The Off Topic Topic

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

If anyone is interested in reasons why Monorails aren't widely taken up, here's a really well put together video about the monorail network at Magic Kingdom:

Obviously this is only based on Disney's network, but the economics would only become worse when dealing with government, public land and so on.

As for Maglev, considering the rail proposal we saw for Brisbane a little while ago turned into a rubber-tyred-metro system, i'm not so confident we'll see Maglev here anytime in the near future.

[Gold Coast Amusement Force]

A boy was taken to hospital at 5pm after nearly drowning in a Q1 pool.

[Brad2912]

Of what relevance is that to theme parks? 

[Gold Coast Amusement Force]

8 minutes ago, Brad2912 said:

Of what relevance is that to theme parks? 

Well ardent own sky point and if it’s found to be another safety issue.... But I’m not sure if SkyPoint is where it happened.

[Brad2912]

1 minute ago, Gold Coast Amusement Force said:

Well ardent own sky point and if it’s found to be another safety issue.... But I’m not sure if SkyPoint is where it happened.

Sky point is a tourist attraction on the 70th floor of the Q1. They are tenants of the building. They have absolutely nothing to do with the actual resort or building. There is no pool in skypoint, it’s an observation deck and bar. 

[Gold Coast Amusement Force]

Ok thanks @Brad2912

[Jdude95]

I was driving down the street last week and saw someone on the sidewalk trip over because they were focussed on a VRTP billboard.

[jjuttp]

Expedition Themepark recently did a local episode.

 

 

[Mc coaster]

Today I was at my church and helped cleaning out our vacation care room. While we were going through old files we found a box with paperwork all the back from 1995-2000. As we went through I found these wonderland tickets I asked if I could take them and here they are.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Wow @Mc coaster thats an amazing find! Would you mind sharing your find on the Wonderland History FB page?

[Mc coaster]

Hi @AlexBI would love to but sadly I do not have Facebook (I am trying to wait till I am 18 so I do not waist time on on it) but if you would like you can post them on my behalf.😀😀

[Gold Coast Amusement Force]

The AFL club Richmond Tigers were at dreamworld today. 

[Park Addict 93]

Can confirm 

[Brad2912]

Can confirm there was a guy named Dave at the park as well, and he was someone’s uncle.

[Mc coaster]

At Movieworld now GL, SE and SDSC are all broken down.

[Gold Coast Amusement Force]

Jeez that’s rough especially with holiday crowds.

[Baconjack]

On 07/01/2019 at 1:51 PM, Jobe said:

Here is a very interesting case study video on the Sydney/Darling Harbour Monorail system!.

 

 

I bet @pushbutton  will approve of this!! 

 

From the same Youtube channel as the above Sydney Monorail posting, here is a case study video on the life span of the Australia's Wonderland.

Very interesting and I know that there are several  posters on this forum such as AlexB who worked at the park. 

I know that that the death of Wonderland has been talked about ad-nauseum on these boards but this video does provide an interesting  take on the Wonderland saga. He certainly does provide an interesting viewpoint on  a what if scenario if Wonderland had not been sold to Sunway.

Enjoy the video!

 

 

Hey, I'm actually the guy who made these videos, thanks for the good feedback.

Making content on theme parks, especially on Australian ones, is not at all common on Youtube, but there's a lot to explore in the Australian theme park world.

[Mc coaster]

Poison ivy is missing???

[themagician]

And the water has been turned back on for Killer Croc 

[Mc coaster]

Oh and one more thing the jokers station has been changed.

 

[themagician]

Just noticed today that park entry at VRTP has recently gone up. Adult pricing is now MW: 95, SW: 85, WNW, 79.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Sarcastic me wants to say its amazing that you can put prices up in a year where you aren't introducing any significant attractions, on the proviso that you haven't killed anyone recently.

[Www worker 3.0]

Here we go again, somehow the media has managed to link doomsday destroyer and a park in Taiwan together.

 

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/tourists-left-dangling-48m-in-the-air-after-rollercoaster-malfunctions/news-story/eff24e1ff2f96fccb62db27c46f58346

[Slick]

Reposted from The Sun - pretty classic News.com.au clickbait affair. Gravity Max (the tilt coaster in Taiwan) doesn't line up 100% with the vertical drop due to strong winds so it tilts back & opens up less than an hour. CRAZY SAFE REDUNDANCIES BATMAN! 😂

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

But.... they were dangling!... DANGLING I TELL YOU!