Tim Dasco

In terms of scale Ardent Leisure and Village Roadshow theme parks are off course the large portion. But in terms of numbers the other parks are the majority. - Aussie World - Gumbya World - Raging Waters Sydney - Jamberoo Action Park - FunFields - Luna Park Melbroune - Luna Park Sydney - Adventure World - Outback Splash

That’s a mega thread about Corona Virus. I’m making a thread to talk about effects on our parks closing.

So it’s been officially announced the Royal Easter show is canceled. Do we think that some Australian theme parks might be next to close down? Luckily for most off our parks bar VRTP and Ardent most are getting ready to close for their winter period anyway and most likely won’t be effected as much.

Well Vikings revenge has been waiting a long time.... But remember a world class attraction will replace Vikings Revenge in 2019! Oh wait..... At least Vortex will open in December 2019.... well Trident will open in April 2020...... oh wait.... maybe Leviathan might meet its deadline?

You are most likely seeing either the under coat or the layer of structural X-ray. Keep In mind all rides must now have a full strip back and removal off paint every 10 years now, so we might be seeing that happen now.

When you have 2 trains you can still operate the ride while you do re builds on the trains. Do 1 train at a time.

So if it doesn’t re open, are you saying it means Movie World doesn’t know how to maintain its rides? Cos if you look at WWF barley any effects were working when I went a month ago.

Same as Sky Voyager building a new ride that they don’t have experience with and is a new ride system to Australia. Shit happens. Goes for both parks if something’s delayed, communicate it with your guests. Simple.

But they haven’t announced this or told anyone. So this is just as bad as Sky Voyagers delays. Going silent and not telling anyone.

Nah $20 is way too high.

But they have built Sky Voyager, Fully 6, The chill out zone, Sidewinders getting love now, ABC kids world is getting a re model, this coaster ground works have started. Plus the whole waterpark got repainted and some love. Along with the park looking a lot fresher in parts. Plus there is more supposedly coming. The new management team can only build so much at once. Everything being done is clearly long term plans. We just gotta give them some time. I recon by the end of the year the park is gonna look completely different.

Well park could have done a post on Facebook say, “due to circumstances beyond our control Vortex will be delayed till mid 2020, we apologies for any inconveniences caused.” Rather they just have ignored the ride, so people that didn’t know any better would have arrived on a holiday to find the ride not there.

What’s even better is if you booked flights from the other side of the country to go ride it only to find the ride parts aren’t even on site yet. No communication was publicly announced saying the ride was delayed.

If one was to look at the tower it’s recently been completely X-Rayed and inspected, you can tell by all the blue marks all over the tower. With regards to the track it’s most likely just gonna be unbolted from the tower itself leaving the mounts along the side of the tower.

You mean in the coming weeks?

You mean Sly Flyer’s last day!

But did they get a roll back?

Jet rescue was closed due to “water damage”

Sure opening December 2019

So had a great time at the second AW nights the weather was a lot warmer then last week and the park during the day was full with all car parks full. Was fun watching them try and removing 5,000 guests and then letting another 2,000 or so in within half an hour. Was great to watch. The event itself is growing year on year and it just has that nice laid back chilled feeling prefect to have a beer and relax.

But for a 12 million dollar coaster it’s not a bad coaster for the price tag. The main issue was the additional 8 million to remove BT and earth works.

Would anyone really miss the log ride? Honestly why spend money on that ride? Rip it out and replace it with a better one. Compare WWF to the Log ride? If your gonna spend money to fix the ride up and make it look good again. You may as well spend that money on a new one.

It’s going to be the browny/orange as shown in the images above that got realised a few weeks ago.

It’s cos the slides are made by Polin.

It was built and assembled at the Gerslaur factory not Mack factory. I believe the Blue coaster is Hang Time. Not sure about the other.