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https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/gold-coast/seaworlds-50-million-new-atlantis-upgrade-delayed-for-third-time/news-story/614d1c75274e71df91d83ef3dccd9707 Paywalled so can't read it....

I mean the same can be said of Scooby, big box with lighting music and smoke, and I’m detecting a common thread between Space Mountain and Rock n Roll Rebel at Aussie World. It def makes it better. But I don’t know how that applies to what they are building, its not the sort of coaster that lends itself to fitting neatly in a box.

Yeah I did I'm just waiting to hear what MW would do in a similar vein to.

What did the park do with it?

Whitewater World 😍

Thats right

I dunno, I thought it was quite jarring having foghorn leghorn in front of a Wild West or Superman themed ride.

Im not sure what the confusion is? Building on the left is the station, building on the right is the maintenance shed. Has been this way for months. The rotating transfer track is pretty nifty though.

I'm old school, No more than 1 ride from any segment, and no more than 2 attractions closed at any given time.

https://www.aussieworld.com.au/special-offers So if you visit between the 1st of Feb and 6th of March you can win a chance to come back and ride Dingo Racer. So that implies an opening date probably from mid march onwards, or more likely the 1st of April for the start of the school holidays. People are on it at least in the pic, so presumably it has passed all the approvals.

Surprised for such a major coaster opening in a couple of months time that they haven't even released the rendered POV.

Did anyone read the comments on that post?

I mean, you could do some "cirque du mer" type thing that kids find boring if you were determined to do something just for adults. Personally, I think you can have a Carinvale type event with fountains and food etc, but Carnivale seems like the wrong underlying theme for SW.

Trident clearly.

Turns out the earthworks next to the Toboggan weren't the beginnings of the Alpine Coaster, it's a Zamperla Demolition Derby (Same as Patrick's Jellyfish Frenzy at SW) The new slide tower is just some columns at this stage.

Sorry dumb question but how do we know they are new trains?

Thanks for the update, but man you were so close to getting better shots of the whole attraction if you just turned the phone/camera fully sideways, you were almost there.

Does Goliath have them?

Many parks also follow AS 3533.2 which is more specific in many areas.

Here's all my photos from my visit: https://www.parkz.com.au/search/photos/location/luna-park-sydney

WWW is contemporary Australian surf culture themed, but its not really the pure quintessential "Aussie" theme if you catch my drift, but more of a tangent. Like if you were EPCOT and doing an Australian themed section in the world showcase, it would likely look a lot more like Paradise Country than WWW (Buildings with big verandahs, windmills, bush rock etc) than something like WWW. Other parks with Aussie themes (Aussie World, Gumbuya etc) seem to be more similar to the Paradise country style too.

Yeah but its still a gate on the Gold Coast. All that waffle about bundles of passes doesn't change that. And didn't WWW have Nickelodeon at one point, if we're talking Aussie purity?

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I don't think the park needs any sort of "theming", as @GoGoBoyhas said the way things like Volare have been done are perfectly adequate for the park, but yeah things like the temporary barricades instead of proper queue rails just seems needlessly cheap. I was thinking they could arrange alternative access via the lift in the Big Top foyer (presume it has one?) and then up the exit, but then the exit has steps as well so 💁‍♂️ Granted the ramp would be too steep for independent access, but a staff member would be assisting anyway and it would be better than nothing: ******************** I headed down to Sydney and rode this on Saturday. To echo everyone else, yes it shakes a lot, except in the front, and I put this down to how light the trains are. In the station if you rock in your seat side to side you can get your car to jiggle, so theres def a bit of play in the wheels. Likewise every time you pass over a friction wheel the whole car bumps up. Seats are comfortable, surprised there is no back up seatbelt, but echoing Doms comments that you could get struck by the harness opening since it springs open so quick at the end….It doesn’t raise up gently like on Superman or Rivals etc. First launch starts steady and then suddenly kicks right at the end into the turn. The dips feel like the start of Steel Vengeance or Twisted Collossus, with random little bumps and twists. 2nd launch is spirited, with a good bit of force in the loops, but some definite shaking at the bottom of the loops. The top of the non inverted loop doesn’t have the same ejector DC rivals have. Overall, the transitions and track design are well done, no sudden neck snapping moments or anything like that. I was worried being a compact design that might happen, but really its just the cars themselves making it bumpy. The airtime hill has a good little moment of ejector. The s bends are cool because theoretically this is the ideal coaster for heartlining, so you actually feel your bottom swinging outwards with each bank in the track. The turn dives under the bridge (which looks like those freeway footbridges with barriers to prevent rock throwing, but the holes are big enough to poke your phone lens through for photos) and then you go up and over the station entry stairs, and its actually very close in terms of clearance, surprised there is no netting. The corkscrew is drawn out, with a moment of hangtime at the top, then as you come out is a super close near miss with that first turn after launch #1 Hit the brakes and the ride is done. I did about 8 laps, including the back, and twice in the front. Try and get a front row ride if you can. It was quiet for a Saturday so I rarely waited more than 1 or 2 cycles. As for Boomerang, so smooth in every way, not just on the track but even when it stops and changes direction there is not a single lurch, it has been finely programmed. The helix on the reverse trip is quite dizzying.