Eureka Mountain Mine Ride reopening discussion

[zacsta_1997]

Ok. Back on topic. Any word on Eureka? Has anyone noticed any testing yet?

[Reanimated35]

Nah, I don't think there's ever been any mention of testing it since it closed......

[The Claw]

At dreamworld now. The mine cart with the test dummies is sitting in the loading section of the station. Also the entrance building to the chairlift is getting work done on it. Thoughts?

[Rabbit2014]

Maybe Finally removing it or added more effect for snowy river Rapids

[Theme Park Girl]

Also the entrance building to the chairlift is getting work done on it. Thoughts?

If that's the one I think it is (near that convict jail house photo op thingy) then I think it's just sectioned off atm because it's all rotting and dangerous. Then again, I haven't been there since Sunday, so can only comment on what I saw the other day when it didn't appear to be under construction... just sectioned off with blue tarpaulin thingies.

[Dracozek]

Not any more. Shows April 17th now.

Sorry to go off topic again but I just saw the Dreamworld site and said the Maintenance of the Buzzsaw changed the reopening to tomorrow, chances are they fixed the issue.

[themagician]

^DW have updated there website for the maintenance and will be reopening tomorrow.

[Theme Park Girl]

Yay!!!!

[coopdapoop]

Any updates guys?

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Yep! I've got one - but i've been holding it back until somebody asked for the info in case nobody wanted to know it. /sarcasm

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

at Dreamworld right now, saw three engineers entering a back door near the Mine Ride entrance / Boost Juice area. They were having a look at the mine carts which were sitting in the maintenance bay.

Edited April 4, 2015 by The_Ninja_59

[Theme Park Girl]

I'd stick around and have your camera at the ready! Last time I saw them do this, I missed a live test run because I stupidly decided to jump on the rapid ride whilst there was no queue.

You could be the first to grab some video footage lol

[Dracozek]

I do say when I saw the ride today, I noticed that the games weren't running to where the entrance building was, but i'm not sure if the games at the building are officially closed but it made me wonder that they might really be trying to possibly re-open the ride.

[Brad2912]

The games havent operated for months...

[Theme Park Girl]

The games havent operated for months...

No, they have. Usually on weekends the Eureka sideshow game thingy has been open for business.

My husband is regularly bugging the attendant there (always the same dude) on whether he has seen/heard any new news lately lol

[Brad2912]

Fair enough. I generally only go on weekdays to avoid to crowds!

[Dracozek]

Saturday is a weekend and I didn't see any games open in that building that day.

Edited April 5, 2015 by Dracozek

[Theme Park Girl]

The last time I visited DW was last weekend (Sun 29th March) and the sideshow at Eureka was open for business on that particular day. I remember they had Gremlin plushies as prizes on the wall (and thinking it was odd, as Gremlins are licensed to WB lol) O_o

I do agree it's odd that they wouldn't have it open during school holidays, as it would be the most lucrative time to do so. But I'm not quite convinced yet that it has permanently closed after seeing it in action recently. Not unless there's more evidence to suggest otherwise (ie. signs and props completely removed).

Don't get me wrong though, I very much look forward to hearing if/when it has, as it would be another sure sign that Eureka progress is being made!

Edited April 5, 2015 by OceanGirl

[pazzap]

Would anyone be interested in a POV of eureka? I haven't been able to find one anywhere on the web and I filmed two runs with it, gosh it must have been 15 years back with an old school camera, but i remember it coming out pretty darn good. The thing is I was terrible at tape organisation and furthermore that cam is shot, and I would have to learn how to convert such an old tape, but if you guys think it's a worthwhile thing to do I will find it and find a cam at least to be able to play it.. any tips on the best way to get old school analogue video into a computer and what format to convert etc would be really appreciated in that case. Anyway i thought it might be cool to do cause a POV of it simply doesn't seem to exist and IMO it really is in the top 5 wild mouse style coasters of all time, anywhere in the world. It was tragic to lose it. I really hope this rehab goes through and we get to ride it again some day in all it's glory. It's actually a shame that a park as major as dreamworld does not currently have one single good, let alone above average, full circuit coaster running. A real shame.

Edited April 7, 2015 by pazzap

[Theme Park Girl]

Hell yeah pazzap, that would be absolutely awesome!!! :D

[Noxegon]

That would be absolutely fantastic. I've always wanted to see what Eureka actually looked like...

[pazzap]

Noxegon are you the fellow that made all those wonderful mac emulators? Firstly, thankyou, so much.

Ok i will absolutely hunt the tape down over the WE and then try track down a cam to play it. I found out my friend uploads old school vhs tapes from an old player to youtube all the time, he has some sort of video capture system whatever that means (i'm an audio guy, no clue about vid), but since the output sockets on the vhs are the same there is no reason why he can't use the same system to record from the camera. So I will ask him when I have found a working cam to capture and convert it for me. Anyway will keep you posted as soon as I know anything. This is one of those sony 8mm tape so if anyone has a working cam I could borrow in melbourne, that would be awesome and really speed things up for me, so let me know.

[webslave]

The tape doesn't look like the smaller one in this image, does it?
http://www.pro8mm.com/Merchant5/graphics/00000001/VHS-S-VHS-S-VHS-C-comp-650.jpg

[Noxegon]

Noxegon are you the fellow that made all those wonderful mac emulators?

Yes.

If it helps, I recently had some VHS tapes professionally digitised. It wasn't cheap but they managed to get far better results than I was achieving using my own gear.

[pazzap]

The tape doesn't look like the smaller one in this image, does it?

http://www.pro8mm.com/Merchant5/graphics/00000001/VHS-S-VHS-S-VHS-C-comp-650.jpg

yeah i even remember buying some sort of converter for it at one stage so it could fit in a big vhs tape (like a shell converter) but have no clue where it is.

Yes.

If it helps, I recently had some VHS tapes professionally digitised. It wasn't cheap but they managed to get far better results than I was achieving using my own gear.

Certainly won't be paying just to put a POV of a coaster up as ever penny for the next 12 months has to go towards trip as i haven't been *anywhere* in 6 years and am going a bit insane.

Very happy with the quality of what my friend puts on youtube (for example some old fast forwards skits from old vhs tapings of it and they came up great) so when i find a cam or converter cassette will get him to do it. A way to play it is first priority so i can find the tape as nothing is labeled properly. Then have to go through everything which will be tedious but worth it. That I'm willing to do, but spending money right now I just can't. Hope you understand.