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Funfields, or some other local funpark should help them replace it, and just plain offer to buy it off 'em for a couple of million bucks(if they've got it, offer whatever they can offer). Far more suitable place for a SHIT ride like that one. Can keep the same theme too. That deserves to be in a funpark, not a proper Theme Park. Dreamworld should just admit they made a mistake with that ride, cut their losses, and sell it to the highest bidder, hopefully keep it here(as bad as it is, seeing it go overseas would be dissapointing). Send it to a place that's starved for coasters of any kind. Would Aussie World take it? does LPS have the room? Can Funfields recycle another Gold Coast ride? I seriously doubt the ride will stay at Dreamworld for it's entire lifespan, unless removal costs would be too high? They should sell it after a few more years(perhaps when it's 10th anniversary comes up), or even now if they've got the cash to afford getting rid of it(which they probably don't).

I hope so too.

That's cool. Yeah I agree with that. .... Unless they're for something else at SeaWorld? Something a little more wild? Just kidding.

I liked Buzzsaw, but the fact is, Buzzsaw is far too short(good... but short), Cyclone is old(and STILL better suited to it's original location), Motocoaster is SHIT, Eureka is SBNO(Why?), Tower is a technical coaster(but most people wouldn't actually call it one, given it's not a full circuit), Runaway Raptar(can't remember the new name) is for kids.... They need a good brand new coaster, it's not worth arguing about. Kill two birds with one stone and replace Eureka with it. Make it a dark ride and go for that whole "Haunted" theme(a Haunted Mine dark ride? keep the same ride name?) they are doing for that area. Guess it would be an "update" if they kept the same name and "mine coaster" style of ride, but obviously make it a Ghost theme. Consider another Coaster out there for Rocky Hollow a few years later(a woodie). Actually have a plan for future development(and a plan for the studios when Big Brother eventually gets tired and old again). Personally think they should also consider refurbishing and rethemeing the Log Ride and the River Rapids. If they've decided to take care of Eureka, why not give the Rapids some minor alterations(would have to work on it anyway, just as Seaworld is doing to the Vikings Revenge)?

The wrecked ocean trawler? Unpainted yet... Nice pickup whoever spotted that stuff. Although the green things do look like seats? Have the seats been installed yet? Doesn't look like it. So could be them, sitting in blue tubs for whatever reason. Green things are definatly seats of something.

It just has to be a rollercoaster, If Perth can do it, surely Dreamworld can afford to get a good one too.

That's because they bloody well stonewalled Lindsay. Mind you, any redevelopment of it should also include a carpark(multilevel!) I also heard recently that St Kilda Pier was closed? Is that TRUE? If so, is it only temporary or permanent? If you want evidence it takes years for anything to happen in Melbourne, Google "Savoy Tavern"(20 years), "Doncaster Trainline"(60 to 80 years... Still hasn't been built) or "Tullamarine Raillink"(ever since Tulla opened).

Yay! they look great!

I doubt you're from Melbourne where it takes years to get anything done.

Site specifically says it was a joint initiative... Heritage Victoria and Luna Park worked with the council on the design of this. Just sayin'. Councils don't work in a vacuum, usually act on proposals/ideas put forward by residents over a long period of time. They(Council and the Park) probably planned this for years, together.

Meh, I wanna see every little detail myself. I love these weekly updates.

New Pic: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=455803941179395&set=a.101698629923263.2644.101696389923487&type=1&relevant_count=1 Nice. More pictures on the official Facebook page now. They're pouring the concrete...

Thanks

They got rid of the left turn lane into the alley, and have extended the front down to the tramstop. You can see the difference by looking at the old one on the outdated Google Maps Street View. So they have changed it a bit, and not just resurfaced it.

Going to the park tommorow possibly...

Does the park bring in any significant extra tourism cash into the French economy? 16 million visitors is pretty hefty.

