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When this ride had its first accident the fault was with the manufacturer I believe. The bolts used were not strong enough and fractured.

Cool, glad you think that. But, standards as to whats "Safe" aren't standard globally, so height limits do change. Not just in Australia, but globally.

I think you just proved how you can't compare overseas pricing with Australian pricing.

Its been said before, but something like F.L.Y. would be awesome.

Honestly, that just makes so much sense and I'm ashamed I didn't think of that myself already.

Vekoma say 625 per coaster per hour, so adding in your 5min delay, its 200 per coaster per hour + the suspended which they say is 720 so probably around the 250 mark with your delay. Not far off really. Edit to say, super super super rough math here.

Man, I read that as 750km/h and was slightly concerned with your ideals. But yes and no. There are a lot of variables that come into play. Overall though, it should eat up more than a single attraction over a period of time as maintenance can be spread out over time rather than the whole attraction close at once. But then adding 3 attractions, they would likely need more maintenance staff, ride ops and upkeep costs, so the expense is greater, will they cut budgets elsewhere like themeing or non-critical maintenance, or will the uplift in tickets, merch and food be enough to justify/cover that?

Is Green Lantern down for a belated 10 year service, or is this more in line with Movieworld trying to improve operations like they are doing with WWF?

MW is lacking a high capacity flat. SW has it with Vortex, DW has it with Claw. MW has Doomsday which is well.. discussed. a lot.

Well they will clearly be building a World First* vekoma suspended family coaster. *Movie World first

When did they announce Leviathan again?

12ft.io isn't working for me but I did see there is a Chrome extension to bypass the paywall. I can't do that until later tonight though as my work laptop is pretty locked down for installing stuff.

I genuinely thought this was a typo or you didn't see a "2 for" in front of the price

I get it mate, but, what if... Parkz added Turnstiles? that way we wouldn't need moderators and the system can let a specific number of people post every day. If you disagree with me you're just wrong. Overseas does it the best way. I've been overseas to overseas parks to use turnstiles.

I like you

Is that due to the hydraulics needing time to reset/fluids cool down?

Once again, agree with @DaptoFunlandGuy. This one is great as the staff who hand out the wrist bands are literally just causing a waste of time and slow down other services they (could) provide. The fallback is obviously going back to wristbands. If you tie it into the ride systems to get number of cycles/hour (or 30min) they could also have the wait times on the machine for those specific seats (lets be honest, normally max 5min) and auto lockout if the already purchased riders extends past the parks opening hours.

Thanks @DaptoFunlandGuy. Appreciate the insight. As for paint over time, I honestly can't see it taking 6 years, but if they do maintain doing sections every period, ideally it would never 'fade'.

Not disputing either as I have no idea, but I wonder if the additional heights of the NI Loop, Camel Back and lift hill would cause unwanted additional time? This is the first coaster to reach these heights in Aus and likely MW would try and save money by using local painters than import specialists.

No, because they use a human grouper who can let in the whole group

Out of curiosity, how long does the hydraulic system need to reset after a launch?

Man Clippy has changed..

Your (rough) numbers are slightly off. 364 day trade assumes its open 364 days. Factor in the 3-5 weeks of annual maintenance, assume a perfect year no downtime, and add in the # of testing cycles it performs every morning also. Otherwise, interesting call out. Also in the ride stats it does call out 480 Riders / hour with 2 train ops.

Yeah sorry, I've practically seen all his videos, hes shown other Alpine coasters before with him on them, and also if I remember correctly, one of those bike like ones where you pedal yourself? As he said in the originally linked video, its not the height, speed or movements, as hes been in fighter jets and done other 'extreme' stuff, its just the initial drop.