themagician

Honestly, even with express for the major attraction, you probably won’t even have time to go this ago. I haven’t experienced the one in Orlando, but if it was me I would skip it and use your time more wisely for other attractions that get the longer queues that aren’t on your pass. Also, if you have Jaws on your pass as an option, don’t waste it. The wait time for Jaws generally isn’t that long, or go as single riders (your chance of being able to ride with your friend/partner is high on this one).

Doomsday Destroyer is the perfect example of a 360 swinging attraction that sucked (partly because it wasn’t unpowered)

Out of no where, USJ has just opened a replacement for Backdraft. Unfortunately it’s just a replica of the Villain-Con Minion Blast that can be found at Universal Florida (which I haven’t read or seen good things about). It’s great they’ve added a good crowd soaker attraction, but my initial reaction is it’s a shame it’s this (especially when Backdraft was so good).

I’m glad it doesn’t complete a full invert because I don’t think the park needs a ride that does that. It has Seprent Slayer and Tailspin as their inverting rides. King Claw will have enough speed and forces that inverting would probably be too much for most guests and would make the investment not worth while. I don’t know if this is currently the case, but I’m fairly sure Luna Parks model was having issues and couldn’t do the inversion for some time???

@Cactus_Matt even with the angles not being the same, you can clearly see the ride is much taller. And no it won’t go 360 degrees.

These photos from @Theme Park Girl show how it’s being installed and what it’s connecting too

But also remember down the road we’re stilling waiting on Superman Escape to have its queue/locker upgrades, an all new dining experience to open, Doomsday to be replaced, Scooby to open, for WoO to become world class and for them to sort out their electrical system so they don’t have wiring hanging above guest areas. (The last couple I added for dramatic effect, but you get my point).

September 2012

Another great pic from @Theme Park Girl And for reference, here is a photo of The Claw from many years ago. You can see that the roof at the front right is still the same as gives an indication of how insanely big King Claw actually is!

Considering The Claw started construction at the start of the year and was open in September, I’m honestly expecting a similar timeframe (if there aren’t any weather delays).

The other half of the structure was installed this afternoon. Just the motor and pendulum arm to go!

Install has begun. Photos by @Theme Park Girl

I spoke with the CEO, Greg a couple weeks ago about this. He indicated that the train will still be returning to a full loop circuit. There have been delays in rebuilding the track as fabricators/installer are harder to come by than you might think for train tracks. When this might happen, I don’t know, but Greg has expressed to be in the past how important the train is for the park and I get the impressed getting rid of it entirely isn’t an option.

Dreamworld are hosting a fundraising event on Saturday September 6, 6pm to 10pm. The event is for over 18s and is $199 per person and includes the below. https://facebook.com/events/s/give-for-the-wild-a-gatsby-jun/5023010051257727/

@rappa I’m not expert in this area, but looking at this close up photo from @Theme Park Girl to me they look like individual bulbs (but if I’m wrong, good to know they are actually LEDs).