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IRide is coming along nicely. The facade is huge and slightly invasive but time will tell when it’s completed.

So I was at DW today checking out how they are going with iRide and gold rush. There’s been bulk earthworks going on. so here’s some photos of gold rush and TRRR in its current state

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Gumbuya World have announced on their Facebook site the installation of a brand new ride for the Summer season. They are installing a KMG Inversion ride identical to the travelling version XXXL that makes its way on the east coast for Goldenway amusements. This marks the first real thrill ride for Gumbuya World and is the first major investment in the 12 months since it has been refurbished and reopened. This represents a positive step for the park and is a good indication that the park is travelling in the right direction and is a massive vote of confidence in the ongoing viability of the park. Coupled with this is the fact that Gumbuya still have the recently purchased Plunge slide from Seaworld yet to be installed and things are looking quite good for the park and its immediate future. Whilst this is a great confidence booster for the park, I do think that this ride installation may not come at exactly the right time. This is a high thrill ride that for mine does not really fill the demographics of the target audience that the park currently attracts.I think that one or two more family thrill attractions would be a better fit for the park at this stage in its life cycle. However, it may hint at more attractions to come and if so, then this could be the spring board to continued investment in the park. This could be a very good thing for the Victorian theme park landscape and could be the catalyst for continued investment for not only Adventure Park and Funfields, but also finally for some major reinvestment for Luna Park Melbourne.

A bit from A and a bit from B but @Richard is correct in his dates of when 2 from every 3 was the final result. Not long after the opening DW starting removing some planks. The conveyor was to heavy and the chains kept breaking. If you look closely in that video, at the end you can see a plank missing. Over the years as the chains aged, more and more planks were removed.

Meanwhile, DW Management have been spotted in Southern California, gathering ideas for their exciting new attraction..

@pushbutton Have you been raiding the Brandy cupboard again?

We have a KMG Inversion model traveling which is called Rebel which is pictured above? Did they by chances amusements traveling Rebel? Or hired it for summer or have they gone and brought a new one?

I thought the same thing originally. They are slowly removing the troughs and backfilling with dirt from WWW.

It is hard to say if there was a inspection done after the 2001 incident. The park reported the incident via phone to WHSQ yet no paperwork can be found about it on the WHSQ end only the report that Dreamworld sent. The park was told the phone call was sufficient for reporting it. When preparing documents for the inquiry paperwork could only be found as far back as December 2001 and the first case of rafts getting caught and flipping happened in January 2001 so there is no paperwork relating to the 2001 incident able to be located. The ride since 2004 had been inspected by five different inspectors. I was at the inquest Monday afternoon for those wondering where I got this information from.

Or you could cover yourself in paint and go on the slides a few times...

Now whilst an "adventure river" is rumoured (especially given the original expansion plans included one (see 1st post of this topic)), Ardent's Gary Weiss confirmed some details of the expansion today in his AGM address: So no permanent retail outlets. And "pools" - plural. I assume one of the "pools" is the rumoured "adventure river". After all, that is just 1 large pool. Given "pools" is a plural, there might be another ride being built as well. I assume the "waterfalls" and "beached areas" are part of the "adventure river" forming part of & the entry/exits of the ride respectively. But if he literally meant just "pools", well that would be a new low in how to invest wisely in water park attractions. It would be fine with no hype but if you are making a massive expansion to win back visitors after a tragedy in your park, it would be anti-climatic to those potential visitors when they find out it is just a couple of plain swimming pools. Hopefully the "pools" are more than just a concreted hole in the ground with filtered water in it. Even if one of the "pools" is actually a wave pool (like Wet 'N' Wild Gold Coast's Giant Wave Pool), that's still silly because Whitewater World already has one (Cave Of Waves). That doesn't mean they shouldn't add a wave machine in an "adventure river" if they add one though. That's a different type of water park attraction altogether. A quote in the AGM presentation mentions a very similar amount will be spent in the 1st half of next year: This could mean the Whitewater World expansion will be ready to 'officially' open in September 2019 with a potential 'soft' opening, if they want, in July 2019. After all, who 'officially' opens a water park expansion in the middle of winter? Unless they are planning a version of Wet 'N' Wild Gold Coast's Whirlpool Hot Springs? A spa pool is a another type of pool, after all.

I thought the water park expansion and new wildlife experience were the same thing 🤔