Australian Amusement Fanatics

I am commencing work rebuilding the AAF site back to its former glory.

I would be interested in getting your thoughts and feedback in what you would like to see included, and how you would like to see things sorted and presented.

Matt

I have started to upload some photo albums on the Facebook site to hopefully spark up some conversations.

One of these days I will find a CMS that will do what I want it to do, and rebuild the AAF site back to its former glory.

Hoping all members in Queensland and their families are safe and getting by during the devestating floods being experience across the state. By the sound of things, the Brisbane and Ipswich areas are still yet to feel the full force of the situation. They are predicting that on Thursday the water le...

Welcome aboard old showie. Good to see that we keep increasing our membership base with people experienced in the industry.

I'm off to the ekka today, which is looking a bit overcast. Will see what photos I can get.

Village Roadshow Theme Parks today unveiled plans a new major attraction at Wet’n’Wild Water World. The new attraction, AquaLoop, will feature 4 looping slides and is due to open in September 2010. AquaLoop AquaLoop will be the first ride of its kind in Australia with four full looping slides. The r...

Village Roadshow Theme Parks today unveiled plans for 2 new major attractions for Sea World in 2010. The new attractions will include a new interactive adventure zone Castaway Bay opening in September and an animal exhibit Penguin Encounter featuring King and Gentoo Penguins, opening for the Christm...

Yeah, sorry about that guys. The web server received a php upgrade which was not compatable with the forums. Problem all fixed now, obviously. Main site, thats a whole other storey Vee. It is a very big project, and I cant seem to find enough time to spend on it. As you could imagine, we have years ...

Send me a private message and I will get it sorted.

Cheers
Matt

Thats a blast from the past. I have quite a few old pics from Wonderland and a video from my last hooray there.

Sorry guys. Minor hiccup - thanks princess for letting me know

Well I am always around too guys. Observing from a far and stepping in when needed or if I have an opinion to share. Princess has hit it on the head, things happen in peaks and then die down during certain times of the year. Dont worry redhot, there are no plans to shut down the forums. Just buildin...

Keep the designs and ideas coming guys. I like Vee's idea of an old classical ride. Superloop - Turbo is deffinitely in that ball park. One thing to keep in mind, depending on what is used to put the logo on shirts (embroided, screen printed, iron-on), if you use images that are very detailed, it co...

Not bad Chris. We will have to chat about coming up with a new concept. I have attached a couple of photos of our old shirts.

Thanks for the offer of help guys. I am currently rebuilding the AAF site using eZ Publish CMS from the old site which was just done in frontpage. So most of the work is putting together the new structure and cutting and pasting the old data - which is quite hefty. Plus I am redoing all the images. ...

Hey guys. We used to have white polo shirts with the AAF logo on it (the old green logo) back in the beginning. We did get recognised wearing them. We had members from theme parks who would notice the shirts and stop for a chat. Seeing a few people are interested I will add it to the list with the c...

Well guys, I am cracking up laughing reading your posts. And Clay, in response to your point, I wont be creating a set of rules up for this Forum. I think everyone already knows its a place for free speech, unless you start bagging someone out. Why doesnt Dreamworld get more corporate sponsorship to...

I don't know if everyone is aware, but Dreamworld is opening a new attraction on 17 December 2008. Partnering with V8 Supercars Australia, Dreamworld will be bringing the first full-motion virtual V8 Supercars experience to the country. The new attraction will be located in Ocean Parade to the right...

You win some and you lose some. I will get around to customising as soon as I get the chance. We will try and match it to the new AAF site we are also building.

All I can say is it is bloody fantastic not having to delete hundreds of spam accounts every couple of days.

Alright everybody. I am not happy at all with the direction this topis is heading in and have removed the childish and blantant disregarding posts. If this behaviour continues, your account will be cancelled.

Love the thinking Chris. I am with you there on the last comment. You want to get away from the standard photo and try and get a unique shot that will make the Calendar stand out even more. If you want to do something like this, you would want to do it right and put some real work into it (not sayin...

Hey Paulie. The roller coaster is called the 'Orphan Rocker'. It was an inhouse built coaster, which I believe, has never opened to the public for operation - something to do with safety. However, it is rumoured that people have had the chance of riding it before. I have photos and information on th...

A number of posts have been removed from this topic as they were offensive and dame right rude. I will not tolerate that type of behaviour on here and if you have an issue with someone, deal with it outside of these forums.

The main offender has been removed from the Forums.

Princess you will find that EKKA wont publish a full ride lineup.

Princess, as the saying goes, you just need to jump back up on that horse.