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Apparently the park is going to use K'NEX to build their next coaster too. (Someone had to say it sooner or later)

If I'm not mistaken, Wonderland is home to rides, native Australian animals, a waterpark (easily the best in Sydney as sad as that is) shows and Marvel comic book characters. Maybe they could start there?

Well they don't promote themselves to incoming tourists, perhaps that could be why those people don't visit them?

Exactly mx5_boy. However, don't forget that in the early days of Seaworld, people said getting 1 million through the doors was an unrealistic dream and never going to happen. Now 4 separate parks in Australia can make the claim of dragging 1 million through the doors. As the old saying goes "Build it and they will come".

Tell you what, despite my constant DW bashing, I still enjoy spending a day there. I think last week when I was there I missed GD, TOT, Eureka and a whole bunch of other stuff, but still had a good time walking around. I do tend to be critical of the parks operations procedure, but otherwise its ok. To back up what everyone's saying about how our parks are better, a SFMMtrip report has been published on Westcoaster where the author talks about how good his day was. In it, he lists 2 or 3 (depending on how you look at it) closed rides, 1 train op on many rides and the like, while saying the park was in good form. You would've never heard the end of it if I'd done the trip report

Shut down the water park are you insane? It'll happen, but much to the detriment of the park. You should've heard the guests this year when the water park was closed (even during winter). Plus the water park has a huge capacity, which is all important in the summer months, and keeps bust for a hefty chunk of the day.

Dreamworld has some ok themeing elements scattered around the place. I was quite impressed with some of the new things which have been added the other day. Dreamworld also has 3 really cool rides TOT, Wipeout and GD. To say Dreamworld's theming is anything compared to MW's is a bit of a joke. MW's is a bit mismatched, but its quality. Dreamworld's theming is, for the most part, sparse, low quality (new additions and really old stuff excluded) and mismatched. Tell me why there are Dinosaurs in Thunder River? Or why there is this huge 'Oil Rig' in the middle of the Model T lane. Perhaps you could explain to me why there is modern walkways all over Rocky Hollow, or how you can find Big Brother crap plastered all over old world stuff? Why not let us all know what the theme for Tower of Terror is, and what the hell its doing in Rivertown? I could go on, but I think you get my drift. Nightshifter, what did you think of Marvin the Martian, the Special effects show, the Bat Attack and the street parade? How did you enjoy sitting down to eat that lovely food that is sold is Movieworld? What about Harry Potter/Matrix? Did you try Road Runner (kicks the crap out of reptar let me assure you) or the River ride? No to most or all of the above? Then you missed the point of going to a 'theme' park. Maybe you should go back and have a look at the whole park. If your not interested, go stand in the never moving queue for Cyclone.

I said what? Oh well, sounds like a cool idea anyway. The idea of an indoor crocodile enclosure does sound a touch weird though, unless that's part of the re-themeing?

If I had to define it, I'd call it a "Don't Walk Through". Like I say, wait for the photos or ya ganna be really disappointed.

Just wait for the pictures, then you'll see

That's right Ian, the mystery of the Cyclone cow has been solved! Great moment of personal satisfaction for me. Iron Henge looks pretty cool too. For those that don't know, its a multi-dollar attraction midway between Blue Lagoon and the Big Brother house. Its meant to be an updated stone henge, and is just as mysterious (just wait for the photos and you'll see what I mean!). The park is actually looking in quite good shape. New themeing elements litter the park, and the tomb raider section doesn't look nearly as bad as I thought. The only down side for today was GD only running one side causing 90 Min queues (or so the sign said) and Cyclone operating at a staggering 288 pph (is it popular enough to add a second train yet Dreamworld?). I would have hated to be a one off visitor, but as someone whose more then truly over the rides there, I thought the park was ok.

Ok guys, a six year old girl is in a critical condition and is fighting for life, can we stop turning this into a discussion about chippy being stupid? Every other post he's in has this information in it, and we don't need to clutter serious topics with that junk. Back on topic: The accident was supposedly caused when the girl put her feet up on the seat, and was thus unaffected by her restraints. The operator of the ride is believed to have called to the girl, then pushed the emergency stop button. Before the ride had finished, he'd noticed the girl lying underneath the ride. The ride appeared to be in normal working order, and is currently closed for the investergation.

The amusement park in question isn't an amusement park as such, but is a bunch of portable rides set up for the holidays. The rides consist of a scrambler, ferries wheel, dodgem cars and one or two others. The rides have been set up along the beach, opposite Broadbeach primary school, and are only open from around 7 till 10pm. This accident has surprised me quite a bit, because its the first piece of evidence I've come across to suggest people actually go on those rides.

Dan, How come Now that felt good In the words of shifty you spelt it right, just not completely

So you're not even ganna tell us if we guess it?

Go Huss! :mrgreen:

Where as if this was a post about which coaster Wonderland wasn't going to get then this would be worthy of conversation? Also, FYI, I have a life, so if you don't have anything more useful to add, get stuffed and have a good day. Dan, outside the square is the clue... Did they keep escaping?

The manager... Did you get to meet the real Jack? I think Jack in the Box is just my obsession now since I got food poisoning there, especially since reading about all those people that got sick eating the stuff. Good to see it didn't get you though, I was starting to think Americans were immune to salmonella, as if all their fat cells get rid of it.

While we're "in" that matter, I just thought I'd point out, that you could have just said don't sit in the back, not "Never sit in the back seat, by yourself, or in that matter, with another person", and, try using full stops, they're not as fun as all the commas, but still useful

Who knows what it was. Could be public Liability Insurance (like every other problem in the industry seems to be), stress (seems likely to me, especially since Wonderland had interactive programs being run at such a young age and after they'd been in their new enclosure only for a short time), ill-health, quarantine (don't think that's an issue since I'm pretty sure the animals are from elsewhere in Aus) or even plumbing problems with the exhibit.

I'm not taking sides (I'm probably more on Dan's side) but that was a good call.

Good to see two from two Total Thrills members who have holidays in the US this year have had holiday plans shortened due to food poisoning. I swear there's something in the water too . Are you sure you didn't eat at Jack in the Box Richard?

I don't think anything has really changed. The water park only closed to house some of the sharks for Shark Bay. They did change the filters, since they'd converted them to filter salt water, and also resurfaced the pools, as well as taking apart and resurfacing all the kiddie slides. Long time guests to the park won't notice much of a difference.

The only reason we use 'proper' words is because it allows other people to read with ease. A word or two here isn't that bad, but a whole post of it is too much. Anyway, in your last couple of posts, you've attempted to type better, so that's good enough by me Wonderland ain't going anywhere. They've got a good spot. Daniel was right, closing rides and moving them was about profit. Nothing more to it then that really. About HBL, the land didn't expire, the license to use the Hana-Babara characters did. Hence why the area was called 'Little Wonder's Land' for a while there.

Six posts into it, and no ones answered the original question, and everyone has instead, been getting wound up about miss-spellings. All we need now is for Richard to rename himself Jeff and we'll feel like we're really at Coasterbuzz.