Nostalgia at the Parks

[Brad2912]

Agree it was immersive and fun for the whole family. So bummed my son missed out on it as he’d have loved it and there just is nothing else like it here 

[ParkPundit]

In the future plans for WB Kids they should add another kids ride of similar scale. The driving school isn't the same (nor is it meant to be).

[Brad2912]

  On 28/07/2020 at 1:21 AM, ParkPundit said:

In the future plans for WB Kids they should add another kids ride of similar scale. The driving school isn't the same (nor is it meant to be).

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Just won’t happen. They don’t have the space or the infrastructure (vacant building) to do so. 

[ParkPundit]

  On 28/07/2020 at 2:07 AM, Brad2912 said:

Just won’t happen. They don’t have the space or the infrastructure (vacant building) to do so. 

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Yeah true that, would require a major renovation. Movie World doesn't have much land to the North, West or South do they? For any future rides that take up heaps of room they'd have to expand into the car park i'm assuming? 

[T-bone]

The beauty about Driving School, is that it literally can be picked up and moved elsewhere relatively cheaply. Same goes for whatever is in storage on the other side of the shed. With Driving School, if they get the models and props water and weather proof, it doesn't even need to be inside. It wouldn't take much to build a ride of similar vein to Looney Tunes River Ride, it just requires someone at the park with vision and willing to spend money. 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

I'd sooner they put JDS into the HSD arena if they wanted to build a kick ass dark ride in the LTRR stage.

Lord knows HSD is shit, and JDS would be a better use of the space.

It won't happen though.

[WalleyWorld]

  On 28/07/2020 at 3:03 AM, T-bone said:

The beauty about Driving School, is that it literally can be picked up and moved elsewhere relatively cheaply.

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Good point. It won't happen though.

  On 28/07/2020 at 3:03 AM, T-bone said:

It wouldn't take much to build a ride of similar vein to Looney Tunes River Ride, it just requires someone at the park with vision and willing to spend money. 

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We will never see Village build a dark ride to the standard of LTRR, with the current Clark & Bikash dynamic duo running the show.

[Brad2912]

  On 28/07/2020 at 9:41 AM, Luke said:

We will never see Village build a dark ride to the standard of LTRR, with the current Clark & Bikash dynamic duo running the show.

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I see this as such a pointless comment, did we see any fantastic dark rides built in the last 20 years under management prior to Bikash & Clark? It’s just having a pointless and baseless dig at 2 people for no reason

[WalleyWorld]

  On 28/07/2020 at 10:58 AM, Brad2912 said:

 I see this as such a pointless comment, did we see any fantastic dark rides built in the last 20 years under management prior to Bikash & Clark? It’s just having a pointless and baseless dig at 2 people for no reason

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Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster (original version) could be considered as a fantastic dark ride built in the last 20 years, under prior management?

True. Clark & Bikash cannot be 100% responsible for the gradual degradation of the VRTP themepark product offering. This has happened over many years, prior to them in top management roles. I just don't think either of them have the true passion and vision to steer VRTPs out of the current "cedar fair/six flags" product quality, and more towards busch gardens/europa park/universal quality.

[rappa]

See this is a weird comment...

John Menzies built countless amazing attractions, albeit with much less budget than would be needed to do today with all the bullshit hoops and standards that need to be dealt with. 
 

Then you had the joke that was Tim and Bob come in and just destroy everything, gut quality attractions and replace them with trash. Demote the parks from destination to regional category on purpose, and cut costs everywhere possible. 
 

Now you have Clark and Bikash, arguably the two most passionate people in management since John Menzies running the show, and building a team of people below them with the same values. 
 

They’ve got years worth of shit to undo from the mistakes of the previous management, I’m sure they would love to build quality attractions like Tunes, but there is much turnaround to do first. 

[Jdude95]

I hate it when a park has gone to shit and then a new team come in to try and fix it but constantly get shit on for not fixing it fast enough

[joz]

I don't want to derail another topic with this shit (seriously have something else to be about) but I would be happy if a competent company bought DW and left some of the park level management team in place.

[Brad2912]

  On 28/07/2020 at 11:31 AM, Luke said:

I just don't think either of them have the true passion and vision

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Think they’ve got bucketloads of passion. You can’t change workplace culture and right wrongs of decades past overnight. 

