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Bah. The twisty piece that connects to the straighty piece is being installed this afternoon inbetween the whoosh-wow and the gullywhumper.

Must be a lay day down here today. Nothing really going on at all. No cranes in use, no one working in the Coaster site at all. No movement in the holding yard either. Heres an obligatory photo taken so it was worth my while to come down here haha

It's interesting the role people think Dreamworld's themeing has to do with their downturn. Just throwing it out there, but Dreamworld's mismatched themeing isn't why they're in trouble, and I don't think creating that cohesive theme throughout the park's different lands will help them get out of trouble. Dreamworld has 3 things which it needs right now, to demolish TRR and Gold Rush country in general, reopen or demolish the log ride (re-opening can now wait till it warms up) and to put some attraction where Gold Rush was so the park has something new to market, and the park also doesn't feel like a large chunk of it is closed. What attraction should they replace Gold Rush country with? There are probably as many answers as there are members on this site, and even then most of those answers are wrong. Personally I'd say don't blow the bank on whatever they do as whatever it is won't see massive returns, so give the area a pioneer town theme (which would mean buzzsaw could stay unchanged) and move Model T lane up there so they could have a cheap, sprawling ride with a bit of kenetic energy to it, and a new family ride to complete the area. If Log Ride doesn't reopen then a shoot the chutes, if it does, a new flat ride, even if it's something fairly modest like a large Balloon race (obviously themed to match the area though).

Being frank here, if it's a monster, and it has four legs... what the hell is everyone riding on?

Well doesn't that just look shit!!

I hope these people are not working on the Hyper commercial. They might tell us that 0.004 guest will shit their paints while riding.

Remove any remnants of Rapids, Skylink or Mine Ride (perhaps sans the Mine Ride station building) & regrade the land to a nice hilly space. Put a clear, clean path in that connects Rocky Hollow and the pathway from Main Street at ground level (this also means cleaning up the clusterf*ck that is the Giant Drop elevated pathways and adding in level railway crossings, which would help add atmosphere for that space.) Move Model T-Ford Cars there. Have them going up and down through the hilly space. Refurb the old Big Brother outlet to a great F&B Gold Rush space. If you do it properly, it'd be a fantastic space to have lunch or a beer (views of Log Ride, Giant Drop, T-Fords, Buzzsaw, great atmosphere.) Move some of the Corroboree animals down to new Gold Rush Space i.e. abandoned brick building is really a snake exhibit. Will help make the overall space more full, complete and family friendly. Long-term, add a Gerstlauer family spinning mouse ride that could dip up and down through the area and be a worthy Mine Ride successor. To complete the area, add a windseeker in or another small, family friendly attraction. To me, the idea of having "Gold Rush, Rocky Hollow & Corroboree" as three "worlds" (not to mention Gold Rush is shoe-horned in there somehow) is making life hard for yourself. To me, they're all a rustic, Australian theme. I mean yeah, give them names, whatever, just get on making it feel like one big consistent space and make it feel like a nice space to be in (which isn't hard, Corroboree as it stands is already great, ParkChat live be damned.) For the park to heal and for the general public to move forward in the conversation of Dreamworld, it needs to really get on removing Rapids AS SOON AS POSSIBLE in my mind. I'd be transparent about what they're doing with the land too, so that when the bulldozers come, the message people are getting is "okay, they're dealing with the space, they're putting in x & y new things, I look forward to seeing what comes" not "oh, they're getting rid of the accident and covering their tracks" which is what folks will default to if they're not given something else IMO.

This was not you?

This is such a tragic accident and so soon after Dreamworld on a similar ride. My thoughts are with the family. I was at Drayton Manor last July on a return trip to the UK and their Director George Bryan showed me around. I have sent a message of support to the team this morning.

You actually took the time to photoshop in a twistie - *tips hat*

Pointless thread is pointless.

Misleading click-bait thread title is misleading and click-baity

*cough*bullshit*cough*

Main Event is the biggest contributor to profits these days. New centres have previously had around 30% annual return, meaning they pay themselves off in about three years. Dreamworld's solid $30-odd million profit each year has been propping up their USA expansion plans, not the business itself. Ardent sold their gyms, sold their marinas and have been putting every cent into their USA rollout because the returns have been so good there. It's the execution of this USA strategy that was the undoing of Deborah Thomas, not Dreamworld's accident. Many see it as a rushed and poorly conceived plan that has more and more cracks appearing as it matures.

Don't you mean Mystery Inc. level of code cracking @Brad2912

I think it went down in November last year for its annual maintenance. "Closed for scheduled maintenance from Monday 14th November and will re-open Monday 26th December 2016." Annual meaning yearly “to me” suggest SDSC is not due for annual maintenance before November. Wishful thinking or have we just cracked the code?

I'm sure anyone would agree that the former IMAX Theatre is greatly underutilized in it's current state. Turning the Theatre into a Soarin style attraction would require a lot of excavation. For example, the floor would have to be flat for the seating and plenty of room would have to be made for the ride's infrastructure. With the defunct Mine ride behind the building, perhaps the Theatre space could be dug out northbound and place the ride/seating toward where the old trrr channel sits today and put the screen where the audience seating currently sits? I have always wanted to see a Soarin style ride here in Australia. The experience is absolutely mind blowing! We have some amazing landscapes in our country and this could be a perfect draw for an Australiana Park like DW.

Call me pessimistic all you like, but unless there is a change of ownership, I don't think we'll be seeing any large scale new attraction at DW in the next 3 years. We might get more cosmetic upgrades and entertainment offerings, maybe another flat, but I'm not expecting more than that

The next pieces have been installed, dropping down over the track before the Stengel Dive. Also a number of new supports are scattered around the place, as well as some ready to be installed. A close up of those tightly twisted pieces

Village Roadshows new video talks about the medias false news about its ride stoppages

Next step is to censor the word twisty...

