Sea World to reveal $50m spend

[Jakev8]

Plz be a woodie...🤞🏼😄🤞🏼

[themagician]

Oh yeah, I just can’t read. Definitely not carpark 

[pushbutton]

Would the Brogent Q ride be a 7D / 9D cinema? Looks like one. It would need more seats though to work in a theme park. 

Log flume and big dipper would be replacing Vikings Revenge and Sea Viper, so all good.

However there'd still be the chairlifts and most importantly, Bermuda Triangle to replace. 

[mba2012]

I'm not sure if the article has been updated with the pictures, but the thumbnails are showing some renders that I assume are the official ones. It looks like a pretty exciting development.

 

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Haha GCB have jumped the gun.

[MickeyD]

Bermuda Triangle was replaced years ago Push, please get over it.

And the Skyway was a Cable Car by definition, with carriages that featured 4 x grouped semi-enclosed Cabooses  - not flimsy open air Ski Lift 'chairs' like what was at Dreamworld, THAT was a Chairlift. In fact, the very same one that was bought off Magic Mountain from Nobby's Beach, after years of it sitting derelict in the Ocean Air and no doubt bought for next to nothing.

 

[Vidgamer]

It's a wooden roller coaster, wipeout style ride and skyflyer replacement. Tom and Jerry coming to Movieworld and more movie props coming to Movieworld too.

1.5 hectare precinct, 1 km rollercoaster. Precinct called 'The New Atlantis'.

Wipeout Style Ride opening December 2019. Wooden Roller coaster December 2020. 2 backwards seats.

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[Flynn_Smith]

Just now, Lukevl said:

It's a wooden roller coaster, wipeout style ride and skyflyer replacement.

Not confirmed by any stretch, at all.

[Vidgamer]

I'll bet my membership on it mate.

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1 minute ago, Flynn_Smith said:

Not confirmed by any stretch, at all.

Unless you have eyes and can see the concept.  

 

[MickeyD]

Wow haha Wipeout style ride? Too funny!

Not sure if this is just an early rendering but the Woodie looks pretty lame?

[Vidgamer]

I'll  add more. The Skyflyer replacement is 52 metre high, will open in April 2020. New area will have an ampitheatre.

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Just now, Lukevl said:

I'll  add more. The Skyflyer replacement is 52 metre high, will open in April 2020. New area will have an ampitheatre.

Can you post the article?

[SuperV]

Really excited about these three new rides! The wooden coaster is going to be so good and a perfect fit for Sea World! Let's hope for some amazing and massive set pieces for the Atlantis area! 

[Vidgamer]

VILLAGE Roadshow will build a new $50 million Gold Coast theme park with three cutting-edge thrill rides at Sea World in a game-changing 18-month redevelopment plan.

The centrepiece of the 1.5 hectare addition to its Main Beach site will be a one kilometre wooden roller coaster – with a pair of backwards seats – that travels at 80km per hour.

Village will roll out the first of the rides – an 18-metre giant pendulum swing similar to Dreamworld’s recently retired Wipeout attraction – by December.

It will be followed by a 52-metre high ride that spins guests at 36km per hour high above The Spit in April, 2020. The new roller coaster will be operational by December, 2020.

They are the key features of what Village Roadshow is calling The New Atlantis, a “utopian precinct”.

It will also promote Sea World’s extensive marine conservation work.

The new roller coaster will be 1km long and travel at 80km per hour

Village Roadshow Theme Parks CEO Clark Kirby, speaking exclusively to the Bulletin, said the investment had been two years in the planning and would revitalise one of the country’s favourite theme parks.

Mr Kirby, who will officially unveil the development this morning alongside Premier Annastacia Palasczcuk at Sea World, said: “The New Atlantis will be a game-changer for Sea World and become a destination in its own right where our guests can experience the myths, mysteries, quests and challenges located within this new multimillion-dollar utopian precinct.

“The New Atlantis has been designed as a fully immersive precinct with the rides complimented by sleek, eye-catching and architecturally aesthetic theming including waterfalls, fountains, statues and hanging gardens to take guests on the ultimate Atlantean adventure.”

It is Village Roadshow’s first big outlay since it launched Movie World’s new $30m DC Rivals HyperCoaster in Oxenford, the longest and fastest in the southern hemisphere.

Mr Kirby said it had been encouraging to see Queensland’s Government investment in The Spit Masterplan which was key for Village to green light The New Atlantis.

“We pushed the button on this because The Spit masterplanning – which we are actively involved with and working with Government on – was one of the catalysts.

“Sea World is a beloved property here on the Gold Coast and across Australia.

“But there was some ageing infrastructure that needed to be reborn. What we have come up with is true to what Sea World is all about – in terms of conservation, having fun and something really dramatic that will stand the test of time.”

The new wooden coaster had a life span of 100 years and Mr Kirby said extra additions to the precinct would also be revealed when under construction.

Village Roadshow Theme Parks chief operating officer Bikash Randhawa said The New Atlantis would be visible from Southport’s Broadwater and become a skyline icon.

