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DW has done a great job in the past couple of years in revitalising the park. Whilst there have been no signature rides installed, the overall park itself and it's offerings are greatly improved

So you're disagreeing with a very pertinent and relevant (not to mention accurate) point, simply on the basis that YOUR needs haven't been specifically catered to? I hate to break it to you, but you are not the parks only demographic. The park cannot survive on thrill rides alone, lest they alienate kids, families, tourists who don't count credits etc. We've seen the park install loads of higher thrill attractions, and the past couple of years have seen them spend time and money on things that we (and many members of the general public) have chipped them for - dilapidated, poorly maintained buildings and facilities, cheap, poor quality food offerings, and cheap crappy souvenirs, products and experiences. When a park continues to install high thrill rides, and can't even keep their toilets in a usable state, it's time to revisit your priorities.

Does it really matter in the end? Yes, sure it could/should be worded better, but at the end of the day, instead of debating the semantics of the announcement, shouldn't a bunch of theme park enthusiasts just be happy the park is finally open again and make the effort to visit on opening weekend to show their support for all the workers, animals and the park overall?

No you're not. I'm the resident asshole, you'll get used to it.

All good mate - the whole 'permission' thing is a debate I don't wish to reopen, but suffice it to say if a 'media outlet' of any description publishes a photo, and you bring it here, I feel its only appropriate if the outlet uses the photographer's name, you should too. For example - 'AusParks just posted these photos. Photo credit to Krusty the Klown.' I see no issue with that.

Sharon Bay? I thought it was Shark Bay.

I just think they should be more careful as not to draw anymore negative attention to themselves, especially knowing the media will be all over this reopening day.

you can't live life in fear. Thousands die on the road each year, families could be forgiven for worrying everytime they get behind the wheel that their kids could be hurt, but you cautiously move on. Most of the general public understand that a freak accident took place. The chance of a freak accident occurring again is no more likely to happen at DW as it is at any other park, and I think that's fairly common knowledge.

@Brad2912 if you read the following replies (including mine) you'll see that as an average, the 100,000 figure is pretty close to spot on.

Key words "You feel". Dreamworld is obviously going to have a little loss but won't be enough to make them not profitable. because there are generally people out there you will support Dreamworld no matter what. But i think you underestimate Sea World. Thrill Seekers aren't going to Sea World, families go there and me. Because i like marine life to. Anyway, Sea World is successful and I don't think they are declining more then LeafyIsHere's Sub count.

Not trying to be annoying here but im about to drop the statistics bomb: Village Roadshow operates Sea World & Sea World Resort & Water Park, Warner Bros. Movie World and Wet ’n’ Wild on the Gold Coast. For the year ending June 2015, the three operations of Village Roadshow recorded a 1.4% decrease in income. Income in the year ending June 2015 reached a total of $278.5 million. Visitor numbers for the year ending June 2015 amounted to 5.2 million, representing a decline of 3.8% compared with the previous financial year (see Table 13). The Ardent Leisure Group Theme Parks include Dreamworld, White Water World, and the SkyPoint Observation Deck and SkyPoint Climb. In June 2015, Dreamworld launched ABC kids world. For the second time, in 2014 Dreamworld was awarded Queensland's Best Major Tourist Attraction at the Queensland Tourism Awards and the third most popular tourist attraction at the annual Australian Tourism Awards. However, due to decreased per capita spending, overall revenue decreased slightly (by 0.6%) to $99.5 million. Visitor numbers increased by 11.7% to 2.28 million during the 2014/2015 financial year. (This is the end of the 2015 financial year, but with the new installations of Tiger Island, Doomsday Destroyer, Aqua 8 Racers Re-Vamp and a new rollercoaster, IMO, Seaworld are doing completely fine at the moment, and Dreamworld are taking the right approach to the incident so I honestly think there wont be a very large slump in visitors.) The chance of you dying on a ride is 1 in 500 trillion, im not dying on a ride anytime soon.

Looks great on the train going over the bridge. You see "Welcome to North Sydney".

Universal Studios Japan did that really well for their Jurrasic Park area. Tonnes and tonnes of plants, and did a really good job of hiding the rest of the park once in the area.

Really don't get the obsession with an 'Australiana theme'. We're in Australia already FFS, I have an Australiana theme everytime I walk outside of my house or go for a drive. There are plenty of 'australia' driven experiences already in most of the capital cities to fill the niche for the international tourist market.

