False alarm unfortunately. It opened, one group went up and then we were told it was shutting again.

Just been past and it is open 

It has just opened for today with 2 trains.

Loads of signage and equipment setup for tomorrow's official launch! 

Edited September 21, 20178 yr by pushbutton

Official launch party is tonight. Been giving away passes all week on local radio 

Jason Momoa aka Aquaman went for a spin this afternoon too which is pretty cool. Hope they involve him in the opening tonight 

Massive crowd figures today. If you’re not planning to ride single or rear, wouldn’t recommend going.

 

DC Rivals is stuck at the top of the lift hill, 

And should it be re opened tomorrow morning at the membership early access thing?

1 hour ago, Rollercoaster_Lover said:

And should it be re opened tomorrow morning at the membership early access thing?

You're asking should it? yes, of course they should have their $30million ride reopened in the morning.

Will it? It depends on what is broken, and how long it takes to fix.

I think youll be safe. Nothing is broken, dont know where the 25 mims came from. Power issues hit the whole park after 3. Pretty much every major ride went into e-stop because of it apparently. Usual case of resets and evacs as needed id expect. If something really was wrong, you'd probably see them working all night to get it sorted for tomorrow.

Edited September 25, 20178 yr by Levithian

7 hours ago, Levithian said:

I think youll be safe. Nothing is broken, dont know where the 25 mims came from. Power issues hit the whole park after 3. Pretty much every major ride went into e-stop because of it apparently. Usual case of resets and evacs as needed id expect. If something really was wrong, you'd probably see them working all night to get it sorted for tomorrow.

Ok thanks!

It's open this morning.  2 trains.  No sign of any issues 

The wait in the General Admission queue is approximately 60mins

The issue with the power outage yesterday certainly didn't deter the crowds today. 

Though the fast photo viewing area when exiting the ride was down. And I noticed that the reel for photo arm bands has been removed. 

When I went to the photo kiosk at the end of the day, I was informed that the photos were being taken from one of the trains only. They were having some sort of issue with the other. 

Was at the park today. Queue around 10.30am this morning was over an hour.. however, there was an issue with the ride causing about a 25 minute delay, with multiple empty train cycles, before continuing as normal. Not sure what the fault was with the coaster.. 

I took a backwards seat ride around 3.00pm which was a walk on. Had another standard ride at 4pm which was less than a 15 minute wait. Think the heat of the day drew most of the crowd out of the park.

As a cool side note, I was given this lanyard when i entered the queue for the 4pm ride, to give to staff at the loading station, so they have an accurate queue time:

 

Edited September 28, 20178 yr by yaark
Grammar

Just an edit to above post, I have since been told by someone that was at the ride this morning as well and spoke to an attendant while the ride was down, that apparantly a bolt had either come loose or broken and fallen from one of the trains. Not sure how accurate or truthful that is however.

If that was the case, they wouldn’t have let the ride run, so that is untrue 

29 minutes ago, yaark said:

Just an edit to above post, I have since been told by someone that was at the ride this morning as well and spoke to an attendant while the ride was down, that apparantly a bolt had either come loose or broken and fallen from one of the trains. Not sure how accurate or truthful that is however.

 

21 hours ago, themagician said:

If that was the case, they wouldn’t have let the ride run, so that is untrue 

depends on how important the bolt is. Something that holds a panel or a cover on or something probably isn't going to shut a ride.

This Saturday was awesome. I flew up from Melbourne just to ride it and the park was d e a d. Walk ons all day. I rode it like 20 times. 

 

It was so quiet that in the morning the staff jumped on for a few rides themselves

Edited October 22, 20178 yr by tomwilson

^ how was in the afternoon @tomwilson

Edited October 24, 20178 yr by TomiJ

Was about 15 minutes this morning, if anyone is curious about midweek wait times. 

That thing is insane!

The guy behind me in single rider was on ride 66 and isn't going back to Victoria until he reaches 100 he said! 

On 01/11/2017 at 2:35 PM, red dragin said:

The guy behind me in single rider was on ride 66 and isn't going back to Victoria until he reaches 100 he said! 

Wow!! 66?? I’ve ridden it 68 times in total but that’s taken me quite a few visits since it’s first soft open day - and my early access helped bump my ride count up. Looks like I’ve got some competition! 

I heard from a staff member today that the front seats of the train will be unavailable for the next few days while they "improve guest experience" 

About to embark on my first trip on this bad boy!! Line is 10 minutes and park is very quite. 

4 more rides on DC Rivals today. There was a film crew here around midday plus they ran a train for ‘VIP’s’ - no idea who they were though. 

Also, the right seat in row 9 was tagged out and not used as there seemed to be some issue with the seat belt. I was there when a maintenance guy came to have a look at it but they continued to keep it out of service until at least 2pm when I left the park.