Construction underway on Movie World's newest ride

[aidan]

Oh my god, and I thought superman escape changed the skyline.

[Swanny]

It's cool, but boy does it look bad. It's just a tower of scaffolding. I sure hope it ends up looking better than that. Even just something on top would make it better.

[tom]

Im guessing that the top of it, will be something similar to these towers. Well, not similar as in exactly the same design, but something topping off the tower like shown here:

This is Dr Doom Fearfall at IOA, not sure if it is the same height as what Batwing is going to be, but I went on it, and its an awesome ride!

[mattcrombie]

Went past Batwing and seen all bright lights around it and on the top. They are adding the Top Frame tonight. Check this video out, its not the best , but you get a idea.

[rappa]

Just as a side topic was anyone from here sitting in the MW car park a few nights back in a black car watching construction? I took a drive over after work and this car took off once I rocked up into the car park... I'm guessing it was a fellow nerd like us

[Adam]

Yeah, the fact that he was afraid of other people and only ventured out under the cover of darkness means he's likely to be a roller coaster nerd. /say Batwing is going to pwn.

[ads086]

Was at Movieworld today. The top is in. Looks awesome. The batwing logo on all 4 sides around the top. Theres a giant spotlight on the roof of the control building (assumption) that is aimed at the top of the tower. The air tubes are in. The gondola is in, seats and restraints are in. Work was continuing around the base of the ride, and as we left the park there was also work happening at the very top of the tower. A new arch was being installed. It fits with the Gotham City theming. Colours appear to be Black Tower, with Grey/Dark Grey Pneumatics. A Darker Grey Gondola, with Black seats and Yellow restraints. Open by December 06 is looking good to me.

[Chaos-Maniac]

Any photos? They really haven't mucked around at all with this. The colour scheme sounds alright, however it will they have a banner that is in place above the gondola's?

[dreamworld_rulz]

Any photos? They really haven't mucked around at all with this. The colour scheme sounds alright, however it will they have a banner that is in place above the gondola's?

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[Chaos-Maniac]

Oh, thanks. It certinally is looking good. But sadly, I've gotta wait another 3 years til I can ride it. With the addition of Batwing, does this mean they will re-create the Batman Ride 2?

[lisalila]

Yeah sorry I didn't post the pic in the right thread. At the moment the batman ride is closed while they build batwing and I asked one of the staff if they were going to change any of the ride (adventure ride) and he said no because the batwing is going to be themed around the "new" batman movie so there's no need to change the adventure ride. I said they should because it's old and boring and he just laughed.

[mattcrombie]

Drove past last night and looks great at night. The top part is all lite up and is a major eye opener from the highway, so anyone coming from North or South will be able to see the skyline from a great distance. Movieworld is starting to look like a awesome American themepark Coasters, Space Shot....what else....

[lisalila]

I dont want any of our parks to be like the American ones because theres soo many of them; just want an Aussie park to look and feel like an Aussie park. The good thing with our parks is there really isn't anything that we can compare them too except each other where as in the states there's so many parks people always say "park a should get the rollercoaster park b got but only make it bigger, faster and have more inversions" where as here we're all like "dreamworld needs a new coaster" "movieworld needs more thrill rides" and so forth...we're not saying that they need rides like the opposite park.

[dreamworld_rulz]

Oh, thanks. It certinally is looking good. But sadly, I've gotta wait another 3 years til I can ride it. With the addition of Batwing, does this mean they will re-create the Batman Ride 2?

3 years? Why so long? You live in NSW it's not going to cost that much to visit the GC for a few days.

[lisalila]

Dropped into MW today to get my mum a Tweety shirt and they have the Gondala's on the Space Shot and I over heard a worker in the store saying that they can "open it next week when WhiteWater World Opens to compete with it" I love the yellow and greyish colour though.

