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That ground hugging bit isn't where the alleged overbank is going. It’s over the top hat, quick right turn, the fast ground hugging helix, and then into the overbank.

I'd say yes, 2-day park. Again, if its all about the rides, then on a normal out of season day, 1 day park, but if your with a family, and want to fit everything in, you won’t be able to do it in one day. I don't think blue lagoon, the Australian Wildlife Experience Shows, Imax, Tiger Island displays and going to the Big Brother house would be easy to do in one day, never mind hitting the rides as well.

I wonder if this will have any effect on Dreamworld's planned water park

As much as I despise Big Brother, I don't think it'll leave Dreamworld. It still gets allot of viewers, and DW's attendance is through the roof recently, and the success of Big Brother would have a fair bit to do with that. Not only from people wanting to go to do the whole Big Brother thing, but also those people who watch Big Brother who keep being reminded of this Dreamworld place. Even the opening sequence for Big Brother had an animation of the Claw...

Those recent updates at theme park review are really cool with all those Euopean parks. That park in question (Heide park) has painted all its flat rides in that area (which are all HUSS) green and white. That Rainbow is seriously the most colourful flat ride in the area.

Looney Tunes musical review was closed early this year for Superman, and now with Roxy out of action, its been brought back to fill the void. So if you missed your chance to check out this show, here's your chance to check it out!

It rings a bell. I was going to mention it until I remembered that I have no clue if there was truth to it or if I read the article wrong

Well, it was a rumour, but the thing about this one is the restaurent started the rumour. They said that they'd be building a roller coaster at the current site, and be building a shop in Surfers. Now the shop is there, but we're still waiting on the Coaster. I wonder if they remember announcing it?

Didn't end up getting past the approval process

Pretty much, two or three days after that the slide was more or less complete. Though there hasn't been much/any noticable progress since.

If you mean is it being built by the same company, and will it use the same launch system then yes. Otherwise, Nev is pretty much on the money.

Think, Movieworld's last 2 major rides were Scooby Doo and Wild West. One of (if not) the best Wild Mouse coasters out there, and a log flume that is beaten in scale only by splash mountain. No wonder the standard is set so high for Superman

What about the rest of the world? There is nothing even similar to Stratosphere anywhere else.

Depends which parks you’re comparing our rides to. I mean, our thrill rides would realistically perform exceptionally well in just about any market. Look at some of the thrill rides that are at our parks: Giant Drop, Lethal Weapon, Tower of Terror. These aren't kiddy thrills; these are big thrill rides, no matter what market they are placed in. Lethal Weapon's twin at Gueaga Lake, Serial Thriller/Thunderhawk, is regarded well against the best coasters in the world by everyone except the enthusiast community. Giant Drop is certainly no "kiddy thrill" either. IMHO, it’s only the freakishly big parks (think the big Six Flags Parks and Cedar Point), which really beat our thrill rides. Still, considering one of those big parks pull in an averaged out 16,000 people per day (presuming 6 month operation), and our big thrill parks (MW and DW) teamed up struggle to average 7,000 a day between them, I think our parks do a good job of even having competitive thrills.

We'd really like to supply that link, but R-C tries not to be associated with articles that are at odds with the parks requests. The only site, which is at the moment authorized to show such updates, is ozcoaster.net. So we can only "unofficially" recommend you check there. Aussieparks is a decent enough site (Obviously I would prefer it if it didn't have photos or list rumors, but its not MY web space after all ), but you have to remember, that Ian goes to allot of effort to have stuff approved, so we try and support that as much as possible.

Exactly, it could be used as stagnant swampland (If only we could be that lucky).

http://www.parkz.com.au/forums/attachmentid=1023 Off to the left. DW owns the land, but its excess land thats not being used.

No limits simulator Gazza?

Very 'your local shopping center meets Chevron in Surfers, meets Downtown Disney'. A few questions this whole thing brings up: Dreamworld anchor tennant. Dreamworld is a tennant? That seems odd to me. When does major construction start? How big? & where does this leave the Big Brother house and contract? Are the previously mentioned tourism amenities (hotels etc.) part of Stage one (or still on the cards at all)? Look forward to seeing this all come together. Hopefully we'll get an idea of the scale of this part of the project soon.

I think you can get the sound effects out of RCT to use, but apart from that, here's what my breif search turned up: http://www.wavsource.com/sfx/sfx2.htm http://www.musicoutfitter.com/store/item/0...ffectsvol3.html

Hey, cool vid Flea, amazingly only just came across it now. Good work! Any more?

8 times the post mentioned that this is what the paper had said. Either grade 4 writing, or trying to not look like idiots if they're wrong. Still, this park has been on the cards for a while now has it not?

Ok, well the information that is now (more or less) publicly available points to an indoor section, which could explain the building/s. Added to that, the track, which is fully visible to anyone who looks that way, looks twisty. Judging by those 2 pieces of information only (strictly by those two nuggets of info and nothing else) I'd say, yes; it will have a twisted layout. But enough on that topic (If want to discuss Superman further just say so and I'll move some stuff around into the MW forumn). Back to Wiggles World: Originally when I looked at that map, it appeared that the Captain Sturt would be re-themed as the SS Feather Sword, but then dismissed the idea. Thats not the plan is it?

Rivertown pretty much is 3 buildings. I always thoguht it was a stretch to have Rivertown and Gum Tree Gully as two seperate themed areas, but supposedly they are. If its the area next to the Model T Lane thats staying the same (Its been a while since I've checked on this), then my original question remains, as Rivertown in a nutshell is from the train tracks to the Captain Sturt entrance and not much further.

The park displays a sign that says 'Opening December' and until such time as the park says otherwise, thats when it will be opening.