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Solar inverters need 240v supply to work. Thats why when power goes out, the inverter switches off and nobody is at risk of you feeding the grid. Only way around this is battery system which has an automatic changeover switch that disconnects the house from mains when failure happens, or by using a generator (which also should be wired using a changeover switch, not just plugged into a power outlet and backfeeding the distribution box for the house). If you had power, you either still had mains supply and didnt lose power, or you have a big problem somewhere and you need an eletrician to check it out before you kill someone.

Do a london style "mind the gap" safety campaign with high vis signage and announcements when unloading. 😄

Looks like the same car that was in the last wb showcase? Did you have a look through the last display before it closed?

They dont have the budget though. Its kind of a once in a life time spend to turn around a bad situation and massive decline in numbers following the dreamworld accident. It doesnt make any financial sense at all to spend 100 million dollars when you are 200 million in debt. But the situation required immediate action to bring people back to the parks quicker as they couldnt sustain a 5 year recovery period. The reduction in turnover and cash flow was worse for business than taking on a massive amount of debt. So they took the lesser of two evils. Have to remember, pre covid, village were only talking combined attendance numbers across all their parks of under 6 million. You realise how small those numbers are when you remember that a great deal of northern hemisphere parks are seasonal too and achieve their attendance figures while being closed through winter. Compare them to something like the six flags group who normally see over 26 million a year total attendance. Vastly different operating budgets even when you account for different admission prices.

+ extensive history with vekoma already. Id love to see a thrill coaster replace it. It's kinda like SLC generation 2. Wonder what the pricing is like.

I think it gives them scope for adding another encompassing thrill ride to help it blend into the area in the future though. Rivals only does so well because there is so much already going on at the front of the park with green lantern, superman top hat and batwing being so visible. You can't have your big statement ride tucked away somewhere in the back though, it kind of defeats the purpose of building a stunning new attraction when you don't have a lot of else in the park to back it up. It needs to be a presence seen from within the park or when approaching the entrance.

Should call it village quarters.

Interesting. Are the cross braces between seats there for transport or permanent?

If they were smart, they should use this as a chance to free up space in movieworld and move all (or a lot of) the admin related functions village have based at movieworld into the hotel build. Anything that specifically doesn't need to be in the park or require immediate access could be moved and remaining functions condensed into existing buildings or a new facility built.

Im pretty sure I've seen one of those ford crown victorias (the boxy police academy shaped cars) at fright nights with gotham police department on the doors instead. The wolf creek 2 car is a holden commodore.

Yeah, once off the lift the ability to stop the train is removed, so until it reaches another set of brakes that can completely stop the train, it's all treated as one block. It's just completely unsafe to rely on having two uncontrolled vehicles sharing the same space. Something catastrophic could happen to one train and it stops between blocks due to a major mechanical fault, the second train would drive straight into it. Turn a recoverable situation into major injuries and probable death.

Cant have 2 trains in the same block. So the only way you may be able to do an extra train at dc rivals is if you queue people between the final brake and the station with another set of brakes. Given that is where the transfer is, thats probably not something that could happen.

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15 attractions? How many months in the year when you minus the Christmas holiday period where nothing is usually shut down? Along with the couple of weeks in September, what does it leave you? less than 9 months to cram all your maintenance work into? With major rides usually shutdown 7-10 weeks for maintenance, going to have a lot of overlaps there you can't do anything about. It's all well and good to keep adding rides, but in a park with no seasons, you're going to end up with closures of major attractions outside of the peak holiday periods. Unfortunately it means the times when they try to have everything running with all rides open is also the time when you really don't want to visit due to the crowds. What is the answer? you can keep throwing more staff at it I guess, increase your floor space with bigger workshops, but managing more than a couple ride shutdowns at the same time has got to be a logistical nightmare juggling the shutdowns with the train / car maintenance that happens multiple times a year after they have completed a set number of laps. What happens if you find something broken or damaged? kind of messes up your whole system / plans. There HAS to be a expense management factor given our location and the patronage. If Aus parks had double or triple the yearly attendance, I'm sure they could afford massive maintenance teams and push through all the big attractions virtually at the same time to try limit disruption. But we don't, so you have to work within budgets and try to juggle the schedule as best you can (keeping in mind the new government restrictions mean a ride can't run a day past it's 12 month service interval, so you're kind of bound to last year's maintenance scheduled dates).

Err... arent there ride themed shirts / uniforms for most of rides? DC, green lantern, justice league, superman, roxy, wild west, doomsday and driving school? They had them for arkham too. Scooby doo and road runner seem to be about the only ones left out. Wild west, superman, roxy and justice league have complete uniforms. The others look like they cheaped out a bit and went with themed shirts. But at least they arent just a printed tee or something. They are designed shirts kinda like football jerseys.

That michael keaton batmobile just looks great from every angle.

"Confirmation, satisfied with their actions". What more do you want them to do if the regulator is happy with what they have done/are doing? The onus is always on the site manager for responding to the incident and managing the risk internally. You still get issued with notices even if youve already complied with their directives from worksafe prior to the incident being investigated.

It's not exactly a door I guess, the back portion of the seat and padding thats against your shoulder/side is hinged so it can open and make it easier to get into the carriage. https://rcdb.com/1121.htm#p=17514 Hard to find photos of the rear, but see the bit that says "ACME 8 ROCKET" ? can see the join below and the split in the back padding. Whole piece swings open around to the back.

Reminds me of the speed slide at wet n wild. Splash down was just a pool, so flying down at 40km/h used to make for some spectacular wedgies if the angle was just right. Twister too for that matter (along with peeling bikini tops off).

How about green lantern. Its been trouble since day one and has been closed for extended time 😅

Maybe it was because only one train at road runner has what is considered a disabled seat with the opening door? I think it is based on access and if you are able to get out of the car unassisted. So if it was the non disabled train, you need to be able to get out over the sides and walk down the lift in the event of an evacuation I think. The operators can't lift you up or carry you down.

Only got a bit over 3 weeks to get it all sorted though when the first night is the 4th.

When arkham was upgraded they got new restraints. The top of the train with all the running gear is still original vekoma.