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Yeah those two. Thanks mate

Nice job, but having played RCT3 for many years and considering you are taking this project from the CS side, I have something I think you could improve on 1. For the logo on the Green Lantern, instead of using a billboard there is a CS piece of the Green Lantern logo in the "Comic Book Heroes" set. However, you can't find this set anymore; but I will attach the file for the CS set later. It will come in handy.

I mean, MW did introduce the Backstage tour in 2017 and when Mark managed Adventure World he personally joined these forums and took feedback from people on these forums and resolved the problems that people here raised. The top execs at most of our parks also lurk around these forums. There is slightly more interaction between the parks and the Parkz users as of 2017, but we don't get as much as the US; simply because we are a tiny community when compared to the US which is noticeably much larger. The American Coaster Enthusiasts, for one, has over 5,000 members; by comparison there are only about 100 regular posters on this board, however that number has grown in recent years. We're not getting ERT events any time soon; not until our community grows large enough to warrant such things. For starters, VRTP should stop their tradition of closing rides for maintenance and subsequently shutting them down permanently. They are the only theme park company that closes rides in this manner; and they have already proven they can close rides permanently ahead of time with Batman Adventure, so why don't they do this to any future attractions as well. They've closed Bermuda, Vikings, Corkscrew and Looney Tunes in this manner. I don't want to see another ride fall to this trap.

I have brought this sale to the forum's attention a few times. Like what HussRainbow said, a showman was interested in the ride but pulled out at the last minute, going back up on Rides4u in the following days. It is now likely to remain at the park for the forseeable future until it gets sold again or has its date with the scrapper.

I couldn't take the bait, after all they are spending heaps of money on two enormous projects; Topgolf and DC Rivals. I wouldn't be surprised they are selling the land to pay back the debts that those two attractions have racked up.

Definitely this video very recently uploaded by TPR takes the cake. I had the great honour of riding both sides. Both were fantastic coasters. It'll be a year since I've ridden this coaster during my trip to Orlando. If only public outcry could do for Dragon Challenge what it did for Whizzer at Six Flags Great America... RIP 1999-2017

I'm sorry about that, jumping to conclusions and calling BS on something I couldn't understand. Up until a year ago, I was falsely diagnosed with autism (I'm 17 now), and as a result of that I've gotten to know countless autistic kids who are just like Matthew. This kid has got heaps to learn - maybe one day he will join the forums when he's a bit older to share information with us old folks! I'd love to meet this guy in person, he sounds like a great kid.

VRTP will never buy anything from S&S again after what happened to Green Lantern. And if SW was to replace Vikings, I'd much prefer them to get a good flat there, then build a coaster on where Sea Viper and the pirate ship used to be. I wouldn't mind something between the Spongebob coaster and Jet Rescue, like a Mack powered inverted coaster, or a Vekoma SFC (or they could go bigger and install a Mack Powersplash coaster, or a Big Dipper like Lost Gravity). IMO Storm should remain the largest ride at Sea World, unlike MW, Sea World is marketed as a park for families, and should remain that way in the long term.

We're not getting a B&M coaster in Australia anytime soon. Period.

Sounds like complete bullshit. The Wildcat is a 40+ year old ride, no longer in production. It would be a massive step backwards for any park, let alone LPS, to buy an old ride like a Schwarzkopf Wildcat. The only ride that has actually been confirmed is the flying carousel. While I'd like to see another Big Dipper, it won't happen because of how little space they have to work with.

I'm glad Six Flags isn't installing too many of a single ride type that they did in previous years, five super loops in 2015 or 2016, and three Free spins in 2017 (try say that five times fast). But I don't really like Six Flags overusing names on different rides. I can't count how many rides are called "Harley Quinn Spinsanity" or "The Joker" at Six Flags parks now, because there are probably more of them than there are Batman clones called "Batman: The Ride". I get that Six Flags is notorious for cloning rides, but come on. Looks like one of Six Flags' bigger seasons in terms of investment. 2018 looks to be a great year for the industry (at least over in the States that is)

Aware of that mate, I refer to all rides of that type as gyro swings. Having been to parks with both, they look pretty similar to one another.

Over Texas and New England are both getting gyro swings of their own, with the same name. That's 3 of those so far. I'm liking the Top Spin ride that's going to Great Adventure, and RMC Georgia Cyclone looks great but is pretty short.

I rode the ride at the Sydney Easter Show earlier this year, it was an intense ride but extremely expensive for what is essentially a travelling version of The Claw.

