This deal hit my inbox today... 14 months for $79.. Too bad I've already signed up for the 'membership' monthly package.. 

Hopefully it all fills in as more stuff is added and the backdrops become backdrops rather than the main thing you look at.

I think the whole place is starting to look really great

5 hours ago, Brad2912 said:

This deal hit my inbox today... 14 months for $79.. Too bad I've already signed up for the 'membership' monthly package.. 

why didn't they send that to me i had a pass...once

Edited May 12, 201610 yr by bladex

I won't be at the park tomorrow due to StormTroopers Weekend happening at DW, so I'm counting on of you guys to provide us an update,  

I'll drive down tomorrow morning to take some updated pics of the area if nobody beats me to it beforehand

Tiger Island seems to be coming along really nicely, DW's definitely doing a big refurbishment with it.

 

 

make one mistake in here and you pay for it for weeks 

In some cases - forever.

• Fire Eyes
• Cantilevered fire roof
• Mack's refurbishment of the Scenic Railway

I'm sure there are others i'm forgetting. Cue other long term members replying with their own suggestions...

48 minutes ago, AlexB said:

In some cases - forever.

• Fire Eyes
• Cantilevered fire roof
• Mack's refurbishment of the Scenic Railway

I'm sure there are others i'm forgetting. Cue other long term members replying with their own suggestions...

Having your source misunderstand which side of the carpark a new coaster will be put...

It seems that AA is getting a lot of work done, and apparently new trains have arrived (photos: TPSN)

New trains? Or the existing train has returned from the workshop?

I'm betting the latter - as much as i'd like to see them return AA to two-train operation, I doubt the legitimacy of this 'new train' claim... anyone reliable have anymore info?

14 minutes ago, AlexB said:

New trains? Or the existing train has returned from the workshop?

I'm betting the latter - as much as i'd like to see them return AA to two-train operation, I doubt the legitimacy of this 'new train' claim... anyone reliable have anymore info?

@Theme Park Girl?

I did see them pull the trains apart and I'm with Alexb.  It’s normally practice for the parks to send the parts out to get them refurbished.  The wheel system was still sitting in the park the other day and I believe idiot facebook page had a photo of it.

 

 

Side note idiot facebook did not say new trains he said new seats.

 

 

Edited May 17, 201610 yr by skeetafly

Yeah I wasn't sure if they were new trains, and I know he isn't the most reliable source, but was just stating what TPSN posted with the photo. 

I never rode the ride when it was LW, so has the ride run two trains at times before? I can't ever remember seeing a switch track for AA that would allow this to happen.

No info sorry, but I did take a couple of similar photos yesterday lol. 

Tbh I think they are just repairing the old train. 

@themagician 

 

Can't really see the seats and the parts on the ground are old.

Yeah, I can confirm there was nothing in the maintenance bay at the time, at least that I could see anyway. 

16 minutes ago, themagician said:

I never rode the ride when it was LW, so has the ride run two trains at times before? I can't ever remember seeing a switch track for AA that would allow this to happen.

it's been said before, but basically LW ran two trains - a blue, and a red train. The switch track is behind the station between the brake run and the load platform. Next time you ride, look left and back as you roll through to the station (or check it out from the queue) and you'll see a separate section of track leading into the maintenance bay.

As LW got on in years, and train bits became harder to get \ expensive, the park 'cobbled together' a single train from the red and blue trains, which we came to call the 'purple' train (being both red and blue). In it's later years, LW ran only one train (purple).

When the new 'train' was installed as part of the Arkham re-theme, the existing hardware - bogeys etc were kept, and only the seats were changed. So the rolling stock on-track is still the same 'purple' stock previously part of LW. For them to go back to two-train operation, they would have to invest in an entirely new train - rolling stock and all, which would cost more than it did to install the Kumbak seats.

4 hours ago, AlexB said:

I'm sure there are others i'm forgetting.

someone broke into the eureka mine

Edited May 17, 201610 yr by bladex

3 hours ago, skeetafly said:

I did see them pull the trains apart and I'm with Alexb.  It’s normally practice for the parks to send the parts out to get them refurbished.  The wheel system was still sitting in the park the other day and I believe idiot facebook page had a photo of it.

 

 

Side note idiot facebook did not say new trains he said new seats.

 

 

Surprised that he didn't decide that since there are two pairs of wheel systems there must be two trains.

When I went to Movie World a few weeks ago they had the train that was in operation on the track (obviously) and a whole set of wheel bogies long enough for a whole train sitting on the transfer track. As my phone was in the all day locker I wasn't able to get a photo of it but for people that know who I am would know that i'm not exactly someone who's going to make this stuff up. 

I'd say they likely were waiting on a SLC to shut down to buy the old trains to refit them like they did with the current  Arkham train. T2 at SFKK anyone? That originally had 3 trains and it's now only reported to have 1x 7 car train so perhaps they brought the other 2 off them at a cheap price to make a 2nd carriage? 

@Spottyare you saying that a full train and a half built train was on track at the same time? (sorry I'm a bit slow & I don't mean the half train was moving around on track)  I believe what you are saying.  I can only see enough wheels for one train in the photos. 

I think we need a 2016 Movie World topic like the DW one.  But as @AlexBpointed out I am too lazy to create.

Edited May 17, 201610 yr by skeetafly

31 minutes ago, skeetafly said:

@Spotty

I can only see enough wheels for one train in the photos. 

@AlexB

Ditto. It's 44 wheels per train, right? 4x per carriage (2x per side), 10 double carriages in total per train, plus the extra 4 at the rear? 

Edited May 17, 201610 yr by Theme Park Girl

34 minutes ago, skeetafly said:

I think we need a 2016 Movie World topic like the DW one.

Would be good, but we need an admin to move the stuff posted in DW to here, and then move this AA stuff into a new topic.