Funfields' planning application has just been approved by Whittlesea Council tonight. Will be a multi-coloured tornado slide, which will share the same tower and splash pool as the Gravity Wave. No name or opening date yet but it's bound to open sometime in 2020. Great to see the continued investment. This will be their fourth ProSlide and their seventh overall. They have also applied for a couple of other permits (to better compete with Gumbuya IMO) which includes opening until 8pm on 7 selected days in January and a liquor licence for the wave pool area.

 

Edited December 10, 20196 yr by melbourne_guy

I love that the Victorian parks continue to expand, but the colour choice on this one is a bit too close to another new ProSlide over at Adventure Park. You'd think they'd want to differentiate as much as possible..

10 minutes ago, GoGoBoy said:

I love that the Victorian parks continue to expand, but the colour choice on this one is a bit too close to another new ProSlide over at Adventure Park. You'd think they'd want to differentiate as much as possible..

That was my first thought as well. They have taken the colours from Tsunami, and copied (and improved upon) their tornado. Interesting choice as it will stick out like a sore thumb against the hillside backdrop, but maybe that's what they're aiming for. Plus the park is going through a bit of a 'fantasy' period of theming at the moment with their updated kids area.

Honestly, it looks better than Tsunami just on the fact that it's a cohesive and consistent rainbow colour. Not rainbow colours just thrown all over the wazoo

Both look great in their own ways. I do prefer the Funfields one with the colours blended, will be interesting to see if they can pull that off.

It's always great to hear about all the small parks around Australia investing in new attractions. They know their place in the industry and instead of going for the biggest, newest thing they stick with what they know and keep the regular locals happy.

It probably won't happen any time soon but I do start to wonder when one of these smaller parks might take the plunge and try to be the next big park. I was always disappointed when African Safari World was scrapped because the Victorian Government said it would have cost too much for the taxpayers. I think the only way for us to get a new park at this stage would be either one of the big global companies deciding to build here (Fat chance of that happening) or one of the smaller parks invests heavily.

It would be interesting to see if a smaller park stepping up holds onto their level of detail they put into their parks, I always seem to feel that attractions at smaller parks and the parks themselves are generally of a better quality in terms of cleanliness/working effects etc. that some of our bigger parks.

So this is Tornado #8 now right? 

What other parks could potentially get one here in Aus?

I think they could have enclosed it to differentiate it from the one at Adventure Park, but I guess being bigger is enough of a point of difference alone.

Edited December 10, 20196 yr by Gazza

After seeing those plans I thought I had recognised that colour scheme before and after doing some digging I found one with it on the proslide website. I’m not sure where it is located though.

So this is basically what were gonna get.

Edited December 10, 20196 yr by Mc coaster

Vuvuzela at Beach Park Brazil.

there couldn't be a more appropriate name for a tornado funnel in brazil.

Great find!!! Thanks for sharing the info!!

Cant help but think that this is a "safe" and a bit boring addition for Funfields. I would have thought that since we are now at Tornado number 8 in Australia, a different and more unique slide would have been just the ticket. Dont get me wrong, its awesome that the investment in the Victorian parks still continues , but I cannot help but feel slightly disappointed at these plans.

 

I think maybe its an FU move to take the title of the longest slide in Victoria?

1 minute ago, Gazza said:

I think maybe its an FU move to take the title of the longest slide in Victoria?

I guess , but I suppose they could have claimed that title with using a different slide model as well?

From what I gather those parks aren't fans of each other.

Fun fields is also becoming a catalogue for ProSlide. 2 Mega Proslide’s, a Proslide wave pool, plus all their other Proslide’s.

Edited December 11, 20196 yr by Tim Dasco

By the way, if they want to match it in with the existing slide, call it Supernova.

 

Good evening from Canada, ladies and gents of down under. I visited the Proslide Technology production factory in Hamilton today and I've been permitted to share some stuff that has your name on it. Only found the one stack, seems to match what's already been posted in this thread. Was told that this forum might appreciate the heads up, so do with these what you will;IMG_7894.HEICIMG_7900.HEICIMG_7902.HEICIMG_7901.HEICIMG_7893.HEIC

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Wow that’s an awesome scoop. Thanks for sharing those pics! Great to know the new slide has been manufactured. Looks like it could be up and running this summer fingers crossed!

I'm assuming this would be open for the peak season at the end of this year?

Good to see Funfields still investing, although I fear they are going to lose a lot of market share this year with the $40m being spent on Roller Coasters at Gumbuya World.

But possibly focusing on slides and keeping value to their day ticket and season pass prices (gumbuya world season pass is $199 😲) could really keep them in the game

Sounds like you've got yourselves this major slide under construction as we speak, park has been super secretive. Anyone wonder why they're opening for the season a month later than usual?

On 11/12/2019 at 4:48 PM, Gazza said:

By the way, if they want to match it in with the existing slide, call it Supernova.

 

Either it was a great guess or they saw your suggestion and ran with it!

https://www.funfields.com.au/rides/supanova/

 

@Gazzahas the gift.

 

Looks good! Seems like it might have internal LED lighting if the promo images are anything to go by, which will be pretty cool. Between this and Gumbya‘a new coasters, Melbourne’s theme park industry is really booming. 

 

^It is probably just daylight rings:

 

Great investment by Funfields but I think Gumbuya tops it out with its two new coasters.

Just now, TBoy said:

Great investment by Funfields but I think Gumbuya tops it out with its two new coasters.

Totally agree. I’ll be hitting up Gumbuya this summer for sure, even if it now costs $78 to get in, getting close to GC theme park pricing now! TNT looks like heaps of fun and will be great to ride a revitalised Buzzsaw again! I suggested to Gumbuya that they perhaps need to look at having to option of paying for access to park areas separately. E.G. wet, dry, wildlife. It would mean having to hire 3 extra staff to check wristbands at the entrances to each “world” but it may mean more numbers attending the park.