Levithian

It starts when dictated to by operations. That is always during the holidays and is when all attractions are expected to be open and able to run at full capacity regardless of how many people you might actually have in the park that given day. This has now happened as evident by additional cars/trains being added. It's hit and miss with attendance, but even quiet days are up during the same period and has nothing to do with what I said.

It probably depends on what kind of asbestos material they encountered though. It was so widely used it can turn up in anything, fire and sound proofing is a pretty common one to find, along with cement sheeting, but it was also used a LOT in various external coatings and plaster, plus a whole bunch of glues and adhesives. Depending on what state any of those products may be in, it could produce quite a large safety risk. However, the video footage is useful to kind of debunk any real danger as the structure stood when the video footage was taken. If there was already a risk of air borne particles from any number of materials degrading, there would have been evidence of containment/controls in the building. Even the simplest forms like coverings and warnings around sources, but nothing seems to be shown in the video. It's probable the structure requires repair work that would see the fibers disturbed, if this is extensive such as structural repairs, track work, or if any of the coatings are a fire risk and need to be removed, it could be a mammoth task. So it might not be all that dangerous in it's present state (especially considering it's evident that workers have had access to the area over the years, it's just not sealed up and left to rot), but to repair/recommission and open is probably a whole different story.

Go to any of the parks today. Tell me what I just said isn't true.

It's the start of peak season exactly now. Additional trains and cars added for the first weekend of the school holidays. I think you guys underestimate just how big a deal the christmas school holidays are and how much planning (and demands) goes into trying to get everything running at full capacity. Take a park like movie world, any other time during the year, a busy day might nudge 10-11000 people. During these school holidays you can add another 5000 people in the park.

There's some better photos and a pretty cool time lapse of them lifting the wall panels into place on their facebook page. Looks like poured on site, hence the quick construction. https://www.facebook.com/VillageRoadshowStudios/

Name another ride that was closed during the peak period for a "check up" months after it was installed?. Aside from wear related to tracking/alignment, anything else generally requires non destructive testing or dismantling to see if there is issue with components and structure that are considered major failure items. That means pretty much overhauling everything you just put together. You don't plan that sort of maintenance during your holidays. It's just not going to happen. The mast was completely removed from carousel, there was literally nothing left but a pile of parts scattered around the area. Sounds a bit more than a rebuild, again, especially since it is running into the holidays and they are putting it together during opening hours with trucks and stuff int here. Wouldn't be surprised at all if it was damaged during use at fright nights. People were jumping up and down on it during the terror tour, considering they won't even normally allow adults to ride because it can damage the ride, It couldn't have been too healthy.

Pretty sure a carousel has no annual maintenance. Neither do most of the carnival type rides. It's only when you come across something major that forces it to close for repair that you see something occur. Given they completely dismantled every single part of carousel right down to the decking, it's a pretty safe bet that wasn't just regular maintenance and something major came up. Especially since it wasn't scheduled for anything either. Every ride has a schedule for maintenance before it's even commissioned. It's the manufacturer that provides you with a check list for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly inspections and maintenance, it's not generated by the park. The time frames generally begin when the ride is commissioned, and is inclusive of long periods of inactivity (so the inspections keep coming even if your ride is closed). You can perform annual maintenance early to fit into your schedule to make sure the attraction is not down during your busiest periods. It is just not to exceed the guidelines they specify. Nobody will ever schedule maintenance that incurs downtime during these holidays if it can't be managed elsewhere. Not going to happen, ever. You can't account for unscheduled downtime though, like what happens when something breaks or you find issues during regular inspections. At this time of year, pretty much the only way you'll see something closed is if it wasn't expected. They don't even give a specified time for sponge bob coaster to reopen. Just that it's closed for maintenance. Im not saying it's having major issues like green lantern evidently was/is, just that you can be pretty sure it's not intended to be closed and wouldn't be part of annual yearly maintenance to see it closed during the peak business period.

Mexican/tex mex is one of the highest cost vs profit ratio of all cuisines. Costs comparatively little and the profits are very good. It's a pretty obvious choice to include when looking for a new avenue. You can pretty much guarantee they have worked out exactly what each portion costs and how much profit they can generate vs leasing to an outside source. If they think they could make more money off getting a franchise in, I reckon it's a safe bet that would happen. Especially considering there are a few seasonal outlets in the park that spend a lot of the year closed.

