Gazza

I remember for my birthday getting No Limits 1 and it took like 3 hrs to download 20mb

I wonder with new Big Dipper if they could have just had the station and first launch combined, Motocoaster / Jet Rescue style. Anyhow, I'm predicting they will build something like this for the station:

"Give in to your feeeeyuh"

The show was basically a sandwich, good stuff, bad stuff then good stuff. The one thing I didn't mind about it is that normies in Australia now know about both Action Park and Cedar Point

I have done Star Trek: Operation Enterprise which is Mack with a twisted spike, the launch isn't as powerful as Blue Fire (which I had written a few days prior) but bear in mind Star Trek has a lower top speed anyway. Its not as crazy as the launch on Superman, but it still feels respectable, and going up the spiral gives a bit of airtime and lengthens the ride time.

Isn't Turbo Track just a boneless Impulse coaster?

One thing I noticed about Joypolis is that there wasn't a whole lot of traditional Sega (Probably why they used "Joypolis" as the brand and not "Sega Joypolis". They had Sonic and House of the dead, but the rest was either generic ("Halfpipe Tokyo, Storm-G etc) or simply popular Anime attractions and walkthroughs (Attack on Titan, Ace Attorney) and even non Sega (Zero Latency VR, Transformers)

Like, literally a few posts above are construction pics where they have temporarily removed some of the toboggan track to allow that feature to be built.

Glad we cleared that one up.

As far as I know that's like a calibration jig from memory?

How come LPS don't offer higher rates as a sweetener to attract staff?

I'm currently over in WA and I think I understand where the inspiration for the new Atlantis came from.

If its standard 2 person rafts, why do you need a conveyor? I can't think of any other water parks that use them.

I find that an odd mindset. Buses to the parks run every 10 mins, or every half an hour in the middle of the day. If several cars a minute are going past the parks, then what difference will taking away one bus every 10 mins make in the scheme of things really?

Yes TOT was LSM but with 1995 tech not 2021 tech. ...... Looks like the same train shells as Helix and Icon are being used

I wouldn't worry too much about the rendering, It has other inaccuracies like the track and support colour being wrong, the trains likely to not be hot wheels themed, the big dipper entrance not being bright blue etc etc. I'm sure you'll be able to get under the track just fine.

How do you know though? It could well have special themed suites, as a lot of theme park hotels do. Hotel V.....I'm not sure if that name will will be a goer in the end, It's literally one letter below a competitor:

Aren't all of Luna Park's ride names pretty average and generic, since always? Come ride "Rotor" or "River Caves" or "Flying Saucer"

I ended up waiting a little over 3h for Soaring: Fantastic Flight but that's cos they lied and said the wait was 120 mins, but to be fair the ride was only 6 months old.

You invest based on your "design day". https://www.theparkdb.com/blog/peaking-theme-park/ There are some days per year where you will be over that, but that should be like 20 days per year max.

Yes, its not as simplistic as 'guests either go on rides or spend money in shops" and operators/designers do not try to "balance" those behaviours. As Rappa points out, guest satisfaction / entertainment is still the core product, and for that there are definitely some good quantative metrics used by industry leaders that design or operate parks to ensure that the average visitors does enough "things" over the course of a visit to feel as though, at the end of the day they got their moneys worth (It varies by the type of park) Guests that are being fed a good stream of entertainment will be happier and spend more, and linger longer and spend more. If they're not having fun they'll go home early. Excessively short queues are only a problem insofar as that you might be over investing and spending too much running a park that doesn't need all that, but if a visitor is experiencing 1 hour waits per ride, you can definitely say they won't get enough entertainment in their visit and investment in capacity is warranted (Eg extra trains, new rides etc) Edited just now by Gazza

Yeah, Blue Fire is mental, they can have two trains in the station, 1 in the dark ride / launch and 1 on the course.

Because this will only have two trains so there won't be a need to stop a train there, and I think the stairs just come with it by default. It still needs to have a trim brake there since the latter half of the layout is designed to be taken at lower speed. 3 train models have a set of pinch brakes. 2 train models omit them, and note no air boxes for the brakes either.

*trim brake, not block zone on this model.