[Smol bean]

Getting back on topic here are some old dreamworld ads 

 

[Prequel]

Does anybody remember the Buzzsaw marketing campaign where staff members told stories of their ghost experiences? There was also some competition to stay over night at Dreamworld.

I think they made the videos of the marketing campaigns private on their YouTube channel, but i just remember them really well.

[Smol bean]

I think this is the vid you’re talking about @Prequel

 

[Prequel]

  On 01/08/2020 at 9:51 AM, Smol bean said:

I think this is the vid you’re talking about @Prequel

 

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I mean, it was apart of the marketing campaign. But no.

Most of it is gone now, they got rid of a lot of things from their YouTube channel. They still have their Facebook videos still up, didn't get rid of those!

[Smol bean]

Oh ok mate

[Aw hype]

Have found some interesting stuff on old waterparks etc. in Perth recently, and felt like sharing/asking questions so if anyone knows they can share. Left out Great Escape Hillarys because it has its own thread.

First up: Armadale Aquatic centre waterslides.

Opened December 1981, closed circa 2015?

3 waterslides, built by someone knows that isn't me. 'Dipper Tube and 'Corkscrew Tube' slides (see second picture) opened somewhere around 5 years before the far right and locally dubbed 'fast tube'.

Note the layout of the furthest right waterslide (bottom photo) and how a 'head first only' rule was in order (see second photo).

Mirrabooka Action Park

Opened sometime in the 80s in and closed <1994

Consisted of two open air, identical, mirrored slides and a green tube slide in the middle. Yet another small park to be accused of having 'kids stick rasors on the inside of the slides'. Also appears to have had a Pinfari coaster of some kind for a period of time (No rcdb listings or anything)

Now, my questions to the community:

What is the story surrounding the coaster at Mirrabooka?

Who manufactured the slides at both parks?

Who manufactured the Great Escape slides? (Rumour has it Action park sold the middle slide to Great Escape. However, looking at the Mirrabooka aerial and Hillarys on Google Earth, none of the slide layouts match up, and the tube support structures on the Great Escape slides are different to those at Mirrabooka)

And, if Action Park didn't sell to Great Escape, were the slides just sccrpped?

[Spotty]

That coaster is a S.D.C Galaxy Coaster, and the color scheme looks oddly familiar to the Thrillseeker that was at Sea World, but that opened in 1982 at Sea World. It may actually have been the Metropolis that went to Luna Park Melbourne as that opened in 1990 and an early photo of the ride at Luna Park Sydney shows the same track color scheme

https://rcdb.com/1134.htm#p=1494 

[Gazza]

It doesn't look like the Mirrabooka body slides are identically mirrored, different number of turns

 

The Hillarys slides are Australian Waterslides and Leisure.

[Aw hype]

  On 28/09/2020 at 3:27 AM, Gazza said:

It doesn't look like the Mirrabooka body slides are identically mirrored, different number of turns

 

The Hillarys slides are Australian Waterslides and Leisure.

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Yeah my bad @Gazza, they aren't mirrored.

And look what i found...

These were taken 1987, and there are no bumper boats but there is the coaster. Perhaps they were down on funds later on and sold the coaster to LPS to try stay afloat and replaced it with the boats?

Edited September 28, 2020 by Aw hype

[Jobe]

  On 28/09/2020 at 7:28 AM, Aw hype said:

These were taken 1987, and there are no bumper boats but there is the coaster. Perhaps they were down on funds later on and sold the coaster to LPS to try stay afloat and replaced it with the boats?

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You mean LPM of course. No Galaxi or Pinfari coaster has ever been at LPS.

[jjuttp]

  On 25/09/2020 at 11:05 AM, Aw hype said:

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The Stop Please Read slide looks like fun.

[Aw hype]

  On 28/09/2020 at 9:06 AM, Jobe said:

You mean LPM of course. No Galaxi or Pinfari coaster has ever been at LPS.

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Yes i did mean LPM, sorry again

  On 28/09/2020 at 9:38 AM, jjuttp said:

The Stop Please Read slide looks like fun.

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Thats the slide with the enforced head first rule