taronga

Unless a person works there i don't see any need for more than one day. If you spent the whole day from open to close - it should be more than enough time.

I have an idea to resurect Intensity, not as an arcade but - in the style of Sega World or DisneyQuest. Wouldn't that be cool for WVTP to have a few mini Movieworlds in each major city (excluding Brisbane because they have the real thing close-by).

Since when has a carnival been regarded a theme park?

I know it's not big here but who would like to see more halloween type events / attractions in Australia, either in-parks or stand-alones.

It looks like a rather small top hat compared to Xcelerator!

I think there's not enough to do in a park this small to be classified a 2 day park, it needs a major expansion in terms of rides and attractions (possibly double what they have now and it could be). Please reply in a positive tone!

I doubt it will have any impact, WnW will always be no.1 in Australia.

I'm sure they could have better spent their money, rather than mirror clone an existing slide or 2.

I remember they had an article on it - in their own members newsletter.

But does anyone know why it wasn't approved?

I don't care where they put it (if ever built), as long as we get one in this country i'll be there!!

Does anyone know what happened to Intencity?? I know that they still operate small arcades, but whatever happened to the indoor theme parks they had - did they go bust or was there something else to it?? And yes i am aware they are still owned by WVTP.

Are you speaking in basic ENGLISH because i can't understand you???? :confused:

What happened to this place?

Does anyone know how the progress on this coaster is going? Any photos yet?

Diannasaurus : Your wrong its not funded soley by government that's what corporate and private sponsorships are for, & its no different from any other park, also if you know history so well you'd know that the zoo was moved from Centennial Park to Mosman. The ZOO is the THEME of the PARK: = theme park

We do have enough of population but no-one is willing to give us (the riders/guests) the type of attractions we want see or experience which forces us to goto foreign parks for the better thrills. :mad: I'm not saying that we need pointless towers or anything like that... but one of these parks needs to spend money to make a top notch ride instead of wasting capitol on shows ala Wonderland style. Look at Taronga Zoo for example: they spent something like $40m on redeveloping an existing area to make something new and really good, using money from sponsors and private investment. Why can't other parks do something similar to make new attractions?

That's my exact point though, you'll never find something with that type of thrill factor here in Australia - unless you find someone like a foreign investor to build it because no-one else will. But this is the sort of stuff Australia needs & is lacking badly.

I was mainly refering to ride technology - compare our best coasters (for example) to those in foreign parks. Theirs are much higher and have more elements & inversions (eg. looping wooden coaster, drop coasters, giga coasters etc.), all we have are a few good coasters that are fairly plain in comparison. (no offence intended) I also consider flat rides on the ground weak compared to rides that sit up 300m in the air, as i have been on the rides @ Statosphere tower.

If you don't agree just say so, but look at the facts most of Dreamworlds & Seaworlds latest attractions are kid friendly. The only park left with decent rides is Movieworld. Australia needs more dark rides!!

By the photos on AussieParks.com, it looks like another mammoth - just by comparing the slide in the background.

Who else would agree that most of Australia's rides are aimed at kids, compared to the bigger, faster, longer, thrill rides in overseas parks (eg. you'll probably never see anything like Stratosphere X Scream in Australia) or decent coasters?? :eek:

I have seen the new Dreamworld ad on tv about wiggles world, just wondering have they completed the ride or did they use a mock set.

Does anyone remember Sunways plans for the park announced around 1995 or '97 - they were going to add a hotel and upgade the waterpark with a wave pool etc.?? If anyone has the original articles either from paper or video news, could you please link it to this thread??

Who cares? I wouldn't really call Titanic a ride - even though it was alright as the main attraction, but because this was the only so called "ride" it wouldn't be to difficult to make a bunch of high quality attractions with Fox theming. We already know of the Ice Age ride @ Moviepark Germany. I also remember when the news was first announced about Fox that they originally planned to build onsite of old Lion Safari / Animal World (whatever it was called) supposed to be like Universal Hollywood. This was years ago like late 80's - very early 90's.