[GoGoBoy]

Yes I agree that the skyline for Movie World really is starting to look special. How can you say you don't want our parks to look like American parks? American parks are some of the best in the world without a doubt!! I'd love our parks to look like US parks (minus a couple of the dodgy ones) and thankfully SOME of them are slowly heading in that direction

[lisalila]

I dont mean in terms of rides, I mean I just want them to have the Aussie feel. Australia is already too Americanised imo and MW has that American feeling..I'm just the type of person who is proud to be Australian and wants every aspect of Australia to be and look Australian; theme parks included.

[mattcrombie]

I want our Parks to become bigger and better, and with American Themeparks being my fav parks ever, I want the parks on the Gold Coast to follow, Which is what they are doing. Go to Gold Rush country in Dreamworld for a "Aussie feeling".

Edited December 1, 2006 by mattcrombie

[aidan]

Dreamworld and WWW are the closest to Aussie parks your going to get, Dreamworld is really Australian with their Australian animal experience and gold rush section like mattcrombie said. WWW is based on Australian beach culture and WVTP just opened the Australian outback spectaular so I think they are covered with the aussie parks at the moment.

Edited December 1, 2006 by aidan

[Chaos-Maniac]

Dreamworld and WWW are the closest to Aussie parks your going to get, Dreamworld is really Australian with their Australian animal experience and gold rush section like mattcrombie said. WWW is based on Australian beach culture and WVTP just opened the Australian outback spectaular so I think they are covered with the aussie parks at the moment.

Actually, your wrong there. You forgot AussieWorld. I've never been there, But from what I've heard.. It's pretty "Aussie" for you.

3 years? Why so long? You live in NSW it's not going to cost that much to visit the GC for a few days.

We recently went to Queensland the week after Indy (we forgot about Indy). So, we're going to wait 3 years til, hopefully the parks have a few more rides. Also, in 3 years time I would have finished Yr 12, So I'll proabley end up going up for schoolies.

[aidan]

LOL! I forgot the park that actually has the name Aussie in it!

[myk]

Actually, your wrong there. You forgot AussieWorld. I've never been there, But from what I've heard.. It's pretty "Aussie" for you. laugh.gif

If by Aussie you mean crap, you're going to the right place. Aussie World should be called "dump world". But Batwing should completely change the front area of mainstreet, I believe just as much as SE did! Should be awesome. I'm hoping to get out there sometime these holidays.

[lisalila]

I want our Parks to become bigger and better, and with American Themeparks being my fav parks ever, I want the parks on the Gold Coast to follow, Which is what they are doing. Go to Gold Rush country in Dreamworld for a "Aussie feeling".

Right and I never once said that I didn't want them to be like the US parks in terms of rides, did I? no I said that I just want them to have the Aussie feeling. I dont want mw or dw to end up like Six Flags or even like Cedar Point..rollercoasters are good and all but a variety is a good thing. Gold Rush Country doesn't feel very Australian and I walked through it like 8 times today. It was rather bland looking with only the Rapids working and a huge ugly mesh going around the mine ride. As much as I love dw I think mw are going to over take them in not only ride value but also ride presentation/themeing. TOT themeing needs to be fixed SO bad and the cyclone themeing is just so bland..they couldve done alot more. They need to chage that stupid video they play in the tot. Oh and as for the Batwing changing the Main St look it DOES, was standing outside the WB store today and I noticed the gondalas on (they weren't on wednesday), it just looks good especially when you first walk in or when superman goes over the tophat. When we were driving from dw today you can see the tower for miles..long before Superman even comes into view.

[dreamworld_rulz]

Actually, your wrong there. You forgot AussieWorld. I've never been there, But from what I've heard.. It's pretty "Aussie" for you. We recently went to Queensland the week after Indy (we forgot about Indy). So, we're going to wait 3 years til, hopefully the parks have a few more rides. Also, in 3 years time I would have finished Yr 12, So I'll proabley end up going up for schoolies.

Oh ok. I didn't realize that you were still @ school.

[ads086]

Gondola's were installed on Batwing on Wednesday. I was in the park all day Wednesday and the as I rode SE for the final time that day, I looked down on the construction area as we went over the tophat, and I saw the gondola with seats and restraints in place