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Yeah, That will be great, or you could just copy and paste the text (if you emailed them) If you didnt email, just type it up, it will take less time to load than an image.

I dont think ill be able to go, Partly because my parents wouldnt let me go to Sydney alone, Partly because of money, Partly because of accommadation, Partly because our family just went up to sydney last year. Oh well, Hope you guys have fun, take lots of photos of everyone together at the meet. Wish I could go though and have a fun day out and meet other enthusiasts. Edit: nope, definitely cant come, Im working.

Maybe someone who lives on the gold coast could just go to the shire offices and check the planning apllications, they should tell where the ride will be located. Also, does anyone know how long it takes to put a flat ride together, Im guessing a Month or so, But i may be wrong. That brings me to another question ,Why dont the parks open their new attractions on the first day of the Holidays, Instead of part way through, (Boxing Day) If the ride is there at the start of the holidays it means more visitors, and people planning a trip wouldnt have to hold off till after Christmas to ride the new ride. Oh and about the GD gondola being taken away for refurbishment, It would be cool if thye replaced it with a floorless stand up gondola, Another "new" attraction with a lower price than a whole new ride.

I wonder what the old guy was expecting to get around SW? Walking is to be expected on a day out and people still complain. I wonder if the old guy complains if he goes to a shopping center, where there is no monorail etc. WL is pretty big, but they could have easily solved the problem by building a park transit system, and if that was too much trouble the could just have a bunch of those tractor train things like the one they already have. Those people who complained are party poopers and Id hate to know what would hapen if they visited disney or something, Would they ask for disney land to be smaller? As for the guy who complained about the drink, He would have been totaly screwed if it were a bottle.

It would be cool swinging out over the water, but what happens when the paddlesteamer goes past? Maybe if it was placed so it swings parallel to the water. I cant wait for it to be built, I cant remember the last major flat we got.

Oh, one of those, (Light bulb goes of in head) Its like that trasnsportable ride, The Mattehorn. They are a pretty fun ride.

What was tasmanian devil? Was it a good ride and where was it located? I have tried to find pics but I cant. My guess is that it was some kind of spinning ride.

Are you going to rainbows end? I might be going to NZ at the end of this year. A couple of questions.. Do you need a passport coming from Australia? Do you need any special driving licences or is an Australian licence valid there? On the luge, how do they take the little car things back to the top?

When BD was operating and the residents were complaning about the noise, I wonder why they didnt just put sound tubes around it , like on california screamin'. It could have given the ride a cool experience. Also, what was river caves? Im guessing an indoor boat ride but i may be wrong.

Cool, the new site is gonna look cool, It kind of reminds me of www.coasterforce.com

I cant get the image to work.

richard, Arrow does not do all of their own work, The Big dipper was made in Newcastle.

I think they are teaming up to make better Knex Coaster Models. A ride like Mr Freeze Could be done fairly easily with Knex.

cool, How big was the Knex Pack you won. also, was the knex activity popular on the day, maybe if it was they could open a knex activity zone in the park, just another cheap thing for them to open...

so did anyone end up going? If anyone could post a couple 'o' pics it would be appreciated.

It depends what you mean. If all the animals suddenly went with the park as it is now, I think it would die because it would have not enough to do in comparison to other parks, People usually go to SW to see animals and it would suck without em. If you mean seaworld In its location, but with more rides instead of animals, I think it would work because of its nice location.

Its not gonna put any rides in jeopardy if it doesnt get built so its no real issue for us visitors.It will still be popular without it. i can kinda see where the aparment owners are coming from, I mean they've paid $10 000 000 or whatever for a shoebox, they'd want good value, maybe if it(the office compelx)waw redsigned it would be ok.

Only after a few sucsessful runs, but they would shut the ride down anyway as its a serious problem, unless it was to do with getting the brakes open

Andy, Just read the help file, It tells you how to make a simple coaster, you can then expand on that.Try using the premade elements, They can be useful, especialy when making cobra rolls.

Id like to see a standup because its something original in Oz and peole will think its cool that you get to stand up. But the ride I really want to see is a flying coaster because it would be so cool to be able to have one of those here, and again, Its new, its different its unyewsuall . For non coaster attractions, id like to see a ride like perilious plunge type ride, water rides are alway popular and it would work well in a marine themed area. A cool flat would be a Huss topple tower, that ride would be insane.

Maybe when Im older I should start a consortium to build a big park, I had a go at calculating the cost and it came in at around $300 000 000. (It was a big park with around 6 coasters) It would be pretty viable because if its there, people will go. I cant imagine people just having a big park in their city and not going to it. Back on topic, I think wonderland could do a bit more with the marvel contract, even a couple of flats with names like "Spideys web spinner" or "Incredible hulk rage" would be ok. that would give them more of an exuse to rhapsodise about it. I wonder why people would pay $50 to see costumed characters at a park when you can see them free at a shopping center. I would go if there were new rides and stuff. Also , wonderland might have to pull something out of the hat soon with luna park opening, but then again, thats just crazy talk on my part.

They could put it outside the park somewhere, That way people would be able to go on it whenever they want, but even then, It would probably be more viable to just get a plot of land somewhere and just whack down a couple of rides like it and have a mini golf course, like what is on the gold coast. It would work well in view of a main freeway. I remember there was once was a bungee place near the Western Ring Rd / Hume Fwy interchange in Melbourne. Yay 50 posts.

Well im not complaining, A frisbee sounds like a cool ride. It is sort of a major ride, just look at the size of the one at PKI, Its gonna stick out like a sore thumb! It would sort of make sense for DW to buy one, with its high visual impact, good capacity and broad appeal.

I Think both Sydney and Melbourne could support large theme parks, People may not neccisarily come just for the parks, but seeing a large park may encourage people to come not just for the park, but for a whole holiday. Melbourne has a few "Adventure" parks around and they are usualy pretty busy whenever you visit, so why couldnt they support a big one, It would be really popular. One thing that suprises me is our lack of waterparks. All our capital cities should have one (Exept for Hobart because its too cold and darwin because its not big enough ant its too far away) And we are a nation of swimers and sun lovers and everybody likes going on waterslides, plus you could get a park with 20 or so slides up and running for under $10 000 000 so i wonder why no one has entered into this fairly untapped market.

Thats why I siad as another option they could remove current slides and replace them with a dense group of slides. Doing this wouldnt be too costly, and they could dub it as an all new attraction, or even a new themed area, Maybe what they could do is have a main tower and have 8 or so slides winding tightly around the tower into exit chutes. Then have a lazy river circumnavigating the tower.