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I just think there is a middle ground for family entertainment between "Going Bowling or to the Movies" or "Going away for a few days to the GC" It's not necessarily about "value" per day, its about cost in absolute terms, and time. For me, 3-4 weeks in Europe or America works out better value per day than flying to Sydney or Melbourne for a long weekend as well, but I'll still do the long weekends because I don't always have weeks spare or several thousand $$$ available for a bigger, but better value trip.

I can see where you are coming from, but it would be $400 in flights for a family of 4 (If you fly at 11am on a Tuesday) and 90 mins flying (If you ignore the time taken to drive and check in to the airport) still makes it more of an undertaking. I think people do drive if the park is worth it, Jamberoo and Gumbuya demonstrate that, and heck its an hours drive for most of Brisbane when heading to the GC parks. At the very least, I'd think the Central coast area could support a water park, and the case may improve if the HSR to Newcastle is ever built. As for a dry park, yeah with Sydney being so expensive, it would probably be out at Bradfield, but fortunately since Sydney has expanded westwards, its now closer to more people than Wonderland was when it closed.

Another video; This video has a more in depth look

But if you increased the height of the top hat, all other elements would be taken too fast.

It's always Werribee 😍😍😍

Due to open June 8th https://snowbrains.com/thredbo-mountain-resort-australia-announces-opening-date-of-new-alpine-coaster/

@Dean Barnett have you ever read AS 3533.1. I ask because that would answer a lot of questions as to why things are done a certain way in Australia exclusively.

How you explain family Boomerang coasters. They are more or less 50-50 forwards and backwards? Besides, as per the original announcement: And the website: When?

Personally I like the trolley system where they come down the train, but for it to work there has to be extra dedicated position or two just for it: https://www.parkz.com.au/photo/31186-OzIris/gallery/sort/newest/location/oziris/offset/18 In my view, if you want to deal with loose items as fast as possible, there's no avoiding extra staff. You either need lockers or double sided lockers, with staff chaperoning guests. Or you need staff working the platform, actively collecting items. ******* The automatic cubby holes Mack and Intamin make are a good compromise, no extra staff, but not as fast.

Which theme parks are on Tik Tok?

^Two rides can have different top speeds but the same acceleration.

Another video from a week ago:

Didn't they do a calming area where Taz's dodgems used to be? And they have a sensory guide: https://movieworld.com.au//-/media/project/movieworld/files/safety-and-accessibility-guide/wbmw2301017-attraction-sensory-guide-2023.pdf And they do offer a queue proxy service for people unable to stand in line.

Yeah but If you were sharing the pics, how did you download them in the first place without seeing them in the context of the parks original post?

From memory they would get premium lettuce for Pig and then poke it into a sort of PVC pipe manifold that was placed on the tank floor, to recreate grazing seagrass.

I'd be all for otters, they are cute and funny. With a Dugong, I thought SW only got pig because it was injured, and was rescued.

How do you get a Dugong?

No they didn't.

FWIW B&M Fabricate in Ohio, Vekoma & Intamin do it in Slovakia. Vekoma also have a plant in China. Pivot leisure when they existed.

Multi pass launches are good, but i reckon they are better when its like Toutatis or Ice Breaker or Pulsar and you have bunny hills on the launch so its this alternation between a quick burst of acceleration and a strong bit of air.

I was miffed the space shot was closed when I was there because their version has a dropping floor in the station, so the gondola drops down into underground show scene before the main launch.

Reminds me of this

Not as scary as being up the top at full speed while spinning around.