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I'd agree that Dreamworld is a oversized park @AlexB. They could safely lose all their undeveloped land and still have loads of room to grow for decades to come with land within the traditional park boundaries that's either no longer used or has never been used. The issue I have is that you really should expect bigger plans to remain competitive when their popularity and product offering is continually being dwarfed by competitors. We see Village Roadshow down the road using every remaining inch of land they have to build a tourist destination. They're catering to an incredibly vast segment of the market and everything about this plan is designed to create an all-inclusive holiday destination that keeps people on-site and away from competitors. Those same charts that Ariadne uses to highlight Ardent Leisure's lack of investment and missed opportunity -- namely the year-on-year and projected growth of tourist visitation -- should be every reason not to sell off land for the paltry price of $1 million a hectare at a time when your current competitors are ramping up their offering and expanding well beyond the confines of the traditional theme park. The amount of space Dreamworld have both within the park and surrounding it is their single biggest long-term strategic asset. $25 million for a theme park of this size and profitability isn't a one-off investment that you fund by extraordinary means, it should be what they're spending every few years on a robust mix of major and minor attractions.

From what i've seen, no bolts sheared off the ride, so we can rule that out. The seats are almost identical structurally to the XXL, with the exception of only 4 seats and a slightly different join at the top of the car. In the following photo, you can see that the seats snapped from the arm connected. The floor operates the same to the XXL and Hard Rock...Lowers then stays down, it does sound as if its hit something while swinging through the deck causing it to snap and then flip over the gate.

Why not? the government sells off assets when it needs cash...? Seriously though - some of the land Dreamworld sits on will NEVER be needed. The park boundary (excluding carpark, but including the eucalyptus plantation) measures about 375,000sqm. As a comparison, the park with the most coasters in the world (SFMM) only occupies 558,000sqm give or take. Dreamworld is very spread out. Ocean Parade aside, most other attractions are a lot further apart than they need to be and there is plenty of land that can be used within their existing footprint. Hell - the ENTIRE BLOCK that Knott's Berry Farm sits on is only 314,000sqm, and the includes the hotel, hotel parking lot, and all their back of house service areas. (it doesn't include the little part of Ghostrider that crosses Grand Ave though). I CBF looking up the attendance figures, but i guarantee SFMM and Knotts have way more attendance than Dreamworld ever does. There are large swaths of land that Dreamworld can work with.. Excluding the current gold rush situation: main street - a huge open expanse that really is dead for most of the day, except for those traversing it to get from gold rush \ rocky hollow to ocean parade. You could almost drop USS's Battlestar Galactica in that space. Murrissippi + Island - this board has long discussed the merits of using the island for an attraction. it takes up a lot of vacant land in the park, and although in times of captain sturt it was useful, now it just takes up space. Boneyard \ Old Thunderbolt site - still plenty of land here not only for a ride but an entirely new land (think of the DC\Superhero area at SFMM - plenty of flats ala Lasso of Truth etc By the time they actually utilise all of these areas to the fullest (and fill in gaps left by TRRR, Wipeout when it eventually retires etc) some of their other rides will be reaching end of life and it will be time to remove and replace them. They don't need more room inside their park boundary than they already have. they need to do both. No sense having awesome rides if the shops and food outlets are subpar. What they've done to their outlets recently has been a sorely needed upgrade, but it shouldn't come at the expense of new attractions to drive attendance.

We've updated the forum software today. Aside from the obvious visual changes there's the addition of a few new features, most noticeably reactions instead of votes. Gone is the crude and often political system of voting posts up and down. Instead you can choose to react more akin to how Facebook works now. Current reactions are as follows: Like (+1 to the poster) Haha (+1 to the poster) Confused Sad We're no longer assigning negative votes to posts as the new system is a bit more nuanced. We may add some others down the track that are more fun and unique to Parkz. Bugs / Errors / Glitches If you encounter any glitches or design quirks throughout the site that you think probably shouldn't be there, feel free to grab a screenshot and let us know.

🔽🔽🔽🔽 New font colour needed maybe? This seems broken (on profile page) New font colour here? (browse/activity/shop etc) Reactions don't seem tracked anywhere in the same way that "likes" are. Good solution to the tag issue Maybe a little more padding around these? They seem kind of small compared to the rest of the page Not that it's really an issue, but "community leader" and "admin" tags don't stand out as much anymore. Maybe it's time for an image banner of some sort instead of the 'blue sky' look? (Maybe not a VRTParkz banner though) This will give you enough to consider for now. I'll play around with it more later if I'm still awake

Does the floor lower and stay lowered? Did it in this instance? Like everyone I don't know what happened, there was speculation that's what it was floating around, all I was getting at is that regardless of what it ends up being it'll be interesting. I don't intend for my post to be stand up in court ay.

I'm voting for Dr. Gary H. Weiss because he has the best hairstyle of them all.

3 weeks

It operated for two weeks (Around the same amount of time as the vintage cars operated back in December) in mid March after reopening from its audit, but it was always scheduled for maintenance anyways, but was originally planned to reopen at the end of April. Then kept getting its date pushed back, until the date was removed all together.

Woah, that's a big failure. Clearly wasn't maintained very well (if at all)

I am also planning a trip to Orlando however I'm not quite sure if I should make it next year in 2018 or wait until 2019 to get TSL & anything else coming that year. Would it be worth waiting an extra year?

^He's already got a day for the space centre. I presume you've got a hire car as the Mears Shuttle only runs from Disney World on certain days of the week.

https://www.facebook.com/creativeworks.com.au/?fref=ts Trying to closely look at the other images in their camera role as it could have theming of mi3. The most recent looks like a guardian figure similar to the Abyss'. Tell me what you think if you get a chance to look for yourself.

i say let Ariadne take over

$35 million $15 mllion coaster $20 million dark ride (includes infrastructure and building construction costs) that's a start... followed up with a other $10-12 million family coaster in 2 years. That's what they need to compete IMO

2 cars would be extremely risky and unsafe. For the safety of everyone here at Parkz, dreamworld needs to use only 1 car at a time.

Yeah, they will add some awesome harnesses and soft mats around the track in case we fall. A very exciting new experience I bet it will be.

Though nothing is set in stone yet we've got tentative plans to drop in in January. Will keep y'all posted.

So it's time to resurrect this thread again for the latest chapter – Warner Bros Movie World. As usual I expect this will be controversial, but hopefully you'll enjoy it http://pirouettes.org/?p=1978

News is coming out from the Ohio state fair, where a 'claw' style ride has 'malfunctioned' injuring several and apparently killing at least one. http://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/07/27/11/46/ohio-state-fair-amusement-ride-one-dead-several-injured

As the video starts As the ride passes back Both times floor appears to be fully down. Other side for reference Careful cropping here not to show anything that people might not want to see. It doesn't look like the gate has been damaged/hit and yet going through the video frame by frame, it seems the dislodgement happens as it passes that point.

Not major, but some of the text on the mobile website overlaps