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They started investing in media in china didn't they? Change of focus perhaps?

Its over 60m. S&S advertise their space shot as a minimum 61m (up to 65m), so batwing might still have the height crown.

It's all about perspective. Move 5m to the left and the shape is different.

Why are you not making with the measurements?!

Someone make a home made clinometer and go take some rough measurements. Can work out an approximate height pretty easy.

It's amazing what massive budgets can buy/afford you. I was watching footage of some of the rides in shanghai disney; wow, next level theme work on pirates of the caribbean.

I was going to reply to posts, but I think i got to 7 quotes and I realised this is stupid, so I've enlisted the help of Robert De Niro. I think you can forget about the studios ever being a permanent fright night location. I was told they literally split the back of the park up with fencing to finally separate the studios. The park doesn't even have permanent access. Western themed futuristic robot city. No chance. Animatronics are extremely expensive and complicated. I wonder how much that cyborg in justice league cost; but to combine it with a number of them? plus control systems? plus outdoors? sunlight? and build it all in an existing ride? Don't bank on westworld just yet. It's produced by the network with the biggest kill ratio in recent history. HBO is notorious for spending HUGE on tv productions looking for the next sopranos. The list of canceled big budget epics reads like a who's who of excellent television drama. You'll have to wait for season 2 to see what they do with it. Especially since they have the script for the final ending of deadwood. Design drew from other westerns, like rio bravo, el dorado, blazing saddles, etc too, but id take it all to be pretty liberal, ie, just pinched ideas from everywhere, For example, the building names in the town where doomsday is was lifted from blazing saddles (but the town is nothing alike). Everything was named Johnson like in Rock Ridge. Plus you could hear parts of the soundtrack playing for example.

They moved out of studios because they couldn't utilise them anymore. They aren't even suitable for rides, not much higher than your regular shed at home, one isn't even enclosed, its more like a big carport. The park fence is literally behind west, the area directly behind it is a storage lake used to feed the park, im not quite sure how much room you think there is in this space. You wanted space for a western area at wild west. That's not the same as finding space in another part of the park. Im surprised you didn't just disagree with them building doomsday if you want a western themed area. The park already had that, an area that probably took up 1/5th of the land space available, so what you wanted was more flat rides where doomsday iss. You wouldn't have even needed to change the town. West burgers is seasonal and is in use during holidays.

Different system used on the broadbeach cars vs that at seaworld. Im not sure what else changes as far as track gauge, voltages, etc, but they use different collector systems for power, so you couldn't just put it on to the track at seaworld even if it physically fits on the rail.

We've been through this before. Just because you might have some parent company loosely affiliated with the rights to produce or distribute a movie, does NOT mean you have the rights to use it for marketing/sale and theme park use on your rides. They are two completely different things, often with different companies already having the rights. Aside from the above, Wild west is already at the back of the park, its not far to paradise country car park and you can see the gates and the back of wild west from there. So im not sure where you mean by at the back of the park, especially now the sheds were built for fright night next to west and the studio sheds at the back.

Kinda what has been desperately needed though. Something to make people driving past on the highway go WOW! If they still build a hotel, along with top golf going in now too, can you imagine how much appeal the frontage is going to have? I hope they plan a new arch to the main entry too. Make the whole place feel new and fresh from the moment you drive down entertainment drive.

VR has been card, they only have eftpos terminals there, no cash register. They send you to the photo booth thing in the front of the park if you want to pay cash. Alex, it might have changed when they changed the brakes in trim station 1 to magnetic brakes. The train doesn't seem to stop and hold anywhere for any real period of time and when you come into trim station 2 you can hear the drive motors ahead of you turn on to bring you into the station. If it wasn't automated you would expect the time to vary a bit, but it all seems about the same.

Thats a taaaaaaaaallllllll set of stairs to be walking up every day.

This. No, just the hex values for the colour Orchid, as above. It's a light shade of purple that verges into pink. Its not quite as pink as mauve, but not as purple as magenta. Orchid is the colour I think it is, give or take a slight tweak to the red and blue. The colour changing in photos is due to uncalibrated/auto calibrated white balance of the camera. Each time the brightness alters, the white balance is correcting and the shade keeps adjusting.

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Pretty sure there is one of the main (electricity) substation/transformers that feed the park perched on that hill, along with what looks like fire fighting equipment. So I don't think it would be a simple area to develop. There would be service trenches running everywhere for power.

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I can imagine some rides dont need 2 people to startup/run too. So its not like you need 50 people or something each day to get the work done. I would also imagine there is a lot of preventative maintenance that happens behind the scenes too. Not so much working when the rides are closed, but doing stuff in anticipation for when they are closed for maintenance aswell.

Im not sure if it has been closed yet, but they were going to block off/lock the end of the spit for redevelopment of doug jennings park.

Nice write up Richard. Might need to modify the bit about the brake checks of a morning though? Id expect the brakes at the end of arkham to be checked every morning like other rides too even if they only slow you down when you are heading towards the station. Might sound like some other rides don't use brakes or aren't checked which would be pretty frightening.

Not sure they are trenches for pipe work, I think its continuation of the drainage that runs from the wet n wild overflow / outback spectacular car park.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxXhjFvNNGc

maybe they moved it to a pretty shit location and a lot of people don't even realise its there, so attendance is down and they don't want to staff it unless numbers are up/during peak and save on staff costs?

If they bring back the awesome priced/tasting family sized pies you used to be able to buy from the marketplace (people literally used to buy them without visiting the park, that's how good they were), then this is amazing news.

Its not just spending on new rides though. Capital expenditure is pretty much anything new, even includes things like renovations if they haven't already been budgeted/costed for. Pretty stupid when now is the time when parks should be putting more money into the experience, not just rides (though, for sea world they are in desperate need of new rides for sure).