When you're going through a life Spring clean, you might think to yourself 'out with the old and in with the new'.
While that can be helpful if you're getting over a bad breakup, dumping that couch that's been hanging around like a bad smell or updating your wardrobe - it's not when it's about an iconic theme park ride.
Thousands of Aussies will have, at one time or another, ridden on The Tower of Terror at Dreamworld.
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When it opened in 1997, it was the first roller coaster in the world to reach 100 miles per hour speeds, making it the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world of its time. Since then, it had enjoyed plenty of thrills, spills and screams.
But sadly, Dreamworld has announced that the ride will be torn down to make way for new attractions.
Dreamworld's chief operating officer Greg Yong released a statement saying: "New technology in the theme park industry continues to develop and become more advanced each and every year.
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"We believe the success of our future is about investing in new, state-of-the art experiences for our guests wherever we can.
"This means some of our old favourites have been retired to make way for these new experiences including Sky Voyager, the Southern Hemisphere's first flying theatre, and other attractions recently announced which will start to be introduced to the park in the coming months."
Dreamworld insist the ride isn't being scrapped because of technical or safety issues. The empty spot will be filled by a bunch of different smaller but just as good features.
There will be a $30m rollercoaster, a revamp of ABC KIDS World, a new waterside complex that will feature different body slides as well as five splashzone experiences. Not too shabby but also sad that the Tower of Terror won't be there anymore.
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The ride will be officially shut down on November 3.
Thankfully, The Giant Drop, which shares the same 119m Dreamworld Tower, will continue to run.
The Tower of Terror got up to 160km/h in just seven seconds thanks to an electromagnetic system that would certainly give you a shock to the system. You then go up a 90 degree vertical tower that pulls 4.5Gs.
It held it's record for the tallest rollercoaster about two months until it was beaten by Superman: The Escape at Six Flags Magic Mountain in the US. It held onto the fastest title for four years until Dodonpa at Fuji-Q Highland opened in 2001.
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