I could reply to that, but @AlexB already did it for me... unfortunately for you, it's Dreamworld, not SunshineTom World...

But thrill seekers probably don't make up the majority of park guests. DW is much more geared towards families and people looking for a good day out. MW on the other hand is significantly more geared towards thrill seekers, as most of their recent attractions will attest.

Parkz world - fill it with well-themed B&Ms, fountains, and dark rides (for push).

RMC are great at fitting the land they have to play with. Goliath being probably the most notable since it's so compact. I think the gold rush/blue lagoon area would fit an RMC pretty well.

Will Sharon Bay have regular appearances of its namesake from Kath n Kim?

Autocorrect strikes again

1. If you think about it somebody already has the rights to Jurassic Park 2. Why does it have to have the Jurassic Park’s naming rights? 3. The last time I looked it up nobody owned the rights to dinosaurs so why couldn’t you do a dinosaur park without the name and come up with your own ideas instead of coping a movie? 4. What is with you and all your B&M coaster talk? Why would somebody want all B&M coasters? Talk about a dead giveaway that you need your B&M coaster cherry popped. 5. What type of water features are you looking at adding? 6. I’ve never liked the idea of a zipline in a park. Went to WnW yesterday and didn’t see one group go on the SkyCoaster. I asked a staff member and they said it was open. (Side note: What is going on with the Zipline at WnW? Has is ever operated?) This is what I would do with 500 Million dollars. I wouldn’t buy a theme park or build one. I would travel the world visiting as many places as I could while drinking a lot of piss on the way. Why would I go to your Jurassic Park and only ride B@M coasters, a zipline and a few spin and spew rides while looking at pretty water features?

Sharon bay is getting more shelter installed (Photo: TPSN)

The media are never bored of any storey, providing they can get any information, right or wrong about it. Everytime a statement has been made by the CEO or Ardient Lesiure, the media have covered it, and have at times been pushing for answers which are obvious they wouldn't respond to as of yet, or don't have an answer for because they themselves don't know. I saw one reporter ask if the park was safe. I just think that was a stupid question, because of course it is, otherwise they wouldn't reopen. And they are taking all the procortions they can to ensure the safety of all rides. The incident that occurred could never have been predicted, and if there were any known issues with the ride they would've closed it, and inspected it further.

@SunshineTom Closest I can think of to an abandoned "theme park" in Aus is Atlantis Marine Park in Perth. http://www.news.com.au/travel/australian-holidays/western-australia/atlantis-marine-park-in-western-australia-lies-abandoned/news-story/36631b569356fe35cc83313a8f2ea8f5 Not really a theme park as such, but a marine park with animal displays etc. Think Sea World and aquarium have a baby with no rides and more animals.

I reckon you need to dig out an old copy of RCT or something...

*HEADDESK* *HEADDESK* *HEADDESK* @Jamberoo Fan - You really need to learn when to let something go. Every reasonable response to you has shown you why the one way ferry concept is ridiculously absurd and yet you still persist. So i'll offer you yet another reason, to which you'll say something like 'that makes sense, but it still isn't confirmed and one way would work because *full retard*' Here it is: If you only run them one way, they come back empty. This effectively means you would double your cost of operation so that the ferry can return to the start point to pick up more people - the paying guests have to cover the cost of fuel and wages in both directions for a single trip. If you pick up and drop off in both directions, each trip potentially has revenue, which means you can keep costs lower per ticket - which would make more people choose to use it. The same applies to your statement about tour buses dropping them off and the ferry picking them up - now the tour bus is only going one way as well. Most tour buses will wait at the attraction until your group comes out - unless it has another booking in the interim - because driving anywhere else increases costs. As usual, you overanalyse and read way too much into something, you take it so literally instead of just accepting that the way we speak and write english can sometimes be misinterpreted. All you have to do is take a look at rulings of the high court to see that even parliament sometimes words things badly. Usually when legislation is ambiguous, they go back and look at the explanatory memorandum (a document distributed to MPs before debate \ vote so that they can understand what mischief the legislation is trying to correct) to see what was intended. Now - don't reply with another long winded explanation, quoting various sentences in isolation, just say 'yeah, you guys are probably right, I just didn't read it that way' ...and then we can move on.

