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What I like about Cyclone is works well as step up for people getting into coasters and those sorts of rides... for people who feel ToT2 is too thrilling, but the Reptar, (or Madagascar I believe its now themed?) is too boring. Plus it works well now with WWW, I agree with Joz IMO it needs a refresh and second train for better operation. I'm firm believer and I don't think its a secret in really focusing on a parks operations and having lines moving as quick as possibly, with staff working a ride efficiently. I also disagree with putting a coaster around Thunderbolt. 1. The station now works as the entry to WW from DW. 2. The land is mostly taken up by WWW where Thunderbolt once was. 3. The small area left we are hoping will be used for a WWW expansion. I'd like to see DW's next coaster be something like a spinning coaster, Euro Fighter, or Mini Hyper. For MW, I think LT needs some work before they look at another coaster, and I would like to see the park also add a second water ride for the hot months... But when it come time for a coaster, I would love to see a wooden coaster.

Can I just ask, we have 2 discussions going on about locker fees and SE lockers. I think its a valid topic, but its doing my head going from one thread to the next where we are essentially discussing the same thing, is there anyway we can just talk about it in one topic?

I think SW have already answered this question for you. . .

I've said it before, IMO if we see anything Disney in the near future your looking at maybe a cruise ship or a resort similar to the one they just opened in Hawaii

I hope when they re-paint the main entrance buildings they get a coat of paint that reflects their theme and era... not overly bright colours that fade quickly... sigh. However, I am greatly impressed to see them addressing a lot of the areas in the park that needed work done.

Speaking, not sarcastically, when Mack stated they were working on a water coaster here in Australia, we all pretty much just assumed, yep, SW, since they had plans a while ago for one. . . . . SW, realising not long after stating that a new ride would replace BT and would have a storm theme, that just fuelled it!

Wow, this Melbourne Theme Park thread gets off topic A LOT.

But look at how much food prices have increased at the parks themselves

When you look at it Disney Universal work in the way that they have one east coast park and one west coast park and tourists, are suppose to travel to the park that is closest to them, so if VRTP and Ardent are both established already on the east coast, then why build again on the east coast that just eats into their healthy tourist numbers on the Gold Coast and I don't ever see them expanding to the west coast. Best chance of another theme park IMO in Australia is in Sydney, VRTP may have had a plan to build in Melbourne but thats gone now and looking at Sydney with WnW. Plus, Melbourne weather is way too ridiculous, 40 degrees one day, 0 the next! The Gold Coast climate is much better suited for a theme park and Sydney is okay, hence them building a water park that can close in winter.

Wouldn't you also need to pay for the licensing to Hasbro, owners of the Transformers brand? And really, as Gazza said Movie parks don't have to specifically use their movies as rides, they can use other studios rides, as is seen in both Universal and Disney.

Ahhh, of course, how silly of me!!!

Well, I'm not in business, so not probably the right person to talk about funding, about I would presume, most of the money is being borrowed? Having said that the company did just sell of the Sydney Attractions Group that it owned and Southern Cross Media just bought out Village Roadshow's majority share in Austereo. Back when both those things happened I do remember reading that money would o back into funding new attractions for the group as well as their expansion into Asia. All I can say is, go Village, I love to see an Aussie theme park companies expanding to show off to the rest of the world what we can do! I have been wondering as of late as well now that the Village Wet'n'Wild brand is growing in the US, what about the Wet'n'Wild in Orlando owned by Universal!

^ I think, from the review's I've read Main Street has been fairly packed, its nice opening up the road to the studios to where the two mazes are to help spread the crowds out, but I think as someone mentioned here before, add something to the back of the park around WWF to try and send crowds down there and space them out better. Maybe in future years be able to have WWF operate, another maze somewhere around there (I recall a maze being in the Intencity building one year and another in a tent next to WWF), and maybe throw in a show in the building, something like the Bill and Ted show Universal do. That giving the park, a show in HSD, the WW building, plus the shows and entertainment currently being offered in mainstreet. Maybe a few more people with chainsaws I've also been hoping to VRTP capitalise on Halloween and while the teenagers and adults head to MW, have SW get families and the young kids along for a family Halloween event, with a special parade maybe, lots of characters dressed up for Halloween, have some sort of Trick or Treat thing going and deck the park out with family friendly Halloween theming. That way the company can earn money from both having all ages able to attend a Halloween night spread across the 2 parks, the only thing is logistically it might be a bit hard for SW and they may need to up their ride count first!

