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  1. Baconjack
    Ok so sea world clutched up and opened leviathan at quarter past 2, which surprised me considering staff said it would be closed all day and it didn’t test for about 3 hours beforehand. Managed to get a few rides in and will grab a few more before close. The AV presentation is pretty cool and looks great. It looks a lot better in person than in photos or videos. It’s certainly not the best implementation (the timing was pretty wonky), but it’s a really good step nonetheless for what is essentially village’s 2nd go and makes me look forward to the next couple of years. The station and pre show stairs is where the theming really stands out. The detail is very impressive. I do think the station lighting needs to be a bit brighter to make the screens fit in a bit more, but I’m being a little bit nitpicky. Queue rockwork and vegetation looks cool but will get very hot in peak summer, maybe some mist machines or fans would be nice. I was initially pretty disappointed with my first ride as it ran quite slow but definitely warmed up to it with a few more laps in different parts of the train. It’s one of those rides that will run slow in the morning and speed up later on in the day. Lots of little airtime pops and the first half had some solid pace to it, feeling very out of control. The roughness caught me off guard at first but given I’ve never been on a wooden coaster before is something I can’t really judge. Leviathan is definitely not going to knock off rivals or taipan as the best coaster in the country, but a really really solid big thrill ride for sea world that’s been needed for nearly a decade. No doubt it will be popular once the teething problems are fixed up and it’s back to peak season.
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    And a lot of money to build too. I know our parks like splashing cash as of late, but it’s still out of their budget imo. A free spin would be a more reliable and cheap alternative and very marketable.
  3. Baconjack
    A loop screw like what sea world eventually got would have sucked at DW imo. Too small and it wouldn’t have been big enough to look noteworthy on the midway.
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    Lol where are they going to put it? Dreamworld need to get that thunderbolt throwback raptor going in the lazy river plot so gold coaster’s plot can be used to expand WWW down the track
  5. Baconjack
    Down, but sporadically testing. Staff seem to have be told leviathan is not running today
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    Fucks sake lol. Guess I’m having a crack in winter
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    Big Dipper and Abyss are both great rides that run rough in summer just by nature of the heat. Abyss was a bit rattly when new, can’t imagine what it’s like now. Abyss should have had lap bars from the start too. Layout wise Big Dipper has abyss beat. No ride in this country flies through its layout like Big Dipper does especially when it’s done a few cycles during the day. And it runs a lot smoother in winter except for the valley between the non inverting loop and the immelman Arkham was like being in a violent car accident in its last couple of years. Gold Coaster was pretty nasty before it got the new trains, now it’s just a bit jerky in 1 or 2 parts.
  8. Baconjack
    Do we even have evidence that new trains are being installed? The soft OTSR's like what you see on maverick would be a really nice alteration to the existing ones imo but i doubt they'll be put on SR. Those intamin harnesses aren't very kind to taller people
  9. Baconjack
    Potentially I think village would be taking notes on how dragster goes and see if it’s worth the investment. The hydraulic system at superman doesn’t seem to be having many troubles though it will get expensive to maintain in a few years time. Superman is far too popular for Village to rip out imo so a Scooby style renovation would make sense.
  10. Baconjack
    When the time comes to refurbish superman (which is likely to be the next big thing after oz and Scooby imo) I think it will be an easy quality of life change to change the lockers. Move the lockers later on in the queue, on the wall adjacent to where the current fast track line is, make them double sided so you can open them up in the old exit gift shop and retrieve your items as you leave. Redo the railings so you walk past these lockers as you line up, and reroute fast track to the other end of the building. Pretty easy and not terribly expensive quality of life change that improves the experience for many more people especially when you are lining up for well over an hour in summer. Not sure why they didn’t have this when the exit building had the gift shop in it. 30 minutes without a phone is fine, but when you’re pushing an hour and a half that’s where (younger) people will get put off and will go flood the line for rivals or green lantern
  11. Baconjack
    Getting a little nervous tbh, I’m driving up from Sydney on Friday and planning to visit SW for leviathan on Monday.
  12. Baconjack
    From memory its the face, crystal palace, coney island, the wild mouse and the rotor that are specifically protected. None of these are going anywhere, nor should be suggested as such. Otherwise the rest of the park is fair game. That said, the land is still zoned for use as an amusement park.
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    Wild Mouse is heritage listed. Its for sure not going anywhere. I know the park has invested quite a bit of money into retracking over the past year. Given the uniqueness of the ride all of this new track has to be custom made. I believe a few of the timber supports are getting reinforced too, and I think the trains have gotten updated restraints in recent years.
