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Final night of AW Nights for the season was tonight. The car park was only half full and it wasn’t as crowded as last week. I didn’t manage to get there until after sunset. Rampage was down, but everything else was operating. The Grand Prix and Abyss had fairly lengthy queues of around 20 minutes. Our wait for Inferno was around 5 minutes. The food trucks and Kahuna Falls were doing really well. We did catch up with Ross a couple of times and shared some fries with him. Ross said that were surprised at how successful they were during the last couple of weeks with AW Nights. There were a few staff members conducting surveys too.

Visited the Maze/Outback Splash’s Australia Day party, today. The waterpark part was packed. They had a DJ and a costume kangaroo character. There was a big flag above the water playground. The huge scaffolding at the back of the park represents the height of the new slide tower being constructed, this winter. The rest of the park was not as packed and was pleasant to walk around.

Are we talking Boomerang or Family Boomerang? The family Boomerangs look quite good. We need more family rides which are re-rideable, like SV. A lot of people look at GD or a large inverting coaster and just go ‘no way.’

Okay, without offending any SW fans allow me to explain some points. Ross, the GM, had mentioned that they had to use their back up power once during this season when the local grid had issues. We’ve been watching these substations, or whatever they are, expand throughout the park these last ten years. The five rides was a reference to a particular area of the park that has nowhere near 5 rides now (needless to say we weren’t fishing for info on AW’s power supply). Where once they couldn’t expand until they fixed their power problems, now they are ready for future expansion. Here's the link to when Adventure World did their last lot of distribution boards.. https://www.parkz.com.au/forums/topic/7275-goliath-adventure-world’s-new-intamin-gyro-swing/?page=13

Yeah, I don’t deny that those animal exhibits would need a lot of power and that the two parks are very different. It was just weird as we had just had that conversation with Ross, the GM, and had presumed that the GC parks would be similar.

You can talk to the GM and CEO? They future proofed the park? It’s funny that this ‘water park’ has more dry thrill rides than that marine wildlife park.

We were talking to the GM of AW the other week about a certain part of the park that has enough power to supply 5 rides when he told us that they sometimes supply the grid.

Yeah, sorry, I was talking about Sea World. No, I was just wondering why a proper theme park doesn’t have its own power supply and an ‘amusement park’ like Adventure World generates enough power to sell it back to the grid. Are the GC parks that poor?

Don’t GC parks have their own generators?

Went to the third AW Nights, last night. The streets around the park were packed. Gwilliam St was full of cars up to Red Rooster and Progress Drive had cars parked along it past the Ice Arena. They have started a new line at the main gate for season pass holders. Managed to pick up a key for a small locker from a couple of staff members with a bucket of keys. Bumped into Andrew, the CEO, and had a brief chat. He said they’re still testing different things out and tweaking the event. He was also grateful for the 38 degree weather and the large crowds it brought with it. I didn’t hang around too long, yesterday. I took photos, had dinner and went for a swim. There were still people entering the park when I left, just before 9pm. One more AW Night to go, on Australia Day.

^We saw Rampage pretty much at capacity on Saturday night. The animal place should be safe for the time being. We kinda found out what happened to Inferno from Ross. It certainly explains why it hasn’t been down this season. Sounds like you had a good time on Goliath.

^Yeah, was just at USS, where they did something similar. The park was due to open at 10 am and they let people in at 9.45. The Lost World was due to open at 11am, but we got there at 10.45 to see the rope drop for that area.

Went to the first AW Nights for 2019 on Saturday night. @Tim Dasco and I spent a bit of time chatting to Ross, the general manager. We learnt a few things that can be repeated: Fright Nights should be held in February. The animal area will be reopening soon. The park was busier early, but as the temperature dropped so did the crowd. Abyss was about a ten minute wait and the Grand Prix about 15 minutes. There was a DJ in one part of the park and a rumba band near the gate.

Yeah, @Tim Dasco and I had a great time at AW Nights on Saturday(it’s on every Saturday night in January). The operating hours for AW in January are from 10am to 7pm Sun-Fri, but 10-6pm on Saturdays. AW Nights is held between 6.30pm and 11pm. Yeah, it’d be nice if our parks stepped up and offered more extra hours events. Nothing better than spending 12 hours in one day in a Disney park.

Yup - Australia for Animals, Australia for Dolphins and Sea Shepherd are mentioned by Trevor around three minutes in.

Yeah, and I know it’s a paltry amount, but it’s still a product and if it pisses you off, why renew? Do you return to your favourite theme park if drunken teenagers assault you in the car park? Probably not, you’d just go somewhere else... Thanks. Will give it a try. In the meantime, one thing I noticed at the Qld parks is that they’d open the gates early, but not let people on the rides until half an hour later.

You could have asked another group(like the one mentioned in the video), just not JFC. Great video, regardless. It does certainly address the propaganda put out by that group. I thought it was interesting how they said the JFC protest disturbed the dolphins.

Yeah, I suspect the mods will cut this part of the thread. My point is: why should we contribute to Parkz if AlexB is going to be antagonistic every time (even in the Adventure World threads - despite the fact that even he admits he’s never been there)? Why should I be a paid up member of Parkz if I get treated like a joke? I thought we were about intelligent discussion.

The problem with having a ‘sense of humour’ is that you can come across as a bullying dick. Maybe why people don’t post about parks outside the Gold Coast is that you come on and belittle them (even if you’re just trying to be funny).

Seriously? Really? Nice use of the smug emoji!

Fully grown palms would be nice, but expensive. It looks pretty darn cold too.

You can?! 😜 It will be interesting to see which states are covered.

Welcome. Yes, we’ve been wondering that for sometime too.

AW Nights are back on in 2019. It’s going to be held every Saturday in January. https://adventureworld.net.au/whats-on/aw-nights-2019

I haven’t been in a while, but last time I was there they put up an observation tower where the new slide tower is going. Many social media sites also said it was opening this season, when it’s not supposed to be.