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Why would the water slide have running water anyway?

Allegro Crab, just to clarify, the competition is about guessing what you think the layout will be and seeing how accurate your guess is (Sort of like "pin the tail on the donkey") not a design your dream hyper competition. By all means, you can submit your "real" guess alongside your dream layout though.

^Ive thought about that, but im not sure how well GD would be able to take the skyjump cars without fairly extensive modification. They'd be much heavier for starters, so new winches. The cars hang out a lot further from the tower, so a new station building. Because the cars hang out so much more I imagine they exert a bit more moment on the track than the current cars (Especially when braking) so you'd probably have to replace the tracks too. It would pretty much be a full rebuild of the ride system. But I think doing stand up or floorless cars would be similar enough in weight and profile to be an easier refit. It's a strong ride, as DjRappa says, but Im a fan of the floorless cars, and would love to see em on GD.

Its not as if they could have split the queue hey?

Nah, all the Australian ones are definitely 60s, you can tell because the 45s have a half width segment on the wide end of the funnel. Curiously, the screenshot of the Adventure Park artwork is of a 45...

Did Motocoasters VR go anywhere?

Id rather a cableway than a light rail spur, because it avoids the narrowness of SW drive, can be more direct, and has a bit of tourist appeal. Doing a light rail branch so close to the systen core invokes the issue of dividing frequency: http://humantransit.org/2011/02/basics-branching-or-how-transit-is-like-a-river.html If you have a track pair, branching means only 1 in 2 trams can serve each side of the branch (you can also do something god awful like "one tram in four" but that trashes legibility and would lead to uneven passenger loading) If you have to do a branch, it needs to be towards the end of the line so the division in frequency doesn't have a negative impact. Think of the way in Brisbane the split between the Ipswich and Springfield branches happens at Darra...Works well because outbound of Darra the population density drops off, so only having half the trains to each branch is bearable because demand at each station is lower. Whereas on the GC doesn't work because you are splitting the frequency at main beach, even though Southport, GCUH etc have heavy demand and would suffer.

What about the theming on Buzzsaw ?

Too bad it wasn't a product when Buzzsaw was installed...

It could go either way...You could not update, and it would be no different to the way theme parks have Batman rides that aren't the latest film Batman. Or you could just forecast the cost of updating the doctor a couple of times during the life of the attraction in the initial budget (Negotiate with BBC when buying the rights that they have to provide relevant updates for the life of the licence) Or design the ride to minimise the number of times you actually see him outside the preshow (Fill it up with Daleks? Have him facing away from the camera when fighting etc)...The place in Cardiff seemingly affords this.

Why is there a random empty enclosed room after the toll booth, and why does the track pass through a narrow gap at its corner? Thats a big open space with a spaceship, crushed cars, light posts etc.

Yes, film sets are not used in theme parks because: -They are often too flammable, and often use foams etc that are not safe or insurable for permanent installation. -Not durable enough for guest abuse. -Many props and sets look good on screen because they are far away and a camera can only capture a certain resolution, but in real life, up close, are quite rough and don't look good. This goes for sets both big and small.

People are free to talk about the theme, pull your head in. Re mack doing a Floorless coaster...nope. I'd consider a floorless one where there is nothing between your feet and the track, so you see the track structure and crossties whizzing below your feet at high speed.

If its a Dr Who ride, why do you need to change the Doctor every 3 years? Because if the doctor is a time traveller, it would always be that generation of doctor conducting this particular guest adventure at that point in time right? Am I missing something or am I some kind of genius?

Excellent Now all you have to do is adjust the curves in the spaceship part to reflect the floor plan posted by jjuttp.

Spoiler: It's not a helix at the end of Walibis Goliath....The helix on Goliath is halfway through.

If you make the unload end of the platform 2 squares shorter so the exit was further up, you'd have enough space for the final straight where the spaceship explodes and the team is waiting for you at the end.

Its gotta have a free wheeling uphill section, hence the "coaster" part of the name. Disk'O coasters don't have that because there is a drive wheel under the disk pushing it along the whole time, it doesn't coast. A good way to consider it is that you have boxes for each ride type....lets say water slide, coaster, flat ride, water ride, dark ride. You're only allowed to count a ride in one category, Eg WWF its a flume because the little hump is an insignificant part of the ride. But storm is a coastee because quite clearly the coaster part is the significant part of the ride. A disko is primarily a flat, not a coaster. Etc

Is there enough space in JL to add the theming around the ride track? Why is the loading station so long?

You mean? https://qimagery.information.qld.gov.au/ Whoops? Was that supposed to be a secret or something? It's lucky, normally images should credit the original source anyways. He'res a few I've found on there: Logan Wild Waters, which is where Hyperdome is now: The Weigand toboggan run that was at Samford grass ski park Olympia Water park at Alex headland. The old terror canyon and river rapids slides, before they were replaced with terror canyon 1 & 2 Some small park in Oxley behind Harvey Norman, where the slide tower was standing as recently as 2008. Has a minature railway, slides, go karts, and some sort of animal exhibit?

It's funny because the coaster featured in this thread is still sitting unbuilt.

HWSD ≠ HWSW

You gotta admit though, pools of water are good at stopping stuff.

Correct↑ Are there tropical plants you can be using?

Do people know about the toilets inside Dirty Harry's too ? Also, there's now a companion toilet at the back of the ones at the front of the park.