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Up to lock on Cork! There was also a whip on the end of the pedal that would stop the ride if a pedal was left down, ie a harness unlocked. Most arrow/vekoma trains used this same pedal system.

Projection mapping is cool but it's so common now it's really lost its WOW unless it's something earth shattering. As far as effort, something like the Disney Studios Christmas lights takes waaay more time and effort than projection mapping... For what it's worth. WWF would be amazing to do cool projection but is hardly practical for the focus of a night time presentation.

Yep you will notice the large parks like Disney and Universal use this process, disney are even much quicker, and rely on the in built safety systems that tell whether they seat is locked or not. Getting you to push on it is really just for your piece of mind. Rediculously enough just down the road (for example Knotts or SFMM) will have both attendants walk down the train, row by row, together verbally saying "check" as they pull on everyone restraint, just taking forever. Simply disney spends extra money on the restraint systems in order to speed up its loading process.

^^ No way in hell would any Australian insurer touch that!

I'm glad someone else gets it. Whilst our parks have built some impressive stuff in the past they still had relatively tiny budgets. Today the market has changed a lot, the public no longer values theme parks as the premium high dollar entertainment they once were years ago. This only leaves a certain amount of capital available for rides to be built. And like it or not, spending twice as much won't equal twice the revenue, our country is just too small and too isolated. We're fortunate to have 2 major attractions AND a huge parade opening on the coast this year, that's about the best we can hope for realistically.

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No as I was saying I expect if its a heat problem that it's in the control side of things as you suggest and not mechanical like metal expanding.

I'd say a heat issue is more likely components or motors overheating and tripping out because of some problem rather than the heat from the weather. That seems highly unlikely.

Finishes on the 18th? That's surprising, I would have expected it to go till closer to christmas.

Sounds like a routine fire call out to me from what you described, a false alarm, wouldn't be surprising with all the smoke around. Good spotting though, I too saw it and wondered if anyone else would have.

I'm not saying its the majority of people on these forums who prefer the 'new' movieworld, I'm saying it's the majority of the public, the ones buying the tickets at the front gate. Personally I'd prefer to see a park full of high quality immersive dark rides over coasters any day (give me 1 space mountain over 4 supermans) but the parks aren't for me, they are for the 'majority' and from what I see, the population at large just doesn't want that sort of park any more. Theme park management aren't stupid, they build what the market wants, not what they want.

I actually just flat out don't believe that multiple people are calling the park "Roller coaster world" and before anyone comments suggesting I'm calling someone a liar I just want to clarify and say that IS exactly what I'm saying. I don't believe multiple people are saying that without any provocation at all flat out. All I hear from families looking at the new ride is positive, and I'm talking about overhearing them talking amongst themselves, and not to me. The kids all want to ride it, the parents are all talking about how great it looks and I've seen no negativity AT ALL. I also don't remember a time every when families have said how great movieworld is to spend a day as a family, all I EVER remember hearing is how the park needed more rides and DW was better, now it's doing that apparently people aren't happy... hmmmm The park opened with little rides and mostly shows and experiences, people weren't happy and wanted more rides, something makes me think that people are never happy and just want to winge... oh yes actually that's exactly what they do. Look at other comments and see complaints about fright nights that you can't get on enough rides and it's just about theming and atmosphere, seriously, no one is ever happy.

It's called suspension trauma and it's caused by the body being trapped unconscious and unable to move the legs or faint into a horizontal position. When upright the heart itself is unable to pump blood from the legs up, it needs the leg muscles to assist. As long as you are not unconscious and can move your legs you will be fine for a long period of time.

^ doesn't mean it's not fun to read !

The green lantern just looks like such a more solid ride overall in its construction. The other looks almost 'cheap and nasty' but Green Lantern really does look great.

Have to watch again, I just heard Inverted coaster

I know some people were concerned at the article stating this was a stand up coaster... Rest assured this has been corrected, the TV commercial I just saw for it clearly stated it was an Invert

It's such a good looking ride. If any aussie parks were looking to add a traditional large full circuit coaster, I really think that would be the right direction to be going in.

1. Nemesis 2. Space Mountain 3. The Dragons 4. Xcelerator 5. Tatsu 6. Riddlers Revenge 7. Balder 8. Ghostrider 9. Superman Escape 10. Grand National the order of those is somewhat loose.

OMG are we next going to discuss the colour of green the beam along the pool will be painted? You'll notice the chopper on the deck of that carrier, it has a lot more moving parts than a damn ferris wheel. As for rust, Sea World has to deal with the salt factor all the time and the rides there do survive, true all of the fasteners must be stainless but that's pretty much the case in all the parks anyway. To address an earlier comment, economically viable doesn't mean it would make money in port, but the transport isn't practical, it means the entire operation must make money. Trust me if it was viable, Disney would have done it!

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The free locker system doesn't work. I've seen so many people get stuck when the time goes just over and their wallet is locked in the locker! And as for the comment on adding a rock wall or traveling ride... Could you imagine the outrage on this site if they DID do this! Just curious, how much did you pay to get through the gate that day Alex

With the 2nd best result ever... Given the diabolical weather of the peak period last year that's pretty darn good. To look at a single years result is pretty near sighted and doesn't give you a trend at all. But whether or not you which to have an objective discussion is of course up to you. Should I take by that logic that arranging enthusiast preview events for stuff like fright nights is the wrong track?

I actually completely agree with Joz... That's a very well thought out post and the thing about the infrastructure will be completely true.