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Well since this mentions the ride stranded riders 60 feet in the air I'd say it was in the boomerang element.

I'm not sure if this is the same ride type, but Miceage has a review of Crush 'n' Gusher at Typhoon Lagoon here. Looks like a really interesting concept. Hopefully it'll catch on.

Because they've got Eagle Boys there.

So I'm guessing you work at Luna Park pause break?

This ride to me looks like a mixture of the best elements from Scooby Doo (the themeing) Xcelerator (the launch), and the Superman hypers (the airtime). Forgive me for asking, but whats not to like guys?

I think the other thing you've missed is Superman is probably one of the best value new rides in Australia since Viking's Revenge. Superman is pretty darn good "Bang for your buck" already, and I'm not sure how you'd get a better ride for cheaper (Or how they even got Superman that cheap). As for the topic, well, der Dreamworld is going to get new stuff in the future on Thunderbolt's site. Probably in the future they'll be something better then Superman, but I don't really see the value in getting all excited about it now. Wait till you open this years Xmas present before worrying about the year after.

Why not just put another row of seats on the North side, speed up the elevators of the other two and fully staff the ride?

30 Hectares doesn't sound like much. In all its 74.13acres, enough to make a park as big as Disneyland in Cali, but with no parking, hotels or other amenities that come standard with every Disney theme park. Even so, it should be quite an interesting story to follow.

I think the term "Eventually" tells you something. It sounds as if the park has removed the ride with no replacement rides in mind. Fair enough too, it required 5 operators over the course of the day, wasn't very popular, and was potentially dangerous. Last time I was there it was closed until 11 (approx.) and closed by 4. As a transport system it was redundant, and as a ride it was pretty ordinary.

That sex for Dummies book looks strange: Werid stuff there. On the Wonderland stuff, yeah already sold. ING own the site, so I doubt anyone would be looking at buying it, least of all Disney who have never bought a second hand park and probably never will. Also Disneyland is an asset of Disney, not a seperate company. Thanks for the laugh though.

Adam - Reptar is basicly an inverted Road Runner. Exact same layout, though Reptar is slower and only has one train. Nice fun ride, and less intense then Road Runner.

I was talking about Reptar

Its too new to be replaced already, and it is popular enough. Without knowing it sounds like an unexpected mechanical fault, but I was hopeing one of the DW regulars might know more...

I dunno, the thing about that ride is been a bit redundant for a while now. Its transport ride that replaces a 5min walk with a 10min ride, so as Transport its not really necessary. Add to that its labour intensive to operate and I'm guessing expensive to insure, so its really an ideal candidate to be removed.

This from the Dreamworld website: Any Dreamworld regulars know whats going on with Reptar, and if thats all she wrote for Skylink?

I always thought a cool idea would be to have a large scale dark ride in the middle of a CBD (in an old carpark or something). Something like Bermuda or Gremlins in the middle Brisbane (Or even Surfers) would do so well, you'd probably be able to get $20 a ride without too much difficulty.

I thought it was a real bargain park. Definitely worth the stop, even if you don't spend the full 3 hours (I think we spent 2 hours there including lunch and mini golf) its still worth doing. The wild mouse was a heap of fun, and the park had an impressive collection of off the shelf thrill rides. The day I went the place was deserted, and when you wanted to go on a ride, the operator would go over with you, operate the ride, and ask what you wanted to go on next, and operate the next ride for you. No lines obviously, since we were the only customers in the park. Quite an interesting experience. I hope this park does well, if it does well, there's no telling what they'll do next.

This sounds like a great improvement over the "Fright Night" they had last year. Quite a few of the issues brought up by people (including by some on this site) are taken into account, and its really good to see the park respond so positively to the guests input. Everyone wanted less tickets, more rides and longer hours, well Dreamworld is delivering all of those and then some. Well done! The only remaining issue is with how the park handles closing the rides by 10, as that was the big fiasco last time. Its kinda surprising they aren't closing the rides at 9.30 this time around, since saying rides are open until 10 implies queues will be open till 10, though in reality it means "everyone off the rides by 10". Still, probably a minor issue in what sounds like will be a good night.

