47 minutes ago, HarryHeHe8 said:

It would be cool, but next time you go past the motorway, just look at the gold coaster. It will be bigger than that. However, I’m just worried it may pull a lot of attention, and IMO, I like it because it’s not normally too busy. With everyone knowing it exists, and with it being the largest gyro swing in the world, it may become one of the busiest rides.

Yes, generally it is a good idea to build flat rides that draw crowds, rather than the situation  you often see where the flat ride struggles to get the minimum load.

 

It’s great when our parks are busy, when the parks are busy, it indicates they are probably successful, which can lead to better future attraction.  The downside is some Gold Coast parks, believe it’s ok to have Disney queue wait times, even though the attraction doesn’t merit it.   International visitors to the Gold Coast, commonly comment, how shit the operations are at the parks.

15 hours ago, New display name said:

It’s great when our parks are busy, when the parks are busy, it indicates they are probably successful, which can lead to better future attraction.  The downside is some Gold Coast parks, believe it’s ok to have Disney queue wait times, even though the attraction doesn’t merit it.   International visitors to the Gold Coast, commonly comment, how shit the operations are at the parks.

Hard agree. There was a queue time website I saw a while back that showed the world's top queue times for the day. Top three were almost universally Tokyo Disneyland's Beauty and the Beast, Tokyo DisneySea's Soarin', and DC Rivals.

It's embarrassing.  When my relatives visit from the USA, I never take them to a theme park on the GC.

@New display name so you’re telling me, the Village Roadshow theme parks aren’t ’world class’ like we’ve been told countless times over the last decade?

A couple of the rides are world class, as good as anything you see in the world, but you can’t call the attraction world class, because the operations & queues, let them down. 

Rivals probably has the same wait time to a similar ride, so why am I unwilling to wait 2 hours to ride Rivals you ask?  Queuing sucks in Australia.  2 hours feels like 3 hours.  3 hours feels like 5 hours.  You barely move, the staff look like they are being told to slow the dispatches down, there is nothing to look at and most of the time it’s hot.  In a queue where you feel like you are constantly moving, you don’t get bored & bothered because you feel like you are making progress.  I don’t believe, I can last more than 2 rides at MW before I walk out the gates anymore.

Edited September 13, 20241 yr by New display name

Yeah but not allowing guests to do their own seatbelt and making it another layer of the 69 layers of staff checks is world class didn’t you hear. Every other park known to man does it. World class theme parks have slow moving 2 hour lines as the standard.

51 minutes ago, Baconjack said:

Yeah but not allowing guests to do their own seatbelt and making it another layer of the 69 layers of staff checks is world class didn’t you hear. Every other park known to man does it. World class theme parks have slow moving 2 hour lines as the standard.

The seatbelt thing at both DC Rivals and ST are both requirements from Mack Rides. Copperhead strike also utilises the same system in a completely different park chain.

 

This requirement is because if the seatbelt is done up previous to the check they aren't checking the hydraulics in the harness and instead are only checking the seatbelt, this you get that situation that Mack has put in place where they need to check the harness hydraulics (without seatbelt) then put the seatbelt in.

 

 

If you can name one ride other then the two Mack rides which Mack have put that requirement in.. you can have that point all for yourself until then that is not a good argument 

Edited September 13, 20241 yr by Themepark Enthusist

The seatbelts were also retroactively added to Helix and Icon at the request of Mack, I believe. The slow ops here do deserve criticism, but not for this aspect.

Intamin remakes the Waikiki Wave model.

Pipe dream but it would be really cool. Two new flatride models announced at the same time isn't something I've seen all that often, or at all I think.

Does anyone know if this will be live streamed at all? 

I hope so... Maybe drewamwld will Livestream it 

48 minutes ago, Vidgamer said:

Does anyone know if this will be live streamed at all? 

Considering Dreamworld’s socials haven’t mentioned anything yet, I’d say it’s unlikely. However, there’s still one more day (tomorrow), so they might announce something then.

54 minutes ago, Vidgamer said:

Does anyone know if this will be live streamed at all? 

For the low low price of $379 it's all yours

I'd keep an eye on Intamin's socials from 8:20 onwards (namely Instagram and YouTube), as any relevant concepts they've made will be posted onto them, as they've done previously for both IAAPA Europe & Orlando.

1 hour ago, Themepark Enthusist said:

I hope so... Maybe drewamwld will Livestream it 

Can assure you there is zero chance that occurs… 

they will want to make their own announcement.

the amount of people taking any notice of an industry event in Europe at 8pm on a Tuesday would equate to about 0.01% of their market, so they won’t be missing an opportunity 

Well, the time has come. I will keep an eye on the socials to see if anything gets announced 

 

Claw is end of life.

King Claw will be 50% faster and 50% higher than Claw - will be the tallest in the southern hemisphere

42 metres high, will reach 100km/h. -0.5g and +4.5g

Construction starting in February, open by end of 2025.

Full collection here

6 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

 

Claw is end of life.

King Claw will be 50% faster and 50% higher than Claw - will be the tallest in the southern hemisphere

42 metres high, will reach 100km/h. -0.5g and +4.5g

Construction starting in February, open by end of 2025.

Is it just the one ride they’ve announced?

Where are they going to get the space to put it if it is 2 times larger? It will require a much larger footprint, wouldn’t something have to go?

1 minute ago, TBoy said:

Where are they going to get the space to put it if it is 2 times larger? It will require a much larger footprint, wouldn’t something have to go?

Thats what the survey markings and the like have been measuring 

4 minutes ago, TBoy said:

Where are they going to get the space to put it if it is 2 times larger? It will require a much larger footprint, wouldn’t something have to go?

As here, they could reorient a Giga Discovery-sized ride and fit it into OG Claw's plot without removing anything more than it itself.

On 11/09/2024 at 11:07 PM, Tricoart said:

Back at my PC, and though I don't have access to the locations of the markers (or have seen them myself to get a bearing on where they may be), a Giga Discovery-sized pendulum would definitely fit within the Claw's plot of land, but to have the same rough load-unload platform location without impeding on Shockwave, it would need to be oriented so it swings towards Main Street instead of perpendicularly to it, as shown.

So, before we know for sure what it'll be, a Giga Discovery competitor that's likely slightly taller than them seems like a good bet, so Intamin can tout the 'tallest pendulum' record that Zamperla (and Six Flags) have been using for their own. That'd mean a max height over 173ft, which is almost double that of Claw Jr, and marginally taller than Intamin's current tallest offered Gyro Swing model (136ft).

Edit:

Also, adding to this, I feel it's worth mentioning that the IAAPA description says verbatim:

It doesn't say multiple rides in collaboration with Dreamworld, but it also doesn't leave out the possibility of other ride announcements in their conference that don't yet have installations in the pipeline. It could be the case that their conference will include multiple new models/attractions, with one of them being this presumed 'Giga Gyro Swing', with it being singled out in their description as it's the only one with an installation already lined up via Dreamworld.

If a similar reorientation will be needed for King Claw, as it would still be significantly smaller than a Giga Discovery, is yet to be known, but an additional removal shouldn't be necessary.

Edited September 24, 20241 yr by Tricoart

So does this mean Gumbaya have bought the claw?