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Rode Jungle Rush again today hoping last week’s issues were just a one-off, but the ride is honestly in a pretty rough state theming-wise after a year of continuous operation. In the switchback room, the audio is super quiet, out of sync, and usually cuts out early before the train is released. The waterfall mouth on the back wall isn’t working, and the gems no longer rise or lower depending on which loop you’re doing. Just before the turntable releases you, the train or turntable shakes pretty violently, something that definitely wasn’t happening when it opened or last week. It's just sad to see a ride of world class standards at opening slowly fading in effect quality however its not the first time we've heard this story. I suppose some slack must be given to Dreamworld as iirc the rides only had a total of 2 weeks of maintenance closures since opening. On another note the train was flying through the layout today, every hill gave genuine airtime.

14th and 21st mysteriously sold out today... coincidence they're both Sunday nights?

The event starts tonight and so far only 2 nights have sold out, I wonder if this will change today. Flash isn't listed on the open rides so will be interesting to see if that's open tonight and Superman Escape is still out of action. Another year, another underperforming VRTP event.

I don't believe this is possible. I think it might be due to the rockwork tunnel between the overbank hill and the loop and the rockwork between the midcourse and the twisted horseshoe roll clearance envelope. Taking a quick look at other blue fire clones none of them seem to have a max height.

Private Equity Baby!

It's scheduled to be open, but like last year could be pulled from the ride at any time (a day or two before).

This is a family event... Scoobys nostalgic. The typical family visit for the shows, entertainment and parade, while they're at it might as well take the whole family on Scooby.

White Christmas 2025 tickets are now on sale! This years event is mostly the same however the WoZ precinct is open at night! Superman Escape, Flash Speed Force and Scooby are missing from the ride lineup. With all these new rides open is 3 hrs really enough time to experience everything?

This is a strange change and I wonder if they're just trialing it during this off peak period. I thought they would've done it like the old virtual queue system to ensure they don't get astronomical wait times (2.5 trains every 10 min, 15 trains an hour, 30 people results in a 1hr queue). Wouldn't surprise me if they're making this free so they can introduce a skip the backwards queue fast track which would be more inline with the 20/25$ they charge regularly.

For anyone wanting the actual/more indepth details of the case it can be found here: https://www.queenslandjudgments.com.au/caselaw/qsc/2025/227

New Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster announcement Sunday, 26th October 4pm

Movie World's first batch of attraction maintenance for 2026 has been posted:

Its eh, not sure what I think of it yet. Numerous places on their website it disappears into the background... it needs an outline. The Gold Coast part appears when you scroll down Disappears again Looks a little out of place here... I think it looks weird mostly due to the logo now being longer, old one was a tighter curve and more compact. I assume this change would be less jarring if it was the same size as the old one and was a colour/font update.

Agreed, anyone that's spent time in that queue knows how awful it is. The exact same could be copied over to the ride, the station is exactly the same as Flying Dinosaur, stairs up in the middle of the platform and lockers located under the lift hill as you have to exit the ride that way. Flying Dinosaurs ability to have low waits and extremely impressive dispatches is due to no messing around with loose articles on the platform and that it can run 3 trains using all stations, whereas if HD is operating with three trains expect a long wait (it technically is)... Even briefly when Flying Dinosaur went down for 30 min ish, the ride was back up with one side of the station open still pumping out trains. I visited in Winter, most of the outdoor queue was shaded iirc.

It was like this in January 2025, it's a great system and works really well. It's the typical receipt paper material the size of a business card so stays in your pocket well, no point on the ride did I think I would lose it. A gripe I have with this park is the horrific sightlines... and the operations of Hollywood Dream, they should seriously use some of the gargantuan queue space for the same process as Flying Dinosaur (qr locker, metal detector then up to the station) which would speed up dispatches dramatically it's on par with VRTP operations each side due to the need to wand all 36 riders. Nonetheless it's a cool gimmicky ride but it's butter smooth. I didn't get to ride this earlier this year, it was closed for maintenance, but I've heard great things about the ride. When all seats are being used, the ride has insane capacity 1920rph.. so the wait never really gets over 30 min.

Space Fantasy is currently temporarily closed. Its running with an anime VR "SPYxFAMILY XR Ride" overlay that reduces the rides capacity by half (they only load forward seats)... definitely head there first. IIRC you must ride with the VR headsets on and your not allowed to take them off so unfortunately you dont get to see the amazing sets of the ride.

Sounds like the same thing as last year, a 3 month closure. The rides at the end of its life, I wonder how much time its got left... are they waiting for scooby to reopen? I'd imagine that these parts would be very very expensive due to the limited installations of the model, and it's back to back years now.

Sea World Spooky Nights are back for 2025! This year’s event will run from October 11th – 31st on the following nights: Saturday 11th, Saturday 18th, Friday 24th, Saturday 25th & Friday 31st. Looks to be almost identical to last year except Trident should actually be open this time...

What has gone wrong with Flash... seems like they're doing another train rebuild. (photos jaggs) I wonder if this is why SE is closed...

It's been like that since the teaser was released It's still open now... those lucky security people

The ride is manufactured by Sinorides, and appear to be a chinese company, with a very extensive portfolio. https://www.sinorides.com/360-large-pendulum-rides/ This seems like a complete accident and should be investigated extremely thoroughly because for the ride to snap like that, multiple welds and reinforcements have failed. (This is the smaller model of the ride, i'm assuming the one in the video is the same scaled up as there is a boxy panel covering how it attaches to the axel/swingy bit) The scope of these rides are very very different. One of them is a permanent fixed attraction and the other one looks like it could be moved to a different park each week. King Claw is manufactured by INTAMIN, whereas i've never heard of—and i'm sure no one here has heard of— Sinorides. Most of these gyro swings are manufactured by Zamperla and INTAMIN, both are very reputable companies in the Amusement Ride and Coaster Space. The new one opening at Six flags Qiddiya is Zamperla iirc. It won't stop me from going on gyro swings, I've been on a bunch and always felt safe. But everyone has their own reactions to events like these happening.

Indeed.. JWB Constructions Manager...

I know you know. I just posted that for the people that dont/didnt understand.

Movie World does, they have 7. One in the same spot as Steel Taipans and another 6 (one for each car) Excuse the awful photo (had to mess with the colours so you can see inside)... but it shows how this works, the 2nd wheels run on the metal railings and are pushed by the drive tyers and these are the wheels that run along the rails, the white wheels (hyperia's trains)

Another relatively quiet new coaster is also opening at USJ tomorrow! https://www.usj.co.jp/web/en/us/campaign/snoopy-festival#:~:text=July 18%2C 2025-,Snoopy's Flying Ace Adventure,-One of Snoopy's Its rumoured to be a Vekoma family coaster, but I don't think the layout is known. This is great for a park that desperately needs capacity.