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Yeah I thought you had left us permanently. Spelling and grammar have been terrible latley, pull out the red marker again .

I dont make rides like that becasue thats boring and makes the ride very square, Im a big fan of huge twisted rides, not something made out of pre fab. Using pre fab is a bit lazy and something beginners do. What more can you say about these unique rides, they're crazy, but I did once see a pic of a ride in China which was a coaster that had a cable that supported the car, and the car would actually go off the end of the track, RCT crash style, and swing back and foward, i,ll have to find a pic.

Well, we have a whole library of prefab elements so that can make things easier, but I have learnt how to make my own elements now so I dont need them. I personally think the track building systme should stay, Its a simulation game so I want the greatest amount of control possible. I wouldnt get to exited over RCT track importing, they are terribly rough and because the curves up to slopes are set, the Gs become too high. Its much more enjoyable to make your own. One feature I really want in V 1.5 is the ablity to rotate in orthogonal views, when you build stuff that goes diagonaly across the map it becomes distorted in the side views, so we should be able to rotate along the X axis, while keeping everything in the same scale to assist in buliding these track sections.

Yes, but i dont think riding it again will be of much interest to some, Im looking foward to making some good shuttles, but I think that people will just start making heaps of them instead of the more traditional kind of coaster on coaster sims because they would be easier.

Yeah, It didnt really hurt for me either, but thats because I had my hands on the metal so my head wouldnt hit, which kind of meant I couldn't enjoy it as much as how it would have been with lap bars.

Yes, you will be able to, but they are being mean and including all the obvious shuttle coaster recreations (eg Boomerang, Impulse, Deja Vu etc.) with the game so I guess we will have to come up with our own.

Yeah, exept there the bars have no padding on the side parts.

The best stratergy would be to put a big evil fiberglass lobster at the entrance so It would fit in with ocean parade . But maybe it will work if they make it very seprate from ocean parade, the easiest way to do this is face the sign toward central plaza and maybe do gardens that match with central plaza. I still think my Mayday Idea is better than what they came up with. Oh well the ride is still gonna kick.

I rode a version of that at the Shepparton show but it had OSTRs, it was the worst dose of headbanging I had ever had, especialy when It does the side to side part of the cycle. Never again.

A zero G is very different to an inline twist. You got an inline twists definiton right, but a zero g roll is a heartilined twist in the track at the peak of a hill. Zero G: http://www.rcdb.com/pictures/picmax/six-fl...on-coaster3.jpg Inline Twist: http://www.rcdb.com/pictures/picmax/superl...and/kumba12.jpg The element you described as a zero g roll is acutally a barrel roll: http://www.rcdb.com/pictures/picmax/sarkan...rk/tornado5.jpg Prehaps you need to look at this site: http://www.coasterforce.com/info/inversions.php

Not that I know of, It has a roll over (Sea serpent roll) sidewinder and a double inline twist (double spin). No Australian coasters feature Zero G Rolls

I was looking on the net and I came across the website for prehaps the worlds most unique ride manufacturer. A couple of their rides include a water ride with some pretty good airtime and a self service coaster (if you dont belive its a coaster then check out this link . There is also a kids ride with inversion I want one in my backyard . Edit : the site is wierd, every page has the same URL, just click on "products"

Hey Joz, I was just looking over your SW site (fairly good site) but one thing that made me laugh was the disclaimer:

I thought they were called a tear drop loop or a clothoid loop.

A far cry from the professionalism of this site , but what is with all the slashes that pepper the captions?

Were you drinking red cordial when you wrote the captions for the pics?

They dont make loops that are perfectly circular because the G force is too high. The only exeption is on some of Schwarzkophs transportables which have them, but they are arranged in pairs and classified as parralel loops. anyway, the point I was making was that no matter what kind of loop it is, they are still classified as vertical loops.

They're all still vertical loops.

cool, glad you enjoyed it, but with the coaster elemets you have experienced, when have you been on a zero g roll? and what is the difference between a 360* loop and a vertical loop?

Are there any sea animals that have claws, the only one I can think is a crab, but thats a stupid animal to theme a ride around. Why on earth did they have to put a ride in Ocean parade that is nothing to do with the ocean?

Please re type your post so It makes sense. I dont think you will miss too much, If its being packed into containers now then shipping is still going to take a while. One thing that got me si the fact that they are being made in Germany and Austria, where exactly are Ride Trades' factories? I thought they would be being made somewhere in Switzerland or Lichtenstien.

Yeah, thats what I was thinking, Melbourne and Sydney really have un tapped theme park markets so I thought it would make sense for them to have a go at an easier market then a competitive Asian one. Plus I imagine they would know more about what Aussies like then Singaporeans.

What do you guys think?

Yeah, I agree if it were only just a smaller selecion of existing attractions then I doubt anyone would really be compelled to visit, especially since everyone in Sydney has had their last visits and If they saw an ad saying Wonderland had repopened they would be like "Nah I went there a little while ago and Its smaller, so why bother" It would be better if someone else built one somewhere else, maybe at Olympic Park and made it a Theme Park, Not an Amusment Park. The simple fact is that there are 4 million people in Sydney and a theme prk would be totaly viable if it were done well enough. But in the mean time just let ING do whatever and wait till someone else can come up with something better. I think there is little point in just getting an unpopular park and making it smaller, Those who visited it lots and were attatched to it would like it but everyone else probably wouldnt and If they did this Mini WL it would probably just go bankrupt.

LOL, good observation, but you know a deal like that wouldnt actually be too bad in real life, A whole month or so of DW for just tagging along with someone. Maybe that typo is something you could send into Choice Magazines' "The Hard Word" section. Things are pretty slow at the moment but the footers for Gyro Swing 1 would have cured by now, when are things going to go vertical?