey day ToT was there, it held a 2 world records, and America built one at the same time, thats got to count for something! Anyway, talking about Abyss at AW: I'm really impressed to see how this turned out, pity its too far away. If I ever went over to Perth though, its definitely on my list if I ever make my way over there!

^ It does get used for a maze, but I'd prefer it if they could find another spot to put the maze and use the show stage for what it was actually built for... a show! And yea after posting that and thinking how much revenue it would take away your right not the best place. I'd still prefer not have one in the Scooby queue either.

I have no problem with increasing prices and increasing crowds if a few things could happen: 1) Run the night till later, the hardest part is the forever complaining residents. But if they could someway get past it for just the month but in America, Universal's nights finish between midnight and 2am, depending on the night. 2) Definitely run Scooby and Justice League till the end of the night. I know some people said on here the park didn't have JL open at the beginning, did this change. 3) Again you'd have to get residents past this but somehow open the rides till later if you could get it past them, it would be nice if they could all open till the end, or even some right at the front like batwing and GL could maybe be allowed. 4) Open Wild West, I know Joz or DJRappa have already said on here before logistically its a nightmare, but to light the ride up in spooky colours put a couple of Halloween sets up, I've always thought the ride would be perfect for it, heck it already has the ghost town. 5) Run the 4D theatre, I don't know if it did this year, either Halloween themed or not, I'd like to see it run to just soak up crowds. 6) Keep a stunt type show in the HSD arena and in the show stage have a Bill & Ted (Universal) or The Hanging (Knotts Berry Farm) Horror/Comedy type show, while still having smaller shows in mainstreet and have big ending type show like the chainsaw's at Universal. 7) Have the park add at least one or two more mazes and stop putting one in the Scooby queue and let the ride with its full queue since the night gets so busy. I've always thought Infinfity could fit amaze in if they took out the games for the month. If they did these things, I'd be happy to pay more and have more people, I know that still wouldn't help overcrowding or lines, but what a heck of a night if they did all of the above. You've got to remember over Universal and Knotts, I've seen reviews of mazes getting lines of an easy 2 hours, and I presume lines for rides aren't short either. You've just got to realise when you got the events be prepared to be patient and waiting in queues as part of the experience

The only place I'd like to see a kid friendly Halloween is SW and dress it up like Disney does.

While I champion the return of a theme park to Sydney, I'd like to see one return under a different name! Wonderland has been dead and gone for a very long time now. Some people may disagree with me, but I feel like people will forever compare this park IF it gets off the ground to the old one; and if they feel its not as good it could blow up in their faces in a very bad way. While, I never visited the park, there's a lot of people out there who some to have very fond memories of the place and have a lot of nostalgia for it. I get now leveraging off the Wonderland name is a great marketing tool and to get exposure, I just feel its a dangerous line to walk come opening day.

I'd like to see Disney here as well, who wouldn't? My gut feeling is if Disney did ever decide to grace our shores you'll see something like the resort they just built in Hawaii or a Cruise Ship. As everyone else says on these boards time and time again we just don't have the population to support one here. To get international tourists they would need to build attractions unique to our park as why would they leave their home park for a smaller copy cat and new attractions will cost a fortune because we know Disney doesn't cheap out! Like AlexB said this is probably more realistic and I would love to see a Universal in Australia, however, I'd also like to see different themes in Australia other than movie, we're a small country, how many movie themed parks can we have. Also, while Universal's rides don't cost as much Disney's correct me if I'm wrong they still don't come in at $15million our parks like to spend, I can't imagine HP, Transformers or The Hulk were this cheap! With Disney now owning the rights to Marvel movies and I'm guessing rides? Since their rumours of an Iron Man ride, I doubt we'll be seeing anymore Marvel themed rides (If Disney now also have the attraction rights) at Universal, period. Not unless the 2 somehow decide to co-exist sharing Marvel rides at the 2 parks and Universal is prepared what Disney is asking for the license. We also have a Halloween nights in Australia now at MW, I know its a smaller event than the US, but remember if Universal came here they would only bring a smaller version of Halloween here as well! Anyway since this is a thread about dreaming what we'd like to see, I'd love to Disney to recreate a DisneySea theme park here

Thanks for the info, I guessed with the age of WnWGC's wave pool I assumed it would use compressed air, because the other methods, well at least the wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon seems like it is a newer method. I thought maybe WWW might use a different system since they claim their waves can be surfed. Does anyone know what system WnWS will use? Another question, while they holes at the back of the pool look pretty freaky, who else thinks that? How safe are the systems, and is one safer than the other?

I'm very sceptical of this since after what happened with Fright Nights and there is no link on WnWS Facebook page but there is a twitter account @wetnwildsydney that says it is official Twitter profile.