In Gold Coast, they have three major theme parks, namely Warner Bros Movie World, Dreamworld, Seaworld and two water theme parks. Amongst the three, Movie World is the most well known internationally. I've gone to Warner Bros Movie World, no regret and worth the money back. cool...
Last Sunday, we went to Dreamworld which is famed for its Big 5 thrilling rides, The claw, Giant Drop, Tower of terror, Wipeout and Cyclone. They are really well designed and thrilling especially Giant Drop and Tower of terror.
I would say Giant Drop is the mother of all rides. It's a square pole thing that reach 119 metres from the sea level and the sudden drop accelerating to 135 km/h. There are east and west seating which consist of 8-seat in a row. The scenery at east wing could see Surfers paradise and of course the Pacific Ocean whereas the west wing could only see the hinterland of Gold Coast. So fast and so terrifying. I haven't got time to scream for the sudden shocked it has already reached the ground. It's really toooo fast to make any response. The feeling is like your guts and everything are still hanging on top where you have already reached the bottom. I don't like the ride that much but went for it just for the sake of experiencing.
Tower of terror. It is another ride attached to the Giant Drop's pole on the other side. In other words, the pole consists of 2 sides of the Giant Drop and 1 side of the tower of terror. We sat on a car and it was accelerating very very fast, as fast as the superman escape in Movie world. The car was driven towards the pole following a curve rail and it was dangling at the pole for 5 sec before it dropped back to the starting point. (It could be illustrated clearer with the photo above.) What do you think?? Have you ever tried a ride that goes backwards?? I was so mentally unprepared at that moment cos it was our first ride of the day. My tears were just burst out synchronizing with the shock feelings...haha...it's not frightening but just not prepared. I still got a bit of guts...I like this ride the most.
The claw. The most fun ride. The ride looks like claw as can be seen from the name where the claw is the cycle seating and the pole attached to it is the hand. It swings to left and right in an increasing speed and height and the cycle seating is spinning concurrently. Huh...just dunno how to describe. Two words: awesome and Brilliant.
Wipeout. The design of this ride is according to the current of waves. We were turned upside down, inside out on the 30-seater-in-a-row kind of car attached to the left and right motion poles. In other words, we were like in a simulation washing machine, man! But we laughed a lot for that ride. Those people who had heavy meal before the ride would be suffering for the ride so we played before lunch.
Cyclone is just a normal cyclone ride in a train running through two loops and slant rail. It's the mildest amongst all. It was fun as we rode under the rain on that day and we had twice.
The imperfectness of the day was it's raining and caused procrastinating in our journey. Otherwise, we would be able to have more fun. Other than that, the theme park has a lots of show as well such as Tiger presentation, farm show which has sheep shearing as one of the programmes and many more. But since we had already wasted a lot of times stuck in the rain, we din go for all the shows. It's alright...I think the main focus of this theme parks is the rides. I'm contented with that.
A few more rides that are also brilliant such as thunder Rapid ride which is the imatation of water rafting. Cool but we got drenched on the ride. The longest waiting time ride, Log river is the most not worth the waiting time, cos the ride exactly the same as the one in Genting. 4 persons in a boat and the boat will cruise to a slide and accelerate down to the flat surface and the water from the simulated river water will splash towards us. The main attraction of this ride is only for those people who eagerly seeking for complete drenched and wet. But still has the fun in it.
The day ended faster than usual whenever you are having fun. The park closes at 5pm and we went back exhaustively to prepare our quick dinner. The conclusion of the day was we had so much fun and laughter but utterly mental fatigue. At night when I was sitting in front of my desk, I could feel the giddiness as if i were still sitting on the ride, took me few moments to get back the balancing.
Heaps of back dated experiences to share but time is really precious here. Not much time to write. Will do it when I've a bit of spare time.