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It appears that the requirement for a tertiary locking system isn't restricted just to Australia. Notably both Mack extreme spinners as well as Voltron both have a mechanical locking system, as well as the hydraulic system (which I imagine is still dual-redundant). This gets activated after the push pull (which is done automatically on the extreme spinner trains), and also prevents the harness from further closing during the ride. I'm not sure how these work exactly, but I've wondered if it's a system that could be adopted to satisfy the requirements in Australia.

Mack roller coasters are usually pretty configurable for that kind of thing right in the touch screen on the panel. Changing the number of operators required is definitely just a toggle switch on the panel, so I imagine locking off an air gate is too.

It doesn't usually make that noise, but I imagine it's probably new wheels or adjustments to the wheel bogies, causing some wheels to rub some more. It'll likely go away after a few dozen cycles.

There are always two hydraulic cylinders or ratchets, so one failed cylinder doesn't mean that the seatbelt is the only restraint, but yes, still impossible to detect with the belt tightened. Another interesting fact here is that DC Rivals is setup such that only one cylinder is locked in the station, and the cylinder that gets locked alternates between each dispatch, this way they both get checked every two cycles. When the train actually goes to dispatch, the other cylinder gets locked.

The key thing to note here is the second point that states that the push pull "check shall be carried out with the safety belt unfastened". If the belt has been fastened and has no slack, then the pull check won't detect a failed cylinder. Back when guests could insert their own seatbelt, that would very often tighten the belt themselves, so the procedure was changed to what it is now.

Honestly I'm surprised to hear that. It was probably happening every other week when I worked on it; I never stopped the ride myself but was there when it happened more the once.

It's definitely still the same announcements used. Justice League and West automatically play the female announcement when the e-stop is pressed, Green Lantern doesn't do any automatic announcements, and I'm not sure about the others.

All the ride technicians are mechanical trades people, and electricians. The parks employ engineers but they typically aren't hands on with the rides, except when doing commissioning or more complex issues arise.

The two bottom letters were lit up earlier tonight. They look pretty bright and legible from a distance; the full word will definitely look good once it's all lit up.

Perhaps more likely to be underground services. I can't imagine they'll want the queue to go through the smokers area

Yep, as far as I'm aware

All the ride uniforms have disappeared at movie world now too, all the ride ops are just wearing this new uniform. I think it looks very bland and having the blue on the old shirts made them much more recognisable.

I'm betting that we've all had our final rides on Doomsday.

You'll have to note that there being two staff members in the booth is due to training, which always inevitably leads to longer cycle times.

Was also my first visit to try and ride Leviathan but it was still closed when I left at 2. As I was leaving there was a big film crew setting up around the entrance to the ride. I'm certainly hoping that wasn't why it was shut, because I checked the maintenance schedule the night before and it had no indication the ride would be closed. Would be very disappointing if they closed a ride at short notice for a film crew, who presumably would have given them extensive notice.