You don't close rides outside of scheduled maintenance, quite simply there is no reason to close the ride for any inspection outside of what is specified. It's not a case of run it for a brief period, then close and inspect components and track. That is what is done during commissioning of the ride. Once it's open, it's good to go and you won't normally see it closed until it's yearly maintenance is completed. If its outside of the yearly overhaul, then it generally has to be a good reason to close. Downtime is the worst possible word at a theme park. As daily, weekly and monthly checks are usually completed when the park is closed, the only lengthy period of down time is when it's closed for yearly maintenance. If you take notice, that pretty much NEVER occurs during the christmas holiday period (which started this week) as it is the busiest time of the year. It's the time when rides are normally operating at full capacity with extra cars/trains, not closed. If green lantern wasn't still closed at movieworld, you would see all attractions open now with extra trains/cars added to road runner, scooby doo, superman, wild west and justice league this week to handle the additional capacity. Hell, it looks like they are even smashing out the rebuild of carousel. Was there yesterday afternoon and it looks like they have done repairs and are putting it back together while the park is open.

It looks like prefab concrete stuff, so it could be the external walls like you build a big warehouse. I guess it depends if they have plans for external features, making it more like a venue for the games, rather than film space. The boom lifts over the water tank area near AOS are often parked there. Ive seen them in use as lighting rigs before when shooting pirates. I think I heard the next thor movie is supposed to happen on the coast? maybe they are starting pre-production work for this.

It's already been through all that before it's commissioned. If it's closed outside of scheduled maintenance, it will be closed for a reason, not just a check up.

Easiest way to explain it is it comes deconstructed. Like, all the ingredients to make it are placed on a platter. It's up to you how much or how little you include of each.

You can see the dam there. When you drive to paradise country you can see the wall on the left, it has been built up pretty high as the top is way above the road level. looks about the size of the larger studios from that image. That looks like a fairly well maintained trail coming of the car park at paradise country too. Can see the gravel surface sticking out through the trees.

They do have a fairly large dam though. It's also formed in the area that verges on to paradise country, as I always thought the notion of a hotel/resort was talked about being placed in this sort of area that borders kopps rd and the housing estate? Wonder if you can see the fire trails from sat images of the area. There is quite a bit of changing terrain in the back, even the fall in height from the access road to the front of the park is pretty significant. You can see right across the top of both the park and studios very easily. Not sure you could really increase the height of the swap area out the front to any significant levels to form a lake as you would end up flooding more of the park before even thinking about large rain events. Ive seen that creek that runs down parallel with the park and kopps road overflowing before too. So there must be quite a large amount of water than can flow through the swap land, down into what basically ends up as the coomera river. A couple of years ago, that whole section was flooded right up to the power sub station opposite movie world. The service road was actually flooded, along with siganto drive on the other side of the highway.

I think some of that section of grass land in front of the staff car park that is fenced off is cleared for helicopter landing zone as the car parks aren't always vacant to land. If that is the case, might not be able to build tall structures within a certain distance of the landing area. So might cause problems.

Thats the right link for the application. http://pdonline.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/masterview/Modules/applicationmaster/default.aspx?page=wrapper&key=225287 Application to change something in relation to the carpark area. Maybe a change to the shape of the existing carpark and access road with an extension into the land next to green lantern? I know it's a bit of a lake, but it could have large drainage works performed to continue the creek down the side like it currently does, while utilising land for building on. Edit: Reading into the receipt of payment, it looks like its pretty large scale earth works. Remember it's just an application for operational works, not building. The application says the cost of the project exceeds $80,000. Puts it in a pretty large scale as far as earth works go. As far as building goes. You can submit a development application and have approval before any capital works are approved or started.

