Australian Amusement Fanatics

Sorry, i didn't no the dates for adelaide. Hopefully the ride line-up will b good down there. I definately agree with u guys, they need a chairlift at homebush. From like the kids area to the aussie ave carnival. With the chairlifts, are they owned by a showmen and do they do both melbourne and brissie?

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Top Gunner14

I stand corrected on this but I'm fairly sure the chairlifts are owned by the Show Societies and are not transported but are assembled and packed away before and after Showtime every year.

Ok, thanx Ben

To put the myth to the facts the chair lift that does Brisbane & Melbourne is owned by Stan Durkin. The only thing that is moved and assembled on each are the seats.

for an australian ride broker, with fairly good knowledge into the industry, you'd realise that the Chairlift was REMOVED in Melbourne....guess not ey

I knew ekka had them and i thought the chair lift was removed from melbourne cause of the renos. Is Stan Durkin an actual durkin(any relation to phillip or owners of chaos, claw and that?)

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Top Gunner14

Stan Durkin is Phillip's dad, Durkin/Wardall own chaos and claw etc.

Thanks for that Princess! I often wondered about the Durkin's and have found info very difficult to come across. Thanks also for the correction on the Chairlift Aussie. I wonder whether owning this is profitable? I think you had to pay to ride the one in Sydney years ago but I can't remember for sure.

Ok, thanx for that princess.

Well, I took all my ekka pictures that I took, plus a few video clips that I found on my PC, and whipped them all up into a 3 minute video.

Rides Featured - Flash Dance, Super Sizzler, No Limit, Space Roller, SkyView, Cyber Party, Starship 2000, Skymaster, Ali Baba, Crazy Coaster.

Please note, that I took all the footage, except the Cyber Party video. That was just randomly found on my desktop

The URL for the video can be found below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UwMcKTKoEU&v3

cool photos crap song

Cheers for the photo compliments Chris, I may do a better version as I noticed a few things in it I want to change, so I may use a different song.

Yea cool vid but really bad music you should have used the cannibal corpse song Striped Raped and Strangeld

Do you have any audio of the rides in operation? I really like the clips that feature this or the onride videos like the Super Loop one Kiwi took. I would love to take a camera on the rides with me and do some filming. I'm sure the pics you took are fantastic too!

There will be a new version going on tonight with the soundtrack being "Sneaky Sound System - UFO" This new video also features about 30 secs of ON RIDE footage of Hard Rock.

What a great idea Ben, again what we take for granted, maybe we should have a guessing competion, guess the ride by the sound, suppose you would win.

Yes I do know most of the rides by what they sound like although some of the newer ones are a bit tricky. You've got to be right in front of No Limit before you hear anything and Speed and the Hard Rock make no noise at all until you're actually riding. Sobima Breakdances are also very quiet. On the other hand, rides like Enterprise, Ranger, Kamikaze, Rainbow etc are unmistakable.

By the way Hurricane, good choice for sneaky Sound System cos I'm a huge fan of them! They were excellent at Live Earth earlier this year and I think they played at Ekka too.

Yes Ben,

Sneaky Sound System did play at the EKKA, they sang UFO, and Pictures if I am correct.

Anyway the new video is now up and located here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPwo1nOHBJo

And i'm sorry, none of the video clips that I had, have sound

Great video thanks for sharing.

Could anyone tell me who owns this pay box, was in front of a kids ride next to the Flashdance.



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Kiwi

That ticket box looks like either Durkins, or Gills Partyland. I'm not 100% on it, but it just looks familiar

Thanks, the design is very similar to many I have seen in the past. More interested in the colour scheme on it.

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Kiwi

I just realized that judging by the layout of the EKKA this year, that that ticket box would belong to "Gill's Partyland" As most of there kids rides were either there, or in the "Sunny Queen Smile Zone"

I was just on the EKKA website, and found the results for the best Thrill Ride and Family Ride of the show.

Ride and game precinct Moove Alley was - as always - a hit with all ages. Heart stopper "No Limit" took out the coveted prize for Best Extreme Ride in the annual Exhibitor Awards, and the giant F1 Euroslide again proved popular with the young and young at heart.

It's nice to see that No Limit is going well for Elwin, I'm sure he'd be glad to win this award again, as I believe it's the 2nd year in a row it's won this award. It truly deserves it, but it's the friendly staff and appearance that makes half this ride alone, so a big congratulations to them. And to the EuroSlide, even though I never rode it, it looks fantastic

No one on this forum is surprised about that, lol.

I not suprised lol. It is a great looking ride and a good ride in itself from what i can see