Dolby Digital and DTS use to come on seperate disks early into the Digital cinema era(DTS always shipped on seperate disks, but Dolby shifted over from being on the film print to being on disk). Probably still the case? DJ would know more about it currently. I think they are seperate synced files now? Or does the sound still come seperatly on a physical disk/device? I'm guessing some cinemas would still recieve a physical copy? As I said earlier, the same problem happened to me once with Subtitles on a Digital Foreign film, which also now has to be seperatly loaded and synced.

Hoyts Chadstone did, certainly after it's 16 Screen upgrade(from 8 screens originally) in 1999. Although it was scheduled in advance, as with most festival films at this festival, they use 1 physical copy and send it to and from each cinema that was running the festival. So not sure how they schedule the film to run specifically, but they certainly don't have it for long in advance of each screening and then send it on to another Palace cinema immediately afterwards. A leftover "tradition" from when they used 35mm prints.

It was Digital(hence as I said, first issue was the fact he hadn't loaded the Subtitle file up). That festival now used almost 90%-95% digital films. Obviously with 35 the subs would have been "burnt in". And Auto-rewind was there during the ninties. That's why they rarely played more than one film in each cinema.

A projectionist is the person who laces up and runs the film, and is supposed to supervise sessions, so yes they are just usually trained staff members these days. Even Digital Cinemas still must have a projectionist, even if they don't use that specific title anymore, do other things in the cinema and most of their Job is automated. So no, I was not unaware of that. In fact that(automation) became common in the 80s and 90s before Digital Cinema came in(loaded, and correctly framed, film would auto rewind and then play again at the appropriate time). I think you thought I was referring to a single theatre old school "load up every film" proj(with Projection association initials in a formal title) like the guy that runs the Astor, but I wasn't. Edit: The guy was just plain incompetent and because it was a "special oneoff unautomated festival screening" it just wasn't properly setup to deal with the different framesize and subtitles. He literally refused the first few times to come into the cinema itself to see what exactly was going wrong.... And then even put on Silver Linings Playbook... First time that's ever happened to me, and probably everyone in that cinema.

...and as the links I provided showed, you would be wrong.

Meh fine, Also happen to be right. But Yeah guess I can be one of those "asshole customers who thinks 'the customers always right'"... Honestly that Projectionist was shocking, didn't once come into the Cinema itself and actually look at what the audience was complaining about. Oh well at least I got to see the first 5 minutes of Silver Linings Playbook for free!!!

Honestly though? you don't really "need" to know it.. The technical department does. It's good for projectionists to know this stuff from the "hobby" point of view, but it's really the people who make the investment decisions that need to know it. All you gotta do is work the machine well. I'm sure you're pretty good at that stuff and not at all like the guy who took 5 times restarting a film at Palace Balwyn before I finally got through to him that Digital French films do actually ship with Subtitles that need to be loaded seperatly. Yeah it was the French Film Festival and the Proj needs to load up new films each sedsion, but taking 5 restarts was disgracefully incompetent, in the 5 restarts he stuffed up in every possible way a Projectionist could stuff up. Took him 45 minutes to get it right.

I'm not, I'm saying that just because you know how it all works, doesn't necessarily mean you know the technical limitations as well as you possibly should. And you seem to be talking theoretically rather than practically in your assertion that it may work outdoors, where as obviously I'm saying it practically doesn't work outdoors.

Unfortunately I have actually formally studied this shit(Cinema, in an Advanced Diploma), And on large screens like they have in Driveins, which are larger than standard screens, much larger, it's always easier to bring in the wrecking crew and rebuild the entire structure from scratch, than it is to install a new surface using a crane. You see, they have to make sure it's 100% smooth and the structure can handle the weight of it. The actual structure actually is the entire Screen itself, and so replacing it would require at least the removal of everything but the supports(which I guess may not have to be gotten rid of, so yes a Crane could be used in that situation where the supports are ok to continue to use). And as I said, RealD doesn't work(well enough) outdoors anyway, so no one has ever done it and most likely unless the tech changes, no one will ever bother doing it because it would look, frankly, shit. Frankly I'm gonna say it, if he is a projection expert(by his experience as opposed to my studies in Film industry technology), he SHOULD have known that realD IS affected by the environment and is not able to be used outdoors.