Wings are cheap as anything. if you cant get like 5 or 6 wings and a beer for under $30, it's just ridiculous. Even if you go over to west burgers and get a pulled pork roll and lattice chips, its still under $20 and is a LOT of food. Actually, what would be amazing if you have a charcoal thing going is something tasty and fresh like some fajitas. Id be down for that for lunch instead of the usual choices. The mezzanines must be for the expansion of storage or something they use in the maintenance areas on one side of the building. The other side of the looney toons building is junior driving school. Given the building heights and stuff inside, I can't see how they would be putting anything inside the upper levels of the building. Can see soundstage 9 being built. They cleared all the land between outback spectacular (more specific, the service road for paradise country) and the existing sound stages. Think I seem to remember it was a joint development with the state government for the commonwealth games? So it intends to be a multi use venue, with them putting squash courts or something in there. Afterwards it'll be utilised for film stages but also able to be leased by the government and council as needed? Maybe for things like carols and stuff.

You can hire out whole sections of the park including rides for functions if you have the cash. The little office next to the foyer entrance to roxy is a lounge I believe they use for tour operators/guides (like, external tour groups coming into the park).

Maybe next time if you were real late, just avoid the carpark and head straight to the grassed area across the road they use for spillage from the car park. Its a bit more of a walk, but you can see (thanks to the gravel entrance) where they direct traffic through into the grassed area when the carpark is real busy, just position near it and you should be able to avoid massive waits. We found quite a few parks down the far end of the car park when we got there about 5:30. Everybody seems to want to try and park as close as possible to the entrance gates. I mean who wants to go to a theme park and walk anywhere? Reminds me of visiting the ekka as a kid. Back when people used to actually drive into fortitude valley instead of catching the train. Complete madness.

It's 3 and 4 lanes now on smith street, and 3 lanes through the gold coast highway since the road works for the commonwealth games. It's not a choke point anywhere until you pass over the sundale bridge and left on to waterways drive (which normally doesn't carry a lot of traffic). There is light rail travel right down the highway from either broadbeach (one end) or Arundel at the new hospital (the other end) too. There is a station on the gold coast highway not far from waterways drive. It would be about a 20 minute (maybe 30 minute max) walk from the highway if you took your time. Take you along the gold coast seaway, fishermans wharf, etc to seaworld if you wanted to completely avoid driving through the gold coast highway. Park anywhere along the route of the rail and walk across the road.

I think i remember it being some sort of government or some science type group/company experiment with travel, like, generating vortexes to transport people in. I think I remember part of the recording, they were actively tracking cyclones or something, used to be kind of setup like a weather station/lab thing inside the building, hence the big turbine and computer equipment. Had monitors all the way up the entry queue you could watch the whole situation unfold. At the end there would be a count down and the turbine (which i think kept turning at the same speed, lol) would ramp up (sound effects) and you would enter out on to the platform to ride.

I wonder how many operators it took to run it? If you are like many of us, trying to avoid visiting during the peak holiday seasons/crowds, for such a low capacity ride they may simply have closed it and saved on the staff when it was off season.

I reckon it's not far from the truth! That thing looked like it was enduring far more than a carousel should. hah. Heard that dirty harry build is indeed an extension, kind of like a bar and grill thing is going to happen. It would be ace to enjoy some charcoal grilled chicken and a beer for lunch, as long as it's not like $30.

Hahaha. Any excuse will do in order to keep the information private. You tend to get snowballed when its stuff relating to matters of parliament/cabinet. But when it's from other government agencies we are actually paying for out of our taxes, you seem to have a bit better luck getting what is requested. The whole cost thing though is completely absurd as the government already has a publications department where you can request technical documents, standards, codes of practice, etc. They print it out for you and bind it, you pay for it and pick up or they can post it out. Could do the same thing for anything that comes through a government body really.

There aren't enough exit rows for the carpark that feed on to the actual road out to the sets of traffic lights. What you end up with is a bunch of people wedged into place because you have 8-10 rows trying to spil out into 1 single lane of traffic. Thats maybe a few hundred cars at a time all trying to exit on the same little row. The secret for events at movie world is to use the shape of the car park to your advantage. It's kind of diamond shaped and tapers off dramatically the further you go towards the creek end. Not only is the exit road closer then, but it also means you only have 1 or 2 rows of traffic trying to exit on the same little single lane. Means that even if you get stuck in the rows, you don't have far to travel to make it out on to the road. Once you reach the road you don't have anyone to give way to on the way out, and the lights at either intersection change pretty quickly. We got out of there in under 5 minutes, got to the car about 10:20pm.