  14. Baconjack
    I haven't even ridden tnt and i could say its better. KFF is a boring layout that's brutally rough, it was unpleasant in 2018 and couldn't imagine what its like now. Fingers crossed new trains/restraints have been bought with the refresh to make it a better experience
  15. Baconjack
    Not to get into the semantics of it but i think it's safe to say a track switch and a turntable are generally interchangeable terms, whether its a simple track switch (a la most modern coasters) or an actual turntable (think Gerstlauer). I think it's also a bit interesting to note that not one coaster listed on RCDB with a turntable listed as an element is a vekoma product. I think it'll be that track switch we see above being tested right now, possibly even sent straight to dreamworld from the factory like what they did with the tilt coaster drop.
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    Lex Luthor would be my first choice because it literally sits metres away from superman, but Aquaman could easily work as a theme and is probably the most appropriate choice given the nature of the ride. I've always felt that corner has been more general DC than superman. After all, Arkham Asylum was sitting right next door for about 10 years so pretty much anything goes.
  17. Baconjack
    How much is it to make new bodies for the dodgems lol? I can see some similarities with deep sea creatures but it’s honestly a little lazy. It’s like they are retheming Ocean Parade to fit the KFP rides rather than the other way around
  18. Baconjack
    This is certainly a well overdue upgrade. Next Generation was a poorer experience to the original ride, not fixing anything related to the coaster experience and instead a lacklustre effort at meeting fire safety requirements. Getting some of the theming fixed would be nice, especially at places like at the mirror scene or on the elevator. Retracking will make the ride more comfortable considering it runs in the dark and has so many pot holes.
  19. Baconjack
    Wipeout still hurts but I can see why it had to go. It was old, and was rarely open in its last years. For it to run for 25 years is a great innings, when most parks could barely run it for 10. Ardent missed a huge opportunity to replace it with another top spin IMO - ocean parade isn't the same without it. Loved Tower - but it was noisy and the restraints when they swapped the car around were awful. Never got to ride it with the t-bars. Riding it in its opening year when it reached the top would have been incredible. While I'm here, will make mention of Lethal Weapon. Terrible coaster, but had some really cool theming, arguably the best themed coaster ever built here until very recently. Corkscrew hurts too, but Leviathan is by all accounts a brilliant replacement.
  20. Baconjack
    I'm glad this didn't get built. Far too tall (was supposed to be taller than Giant Drop from memory), and too much crowd congestion for that section, you already had superman and arkham at the time. You'd be able to see the big tower from West, or pretty much anywhere in the park.
  21. Baconjack
    Christ just rip it out, it’s not coming back, and it’s an eyesore to leave it, just another one of the million other eyesores in the park. Leaving old crap sitting there for years used to be a dreamworld thing.
  22. Baconjack
    100 million would get you a dry ride expansion at raging waters. Big coaster, big family ride, and about 10 or so flats. Not a fully fledged theme park Next big thrill ride frontier should be a flying coaster. Crowd pleaser, quality ride, highly reliable. Certainly not cheap though
  23. Baconjack
    Highly doubt it. Who even supports these 30+ year old monorail rides, when the people who built them no longer exist? Who would build a whole set of new rolling stock, which aren’t exactly the cheapest things to buy? Unless work is seen happening by an eagle eyed observer (which would be a complete bombshell for me) I’d say the monorail is good as gone.
  24. Baconjack
    A bit late but a few more SW: Demo of part of the monorail track (probably not all of it). Relatively clear to me that it's not coming back. Decision to be made with the theatre/castle/vikings area. Maybe demo next year. Potential for surfrider to be installed in the back end of the year. WNW: Removal of surfrider to be moved to sea world. Slide repaints would be a nice bonus. MW: Other than the kids ride, not much. Construction of wizard of oz won't start till next year. DW: Quiet year aside from what's already been announced. Stabs at dark for opening dates - but june school holidays for rethemed dreamworks, september for abc kids world + big red boat coaster, then december school holidays opening for dreamworld flyer. Demo of tower of terror station & current abc kids world to start WWW/LPM/GW/AW: Nothing. LPS: Nothing. However, a replacement of the luna land banner with a proper sign would be nice. Adventure World: Possible new ride, possibly a flat.
  25. Baconjack
    If it has an inversion it's a thrill coaster imo. I like making similar jokes about Gold Coaster, but RCDB classes anything with an inversion as "extreme" for a good reason. For most people, going upside down puts them off, especially for kids. Let alone something that hangs riders upside down for several seconds on two separate occasions. No wonder why Superman's popularity has endured for nearly 20 years after it was built. The fact GL was just repainted a couple of years ago shows Village is willing to invest in it for the next few years. Repaints are not cheap. Nothing is probably facing the axe right now - but the discussion certainly could be had for Doomsday within the next 5 years.
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