mba2012

Just wondering, would they also increase the number of people in the store when they're running more people through the ride?

Are they satellite images though? I know google uses images taken from planes, I'd assume Nearmap would do something similar.

^ Correct. That is the new sound stage.

Well, I'm hoping it's something like Abyss or Nemesis. But from what has been said already, whatever it is should be good

I drove past movie world today and saw a person riding on green lantern. Definitely wasn't a dummy. So obviously they think it's safe enough for people so hopefully it'll be opening soon.

I think that'd be something great to have. It'd certainly help with the problem of having to choose between parks.

Hopefully even if this doesn't end up happening, it scares Dreamworld or VRTP into building something big.

You could try that, but I'd imagine something like this would happen.

The state government confirmed this morning that there was a failure in a bolt joint. News article accompanied by victims upset that the ride is reopening. http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/gold-coast/investigations-into-movie-worlds-green-lantern-ride-accident-found-a-bolted-joint-failed/story-fnj94idh-1227587472944

There's the usual voices plus theres some rumbling. But something I never noticed until I was sitting in the front was that there are just general subway noises that you can hear from just inside the tunnel while they're loading the train. Also, the vibration you feel when the train leave the station. Is it intentional to feel like an earthquake or does it just do that and it happens to fit in perfectly with the theme?

The sounds were working well today too. There's actually quite a bit of sound which I've never heard before.

There were only two trains on the tracks today, both of them on the maintenance track. One of them had dummies in the seats (like it has been for the last few weeks) and the other one was empty. All the other trains have disappeared, as has the scaffolding around the station.

So I was at movie world today and it was a bit of a mixed bag. Justice League had a fairly long queue but there was only one person loading, so the ride stopped a couple of times and the timing during the last few sequences was off because of that. Superman on the other hand had two trains running and the queue only just reached the second switchback. The effects were running the best I've ever seen them. I was thinking about it afterwards, and as unrealistic as it might seem, I think they should add some loud sirens/alarms and music during the indoor segment to make it that much more intense.

I think he was referring to it following the track backwards... In which case, it's still a forwards facing ride.

I was under the assumption that the casino site was only about half of that. There's a fence that runs along the back of that grassy field and I'd assumed that was where the state-owned land was, which would make the site unimaginably small. To be honest, I think (and hope) this new idea for the casino is going to struggle to get off the ground.

You say the logo on the front is missing the green part. Could it be possible that this detached and fell into the way of the wheels? Was it a separate plastic bit or something similar? Otherwise, why would that piece be missing other than being damaged in maintenance or something? Scratch that. Looking through some earlier photos and it's still attached. Was just a thought

The train in the picture you took has red wheels, which for some reason looked out of place. So I looked through some earlier photos and they must be new. This photo was taken in 2012 and the wheels are a grey colour, not red.

I'm just wondering, did anyone notice when the spinning propellor blades were cut off on the storm coaster? The shaft is still there, but just the blades have been cut off.

I wouldn't think that they're getting more dangerous. Both of these accidents were pretty major but they're also very rare and they just happened to occur to two fairly high profile coasters. It's probably sort of like how flying isn't any more dangerous, there's just been two very high profile incidents in the past 18 months.

​I rode about 4:40 and the mouth was moving

^ The last scooby was working for me this afternoon.

If it's been used for boatshow parking then that must be what it is, considering that is on this weekend.

I think I've said this before, but what I'd really like to see at Movie World is something like Phantom Manor/Haunted Mansion in the western area. I think it'd certainly fit in as a family ride with a similar calibre to SDSC.

I really like how Alton Towers is built into the forest and has a big variation in terrain and landscapes, it makes the place really interesting to explore.

^ The lighthouse has definitely been repainted. I can't remember off the top of my head exactly what it was before, but it wasn't that