I'm actually curious to know what rides MW or VRTP have let deteriorate? LW was given a refresh by getting a new theme and trains. Both Batman and Gremlins were closed to make way for great new rides, with LT presumably next to follow. Sure, Batman and LT weren't looking great by the end of their life BUT they were at the end of their life, they could have kept them going with less people visiting and let them fall apart even more, same goes for BT which is now getting replaced. WWF just went through a major rehab, sure the lift hill isn't quite what it used to be since the fire but that was a long time ago, and at its current standard all effects are always going to the best of their ability. Anytime something wasn't quite right with Scooby people on here would mention this and it would seem the next time someone visited the problem was fixed. The flooding on SE broke, that was fixed. Corkscrew was given a new lease of life as SV and when problems occurred with that the park spent a considerable amount of money fixing it to keep it going. I've the flume go down numerous times as well for a well deserved rehab. So, really I'm curious what rides then has the park "let go" to deteriorate, as is apparently their reputation, other than ones that are getting ear marked for replacements?

If you read the article it also states (which I forgot about) that only does the ride have all the signage but the annoucements from the speakers as you make your way up the tower. To top it off since her saying there was no warning given to her whatsoever, she has since back tracked and no says. . .

I'm just so pumped to see such a great Batman Adventure The Ride replacement. Now I'm going to be greedy and look to the future, I'm hoping they replace the LT River Ride next, open a refreshed kids area in the middle of next year, with the River Ride replacement opening in the Christmas holidays, or this time, depending on when they plan to open SW's water coaster. Then finally moving onto the Wild West area, but thats just me being greedy. At least now this can shut some of those people up on the Facebook page, I had a good laugh when someone posted how much better DW is because they have a better upkeep on their rides and don't leave them SBNO, and don't let things or theming stop working and not replace them.

Yep, there would be about 80 people on the ride at any given time with people at loading/unloading and therefore over the hour my horrible maths would tell me it could take 800 people per hour!?!? Gazza would be better at this. Also, for those who have ridden this type of ride system before, how does it compare?? I know this is a first of its kind, but other shooters out there, not just Disney and Universal, both other similar ride systems at other parks. Real cool review as well Gazza, good to read an in depth detail of what happens!

So that's about what 800? My Mathis isn't the greatest that seems pretty respectable, how's that compared with other MW rides??

What is the capacity of this thing? Does anyone know?

You know I read these comments before and just thought, do some people just complain for the sake of complaining without even experiencing first before passing judgement?? I'm not going to pass any judgement on it, until I get to experience it first hand... But it does look completely awesome and really want to get back to the coast asap to experience it!!

^ My guess is, with everything in their opening days need tweaking here and there.

Its been mentioned on these forums before, but no. It has something to do with DC Comics won't allow him to be seen unless he is flying, or in the form of like a statue (like how he is on the DC store)? I think its been said before, it was something along the lines an actor dressed as him before was shot, because someone thought he was made of steel and it wouldn't affect him

I have heard when these get into crashes, which I believe happens frequently (well at least in the early days don't know about today), it needed to be taken by truck up to a Mitsubishi factory sort of thing up in around Springwood? To have the work done to it to fix it up and then driven back down by truck again to MW to return to the show. One of reasons the show has such a high cost involved. Link didn't work for me.

Which is something I've been meaning to ask, does anyone know if management decided to buy the second train? With Summer coming up, their busiest period of the year, I was wondering if they were going to do something to help relieve those long lines it got last holidays and that wasn't even the parks peak period. Plus, no doubt, the park will be pulling a lot more visitors with JL!

I realise this, but I would really like to see the park preserve with it and turn it into a Halloween style ride during the month, much like the US parks do with some of their rides and attractions during the Halloween months, some of them even do it for Christmas as well!