Australian Amusement Fanatics

Sounds like a fantastic holiday destination Sun, Sand, Surf.

its basically just Watkins who do phillip island now..... I kinda understand why they sold Zipper..... hmmm

chris

Did Russel sell his zipper?

So there have been news that he did..........aussieridebroker told us, but who knows how valid his information is

I am getting conflicting information on the Ferris Wheel, has anyone else got any firmer information.

Now the Ferris Wheel????Hmmmm The one that Paul Watkins has?? ask ozshowkid.

Paul don't own the ferris wheel any more he hasn't for a few years now. It now belongs to main event Melbourne.

Cheers Oz

Didnt think they were ever going to part with that, I thought it was going to be passed down to one of his boys? So what do they have now?

To answer your message ozshowkid,I never worked as such for Watkins, I worked for Trevor & Lisa for a few years,

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HUSSRAINBOW wrote:So there have been news that he did..........aussieridebroker told us, but who knows how valid his information is

I sold it to Johnny Castle so be very careful on what you say

Change over is 1st December

the only reason i said that was because....hmmm where is that RAINBOW that SUPPOSEDLY came to australia........nuff said man

The Ferris Wheel I am talking about is the 60 metre one, that ozshowkid mentioned.

I was at Phillip Island on the weekend and drove past the grounds. I saw the hangover (Kamikaze) there but nothing else had arrived. it was still racked on the trailer. I'm not to sure when the carnivale starts, probaly when the school holidays start.

Thats awsome news anyway


Shaun

pretty interesting to hear that Hangover is down there...Watkins must be doing something with their Kamikaze.....Id love to see Hangover, or even Shockwave at rye... shame anyway.

Im pretty sure that philip island starts bout the same time as port arlington maby a couple days earilier. Watkins are workin there and so are a few browns.

Hangover was at Eltham festival just last weekend....along with Ferris Wheel, Gravitron (whatever it's called) and Sea Explorer.

CG

DareWing wrote:I just noticed on themepark.nl that Hoefnagels 'SpaceRoller' (Mondial TopScan) should also be moving to Australia?

http://themepark.nl/ubbthreads/showflat ... Post809522

Does anybody know something more about it?

Well folks it has arrived at Melbourne Port for Russel Watkins my sources in Melbourne have confirmed. The ride should be up and running at Phillip Island mid January.

rumour has it there is a brand new italian ferris wheel getting made for some Aussies. its 45 feet higher than the one at Sydney every car has an intercom and a reverse cycle air con. Speed is here as you know, and it is alot bigger than vomatron, there are also rumours of an eclipse sort of ride on its way and a brand new chance zipper and a caterpilla coaster. Space roller has arrived first place to work is 100% philip island.
2006 is gunna be big space roller, speed, turbo, caterpilla coaster, zipper, and ferris wheel.

cheers oz

wow a new chance zipper!!! YAY! cant wait to see that and try it out, I wonder how it will compare to shorts Zipper!

cant wait to see space roller and speed!

OzShowKid, wow, intercom and a/c? Sounds like a premium wheel experience. This thing is portable?

Very interesting about that Chance Zipper.

You mentioned Eclipse, probably the single trailer high speed thrill ride by Fabbri, that thing is meant to be able to pull up to 5G's. Here are some photo's, quite impressive for a single trailer configuration.

http://www.fabbrigroup.com/products/pro ... v&gstart=1

It might be a Mondial Capriolo too, as our 'yellow Eclipse' is for sale.
But it would surpise me to see ALL our rides that are for sale going
to Australia

http://board.themeparkvision.net/showthread.php?t=4826
http://www.amusement-rides.com/home.htm

i think it is the same as the one darewing mentioned but brand new. Yeah the wheel is portable 6-7 trailers i think.

I have had the wheel rumour confirmed as well, which oz, you mentioned awhile ago.