“I can see every promotion of the Gold Coast which features the Q1 tower now also featuring this. What we have here is world-class,” Mr Randhawa said.

The New Atlantis will also draw more attention to Village Roadshow’s conservation work carried out by the Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation.

It will feature an amphitheatre for shows, presentations and activities to educate guests on how they can help protect and conserve the ocean environment.

Mr Kirby said it was time Village made a bigger deal of the marine conservation work which includes rescues of 60 sea turtles and relocation of a humpback whale.

The foundation has also donated millions towards marine vertebrate research.

Sea World staff are also on call 24 hours a day, every day of the year for marine animal rescues.

On top of its Sea World revamp, Village Roadshow will also boost blockbuster theming at Movie World later this year.

In November, Warner Bros. Movie World will host set pieces, props and costumes from big-budget films The Great Gatsby, Mad Max, Wonder Woman, Shazam and Suicide Squad.

Cat and mouse duo Tom and Jerry will also be added to Movie World’s life-size character line-up from September.

Gold Coast leaders across council, tourism and business have been crying out for new attractions to reinvigorate the city tourism profile since last year.

Mr Kirby said Village Roadshow were happy to oblige with its megabucks Sea World investment.

“We can see there is so much potential for the Gold Coast and it is wonderful to have such strong leaders at all levels of tourism,” he said.

“Destination Gold Coast is doing a fantastic job of promoting the Gold Coast and we are giving them further tools to do their job.

“The Gold Coast is world-class now with incredible restaurants, incredible shopping while beaches and theme parks are still synonymous with the Gold Coast and that is what drives tourism.”

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[Baconjack]

Looks like some seriously solid much-needed rides at first glance. I wonder who's building the woodie, I'm guessing it will be Gravity Group if its a small woodie like this one.

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[Thrill Seeker]

OMG WOW! Ignor my last post because a woodie just beats everything🤩 however the top spin better not be a traditional on, hopefully it is like wipeout👍

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@Lukevl Thank you.

[Thrill Seeker]

Hahahha backwards seating let’s hope they put it at $10 and not be scraps like MW with $15. Must say visited mw today and hardly any people rode backwards. All lines were a minimum of 30min. When backward was $10 it was booming out almost each day

[Brad2912]

This is fantastic for SW, VTP and the GC on whole.

DW really needs to get its act together and fast, be interested to see what their 2 big name attractions are, and the timeframe. If they don’t have something major before Summer 2020 with all that is coming to SW they will fine themselves even further down the tourist list. 

[Thrill Seeker]

8 minutes ago, Brad2912 said:

This is fantastic for SW, VTP and the GC on whole.

DW really needs to get its act together and fast, be interested to see what their 2 big name attractions are, and the timeframe. If they don’t have something major before Summer 2020 with all that is coming to SW they will fine themselves even further down the tourist list. 

Hopefully Dreamworld read my list from earlier and get THRILL RIDES because a wood is great but thrill rides are the top thing. Let’s get back to the big 9 then hopefully big 10 by December 2020🤞

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@Brad2912 DW's life has just got a whole lot harder.  I hope SW has a plan to get rid of it's old flume ride.

[MARK28]

Wow I wasn't expecting anything let alone something this extensive for an Australian theme park. I had presumed that the theme parks would be on the back foot for the foreseeable future after the Dreamworld incident. Really exciting! 

I think a family-ish GCI is perfect for Seaworld... Movieworld is the place for the big thrill rides. And Australia will have a modern wooden coaster... this is great. 

[Slick]

This is very exciting news indeed. Let's break it down:

• New wooden roller-coaster - looks to be a family coaster in the same vein that Jet Rescue is (TLDR; not really a family coaster) which is great news. Unconfirmed manufacturer. 80k/ph top speed. 1km+ of track.
• Trident-shaped sky flyer - not sure if ride goes up to 52m or whole tower including trident-head is 52m. If it's the former, i'm guessing that Trident head will top it over 60m+, making it the tallest thing ever to grace the spit. Unconfirmed manufacturer.
• Top Spin ride, unconfirmed manufacturer. Bit cheeky. Placement next to dolphin pools is concerning.
• New amphitheatre is being wedged in somewhere
• Movie World's WB Exhibit/Museum is getting new artefacts.
• Movie World's also getting Tom & Jerry characters in park from September.

Overall i'm really pleased with this - what i'm interested to learn is if they're going to leave Viking's Revenge SBNO until 2020 and beyond or if there's something else yet to come in regards to its future? I'm also going to guess that to fit this all in the bridge to where Jet Rescue resides is finally getting the flick.

[Santa07]

Well I wasn’t expecting anything of this scale. My thoughts 

- Very hyped for the wooden coaster. Obviously not the greatest stats by the looks of it but we have seen amazing “family” wooden coasters from GG and GCI in recent years so I hope SW goes with one of these guys 

- Nice to see a permanent addition of the sky flyer. With fountains too??!!??

- Hoping they won’t just place a fairground-y top spin and be done with it. There’s so much opportunity to theme these rides

- Also concerned about the placement of the top spin near animals. Those things aren’t quiet rides.

- This is an original theme and not aquaman-based right?