You never know when some feral kids may swim through the swamp and climb into the ride envelope...

I thought the swamp would be part of it.

 

7 minutes ago, YLFATEEKS said:

I thought the swamp would be part of it.

 

It's quite possibly not suitable for construction. 

All of MW was a swamp.  To hard basket maybe for this one.

More vegetation clearing is occurring, and those black fence posts have begun to be installed at the back of the area. This makes me really think that this will be the area for the coaster (Sorry about quality, was just taken on my phone)

Bulldozing of the markered land has begun. Some kind of treatment is happening further down too. 

Narrow top golf

2 hours ago, YLFATEEKS said:

@WyncenurosThe fence is to keep the workers safe from the crocodiles.

you mean the ducks?

It's been over 60 days since MW said " But it’s just the beginning of a massive plan to revolutionise entertainment on the Gold Coast, with VRL to make a “huge” announcement in the next 60 days. "

Yeah hoping we get some sort of confirmation that it's all happening soon, or we see some shiny track arrive or something.

If it is a coaster.  Wink Wink

Yeah maybe we'll be getting the world's best Larson Superloop or Zamperla Disk-o and the park decided to market it as a coaster  

I believe the peeps mostly responsible for making said announcements have been away lately, hence it's been fairly quiet on that front. 

True, @reanimated35. I know for sure one very important and fairly awesome person in question is back home from the USA now, and may even be reading this (*waves* ✋) so hopefully he puts us all out of our misery soon by making this long awaited announcement, haha ???

Or is running very scared at the high level of stalker some of these forum posts are becoming

3 hours ago, djrappa said:

Or is running very scared at the high level of stalker some of these forum posts are becoming

Oh please, instagram is public, it's not like we're standing outside the window of their house at [address removed]

 

(edit again in case someone reads this and doesn't get the joke - the address was never there in the first place) 

Edited August 29, 201610 yr by reanimated35
reasons

2 minutes ago, reanimated35 said:

Oh please, instagram is public, it's not like we're standing outside the window of their house at [address removed]

@reanimated35

12 months construction must be big ??

17 minutes ago, Smeg said:

12 months construction must be big ??

They'll probably want to keep time for extra work on theming and stuff. Think of InvadR at BGW, that one is just a 'family' coaster but it started construction quite a while ago probably because they'll do an outstanding job at theming it. Cobra's Curse is another example that took a fair while to construct because of theming.

On 27/08/2016 at 9:40 AM, Brad2912 said:

Strange strange question... There are plenty of wooden coasters than reside in warm/hot climate countries (Australia included). Bushfires? In Oxenford? Maybe if you were building it in the middle of Lamington National Park it may be a concern... 

In 2008 bushfires nearly completely destroyed the entire area I live in approx 15km from MovieWorld/Oxenford, not far from the M1 either, so yes, considering half of the area is still bush, then fires are a very real threat.

The argument is moot though, no one wants a wooden coaster (waits for condemnation and the tsk tsks).

Exciting times for MW

I don't know why some people are hoping for a wooden coaster we all know it's steel 

1 hour ago, UpperCoomera said:

In 2008 bushfires nearly completely destroyed the entire area I live in approx 15km from MovieWorld/Oxenford, not far from the M1 either, so yes, considering half of the area is still bush, then fires are a very real threat.

The argument is moot though, no one wants a wooden coaster (waits for condemnation and the tsk tsks).

Exciting times for MW

Because a steel coaster wouldn't be damaged by a bushfire?! ?

Edited August 29, 201610 yr by iwerks

^ Oh please, if jet fuel can't melt steel beams, what chance does a bush fire have?

I don't get the point about arguing whether they should get a wooden or steel coaster based on a bush fire. What about the rest of the park? A steel coaster is more than steel beams. 

5 hours ago, UpperCoomera said:

In 2008 bushfires nearly completely destroyed the entire area I live in approx 15km from MovieWorld/Oxenford, not far from the M1 either, so yes, considering half of the area is still bush, then fires are a very real threat.

The argument is moot though, no one wants a wooden coaster (waits for condemnation and the tsk tsks).

Exciting times for MW

15km is a fair bit of distance mate. 

I wouldn't say it's a 'very real threat'. 

Yes there is bushland in the vicinity of the park, but I'd stay the risk of bushfire to MW (especially the area we are looking at for this new ride) would be about on the lowest end of possibility. 

If bushfire mitigation was going to determine the type of coaster or rides we get, I doubt VRTP would have just invested in funky wooden cabins, literally in bushland, for the PC Farmstay experience.