Wow, so many points here. Lets dive right in here shall we? Well, that's true, but don't forget that the building has been around since the mid 80's now, and some of the infrastructure has seen better days. Having said that, after just spending $1million on doing it up for pig, its looking good enough that its not urgently needing replacement. Pig has been released once, and lost a good deal of weight very quickly. Its in Pig's best interest that he stays at Sea World, as in the past its been clear that he just can't do it out there. Realistically as well, one individual animal isn't going to be the difference between the species surviving or becoming extinct. Pig's role at Sea World is to be the ambassador for Dugongs in the wild. People who see these animals in captivity have more of an empathy for there cousins in the wild. Most people don't even know what a Dugong is, so to have one that people can see, relate to, and learn about is a very important step in making people aware of their plight in the wild. From a business point of view, I don't think Pig will ever turn a profit. He is one of the most expensive animals to have in the park, as his feeding is labour intensive, he has full time carers, and he does eat allot of food. Pig is there because its the best thing for Pig, and its best for Dugongs as a whole. I think for that reason (Depending on Pig's own health) we can expect to see Pig for quite a while in the park. One reason is it might help to spread the crowds more evenly over the course of the day. As anyone who works there would know, the top of the park is pretty much dead between 1.15pm and about 4pm. Maybe having a ride at that end of the park would encourage people to stay up the top and take some of the stress off Plaza and the central rides area. Since this is a pretty unreliable rumour, I'm just going to go nuts and link it up with another old unreliable rumour: "Bermuda is getting replaced soon". Does it make sense that Bermuda's HUGE footprint could be better used by other rides in the middle of the park (You could probably fit 2 or 3 on there pretty easy)? Perhaps, but that still leaves the problem of finding a new home for Pig, new turtle rehabilitation pools, a new spot for the carpenters and workshop, new special events storage sheds, new warehouse, as well as new offices for HR, Marine Sciences, Education, and training. Not all of this stuff can be simply moved to Movieworld or into the top offices.

When I edited it, the info about who had voted dissapeared (No biggie) but no idea whats going on with that other one only showing 3 votes. Strange...

Without question this is Disney's fault, I don't think anyone disputes that. Unlike you, I believe the majority of the blame can be rested on the shoulders of the guys who tagged it as safe for use without doing the job properly, rather then on the operators or even the operators policies. I also believe the new policy doesn't affect the operations of the ride, but is more of an attempt to give people some confidence in the ride (There's a new term for ya, "Placebo policy"). This is indicated by the fact that they were (supposedly) planning to take the train off the ride even without the guidelines telling them to do so. Really, if the maintenance guys had done the job right in the first place, then we wouldn't be talking about this. I think blaming the operators is a bit like blaming the goalie when your team looses at soccer, even though the ball had to get past 12 other players first.

I don't think the policy will make the slightest difference. The problem is that a ride with as many trains BTMRR, simply identifying the train making the strange noise could prove difficult. Every cycle sounds different on many rides, due to things such as the weight distribution, newness of certain components etc. So hearing a slightly different sound on a train wouldn't necessarily suggest a problem. When the train comes back still making the noise, even if the operator notices again, there's a good chance that even a competent operator wouldn't realise it was the same train - it would take a couple of cycles before someone notices which train it was.

If the ride was operating normally, the riders were of "normal" proportions and riding correctly? No, you probably would not need the restraints. However, the chances of needing the restraints is high enough that IMHO, they are required on that ride. I wouldn't trust people to be riding correctly, and one would suspect that standing up, for example, during the backwards drop bunny hill section could send one flying.

I believe the point Alex was making was that before the ride crashed, there was no evidence of something 'catastrophically' wrong. Of a fault yes? But of something that would prove fatal? Not at all. Think of this, if they had loaded this train, but then unloaded it before sending it on its way and taken it off the track before sending it out, then this would be a story of some seriously pissed off guests annoyed by the parks "irratic" operations. The guy who was killed wouldn't know that his life was saved, and could possibly been annoyed to the point of complaining or even abusing the ops. That's aside from the chaos on the station and possible disciplining from boss' (hell, they probably wouldn't know that the guy would've died otherwise either). No, much easier to send it once more, and simply not load it again when it comes back. Sadly, as we know it didn't quite work out like that...

Are we getting defunction mixed up with Dreamnova here? And are we also getting a petty argument mixed up with kinda significant information?