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I think it would have been more popular in terms of visitation, just makes the ride sound that little bit more hardcore for potential visitors. Perfect nexus of a movie theme and appealing to visitors who love something "Aussie".

I checked this out yesterday afternoon. Basically no wait aside from the cleaning between cycles. The carvings and sculpts in the area look very sleek and high quality, but maybe the area is a little too modern and vanilla. If they were going for new Atlantis, it would have been cool if it had remnants of the old Atlantis that had been built over and modernised. The landscaping looks good. Not big on the bins. Lots of water everywhere, on the walls around the ride, but also at the queue near the head of the queue where you enter the ride the ride envelope, which actually causes a bit of overspray. The cycle is okay, but too short....It needs about one extra full revolution and a couple times where it stops and has you swinging to feel truly rounded out. By and large this will never have more than a two cycle wait, so they should not be afraid to run a longer programme. Not all fountains are in use, you can see silver/black holes in the pool floor for extra jets (much easier to see when riding looking down, this photo aint great) This place will be seagull city. They should add the brushes seen on a soldiers helmet but do it with bird spikes.

Just seems weird that they have gone to the effort of redesigning but they haven't shifted to vest restraints like every other manufacturer.

@HussRainbow87 why do Huss rides have such huge OTSRs?

I think some cycles are just preprogrammed Naazon, for example Doomsday has 3 (Pirate ship mode to 45 degrees, the current cycle, and then the intense version with extra inversions)

Did you grab any quick snaps on your phone?

Haha the loading doors look like seedy hotel room doors I love it.

Village Roadshow owns MW, WnW, SW etc

How come you're on here if you don't want to ride stuff?

Two actually? 2 are cities, one is a country, one is a continent.

The Beach would have gotten more slides, bush beast would have eventually closed, and a small coaster from an Italian manufacturer would have been installed. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

It looks like things are progressivley being added and fixed, eg tot doesn't have a launch track anymore.

Looks like it is updated again: https://wetnwild.com.au/park-info/maintenance-schedule Now it's just Surfrider and Black Hole closed. (plus the upcharges)

I don't know, i think the full experience should be offered right from the start of the school holidays. Boxing day openings only happen when September holiday openings get missed.

Haven't summer school holidays started. We're in peak season.

Why don't you want to go overseas?

Yes I have been on the one at Alton and Riptide at Knotts and both soaked you like a water ride, which I thought was unnecessary. So if the SW one just has near miss fountains like Talocan I'll be happy.

Sorry was just going by you saying you got Drenched when the fountains go full strength.

So then the answer is to build arenas facing south in Australia 🤷‍♀️

Do people really want to get wet on a ride like this? The fountains are cool as a near miss, but I've always thought it was weird you have to potentially put up with being soaked on a thrill ride. Storm Coaster and Battle Boats definitely fill that niche IMO. Plus I think Village might be shy about squirting water on a ride given the issues Surfrider had.

You can compare them in terms of getting desensitised to it.

It's the wrong type of water theme though, needs to sound more mysterious and dramatic given its themed around a sea monster. Spongebob music is too summery and upbeat, but might suit something like a family ride, or the reef themed area at Castaway Bay. It'll likely be something like this

Yes, you are right, both parks would have expected low cost kids promotional activities in the school holidays.

Yeah but they would need to have sourced suits very quickly if this was a "response" to Dreamworld. I think it would have already been planned.

Don't SW normally have Nickelodeon character apperances? Eg Paw Patrol more recently.