Anyone into Roller Coasters!?

Originally posted by Andrew_C:Australia needs to build some more theme parks, theres only 6/7 in the whole country, 3 of them r shit, the other 4 r on the gold coast, 1 of which is a water park, another is Sea World, so no thrills there. Theres basically only Movie World and Dreamworld.

Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

What about Magic Mountain? Even if it did look like a certain something.

The Beach House at Glenelg, if you can get to it and actually park anywhere (or take the tram), looks alright, but I haven't been there yet.

Originally posted by Xayide29:
But its quite fun now, altough I dont think the ones we have in Sweden
Can be compared to what you have over in the States

BRISBANE - Irish supergroup U2 prepared for tomorrow night's Australian tour opener by taking on theme park thrill rides and getting up close to a Bengal tiger.

The band, who will resume their Vertigo world tour after an eight month postponement, risked a dose of vertigo by taking on the scariest rides at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast.

Frontman Bono, guitarist The Edge, bass player Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jnr had the theme park to themselves late on Saturday night.

The four 40-somethings took time off from rehearsals to try such thrill rides as the Giant Drop, Wipeout, Tower of Terror, the Cyclone Rollercoaster and The Claw.

They were also treated to an up close encounter with 12 year old Bengal tiger Mohan on the theme park's Tiger Island.

U2, who haven't played a concert in Australia since early 1998, have been based on the Gold Coast since last Wednesday, regularly mixing with fans outside their luxury hotel.

Around 50,000 people are expected at the Queensland Sports and Athletics Centre (formerly the ANZ Stadium) in Brisbane's south tomorrow night.

Their last major concert was at River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires in early March.

They flew from there to Sydney but headed home without playing a show after a band member's relative became ill.

Since they last toured Australia, U2 have produced two of their most critically acclaimed albums - All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.

Material from a new album expected to be released next year - including a cover of Scottish punk band The Skids' The Saints Are Coming and a new track Window In The Skies - could be sampled on Australian audiences.

U2, who are due to play from 8pm (AEST), are being supported by Grammy Award winning Hip Hop artist Kanye (Kanye) West.

Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said in a UK radio interview U2's 1987 hit Where The Streets Have No Name is his favourite song of all time.

Said to be about division and violence in Ireland, the song is still regularly part of U2's concert set-list.

U2 play at Sydney's Telstra Stadium on Friday and Saturday nights before heading to Adelaide, Melbourne and then New Zealand.