Ride evacuations (I'm not calling them ride unloads) were down 38% last year which is dandy. They also quote the number of guests they had last year and how many rides people go on rides. You think that's to set you up for them to tell you how many ride stops they had or how many guests they evacuated off a ride and in doing so prove how rare it is, and how it's not so rare that it's scary. They do however skip that step presumably because that saying it happened around 500 times (guessing) sounds bad and instead they go straight into an out of context stat about having a 0.0004% chance of being involved in a break down (do they mean per visit or per ride taken?). If I was a maths teacher I'd fail them for failing to show their working. It's not a total waste though, if they ever install an elevator into the admin building they now have something totally inoffensive and bland to play during the trip.

Ask @POP and he'll give you the answer whilst sleepwalking.

You guys make me sick! Everybody knows it's a 5 legged monster.

@Brad2912 You must have turned up while they were on a break. I did a head count for you and I counted 7 Logan Steel workers. The containers were getting unloaded and a few of the workers were working on the track they had already installed between Stengel Dive and the Inclined Dive Loop. (Look at us, Richard has us talking all proper) Both cherry pickers were being used.

That was from their 2012 website. It's gone on the current one. I remember it being a monster attack too.

We've all been there.

It was the attention to detail the manicured gardens the amazing ride and park theming when you walked through the town hall entrance into mainstreet square you were transported into another world another time when went into village green it felt like you walked into a real Bavarian village with a snow capped mountain with a waterfall down the side (avalanche ) you would walk down to river town see the vintage cars and the captain Sturt paddle wheeler and you felt like you were in an old river town of the early 1900's ect the theming just flowed Dreamworld staff had costumes that fit the different themed lands they were in the entertainers and live music where ever you went in the park the fun of the fair atmosphere it was all done just right and I gues after John longhust sold it they attempted to turn it from its Disney-like origins to more of a six flags park which in my opinion was a big mistake with mismatched theming ect

Gee Willickers!

@Brad2912 They will need to demolish TRR at some point, and I doubt they will make a move on that until they have a new plan for it. Ardent are a short-term profit-driven company. They run DW like they would run a bowling alley, instead of treating it like the jewel in their crown. Just a thought though, Brisbane lacks TV studios. VR studios are equipped for Film, but not TV. Dreamworld could build a couple of large TV studios or even a theatre that could attract major live productions - or even bring some of the work up from Sydney/Melb. That way they could have a profit-generating asset, that also draws people into the park, and could extent events and theming around it (like they did with Big Brother). There is a lot they could do, but I don't think Ardent are a big picture, visionary company to be able to do it (or do it successfully long-term)

I would presume that the balls simply have an RFID chip with a unique ID built into them, and probably near field or beam technology to pick up the RFID position on the field. As far as I knew, it wasn't just the targets capable of registering the ball location, but anywhere within the range - so the entire grounds will have some form of detection equipment to identify exactly which ball went where. ...and then I googled: And.... then this: I can't seem to find a date on the article, but it looks as though they're converting to UHF RFID detectors instead of LF: http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?9083/2

But it was okay because afterwards I caught a fish THIIIIIS BIG!

Village eServe is the quick and easy to order food on the go, so i've heard.

@wileecoyote What's your excuse? Aren’t you the one who was trying to sell us fake Hyper heights.

That's some Sherlock Holmes level code cracking there @Skeeta!

@Brad2912 Like bees to a honeypot Parkz does attracts some strange ones.

Hopefully one is the standard maintenance cycle, whilst the other is the re-themeing works

I think MW proved that you can get a decent dark ride for the price of a coaster. Let's not forget that there are plenty of third party companies that do Soarin' type rides. I think DW should go down this route - if it wants to become like Disney it should give Sally Corp a call and make it happen. Plenty of people who visit DW aren't coaster fans anyway.

Excellent ideas there.

LOL @Brad2912 I thought @AlexB had been kidnapped by @pushbutton and I held grave concerns for him. No it doesn't

Well that's a stretch if I've ever seen one

@Slick I have never had the opinion that WWW and DW should merge, I'm clearly not in the majority. @Skeeta you are right in saying that 2 new attractions in 4 years is not enough although over at Dreamworld, Motocoaster, buzzsaw, pandemonium, shockwave, tailspin, motor sports experience and rethemes of nickelodeon land and cyclone have taken place I'm sure a lot more has happened at DreamWorld as well. Some of these rethemes and new attractions have been successes although many would say some have not. Surely all of this money spent at DreamWorld on these new attractions could've been spent making more slides at WWW and/or a lazy river? If WWW was given more respect, and Ardent realised it needed more attractions, I probably wouldn't have even started up this topic, offering my opinion that even now as a very small park that it needs it own identity.

There were some large wooden pallets being dropped off in Dragon's Kingdom, today. Not enough for anything substantial, but it could be more cabanas; water playground stuff, like the rumoured kids' tornado; theming for the new ride or materials for the restaurant refurb. I still think the ride will be at the other end of the park. The dirt track behind where the circus was looks pretty well used.

Diddo that.

Because Slick it's not VRTP. If it was you'd get the usual sort of mindless praise we've come to expect.

my god it's just too awesome and it's still not finished can't wait to see what else they add to the TWISTACULAR

@Theme Park GirlIt looks like the kids have left a crayon on the parcel shelf and it has melted in the sun.

Has the lights just come on to where this is going?

Holy #$&% 😮😮😮