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Its pretty ridiculous to carry on about Christmas crowds at any of the parks. This has been the case for more than 20 years.

That is very nice that he took time to respond directly, but more importantly agreed with you on the choice of music. These are the subtle unquantifiable items that make a huge subliminal impact on guest experience.

Absolutely right! Which is why it is just such a shame all that whimsy is erased by running that god awful lighting sequence which makes it look like a piece of tacky carnival crap. I just can’t understand why you’d go to all that effort with the extra detailing, lovely buildings, fountain, etc and then balls it at the finish line with those lights.

But the park has always had roaming characters 😛

That's a great find on the 1998 photo! This somewhat peaked my interest given I knew they raised the roof but then I went looking and couldn't find any real evidence of such a thing. Sadly google Earth only went back to 2002 so happy you pulled that above photo. Are there more from other years? I did have a look though over at Movie Park because they had the exact same building setup (apart from roof material) from their Gremlin's ride and in their refit used the same building as original so you can see on this comparison that the buildings there are all one height. Bit of fascinating park trivia and I 100% recon this would have been another one of those ways to make a project more economical back in the day with loopholes and cleaver constructions hacks.

Whist this is being done by one of the best content creation companies in the business I can’t help but feel it’s an odd choice. Surely what the market wants from Luna Park is nostalgia and throwback real world experiences in a world class location. Same same virtual projection worlds that are already everywhere just seem really off brand.

Be interesting to see what theming they have in store and who is designing/implementing it. There’s only a handful of people with the specialised skills to do it properly and haven’t heard a peep of this project from any of them.

For the love of god please don’t let a single one of those hideous colours see the light of day (or night!). The ride will look elegant and spectacular with lighting sequences of all warm white colour mimicking the incandescent festoon globes of old. Hopefully they resist the temptation to put it in Full Kebab Shop mode and run awful colours on it (the above video is just testing so judgement reserved until it is finished).

100% a new gondola system with a mid-station at the castle and then continuing to the resort!

Info about Fright Nights are good to post in this thread. A pissing contest over who knew things first and the definition of such is not Thank you for visiting

Agreed! Stop going on about putting a hazer in there, the worst idea ever. Go back to you camera mate.

@Dean Barnett you’re an idiot. To be exact the machines in use are a Look Solutions Cryo Fog. @Gazza is right, you can see one of the tanks down below the brake run. @DaptoFunlandGuy of course there could be a manual control but a) ride ops are there to focus on safe ride operation, not operate show elements b) the goal (and what happens) is to have the ride dispatch as soon as its ready so you don’t want them ‘waiting for fog’ any more than waiting for a video. Fun fact, the fog actually triggers from a station attendant dispatch button so there is a tiny bit of time before actual dispatch of the train from the main panel. Thus concludes my Dean schooling for today.

The very nature of Low Fog/CO2 effects is that they are quick dispersing. The last thing you want is it ‘filling’ the station. The real issue you have at Leviathan is the small amount of time between the Dispatch command and the train rolling out. This doesn’t really give enough time for the effects to start flowing and be effective.

Problem is their fan base gets smaller after ever ride.

Wow! And this is what happens when you slowly water down the clout imagineering has in the parks, you end up with 'GC Style' in Disney parks 😛

It's so easy I already 'designed' it for them. Just confused why construction hasn't started yet? 😛 https://www.parkz.com.au/forums/topic/9325-dreamworld-general-park-update-april-2021/?do=findComment&comment=189841

I would think the best look would be some whimsical style artwork as a mural on that fence depicting what is to come for the area. Maybe that’s in the works?

Leviathan’s lights do already follow the train. However as the train’s eyes light up the lights actually turn OFF on the structure as it passes by as the park wanted the effect of a ‘shadow’ of the creature and to emphasize the train lighting. No it doesn’t provide the same effect, it probably has more impact given the scale of the structure. However currently that’s not the program that’s in use as the park wanted what’s above. But I’ve seen it and it looked great. It could also easily be incorporated into any shows on the lake.

Has a nicer ring to it than Memorial Factory in Coomera though

Of all the insanely moronic ideas you've proposed this is by far the worst. Which pool of specialised ride mechanics will they pull from for this exactly? And yes, let's incentivise people with money to have rides open that shouldn't be (the only reason they are closed is because they require maintenance)!

It’s got to be one of the best and most thrilling rides in the world, why change a thing? Good on them for investing to keep it running for years to come!

I mean to be completely fair they 100% would have felt Covid roll on effects on this project. Firstly they are dealing with construction trades which have stupid high demand so even getting them is half the battle. But secondly, we kinda know they ran into unexpected issues/items that needed to be addressed on the tower/ride as they went through the process. These would have likely meant they had to start from scratch on whatever these were in a post Covid environment. So as much as someone might like it, for sure they would have had Covid related delays and we do just need to accept it.

I feel like Lightning Rod was a victim of a marketing dept with too much say. In a rush to be the first/fastest/whatever it was wooden launch coaster they forgot to stop and think if a wooden launch was a smart idea. Ultimately the track design was also terrible, but had the launch problems not existed (remember it actually caught fire! - 1 day before I was going to ride) the track issue would have seemed much more minor. It was an amazing try, and for the lucky few that got to ride it an amazing coaster, but a lesson in the perils of trying to push the limits.

I don't know any more than any other Joe Shmo on what maintenance the coaster needs and why. But I'm smart enough to work out that not one single other ride exists that fits all the categories of this thing once you consider what it is, what it's made of, the location and the fact it sits in a different regulatory framework than anything else out there comparable. So yeah I put it in a box of 1, because it is in a box of 1. I'm also smart enough to know it's not good business to keep your star player sitting on the bench, so if the ride has a certain amount of maintenance, it must need it. I fail to see why a comment like "I'm keen to know why", basically implying someone isn't prepared to accept that it's ok until they have been given what they feel is satisfactory information, is warranted. For me if the park says "This is how much maintenance it needs", which it has by scheduling it, then that's all the information I need. As someone who is no expect in the maintaining of a high speed wooden rollercoaster in Australia in 2023 who am I to question it? As for rusting... well wood doesn't rust, but it sure does bend, warp and rot, and there is also a hell of a lot of metal holding that whole thing together.

But as I said… how many of these ‘several others’ or ‘everyone you can think of’ are located with ‘Ocean’ on two sides and in a sub tropical Australian climate? The answer is none, so not sure why it makes any sense to compare what is happening here with any other coaster. Its not like the park would WANT to have it’s drawcard attraction closed any more than is needed.