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I agree that the main entrance likely wont be close to Superman, but would it not cause quite bad crowd congestion if there wasn’t a 2nd entrance/exit to an area that large somewhere (at least for the food/retail stores)? And, even if they don’t have a second entrance at all, smoke’ll do as smoke does & travel with the wind, and having the plot for a kids/family area that close to a designated smoking zone still doesn’t seem too logical to me.

I believe the smoking area still exists at the same space (benches under trees, beside Superman’s helix), but I doubt it’ll stay much longer regardless of SurfRider, seeing as WoO may have an entrance right beside it.

I mean, maybe, but this is seemingly Vekoma's first turntable, so unless done with the same precision & speed that Gerstlauer does their typical ones, or being done entirely within a well-themed room with an active storyline taking place (which, while Dreamworld says they're doing show scenes for it, I doubt they'd do something of that proportion), it could quickly become an Expedition Everest switch track moment.

Ah yeah, after researching a bit more I see that the front car on Timberliners includes the leading themed element. Was misinformed by other pictures & posters there, sorry @New display name.

MW is also definitely the park with the most international draw due to DCR, but in comparison to other, even non-Disney/Universal parks, it’s still kind of ‘regional’. And they don’t even care about unique events, unlike SW and DW, instead opting for the general regional park formula of ‘Scary event in October’ and ‘Festive event in December’.

That Timberliners (the train Gravity Group uses, the one used for Leviathan) are constructed to have a ‘zero car’ in every sense of the word, usually with thematic pieces on them (e.g. Levi’s head, Mineblower’s TNT, or Roar-O-Saurus’s Triceratops head). Then assuming that your question wasn’t about whether or not that is the case, and instead that it was about whether or not they had said zero car attached to the train on the night cycle that Ogre observed (which may have been an incorrect assumption for me to have made).

A 360° turntable on an incline, while perhaps maybe a more intriguing concept than this actual inclined turntable, would also be pretty useless on a coaster of this type (the only type I could see it having a use case on is an LSM launch coaster). If you look at the beginning of this thread, you’ll see why it’s the way that it is, and a 360° turntable just wouldn’t really allow for that at all.

Sounds like a certain transport ride on the Gold Coast. Hope this doesn’t become a trend for other aging rides in Aus.

Levi’s train, or Timberliners in general, do have literal zero cars under normal operation. I believe/assume they’re meaning to ask if the zero car was in use & just unlit, or not in use at all.

Weird, RCDB must be bugging out or something 'cause it usually displays all relocations of the same ride under that ride, but for some reason it distinguishes the wooden wild mouse as multiple separate coasters, one as defunct which operated from 1959 to 1970, one that operated at 'Fox Studios Park' 'til 1995, and one as operating from 1995 onwards. And then it also distinguishes Big Dipper & Cyclone as 2 separate coasters, too. Will have to keep that in mind in the future.

1. Scenic Railway @ Luna Park Melbourne (Scenic Railway, 1912) 2. Sapphire Speed Coaster @ Merimbula's Magic Mountain (Pinfari Zyklon, 1994) 3. Wild Mouse @ Luna Park Sydney (Hopkins & Pearce Wooden Wild Mouse, 1995) 4. Road Runner Roller Coaster @ Movie World (Vekoma Junior Coaster, 2000) 5. Big Dipper/Cyclone/Hot Wheels Sidewinder/Gold Coaster @ Luna Park Sydney/Dreamworld (Arrow Looper, 2001)

Using the image that @DaptoFunlandGuy posted of the construction site, it should somewhat be oriented like this even more scuffed edit attempts to show, slightly turned counterclockwise from the angle in the photo. As such, it'll almost kinda be turned to face Batwing Spaceshot, which might look a bit weird if they're both painted completely black. That said, maybe a dark blue or purple (not pink like DCR, I mean like a midnight purple) could work, Purple would work for a Bizarro theme, and Blue might work for a Darkseid one (had to google that guy, but I think he's in the Justice League movies so he could be recognizable enough). If they do choose to make it completely black, though, they could theme it to an equally-critically panned movie as Green Lantern was, Black Adam.

