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I've noticed a lot of the older rides (coasters in particular) are getting full strip downs / repaints. Is this just that new 10-yearly complete strip-down maintenance rule following what-shall-not-be-mentioned that's essentially due immediately, due to many of them being over 10 years old?

I'm curious, can someone explain why all these new rides have a 'temporary' look to them? They're all built on metal bases sitting atop concrete pads instead of being bolted down on piers (like other Roller Coasters for example). Is this just a look LP likes to maintain (like a temporary carnival ride)? Or could it be due to the proximity to the harbour (can't put deep piers in)? Or something else altogther?

Lets be fair here though, ToT is still in all the plans/renders too, and the plans only say 'proposed'. I don't know if this means they're not in-scope of the current works, or just for the current contractors (and that DW will contract someone else to fix up the rail). My thoughts though are that if they were already set on removing the train for good, it would not be sitting outside adjacent to the construction works.

I'm not sure it's that simple. I was having a dig through the announcement today and found the following excerpt from their ASX Release https://secure.weblink.com.au/Clients/webchartclient/clients/ardentleisure/article.asp?view=21282944 (Page 20) To me, this means they can't take money from the US side of the business to prop up Dreamworld if they needed to. Edit: I'm not a finance guy, but I'm assuming this is good being that they have repaid the loan from the QLD govt. so they won't have that burden into the future.

Wouldn't they just be doing the 'in-depth' 10 yearly maintenance where they strip the ride back down to bare bones and rebuild it? (Similarly to what has happened recently with Green Lantern, Jet Rescue, soon to be Road Runner etc.)

Butting in here, but potentially here (I recognised the Atco demountables)

Scooby is a wild mouse though

Whats with that rust on the coaster support under the current train, I thought it was just painted? Did they only paint the green segments?

Appreciate the updates! Track will go in front of GD, in the removed section of the ToT track (unless plans have changed). Page 22 of this thread. There's notes in the construction plan about ride supports being installed within the current building footprint, and to be 'made good' by builders, to me this means the existing building is staying.

Bush Beast RMC confirmed

Firefox 84 here. Increasingly I've been having more and more issues with site compatibility in FireFox. I've been using it since v3 back in the XP days. It's still my go to browser, I just know that occasionally I'll have site issues and to go to Chrome/Edge. Using the nightly build isn't going to help though. Now that Microsoft Edge is built on Chromium, I'd say web devs and the likes are going to prioritise functionality for Chrome due to a larger market share

Working fine here, in Firefox too!

The world's first single launch roller coaster? Single Rail launched roller coaster! Also, Intamin, not Intermin. I want to go easy on them, and I know I'm being pedantic here, but this is a big claim to fame so the record details should be correct. I'm excited all the same.

All the focus on DW/SW and then this! So, is this likely to be Australia's first RMC or an Intamin Single rail?

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What if they make the train run clockwise so it goes down the incline instead of up?

Do the guards see the actual weight though? When we went last year I only noticed a green/red light. In the case of multiple riders per raft, we just packed onto the same scale.

Just curious, How tall are you?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-30/queensland-border-decision-covid-coronavirus-reopening-nsw-close/12802652 Good news for anyone in NSW (not Sydney though) itching for a visit to the Parks. "It's really disappointing, you know you've got mums and dads businesses that are suffering, you've got people that are suffering, you've got employees that are not back on full time," he said. Mr Randhawa said the "entire arrangement is bullshit". He suggested the decision to keep the border closed to Greater Sydney could have state election implications. "We'll see what happens tomorrow, we'll see what happens with the election, we'll see how the people will take this decision today," he said. "In two days' time you might be looking at something different."

My guess is @rappa is on the money. Track inspected around clamping zones and cracks/wear found (hence the rust in the images where they've sanded it back. Waiting on repairs or replacement with no ETA, so just remove the date from the website.

I never thought that coasters were something you'd just call up the manufacturer and say 'hey it's SeaWorld Australia, I need a replacement for track section A5, how much?' But with everything done with CAD these days I guess it's possible. Today I learnt.

Still waiting on Wonderland Sydney (2.0) http://www.sydneyswonderland.com.au/proposal

It's looping over/around the old hollywood house footprint. Isn't Blue lagoon the thing next to the BB house? To me, it doesn't look like there's going to be any pathway between this area and the Giant Drop. See the big red line below where fences are indicated

Already covered off in this thread my friend (bolded for reference)

Wife and I did DL/DCA over three days last April for our Honeymoon, we were in both parks from open to close basically and managed to get everything (ride wise) done in the first two days. No kids to slow us down though. Both parks were very busy (to us, no idea if it was busy for the park though). We didn't buy the park hopper tickets so we spend our 'extra' day in DCA, but only ended up staying till lunch time before we headed up to Hollywood for the 2nd part of our trip. Word of advice Flynn, I wouldn't stay in Hollywood again. The place is just a seedy, smelly tourist trap, which we fell right into. Uber to Universal Studios was pretty cheap (~10 bucks each way for an UberX IIRC). We did Universal in a day too, but had a two day pass, so spent the 2nd day rope-dropping the Mummy and getting in 3 rides before it got too busy, then bought our merch. No my thread but thanks for the info. We're planning to go back in October, but after doing the West coast parks we're heading to Vegas/NY then heading over to Florida to do the parks over there. I'm struggling with working out realistically how long is needed in each area, so every bit of feedback helps. For reference, these are my current ideas for this years' trip: Anaheim/Buena Vista Area: Disneyland Resort (includes two seperate parks: Disneyland Park, and Disneyland California Adventure) Knotts Berry Farm Universal City/Hollywood (we're going to skip these this year, but included FYI): Universal Studios (The Mummy and I assume Jurassic Park (JP was getting refurb'ed when we were there). Warner Bros Studio Tour was good (it's not theme park, but you got to see a lot of backlots, props, a couple of live sets etc) Santa Clarita / Valencia: Six Flags Magic Mountain In New York(ish): (may or may not get to these ourselves) American Dream Meadowlands - TMNT Shellraiser ride. Six Flags Great Adventure - Kingda Ka / El Toro, seems to have a bus that runs from NYC on the weekends, but this year's time table isn't published yet. Florida: Disneyworld (includes four? parks, six if you include water parks: Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom) Universal (Universal and Universal Islands of Adventure) Seaworld Orlando - Icebreaker should be running by the time we get there Busch Gardens (most rides here look pretty good / unique. Iron Gwazi will be running by the time we get there) I'm also chasing pointers particularly for the NY/Florida side of our trip plans. I really wanted to somehow work in a trip to Cedar Point in lieu of SFGA but I just can't find a justification for flights/accomodation costs to make it worth it. Currently our trip plan is 24 days long (not including flying there and back) and 15 of those are theme park days :D