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Keen to hear what this soundtrack sounds like!

I can see a bit of Turbosquid in there.

https://www.thehotelconversation.com.au/properties/2024/10/24/townsvilles-proposed-550-million-waterpark-burgess-rawson/1729736199 https://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/about-council/news-and-publications/media-releases/2025/october/townsville-waterpark-site-gains-preliminary-approval This one has flown under the radar a bit. The site is here, looks like whitewater west job, with a wall runner family raft slide, aqua play, 180 degree flowrider, wave pool and all your usual body and raft slides.

I feel like it wants to be a hot air balloon like the Worlds of Fun logo. Can anyone find the old logo when it was called Alpine Toboggan Park?

A few photos from this morning including what appears to be a section of the old Dreamworld hot dog stand. Apparently the alpine coaster opening in November.

You need to find out what the ticket yield actually is. Eg a 3 park escape pass is $169, so that's already yielding only $56 Things like annual passes, if they spend $299 and visit every 2 months, the yield becomes $49 Im not sure how many one day ($109) tickets they would be selling to get the average yield up to $80.

Something to do with Village Key?

Is it called that because people puke on it?

Very simple design philosophy. Want the theming to look good? Make sure it's all written in the same design language!

The zipper is appearing at North Lakes from Friday. https://www.facebook.com/BNEthrillfest/

^The seats too!

What's the stall?

Is it just a replacement for the existing indoor Snoopy coaster?

Also if it doesn't go upside down, it means you get airtime at the top of the swing. It's the flat ride equivalent of this versus this:

Jungle Rush has been cloned at in Vietnam, if anyone wants to see how it all looks exposed. Looks so strange without a plane and car ride in the middle. But it would be a good layout for parks wanting to put flat rides or other stuff in the middle too. https://rcdb.com/22957.htm Photo Credit: https://www.facebook.com/VHCoasters/posts/love-it-when-a-coaster-goes-almost-completely-under-the-radarand-yet-again-its-i/1155512776615332/

DAE remember when MW had a Pokemon attraction, thereby proving Nintendo could be licensed to MW.

I dont mind the fencing they did on railblazer, though I'd probably put rust style thematic paint finish on the mesh: Big Grizzy Mountain looks good as well

You guys seen the cycle Toxicator runs? Does 5 flips at one point of the cycle !

No just has to be part of a theme park. Read the thread title. Picking some random pub several km is clearly not a theme park pub. It would be like picking a random McDonalds and calling it a theme park burger joint. AOS doesn't count because its a scheduled performance, has like 2 options on the menu. Nobody looks at AOS thinks its a pub you just go to. Skypoint doesn't count because the attraction itself is not a theme park / amusement park, which is why Scenic World was knocked out. This is just arguing in bad faith.

SW doesn't own the TGI Friday's site and its too far away. Dirty Harrys doesn't have pub food. Neither of those points pass the sniff test.

I didn't mean this to become a thread on technicalities but you leave me no choice dapto. - Banana bender pub passes the sniff test in terms of being a theme park pub. Its not inside the gate line, but clearly any sane visitor would eat there in preference. - ever since scenic World made it clear they're not building their roller coaster. They don't get to be called a theme park in my opinion.

So as far as I know, there are only three places in Australia where you can get a proper sit-down meal and beer in a pub/tavern style setting in Australia with table service. Considering the preferences of the Australian market, I find this surprisingly low number! If you have eaten at all three, which is your favourite? Also, if you think there is a place that should be in the poll, please tell me and I can redo it.

^In my experience I thought it was fine. Yeah I had to wait 60 mins a couple of time for rise of the resistance and for Slinky Dog Dash, but then on the other hand I got on pirates of the Caribbean in 10 mins. In fact, here is my trip report from 2023 I stayed at Magic Kingdom 9am-4pm and according to my trip report I took 16 rides on attractions. So that's more like 2.2 units of entertainment per hour. Granted I skipped the line on Tron and 7 Dwarfs, but even without doing that, 14 rides in 7 hours is still very good. I don't think I've ever had a day at a Disney park where I "only got on 5 rides all day". Statements like that are cope, they are well run parks.

So just on this, in the industry theme parks should aim to provide 1.5-2 Units of Entertainment per hour. That is, guests want to experience some form of attraction about every 30-45 mins On some days this will drop because "you cant design the church for Easter Sunday" and on certain days you'll get 2hr waits because its too expensive to build out capacity if you only get smashed a few days per year. But if a park is routinely getting 2hr waits on more than say 10-14 days per year then that might indicate there's not enough capacity for the attendance.

It's kinda cool to see this system deployed as intended.