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Well, what you've said is neither news nor true, but welcome aboard anyway.

Movieworld's pass price went down a couple of years back. There was also several deals that allowed one to buy a very cheap annual pass the last couple of years. To then compare it to Dreamworld's is also hypocritical since that one costs more anyway.

I think that when you bend the rules to get something cheap then you have no real right to have a go at the price rise. Besides that, $0.41 a day sounds pretty cheap to me. You'll struggle to find something that gets close to matching an annual pass in terms of value for money, even at $150. You couldn't see a movie once a month for cheaper then that. Expensive? Yes. Ripoff? Certaintly not.

I'm about 98% done, just gotta move a few things around.

I'll hazard a guess and say that to acheive a September holidays (which was the plan last I heard, things may have changed) opening, you'd expect construction to begin not long after the holidays. When is Lethal closed again?

The days that are marked as later days look to be the days that bigger crowds are/were expected. The pretty much match the days that we expected (and got) big crowds. In other words, its more a reaction to the expected crowds, rather then a way of getting the bigger crowds in.

Nothing to see here folks, go back to site issues for more of the intriguing battle. Is it just me or is all this making us look like a pretty good contender for Absolutely Reliable News and Rumours' Site o the weak?

Extended trading. Actually, that brings me to a question: Dreamworld's webpage has updated the extended hours page, no longer listing the day when the park closed at 7PM, but instead now notes that the park may remain open later. For those who have been there, when did they do that, and what time has the park been closing?

I work for Warner Village Theme Parks for those who want to know how I could possibly know such details. I feel no need to trouble you with the names of my sources, since you A. won't know them, and B. puts their neck in a noose.

I'll go one step further dude, we've paid the deposit for the ride.

Now now, there's nothing wrong with Labor, only Bob Carr.

I always enjoy the huge amount of code parks use. I always wonder, for what reason would you need to hide the fact that a supervisor had to call the operator, or simply asking for your location in the park had to be in code. At Seaworld all the staff with a radio have a number, I'm guessing, because information like a staff members name may be used by international terrorists :confused: . Fair enough stuff like "Rides stuffed" or "Someone spewed at Bounty" is coded, but stuff like lost child needed/needs to be in code? Keep going guys, most fasinating stuff this...

Kenny, I don't think that launched coaster is a huge secret anymore. Having Rippin' Rockets in the shop windows doesn't really prove anything, just like Intamin track on Cyclone souvenir shirts didn't prove anything. I think your reading a touch too much into it, though it is an amusing storey.

Stupid. Entertaining though..

Hangover was good, but the bloke operating it was either vindictive, or an idiot. Seriously, 20 seconds upside down is NOT cool. I didn't mind Hangover, but I injoyed the chance inverter more, even though the floorless seating style on Hangover is really cool. Ideally I'd love to see Chance do a floorless version of their inverter.

SeanM, I think your too harsh. It appears to me that Wonderland was gearing up for closure for a while. If the opposite was true, then there would have been a new attraction after 1997. Stephen Gailbraith; say what you want about the guy, but from experience I can tell you, he did know a fair bit about the amusement industry. He took from the Gold Coast, some of the best theme park minds around. Michael Croaker and Andrew Cole were both excellent, and knew there craft very well. It seems clear that it was the intention of Sunday all along to close, and let me tell you, when the parent company wants to sell, then that's it. No questions asked, its all over. It would be nieve to think that a major scale theme park is enviable in NSW. Fox studios can hardly count, since from all accounts it was substandard, and too expensive. It was doomed right from the word go, kind of like Disney Studios Paris. I can assure you, if anyone starts a crusade to get a big park built in NSW, I'll be behind it, though I doubt that'd really make a great deal of difference.

There's no way SW would fit in river off the tower. Because of the direction it travels, to install it off the tower would mean building it out over the broadwater.

See, now this is why we normaly don't give away what we know to early. Parks are prone to mood swings on this sort of thing

Another one? Why are they getting another when they don't use the one they've already got? Is someone other then Wittingslow (is that the company?) buying one?

You've been waiting for that Wonder why most people never jumped on board the topic?

The block of land which houses Movieworld, Wet 'n' Wild, Paradise Country, the Studios, and the soon to be built Outback Spectacular is 258 acers.

*Bump* How's everyone going with theres?

My understanding is that Dreamworld's head honcho had quite a bit to do with the Space Park that was at Expo. It was probably because of this that the ride sat at Dreamworld for a while when stuff was being finalised.

Judging by the similarity between the boats on Looney Tunes and Bermuda, one would suspect an in house job. Probably wouldn't be to far fetched to suggest some of the boats could have been old Lasseter's boats. The only difference is the lapbar thing on Looney Tunes, and that wouldn't have been that hard to install.

Allright, been searching around a few things, and I can explain what I was saying about concept pictures. Check out the photo of Tower of Terror on the left of the page on Ride Extravaganza. Basicly its a photo of Tower of Terror, which was photo shopped to include Giant Drop. Now look toward the base of the tower, and tell me what happens to the track...