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  • themagician
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    This morning I was invited out to Dreamworld to get a sneak peek of Steel Taipan and a walk through of the entire area. I’ll start out by saying, overall they’ve done a good job with the area. It’s ve

  • Retardent
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    Occasionally I'll search through tender websites for theme park projects and yesterday's search at work had delivered some treasure. Here is what is worth noting: This is what the queu

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I assume it was caused by me copying the image straight from my emails (instead of uploading) since I temporarily locked my account since I sort-of forgot the password.

Hope this works:

 

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Surely talk about how to make a logo in photoshop and meet building codes coupled with how excited they will be when the first USER gets on is amazing marketing. 
 

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Saw one of the Trains on the track today getting moved into the maintenance room!

 

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It’s looking pretty tight through here for the train 

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Shading being installed 

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 A really nice wall separates the queue from viewing the launch

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And some battens have been added to the control booth for ‘theming’

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19 hours ago, New display name said:

@OgreMagicyou should upload your other video you took of the works currently going on.👍

Guess I should have done, just didn't want to toot my own horn too much, so to speak. Oh well... toot toot!

 

6 hours ago, New display name said:

So the snake over the queue is inside out.🤣

if the snake was on the outside, it would fade and look like shit in a few years. And doing the little repairs and up-keep is always on the bottom of their to do list. 

I'd love to see more artificial rockwork, giving you the impression of being a snake in a rocky gully. 

This said, the tunnel area the track encounters twice looks great, and a fair amount of the track is elevated (loop, rolls, MCBR).

In the video posted by @OgreMagic, is the train the one with the non-spinning rear carriage, or just missing the spinning carriage on the end?

How sad is it walking into DW now and seeing that cheap white 'modern' awning and facade around Sky Voyager? Being a theme park, as if you wouldn't have run with the existing theme in that area and just jazzed up significantly the existing heritage style building. So much more character. And now there's more white vinyl stretching as far as the eye can see with Taipan. Do current Gold Coast theme park bosses realise they are in charge of THEME parks?

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On 28/08/2021 at 2:00 PM, Whombex said:

In the video posted by @OgreMagic, is the train the one with the non-spinning rear carriage, or just missing the spinning carriage on the end?

Not too sure myself, but pretty sure it was the non-spinning train cause there is five carriages in a train and from what I saw there was five carriages there?

On 28/08/2021 at 2:00 PM, Whombex said:

In the video posted by @OgreMagic, is the train the one with the non-spinning rear carriage, or just missing the spinning carriage on the end?

That's definitely the non spinning train. It's on the track first so that it can be used for any pull throughs or initial testing. Then it'll be parked in the maintenance bay and the spinning seat train will be added to the track.

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12 hours ago, Tinter said:

That's definitely the non spinning train. It's on the track first so that it can be used for any pull throughs or initial testing. Then it'll be parked in the maintenance bay and the spinning seat train will be added to the track.

Do Mack do pull throughs?

23 minutes ago, Naazon said:

DCR didn't as far as I'm aware and last time it was brought up, no one else saw one being completed for it.

As far as I know, DCR didn't need any pull through given the large clearances.

Steel Taipan may possibly need one due to the rocky theming.

Highly unlikely, but imagine this on there:

 

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9 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

One would think, if they intended to do pull throughs, they'd use the spinner, simply because it potentially puts arms in places not reachable by the normal seats...

Nobody is holding their arms out during a pull through to see if their arms hit.  /s

 

The envelope guide they attach to the train would measure the worst case no matter what train it is fixed to.

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