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It really is a must visit page for anyone whose interested in the Gold Coast's parks. The pick of the site is the map page, which has a good collection of old maps. Anyone who hasn't seen the site simply must check it out, truly remarkable stuff.

When was the last time they used Action Arena?

I'm sorry, could you please explain this whole logic thing to me? Just curious, does (or did) Dreamworld fly flags with the logo on it? I just can't seem to recal ever seeing a Gold Coast park fly flags with its logo on it...

I know that is a bit broad to claim bragging rights, but not bad Wayne

Maybe your height (5"3? Shorter then Penguin? Quite an achievement that!) has something to do with it. Though it'd be fair to say that Lethal Weapon tends to be moody, and quite often you'll get a nice ride, with a few rough ones thrown in for a bit of variety. It also depends on which train you get, when it last went through a re-ferb (which is pretty often), how old the wheels are, and how you position yourself on the ride. Glad to hear you got a good ride on it, and even more importantly, glad you had a good day! Nice report too, keep us posted if and when you head out to any of the other parks!

Look here if you can't remember what the whole thing looked like. $8 isn't a bad price for something like that (not bad nostalgic value), any takers?

Nup, about to go into one in Feb.

Hmmmm, maybe we should have made him a cleaner....

One story says Walt was pissed that he 'borrowed' so many of Disneyland's ideas for Freedomland, and another says that he claimed to be the master builder of Disneyland. Who knows, but one thing for sure, when he came up with an idea at one park he liked, he took it with him to where ever he went. You can see a direct link between Movieworld and Freedomland. It just makes you wonder if what he was doing in Freedomland was inspired by Disney, if Movieworld's western area is the evolotion of that idea. Remember its was the only themed area in the whole park when it opened. Now I'm looking, there's a few bits of Disneyland floating around the old Movieworld. For instance, check out the fire station at Movieworld, and consider the fire station at Disneyland.

Entertainment at Wet 'n' Wild? Well there's the aqua racers which have the competition/show, there used to be a speed slide stunt show, and there also used to be characters roaming around the park at one time or another. A high diving show might also work too.

Ok guys, this get a tiny bit involved and the story's not that impressive, but stay with me here anyway: C. V. Wood was a guy who did lots in the theme park world. He most famously worked on Disneyland, but also had a part to play with Six Flags over Texas, and on topic, Movieworld. He also designed his own park, Freedomland (now closed). Now, tonight, I've been doing a bit of reading up on this bloke, and have found quite a similarity between an attraction at Freedomland, and one at Movieworld. On this page, you can see on the 4th picture down, an attraction that appears to bear a striking similarity to Young Einstein's Gravity house. One could go a step further, putting Movieworld's western area down to this guy, who did copy cat Frointerland's on most projects he worked on it seems. In other words, it seems the western area of Movieworld, is based loosely off Disney's very own Fronteirland, and came to us direct from the guy who worked on the original. Thoughts anyone?

Dude, thats the funniest thing I've read for weeks lol Me as F&B boss? Yeah, I'll do you proud On the drawing itself, mate I'm constantly amazed with how well you do those. Everything looks pretty good on that, and the quality is unreal. Just out of interest, do you do drawing of any type as a job? Dj, don't worry, I'm sure Flea will let you help him with the lights :cool:

Rockin Roller Coaster looks it might really be my sort of ride by the looks of things. I like Lanchers, indoor coasters and inversions. Its on my "to-do" list put it that way.

Damm, this one is really hard. Building a ride that fits isn't hard, but building a ride thats any good sure is. Nice challenge!

Really? Besides the fact there isn't a need for brakes, I'd have thought that the car isn't going straight for long enough for brakes to even be possible. Stranger stuff has happened though...

What would be the point of brakes in the Boomerang? Aren't the other brakes on the ride there to stop the train so it doesn't stall in the boomerang?

Presuming the Wave pool is the same size as WnWs (for scale purposes) you'd probably want to place that further up on the screen, so you can fit more deck chairs and the like to the area. The current Wet 'n' Wild's decking is huge and yet that fills up. Same thing would happen with this park, so that'd need to be bigger. There also isn't much room to expand should the need arise, and there aren't many eateries. Apart from that, its a really nice park. If the new WnW looked anything like this it'd be a hit IMHO.

Hang on a sec, isn't Wet 'n' Wild one? That "'n'" hardly counts as its own word...

Road Runner Roller Coaster, Rugrats Runaway Reptar, Tower of Terror are a couple of notables from the Gold Coast. I get the point though Nice looking park map, as a park it looks great, but it could do with some more areas to sit down, mostly around the wave pool. I like the idea of having the mountain at the back of the wave pool with slides coming off it. Great space saver that, as well as the fact that the parks filtration and pumps could all be centrally located.

They are pieces of foam stuck to the bottom of the slides. They create an obstacle for the rafts, which slows them down, as well as giving a bump for the riders.

The brake pads are indeed to slow you down. While most riders would have no trouble without them, the ride is too fast for the more 'fragile' park guests, who would sometimes loose control without them. I'm about 90% sure that Terror Canyon is not River Rapids with but enclosed, but rather a whole new slide. Best guess as to why is they were wanted to add something completly different, and to get rid of the really slow bits that were in River Rapids.

Lucky you, how is Spinball Wizzer? I was out there during its construction but was a season to early to have a 'spin'. Nice to have you aboard

Shucks, thanks man. Its now my long awaited profile picture Better luck next time Pin142, still if the layout is anything like the last one then then I'm in trouble, I've already used up most of my tricks That was fun, are we going to have another one of these? I like using no limits, but I hardly ever do with out the incentive...

$2.80 is to much each visit? Well, your most welcome to your opinion.

Here you go..