I'd definitely go for TNT/an Orkanen clone. Looks like the substantially better layout, and EFM/KFF's also been said to be running super rattly as of recent.

I know that these are all minor nitpicks, and my opinion does not matter to Dreamworld, 'nor anyone working on the rethemed area. However, this is a forum for people that are way too invested in amusement parks to express opinions & thoughts on amusement parks, so: My issue with 'Serpent Slayer' lies with the entire ride's thematic choice, honestly I kinda like the look of the Roman (or, Atlantean) inscribed golden chariots. But that's just it, the entire theme of that ride (and only that ride) is Atlantean. There's the obvious blends of turquoise & gold, there's trident logos emblazoned on all the chariots & surrounding the base of the centrepiece, which in of itself is seemingly going to just be a Leviathan that's a darker shade of blue. In my opinion, it'd have been a much nicer choice, and one more fitting with the rest of the area, if they dove more into the actual animal kingdom rather than mythology. Example being, do a minor remodel on the centrepiece (removing the dragon-like head & scales), repaint it to be akin to a Yellow-Lipped Sea Krait, and give it the generic reef theme that most of this Ocean Parade expansion has. Just a couple different decals, maybe some modelled reef pieces here or there that blend into the ones at 'Seabed Splash', you could even keep the same chariot design so long as they became more dishevelled & overgrown with seaweed. An equally-nothing name like 'Reef Rumble' or something, and you're done.

If only it was at Phase 4, then Surfrider could've actually gone to SW lol

It might be that my definition is too simple, but IMO (and likely the thinking behind why it's being called a turntable in the first place) is that a 'switch track' is a whole section of track that moves linearly in one direction to be completely out of sync with the previous path, setting up another entirely unique section of track for that path, all while the coaster train is not locked onto either of the track pieces (i.e. 'switch track', it switches the track piece, examples being most coaster's paths to maintenance/storage, or ST's launch). Whereas a 'turntable' functions more like a 'transfer track/table', where it's function is to set the same section of track up to an entirely unique path whilst the train is locked onto it, and does so via pivoting instead of the linear movement of a transfer track/table (see the Gerstlauer example above for a 'turntable', and Blue Fire clones' maintenance/storage bays or Star Trek: Operation Enterprise's pre-launch sequence for 'transfer track/table' examples).

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Actually gagged when I watched that part

What section is that?

All you’d be seeing is it’s supports/the backside of the ride (in the only orientation where supports & track don’t collide with Surfrider itself), so it wouldn’t really look that cool onride, and it’d ruin views of Superman from everywhere else

Using a little bit of Google Maps 'measure distance' & crude editing, so it's far from irrefutable proof/evidence, but the actual ride envelope could only fit in there if 1 or 2 of Superman's footers are within it, but including entrance & exit lines it's nigh on impossible

Yes, but that animation was prior to Intamin's announced involvement, and the park undergoing construction (which, speaking of, IIRC footers for FF have been poured already). It's purpose was just to show a basic idea of what height, speed, and features (launch, cliff drop, section alongside racetrack) they had envisioned for the coaster. It's like trying to base the layout of Jungle Rush on it's concept art.

The coaster has been pretty much confirmed to be being designed by Intamin, and seems to be going ahead, but the theory was that it would be scaled down.

Or anything at Phantasialand

Pretty much the only way to realistically theme an outdoor coaster consistently well is to have it weave within/between a well-themed area. So if an area’s large enough and is built well enough around a coaster/the coaster is built well enough around the area, it could happen (closest example coming to mind being Velocicoaster, so if there was a chain to do it, I think Universal could). If you don’t have a well-themed area that large, or you fail to integrate it well, you’ll inevitably end up with bare fields, gravel, & concrete (which, to the credit of Rivals, isn’t quite the case due to the creek nearby). Incredicoaster being a prime example of this, as most of the layout isn’t integrated into the area at all, and therefore is mainly just spirals, concrete, & gravel.