The ambitious plans unveiled include a casino, as well as a hovercraft station, an international airport, a convention centre, a water park, a beachside amusement park, a wildlife park, a hotel with thousands of rooms and an aquarium Read more: http://www.news.com.au/business/clive-palmers-hovercraft-plans-with-casino-complex-on-the-sunshine-coast/story-e6frfm1i-1226442168966#ixzz22RlnzYfp

So... do we think this will happen??

Considering Hovercrafts haven't been invented. No. unless he wants to call it a hovercraft but it isnt. I hope it happens because an amusement park would be great for the sunshine coast economy

Have serious doubts about this or any other venture Mr Palmer has his hands in............

Considering Hovercrafts haven't been invented. No.

What? Hovercrafts have been crossing the English Channel for decades - car carrying ones, at that. This won't happen, but it's not because he wants to use hovercrafts to ferry passengers...

Considering Hovercrafts haven't been invented. No. unless he wants to call it a hovercraft but it isnt. I hope it happens because an amusement park would be great for the sunshine coast economy

What? Hovercrafts have been crossing the English Channel for decades - car carrying ones, at that. This won't happen, but it's not because he wants to use hovercrafts to ferry passengers...

Not to mention the commercial ones that a NZ company make.... Also: http://www.rc-hovercrafts.com/

Edited August 3, 201214 yr by jjuttp

I hope it happens because an amusement park would be great for the sunshine coast economy

Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't the Sunshine Coast already have an amusement park, and many other very successful tourist attractions?

Considering Hovercrafts haven't been invented.

No you're thinking of hoverboards: Anyway read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovercraft to bring yourself up to speed on Hovercraft, which were invented well before your birth.

Edited August 3, 201214 yr by Gazza

Considering Hovercrafts haven't been invented. No. unless he wants to call it a hovercraft but it isnt. I hope it happens because an amusement park would be great for the sunshine coast economy

??? Do you live in a box?

No you're thinking of hoverboards:

Now that would be cool!

Edited August 3, 201214 yr by jjuttp

I remember Seaworld having a hovercraft in the 80's. It used to do tours of the Broadwater. The Clive Palmer project just featured on the local news. Had animations of the proposed hotel as well as the hovercraft. Hopefully it will be posted online. He did say he has given a 6 month deadline for public opinion and if it isn't wanted He'll build it somewhere else. Hopefully the naysayers don't get it shelved.

Edited August 3, 201214 yr by strop

I think Clive Palmer speaks a lot of hot air, but if it were true it'd make me a whole lot more likely to visit the sunny coast occasionally. Maybe he should invest his billions trying to develop a commercially viable hoverboard. I'd buy one

sorry i was thinking od the futuristic hovercraft, completely went blank now realising that the ones the NZ company makes have been around for a long time my bad http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/travel/travel-news/palmer-plans-international-airport-on-coast-20120803-23jjx.html The video is on this site

more casinos and amusements parks

Believe it when it happens. I remember hearing about a hovercraft between brisbane and the Gold coast many years ago. This guy just likes to be in the media.

Considering the Sunshine Coast Council are total arseholes who are against any development whatsoever, it will never happen. Also, an international airport? Really? Can we just stick with the amusement park please lol

Kinda seems a bit of a meh proposal, despite its size and judging by the renderings shown on the news. All the usual buzzwords, such as "luxury hotel", "shopping an dining", "golf course", "casino" etc etc. And of course, all the buildings are those long blocky things, painted white, with lots of glass. It just comes across so generic! You'll go there, and the "shopping" will consist of the same designer stores seen at any other large modern shopping centre, just arranged in a different order. 5 star hotel? Hardly a groundbreaking offering in that market. Ditto the golf course. I'm not anti development or anything, and I wouldn't care if it got built or not, but its just such stereotypical big company stuff that its hard to get remotely excited. The Wavebreak proposal for the GC has similar feelings from me.