I'm getting relatively sick of the "DISNEY IS COMING TO AUSTRALIA" people popping up on the forum over the 3 years I've been here. Disney building a park on the Gold Coast, let alone Australia, would make little economic or business sense. One of the things that puts off big theme park companies setting up on the Gold Coast is the small population of the area itself. Even if you add Brisbane and the rest of South East Queensland to the number, it still adds up to less than 4 million. The two theme parks that Disney consider as their smallest parks, Hong Kong and Paris, both have population counts close to 7 million in their city metro areas. For those that don't know, Paris, despite it being open for 25 years, has never made a profit. Hong Kong, while it had a slow start, is picking up steam in recent years, with aggressive expansion (and a gigantic expansion plan in the years to come, including replacing half of Tomorrowland with Marvel attractions, a Frozen land, and a Moana area.) While the Gold Coast's tourism revenue is high for Australia, in comparison to other cities that Disney parks are built in, it is miniscule. Take a look at Paris and Hong Kong, for example. Paris, while tourism is declining greatly, is still among the world's most visited cities. The tourism revenue from Paris alone consists 7% of France's GDP, which in 2016 was 2.465 trillion USD, which equals about 3.1 trillion AUD, meaning the tourism revenue of Paris that year was $21.7 billion. Hong Kong's tourism is also quite strong, accounting for 5% of its GDP, which was 320.9 billion USD, or 405 billion AUD, meaning that the tourism revenue of Hong Kong was around $20 billion. By comparison, the Gold Coast's tourism revenue is tipped to reach just $7 billion by 2020. While impressive, it is tiny in comparison to the cities where Disney want to set up in. That's why Disney won't be coming to Australia - for a while. Just my 2c.

1 seat per car? Get ready for the long queue...

Disney Quest, from what I have seen of it, was like our own Sega World fed super steroids - it was essentially a giant arcade, littered with games, left, right and centre. It had some rare games in it as well - including a replica of Fix it Felix Jr, a 16 player Daytona setup (that got replaced with a Nascar game in Disneyquest's last couple of years) and a one-of-a-kind arcade port of the Cars 2 video game. However, the main attractions appeared to age quite poorly - the video cameras on one of the rides shot in an extremely poor resolution, and the graphics looked extremely outdated on the Pirates of the Caribbean game. Think something like Timezone in Surfers Paradise or the old Sega World, but fed steroids.

Well, to be fair, something that is littered with TV's on it from what I can tell. It is extremely disappointing to see Universal take out what is considered among the strongest B&M inverts out there, and replace it with a family coaster. I'm not angry that Universal is removing the ride from the park, but what pisses me off is that this ride is likely to get ripped apart and scrapped. It is saddening to see a coaster as unique as Dueling Dragons going for a date with the scrapman.

Universal won't sell the ride. They will do the same thing that they did with Hulk and scrap it. Universal already have a nasty reputation for scrapping rides that aren't that old. They just aren't the kind of company that sells their old rides on the market like so many others do. Like Disney, they are a "throw the baby away with the bathwater" company when it comes to their rides. I have no doubt in my mind Dragon Challenge will most likely be the first B&M to be scrapped. I can't honestly see Universal selling it. It is such a shame that Universal is replacing such a good coaster with another simulator.

Having given these Ranger things a read, I'm just going to say that our Ranger is on the market now at rides4u.com, and LPS is trying to sell the ride for $99k. If someone wants to ride the Ranger one last time, I suggest doing it sooner or later, because I expect this ride to be gone within the next six months at the latest, and judging by LPS's previous history with their ride replacements, I have no doubt Ranger will go the way of Flying Saucer, off to the scrapyard.

Yes, that one. Surprisingly, riding that thing wasn't even that bad compared to crappier Arrows like Cyclone and Dragon, but I can only faintly remember it because I was like 12 when I rode it, and was probably one of the first roller coasters I had ever rode, just a couple years before that ride closed. That coaster was a very, very strange ride, with a very wonky layout.

Yeah, I'm talking about Dragon. Forgot the name I've ridden my fair share of Arrow loopers (Corkscrew in NZ, Viper, Sea Screw, Dragon, the Crazy Coaster in China and Cyclone) and Dragon was the worst of the lot. I learnt the hard way not to ride an Arrow looper 8 times in a row - after the 8th lap I felt like I needed a neck brace.

I can remember doing 8 laps of the Arrow looper in Ocean Park. It was far from the best thing in the world.

Most of the WED designed coasters that sit in Disney Parks can be credited to Arrow. Arrow built the track for the first two Space Mountains, the first two Big Thunder Mountains, along with Matterhorn and a majority of the original Disneyland and WDW attractions. When I used to read TPR a long time ago, I recall Robb Alvey saying this on a topic that discussed why Disney generally goes with Vekoma for coasters: However, they haven't built nearly every coaster at a Disney park. The Slinky Dog coaster that is being built at the moment is a Mack family coaster, for example. Intamin built a coaster for Disney as recent as five years ago, when they did RC Racer for Disneyland Hong Kong. Disney has even got Togo to build a coaster for Tokyo DisneySea, which is hard to believe why they did that as Cedar Fair was suing them for what happened with Windjammer long before DisneySea opened.

The hyper coaster that's going into Energylandia is an Intamin Hyper, not a vekoma. If LPS had the space, I think they should look to Vekoma custom designing them a coaster. This ride looks great and I wonder what they could do in a small space.