33 minutes ago, joz said:

Movie World need to add more family friendly attractions. Unless  they propose to do so. In which case they suck and they should have got a bigger thrill coaster.

If you're replacing a thrilling roller coaster like AA with family attractions, that's the issue. If this were a replacement for Loony Tunes River Ride then there'd be no issue. Obviously the park might have plans for a more thrilling roller coaster a long way off in the future but the fact they're putting in three roller coasters and none of them are big impact thrill rides makes it even less likely we'll see an impactful coaster any time soon.

But at the end of the day it's all about expectations and desires, this is absolutely smart business for Movie World and for families but until I see how well themed the area is this "announcement" is a little underwhelming. 

I mean they did just build rivals and green lantern as thrill coasters that didn’t replace existing rides. So they could still remove AA to replace with family rides.

9 minutes ago, Cactus_Matt said:

If you're replacing a thrilling roller coaster like AA with family attractions, that's the issue. If this were a replacement for Loony Tunes River Ride then there'd be no issue. Obviously the park might have plans for a more thrilling roller coaster a long way off in the future but the fact they're putting in three roller coasters and none of them are big impact thrill rides makes it even less likely we'll see an impactful coaster any time soon.

But at the end of the day it's all about expectations and desires, this is absolutely smart business for Movie World and for families but until I see how well themed the area is this "announcement" is a little underwhelming. 

100% it's underwhelming for me because after they add these 3 new coasters MW will still give me no reason to buy my daughter a pass.

 

1 hour ago, joz said:

Movie World need to add more family friendly attractions. Unless  they propose to do so. In which case they suck and they should have got a bigger thrill coaster.

They need to demolish Speedys and replace it with a couple of new kids flats and maybe one central general family flat.

They've gotten rid of Tazs bumper cars and put in that calming space, they've gotten rid of pounce and bounce, and of course the Marvin Maggot has been gone for years, so the kids zone is pretty threadbare imo.

And it would be such a cheap bit of capital too!

Edited January 5, 20223 yr by Gazza

It's a sad day when the ginger factory family ride is better than MW family ride offerings.

If they are able to they should do something with the other half of the LTRR space. They should put a few small flats in LTRR space and a bigger flat on the speedy plot.

5 hours ago, Brad2912 said:

It won’t be inverting… 

Hang on. Is this 100% legit?

Why would you put in 2 family (albeit dueling) Boomerang coasters and then surround it with….another family coaster??

That seriously makes no sense. Of course the new Vekoma STC coaster is what is needed here. Surely Movieworld can’t be THAT stupid? 
Look at the success of the install at Tripsdrill. That looks amazing and by all accounts rides fantastic.

As a direct replacement for AA then it makes complete sense. To have a non inverting coaster  as well as the other 2 family coasters is quite frankly an astonishingly unbalanced decision.

I sincerely hope that this is not true. 

Edited January 5, 20223 yr by Jobe

I thought your comment about the new coasters being able to compete with ST was a bit strange.🤣

Edited January 5, 20223 yr by New display name

12 minutes ago, Jobe said:

Hang on. Is this 100% legit?

It’s a family duelling boomerang and a family suspended. No inversions. 

1 hour ago, Cactus_Matt said:

If you're replacing a thrilling roller coaster like AA with family attractions, that's the issue.

Really you are replacing nothing with family attractions.

AA has been SBNO for long enough that the GP are not thinking “they are replacing this with that” but that you are adding 3 new rides 

So if its non inverting then it's just the same as Escape from Madagascar? Is that for real?

I mean, we'd all love a thrill ride for a thrill ride, but when was the last time MW added a new major family-friendly ride? Junior Driving School was 2014. That's a long time between drinks. Lately it's seemed like all of MW's big new investments have been thrill rides - and they weren't replacements for retiring rides, they were just straight up additions to the lineup.

MW really doesn't have anything for the market of "too old to enjoy the carousel, too young to go on Scooby-Doo or WWF". A couple of family-friendly coasters could do the park a world of good. I just hope they bother making the precinct well-themed.

EDIT: They don't have *much* for that market. No hate to Road Runner or JL intended.

Edited January 5, 20223 yr by jhunt2
rephrasing

@Gazzathe rumour I heard was this is the model MW are getting.   "Rumour"

24 minutes ago, Gazza said:

So if its non inverting then it's just the same as Escape from Madagascar? Is that for real?

Providing the plans haven’t changed in the last 9 months, then yes it’s for real 

Yep shite

wouldn’t be disappointing if it was 2 family coasters and then a Vekoma STC but if it really is their family suspended coaster they really missed an opportunity

Edited January 5, 20223 yr by Rivals

9 hours ago, Village Idiot said:

You heard it here first folks (Unless you are a cast member at one of the staff town hall meetings 😁)

Arkham will be replaced by <drumroll>  Dual Vekoma family boomerangs and a new suspended coaster.

What happened to the NDA

Just now, Im Hungry said:

What happened to the NDA

I checked into that for you, and it turns out nobody cares.

Welp.

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If @Village Idiot is a team member, uhh-

If not, then congrats you know lmao

Keep up@Im Hungryit's 2022.

I'm pretty mixed on what Village plans to build.

The two family boomerangs are great additions, I really like the dueling layout and that Village hasn't just gone for 2 of the base model mirrored side to side. It's definitely something much needed in the DC corner given that all that families can ride in that area is Justice League, otherwise they have to go to Scooby/WWF/WB Kids.

But a suspended family coaster rather than something like Hals Uber Kopf is quite lacklustre. MW missed the opportunity of building something that's right in between Green Lantern and Scooby/WWF (and can also be a decent AA replacement), and something that can be classed as above the family boomerangs, not on par with them. A custom inversionless STC on the scale of Arkham built on top of the family boomerangs would have been an easy slam dunk. Not something that in my opinion will draw comparisons to Madagascar.

Edited January 5, 20223 yr by Baconjack

9 hours ago, rappa said:

You can post anything you like. 
 

But that doesn’t mean that:

a) the self commissioned enthusiast police won’t attack you to protect the sacred honor of the parks policies

Well @Im Hungry there always has be one. Congratulations.

I'm ok with having two family coasters as long as the area and theming is good. 

Edited January 5, 20223 yr by TomiJ

30 minutes ago, Im Hungry said:

Welp.

If @Village Idiot is a team member, uhh-

If not, then congrats you know lmao

Who gave you permission to post the social media policy?

aren’t the new generation Vekoma Suspended Family Coasters only able to run one train? the lines for this thing will be horrendous if that’s the case, hopefully they last minute changed their mind and decent to upsize the coaster, that’s very unlikely though

33 minutes ago, Rivals said:

aren’t the new generation Vekoma Suspended Family Coasters only able to run one train? the lines for this thing will be horrendous if that’s the case, hopefully they last minute changed their mind and decent to upsize the coaster, that’s very unlikely though

Doesn’t matter how many trains it can run, most of the times seems Superman and Rivals run 1 train each. 

39 minutes ago, Rivals said:

aren’t the new generation Vekoma Suspended Family Coasters only able to run one train? the lines for this thing will be horrendous if that’s the case, hopefully they last minute changed their mind and decent to upsize the coaster, that’s very unlikely though

That just means cycle times won’t change between peak and off-peak….