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Argh it's you not 'u'. Don't use SMS speak on the forums.

Oh really? In what sense?

Page has gone missing, but it's always been in the T&Cs of the forums that you should type properly. Are you saying that school is the only place you bother to type properly? Besides, wouldn't it take the same amount of time to type "I saw them working on it the other day" (correct) as "I seen them working on it the other day" (incorrect) Why type the wrong thing on purpose ?

Harry Potter themed zacspin? What did you have in mind?

It probably would be a base coat or sealant, hence being a uniform white.

No. Zacspins are frigging amazing. .I want one (Or an S&S free spin)

Nah, the unknown Western Sydney park was from ages ago, basically when there was an ad in the paper or somewhere looking for investors for the project.

No that would be a marketing line. A "theme" is something that takes you away from the here and now...Eg when you ride storm coaster, you are supposedly not in Sea World 2014, but rather in a container port ravaged by a cyclone. When you ride Road Runner roller coaster, you are supposedly in a cartoony american desert environment. Some rides pull it off better than others of course. They have gone the opposite way, and repainted the rivertown buildings with a motor racing motif, such as the burger bar that is there. Ideally if they were set on V8 Redline then it should have been in this area, but I think for the purposes of corportate events and night time operations they put in in that corner with Flowrider. In this case, they wouldn't have bothered doing anything to the building if they weren't interested in some sort of continuity. What does Giant Drop fit into, being next to Rocky Hollow Gold Rush 'old' area? TOTs skull has always been a wierd one, right back in the days when Dreamworld was owned by a singaporean mob..It used to point towards the "village oval" area which was some sort of Swiss village. Now it kind of is just out on its own, and not in any area specifically. Is Rocky Hollow supposed to be some sort of frontier wilderness type area? Oil, logging and the like? Weakest effort of the lot though, and I'd love to see the GD building given a facelift.

I'm never going to be able to "unhear" that now that you've mentioned it. Mort, no, WWF doesn't have a story. It has very nice theming, but not a story. My notion of a story on a ride is that there is a premise which drives the ride experience and gives purpose to it, and it generally runs from when you join the queue right to the exit. Another way of thinking about it is if you can sum up the story line without merley recounting what happens on the ride. You say that we encounter bandits and they send us out backwards, but why were we encountering bandits in the first place? WWF is very nicely themed, but a chance encounter with some bandits, among all the other things that happen in the ride doesn't make a story line alone. Maybe if there was a premise in the queue that you were sherrifs recruits on the hunt for those particular bandits, and you kept encountering those same bandits throughout the ride, and everything that happened was part of that overall narrative you'd be correct (Eg it might be in Dodge city that the shootout is between the good guys and the bandits, and the bit at the top of the drop might be where you corner the bandits and they get blown to smithereens) Alas that it is not the case, the ride merely takes you on a bit of an adventure through various wild west related scenes. Something like Justice Leauge on the other hand has a story that is as clear as day. As soon as you walk in you see news broadcasts that aliens are invading, the Justice league calls on you to help, you fight the aliens and assist the justice league witnessing scenes of devistation, culminating in taking down the big baddie at the end, and finally finishing off with you being thanked for your efforts.

I'm still not understanding where this notion has suddenly come from. -Goldrush only has old time themed attractions. -Dreamworks Experience only has Dreamworks related stuff, and furthermore the 3 sub areas stick to their themes pretty convincingly. -Coroboree only has Australian wildlife and Aboriginal Themeing -Ocean Parade is mostly right....Should we just call it that the end where flowrider/Cyclone/Kevil Hill is it's own bit? I mean, it would be a bit like saying Alton Towers isn't a theme park because it has a ride called Air in Forbidden Valley, and Sonic Spinball just stuck out on the main path through the park. Rita when it was in Ug Land was a pretty odd fit at the time too. I think Richard has it right. It's not a very good example of theme park, but there are certain things they do that you probably wouldn't bother with at a basic amusement park.

It might not be a good theme park, but it's not like Buzzsaw would have gotten the theme it got if it weren't for some sort of acknowledgement of the themed area it is in....Have they come good since the days of stuff like V8 Redline? It remains to be seen, but the past few additions seem to have respected the themed areas that they are in.

I would have thought the best themed ride in Australia would be Wild West Falls...Which has no story.

Doesn't Storm have a board next to the entrance setting forth the story line? A Category 5 storm has just ripped through a port, things a calm due to you being in the eye, but the opposite wall of the storm will soon hit, so you have to get to the coastguard lifeboats to escape.

I've gotten plenty of good pics from the Skyway...It's a nice ride. http://www.parkz.com.au/photo/AU/Gold_Coast/Sea_World/2,3,2833-Feeding_Time.html

It seems to be more of a Proslide issue. Stuff by Whitewater West, and particularly Polin, fare a lot better. due to a different coating process.

You can do a quick test by saving and hitting File>Leave Editor. This brings you back to the main menu with your coaster in the background, then select play and you get the same wireframe test run like in NL1. Little bit wierd, but no need to muck around freezing the coaster and no loading time doing it this way.

Both places closed for the same reason???

Look who is featured on the NL website!

Why cant I ever get an interesting evac on any of our rides

Yes, the most important thing when it comes to picking out a roller coaster is whether it has locker hire or not.

loljk.....OOL doesn't have aero bridges.

If I were looking at the sequence of rides to put in at Jamberoo the next logical installation would be the Behemoth Bowl, followed by the Hydromagnetic, since WnWSyd has neither... The open air raft slide would make sense next too, and then perhaps finish off with the Tantrum (Though why are they planning a Tantrum when the Behemoth Bowl already has tantrum elements included in it?) Lazy River should be last really, since all it will do is add capacity....They already have a lazy river anyway, so it won't be a big motivator.

If I'm eating I like the Ricks Pizza Buffet ($20) or the Chicken Quesidilla & Beer from Dirty Harry ($16).

There has pizza (Meatlovers, lamb tzatiki, mexican, vege pesto, pepperoni, chicken supreme) , garlic breads, pasta (Bolognese, Cabonara, Napolitana) , salad (With ranch, southwest, french dressings etc), the cake, soft serve (Make m&m, marshmallow, sprinkles time), soft drinks and hot chips. It's like 90s Pizza Hut. There don't nuggets. I hope answering a question?

The only place where that might be viable is on that little straight with the small airtime hill. Even so, it just seems like such a poorly concieved layout...I just rewatched the Juvelen POV, and that ride seems excellent...Really mixes things up, goes up and down, has a few airtime hills, a few quick transitions between turns. Watch Juvelen Then watch Motocoaster, and you can see how Motocoaster just seems to be 'lacking'.