Re: News from IAAPA about Japan woodies

You know, someone should contact (and give a hint to) Dreamworld in Queensland,
Australia.  This park desperately needs a wooden coaster, and has just taken
out one of their coasters (and to my knowledge has not put another coaster in
its place).   Plus, it's a shorter trip to move a coaster from Japan to
Australia than Japan to the US.  As of now, Australia's only operating
non-scenic railway, non-mouse wood coaster is the Bush Beast, which I found to
be very weak.  The country could definitely support another wood coaster.

David (hoping to get back to Australia very soon)

>So how much is Aska? What would it cost compared to building it from
>scratch? Also Viper first two drops are forceless (no back seat
>airtime) but the rest of the ride on Viper is airtime filled. How
>about the first two drops on Aska? Are they lame or do they work? Also
>is the rest of Aska after the intial 2 drops as good as Viper? I hope
>that every hill that works on Viper also works on Aska and I hope it
>can be feasible to move Aska to the USA. Maybe Little A-Merreck-A, Big
>Chiefs or Holiday World may be interested in the ride if it is cost
>effective to rebuild it here.