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Saw this this afternoon; Universal announcing new Dreamworks lands Seems to me like the loss of Dreamworks at Dreamworld was more from the point of Universal wanting it back rather than it being too expensive for Dreamworld.

So a faster, taller (in height), shorter (in length) version of Steel Taipan?

No, you didn't. Justify it to yourself however you want but you still jumped the queue. Unless you're all there when your party joins the queue, you queue jumped.

Is it actually just painted on though, or is it made via differing the sizes of the holes in the mesh? The latter would be much harder to fix. To their credit, DW has been pretty proactive about fixing their signage when it's been pointed out (or at least that's the impression I get). Examples: Taipan lettering upside down, ABC kids world signage, flyer hoarding. The GD shelter has been pointed out before, and before the extended maintenance period. This tells me that it either simply does not worry them, or that the fix is a lot more involved than we think.

Was VQ working last holidays? It was turned off for duration of our visit.

During our Easter visit last year, we had a seven day pass. Each day we rope dropped Rivals and then either waited once for another ride like Superman or Lantern. After those two rides we left and went to either Dreamworld or Seaworld depending on our mood, it was far too busy for us to hang around all day, seeing as though the wait times never really went down. For comparison when we were at Magic Kingdom last year, most of the rides' wait times dropped to about half around lunch time (after the rope drop rush) and were practically empty after the fireworks, that didn't really occur at any time at our parks; they were consistently busy from open to close. I don't know if recent holiday periods have been as busy, as there was quite a lot of Covid "revenge travelling" happening last Easter, but my experience back then has taught me that MW simply doesn't cope well with the number of guests in holiday periods and is best avoided if at all possible. The other option is to stump-up for Fast Track if you are time limited, but again you need to be at the front of the queue at park opening to have a chance at snagging one.

Tony Clark has a history of posting cryptic clues/teasers about new attractions, so the enthusiasts always read into anything he posts. Kinda like RMC trolling the same kind of folks with t-rex hints. https://www.cedarpoint.com/new-in-2024 I've always thought the 'new' coaster would be grey based on the massive image of it being grey at the top of that page. I've only today realised that it's just grey scale (intentional?)

Personally I'd say this is 100% in response to the DW kids area revamps in the works. Competition is good!

It can't be anything too serious though if they're able to cycle the ride though right? I mean at least it's still functional.

Maybe BOH is full of all the other stuff they've got on the go right now and they needed somewhere to put this that's out of the way? A lot is happening in Ocean Parade.

and I've gotta say I agree. Good to see him just getting on with it.

Only if there's a section that needs a pier or footing here or there. I see it as a bit half assed, but you see it in business everywhere; it's wasted money to excavate the entire old structure when you're only going to pave over it anyway.

For my wife in particular, being able to ride more than once without having her ears beaten to a bloody pulp. The newer restraints are more like the Mack restraints on Rivals/Taipan; they're more contoured to clamp on your thighs, whereas the current superman restraints are just a tube at the base of the OTSR, so the straps still play a role in holding you in overall. I don't think this is really a risk/concern on our superman ride though.

Interesting take, I thought in the comparison between TTD and KDK that the lap bars were preferred. What is is about them you don't like? Velocicoaster's restraints were comfy for the record.

Ride 'mechanics' have more of a background in engineering rather than mechanics though right? It's more of a niche/skilled profession. Speciality/rarity is really all this argument is boiling down to. Aviation would have SLA's on their turn arounds, and that's one of the safest industries out there despite all the lay-off's and outsourcing you hear about. Look at RMC, they started out building others' rides, now they build their own; a market could be made if there's a demand, we just don't really have it here in Aus.

They were blue, now they're yellow. It's a fairly good indication that they're RGB. Hopefully they've only used 'dumb' RGB for the light strings themselves, with ARGB controllers for each letter. This way they can still customise the lettering if desired, but you won't see the LED's on an individual letter spaz out (see also: Slingshot Surfers Paradise/Any other ARGB installation that has water get into it). Individual control of LED's per letter would be a bit overkill IMO, also the tower doesn't lend itself very well to quick and easy repairs if one of the LEDs in the string fails.

What are we looking at? Footers?

Not to nitpick here, but it looks like a W in the proposal image, not an upside down M. Maybe an actual W as per the render was too wide? Or indeed it's also just a different font (render was a mock up only).

I don't think your comments are wrong with regards to measuring ride operations success as time between dispatches, but like others have said, joe shmoe simply won't care; parks will though like you've said, more dispatches+more maintenance+more cost. I don't think your theory is on the extreme side of the conspiracy theory spectrum, but unless someone from VTRP speaks out, or a previous employee breaks an NDA to confirm/deny this, it will only ever remain a theory, on both ends of the argument.

Just for comparison, when we went last easter break, there was only 1 train on Rivals and a 3+ hour queue. There was a sign up at the ride entry however saying something along the lines of 'due to circumstances outside our control this ride is running at reduced capacity'. That wait time sign could use a spit'n'polish, at least try and remove some of the rust stains. It's always been around 6 minutes in my very limited experience (compared to others) Is that an addition? I didn't think there was any aircon, just some dusty-ass fans.

I've pondered this, noting that DW seems to have a PA on every ride that the ride OP in the control booth uses. At MW, is it the 'more authentic' set experience to be yelled at (akin to a megaphone) and VRTP has just cloned this to SeaWorld? I'm on the phone a lot for work, and often by the end of the day my voice is done just from talking, I couldn't yell like the ride ops do all day long.

From the article linked in the wiki page above: Two people had been slightly burned in this fire, they were both discharged from the hospital. I'm not arguing here; I still carry a phone on me, despite all those Samsung's spontaneously combusting a few years ago. Comparing a Tesla fire to a roller coaster fault I feel is not fair though. Snide remark: are the l-ion batteries the reason DCR doesn't have the cameras anymore and why the GL sound doesn't works these days?

There's a rather large difference between a car catching fire which you can open a door and walk away from, and being trapped in a coaster by the restraints while it's on fire.

I guess my concerns about less daylight were irrelevant

SE is open again now, how are they going to install SR in the middle of it's ride envelope now? Either after hours work (heading into winter - less daylight) or pause construction until the next SE maintenance window? That DA posted earlier was only for the slab construction was it not?