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Well, I'd locate mine in melbourne on a site with some rolling hills so the coasters could be terrain coasters. It would have a B&M invert with an intense layout, a standup coaster, a nice woodie, a bright and colourful kids area, a very wet river rapids, a double space shot, a lake in the middle of the park and some good flats like a giant topspin and a zeirer star shape. It would be based on my park i designed and posted here a while back. And it would be a private company so i could have big new rides without shareholders getting in my way. I would also make sure each new ride being put in was better than what the GC was doing.

I have just stumbled across some layout pics For Hydra the revenge t Dorney Park http://www.dorneypark.com/public/inside_pa...rack_layout.cfm, It looks really cool, and it has 7 inversions, but no mid course brakes and no vertical loop, but it has a cokscrew that comes before a cobra roll and a "jojo" roll that comes before the lift hill. It also has a inclined dive loop, another B&M first. I wish I could head over to the states to ride this when it opens, it looks great. Hopefully it is showing the future of B&M coasters as some of their more recent rides have been very cookie cutter.

Its good to know a theme park nut who actually appreciates the ride got in ahead of some snotty nosed member of the GP. Have fun and make sure you tell us about it.

Oh whoops, I was under the impresiion it opened tonight, so how did you get in?

Its 8:15, so what was everything like, is it worth forking out the $15 for the right to pay more money to go on rides? Did you ride on the rainbow? Was mega drop mega fun? Are they travelling the Hard Rock other than to captial cities?

Why did you go making a thread without anything in it yet? why not just make the thread when the review was avaliable instead of getting my hopes up for nothing?

It wors for me, It looks rather cool just seeing the floor drop away like that. do you know why the ride can be ridden yet? the restrain looked like itwas working and testing looked fine.

I have seen the gallery and it looks really cool, they have done a really good job of the themeing, but how did they get the station wagon into the middle of the support? was it cut in half and put back together? I dont really like their explanation of why they didn't make it fit in with ocean parade, but I can live with it. BTW, with the shots in the gallery, is there a way to get the to open in another IE window?

If you are kken to expand your knowledge on all sorts of amusment ride related things, you cant go past www.coasterforce.com it has heaps of info and it is pitched at coaster newbies.

I was initially under the impression it was a flat ride maker where you could design your own rides using beams, pivot points, Hydraulic rams and motors.

Im suprised there is not more discussion on this "fantastic new attraction". Would the waterpark be able to fit a coaster in there?

What is it? I dont really want to DL it without knowing what it is.

They could also use cars like on a vekoma hammerhead stall, its the best of both worlds, foward lauch and foward drop.

What ones are the kiddie slides, I dont remember them, I just remember the big tower and the 2 slides with all the turns. Unless you mean climbing on the mushrooms and sliding off them, ah fun times.

what I sort of meant was having two stations and a transfer track, and having one station run a fowards pod and the other a backwards pod.

It would make sense for them to remove it as it would force people to go to WnW. It kinda sucked how it wasn't heated too.

Maybe they could convert the TOT to 2 pod operation, that would cut the queues and one pod could be faced in either direction.

Scooby Doos Silly Stix? What was that? A slang name for a drug?

Well, they dont seem to care about unpainted monorail pylons throughout the park so Supports wouldnt really bother them. An Idea could be a launch from a station near corkscrew, it would run parallel to the monorail, before entering a vertical loop and a nice wide turn around over the carpark (this would be ok, just see this pic:http://www.rcdb.com/installationgallery141....htm?Picture=35 ) There would be a bit of an up and down around the turn so it isnt so dull, then a couple of barrel rolls and a sharp drop would lead into a second launch (enclosed to keep things quiet and special FX to fit with the rides theme) then the track would enter an immelan that would be fitted so the exit from it would be between shark bay and the waterpark. Then it would go along between dolphin cove and bermuda, with a zero g roll thrown in, then there would be a corkcrew and a twist and turn or two to get the ride to the brakes and the station. If you were being extra safety concious, you could put nets in where you needed them in the park, but you could theme them as fishing/cargo nets with junk in them and fishing paraphanialia hung off them artfully.

Here are all examples of rides above paths, and these were just a small selection, you cant say you cant put a ride above paths becasue there are plenty of rides where this has been done. http://www.rcdb.com/installationgallery145...8.htm?Picture=1 http://www.rcdb.com/installationgallery962....htm?Picture=10 http://www.rcdb.com/installationgallery141...2.htm?Picture=9 http://www.rcdb.com/installationgallery160...7.htm?Picture=4 http://www.rcdb.com/installationgallery434...4.htm?Picture=7 http://www.rcdb.com/installationgallery13....3.htm?Picture=4

Here is a possible track for a flyer located on DWs island (BTW Rich, thanks for those dimensions, rather quite useful) A coulpe of things to note, switch to rail view and turn the camera downward (facing the ground) to get the proper flyer view, also, ignore the Gs in the lay down sections because those Gs are based on the inverted coaster position, not a flying position. The ride features include a 40m drop, overbanked turn, inline twist, half zero g roll and a high speed helix. Enjoy.

How high is corkscrew? Is it only 3 stories? Well, that kind of puts my idea completley on ice, but a tunnel would not be needed over the carpark, just have hulk style nets. I dont think the ride would bother guests too much, Cali Screamin is not too loud for those at the hotel there. As for the roadway thing, this pic of kraken shows how it is overcome. http://www.rcdb.com/installationgallery581....htm?Picture=18 So, we can pretty much wave goodbye to any tower attractions or an impuse, darn. But then again, height restictions never stopped anyone, maybe a dive machine? Another idea could be a flyer, with sort of a circumnavergal layout, with lots of nice turns and dips, lower speed and intensity i equals less sound, but you still get an interesting and enjoyable rride. Launches could be put in if it were a vekoma.

Yeah, a 16 passenger inward facing one made by Technical park, but lets not get sidetracked.

Is there a fence to jump to get into there, or can you get there fairly easily, but you are not really meant to?

http://www.rcdb.com/installationgallery1141.htm There is only one, but it is a good shot, the ride seemed to have this cliff face type thing on it.