Just saw this from AW's website. You can now officially take Go-Pro's on most of the rides at the park including Kraken and Abyss. It just says it must be securely mounted using a Go-Pro chest harness. It also says on a few water slides including Kraken you can bring you mobile phone on if you have a water proof dry-dock bag which AW now sells. (Maybe so guest can entertain themselves while waiting in line so they stop complaining about wait times. https://adventureworld.net.au/rides-and-attractions/rides/which-ride-suits-you

Either the camera man is scared of coasters, or that coaster is a scale model of the Bruce highway after a light rain.

I thought 2005-06 was pretty cool, when we got Superman, Extreme H20 Zone, Whitewater World and Batwing.

I'm not saying they need to pull their finger out, i'm simply saying i hope they can keep it up. Geesh what a welcome.

Buying 15-30 new fibreglass logs/boats would be extremely expensive on what's already a very old ride. Is it worth the potentially multi-million dollar upkeep? Or would SW be better of scrapping it and spending the money on some new attractions?

Dreamworld needs a big coaster to bring them back in the next few years. A B&M would save them, preferably a Hyper. But it won't happen so i guess i'd settle for pretty much any coaster at this point. Any thrilling coaster that is.

Aussie World's future will look something like Paulton's Park (a smaller family park) in the UK i daresay but hopefully with better thrill rides. The future looks bright!

Absolutely excited to see what 2017 has in store at Aussie World. 5 new rides? Bring it on!!! I think about from the Typhoon 360 and Crazy Mouse coaster, the park could do with some water-based rides as it gets very hot there in the summer. I took my little siblings there and they wouldnt leave the splash area next to The Plunge as it cooled them down. I think a nice air conditioned dark ride wouldn't go astray either.

The restored sign looks great! I'm heading to LPS this week so I'll have to see what it looks like in real life!

the ride was open last Saturday and I went on it so I don't know why they've closed it again

I can't speak for anyone else, but I certainly read everything you write. As I've said before, you do make some very interesting points sometimes... but the 'overanalysis' tag is quickly starting to stick. The Ockham's Razor reference is quite apt - you do tend to ignore the obvious, most likely option, and instead go for the elaborate, the fanciful, the far fetched, simply because its possible. Ok, so you acknowledged what most people would think that it includes rides. That was pretty much everyone else's point. Sure on technicality rides and attractions in a park can be and are separated, the fact is the issue was taken with the ambiguous potentially misleading statement made by the park. So you could have just said - 'yeah, the park would probably separate rides and attractions, but for the public, thats ambiguous and they probably could have worded it better'

That sounds like my park lol.

I daresay GoldRush will be completely re-themed in the future but the area will remain SBNO/closed for quite some time while the fallout from the 'incident' softens. I think a dinosaur/lost kingdom themed area would be fun.

The wording is very misleading to say the least, especially the last line here: "The Dreamworld attractions re-opening from 10 December include all WhiteWater World slides and pools along with the park’s wildlife areas, entertainment and family attractions in DreamWorks Experience, Wiggles World, ABC KIDS WORLD and the Motorsports Experience.Other rides will progressively open at Dreamworld as they are signed off by the safety review process." By stating that "other rides" will open progressively would indicate that at least one "ride" in Dreamworld will be open on the day, which according to the list is not true. The statement should;d have read "Dreamworld's rides will progressively open..."

Yes but what about the thousands of families who are worried that their young ones will die on a ride there next? They will surely stay away.

The Gold Coast has 3 million+ people living within 2 hours of it. North QLD has about 1/6th of that in TOTAL. Plus its still not as popular as the Gold Coast in terms of bulk concentrated tourism (NQ is more spread out). Sorry but no.

I simply don't agree. From a thrill seekers point of view their new rides and attractions haven't geared toward me. Possibly families and young kids/teens but the park is in desperate need of a thrilling full length coaster.

No we shouldn't. We should always expect and demand more as it keeps them on their toes. Our continued patronage despite their poor efforts with new rides over the years has given them a complacent attitude, they need to step things up. ESPECIALLY now.

I don't know the actual figures but i strongly feel Sea World is on a massive decline at the moment as is Dream World and DW will likely have a massive loss next financial year. Movie World is obviously going to slay even harder next year and WNW is always constant. Aussie World is also on the uptick.