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The only Animals they should keep out of our Parks are these Dickheads..

You just made everyone scroll past the spoilers a 2nd time then.

^Probably didn’t do the water any good.

Atleast we know what the work experience kids been up to lately.

video of last nights parade for those interested and a few pics

It’s a shame these guys aren’t thinking about the poor sharks who are also being exploited. Come on Justice for Captives, let’s do something about the sharks!🤫

updated link

Tried to get some footage

They don't provide sufficient info for an exact amount so I'll have to make a bunch of assumptions. Theme Parks EBITDA was $34,725k. Skypoint was about 9% of Revenue, so let's drop EBITDA by 9% to $31,600k. Corporate costs ($15,144k) are given as a group total. For simplicity let's use a % of Revenue (in this case 2.2%). Theme Parks Revenue was $107,582k, so * 0.91 * 0.022 = $2,154k. Revised EBITDA $29,446k. On the same group basis, Depreciation was 6.9% of Revenue. So $107,582k * 0.91 * 0.069 = $6,755k. EBIT therefore $22,691k. Doing the same with Finance Costs, was also about 2.2% of Revenue. So take off another $2,154k, for a NPBT of $20,537k. There's a bunch of extraordinary items and it's difficult to establish which pertain to Dreamworld. So we'll run with a pre-exceptional figure. For tax a simple calc would be 30%, so $20,537k * 0.7 = NPAT $14,376k. Or using % of Revenue again, NPAT $19.3m. So best guess, $14m to $20m, more than half what Skeeta said. Depreciation and Finance Costs are the big items that can vary the figure significantly. But either way, it's considerably less than $34.7m, let alone $43.0m. Should also point out Theme Parks EBITDA "only" increased 8.5% on the prior year. You could also assume that profits were inflated at Dreamworld because they were underfunding maintenance of rides...

Wow don’t recall that ever happening (all dates sold out with still a week to run). Glad I got mine in for this Thursday

They were running 2 trains on supermn at the start of the night. So I asmume they were running two trains all night. Even today when most rides were a walk on they were running two trains.

If you need a lesson in Google I believe @Slick holds weekly classes @westical.

I thought you were more of a mustard guy?

Ketchup please.

They're not tiki heads, they're static monster props. If you look to your left, you'll notice one of them is holding Scoobys collar. I know Scooby is still in there in his suit of armour and the one that used to stand next to the mirror is at the tiki bar after you disembark the ride but I don't recall seeing him in the room with the disco ball.

I marked the post with spoilers for those who wanted a surprise experience. I expect those people wanting a surprise wouldn’t be on this thread anyway.

Dude 2 wrongs don't make a right, I thought you were better than that Push. What you said was extremely rude and you should apologize. Keeping on topic, thanks for the photos Push (see, being nice wasn't that hard!) whilst the ride appears to be coming together, and we have all shared our opinions on the outside, its the experience that counts, and I hope they have got it just right. Fingers crossed.

Well if that's what Liz considers rude she'd better stay away from this forum. It gets a whole lot more rude than that!

It's a ride that millions of people have already been on, there's no need to be butt-hurt about a few extra projection screens, especially when it's marked as spoilers.

Also just noticed that the kids riding are dressed as Velma, Shaggy, Fred and Daphne. A nice touch from the marketing team 😜.

For people who have ridden it now... Has this refurb made the ride better (before theming was removed) or worse? Im glad they’ve mostly replaced what was there and tried to improve on it with screens. But the fact there is no more Scooby at all, and the videos are poor quality, make this ride come across something that was budget, when in reality this ride was world class. Hopefully they’ve had some issues (much like they did with WWF effects when it reopened, but really they should not be having these issues. If the ride isn’t ready, don’t open it until it is), and the these lighting and screen visual issues are resolved soon

Here are some more videos (even though they are mostly not from the 1980's or 1990's): Tuesday the 14th of January 1997: Sea World's Research & Rescue Foundation Rescuing & Rehabilitating A Dugong (Channel 9 footage): http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/Australia-Endangered-dugong-rescued-off-beach/218b8dfcc7d41f6a1fccb23f3e446a03 Wednesday the 17th of March 1999: Wonderland Sydney's Bush Beast & Triple M's Whirl Till You Hurl (Channel 9 footage) - http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/AUSTRALIA-ROLLERCOASTER-RIDE-RECORD-ATTEMPT/b36e90b2c8f00d9d5c0a0eb645e18596 Tuesday the 26th of December 2000: Sea World's Polar Bear Shores opens (ABC footage) - http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/AUSTRALIA-GOLD-COAST-POLAR-BEARS/1ec48ef3f6b7105254dcae23a8859e0c Thursday the 23rd of November 2001: More polar bears arrive at Sea World's Polar Bear Shores (ABC footage) - http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/Australia-Bears/0dd8493335af574ee78247f9f655a113 Thursday the 26th of September 2002: Incident during Sea World's Ski Challenge (Channel 9 footage) - http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/Australia-Ski-Accident/171afe9b07b18637f665c50fec77045a And lastly, see Luna Park Melbourne during it's golden era (I don't know if it's still there but the mountain theming surrounding the rollercoaster is pretty good for it's time): Monday the 6th of March 1933: Luna Park Melbourne's Scenic Railway (British Movietone footage) - http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/Luna-Park-Provides-Fun-At-Melbourne/654d38c6fc3d48f7b34412c2535f91d0 Can someone verify that the footage above is of Luna Park Melbourne or it's Scenic Railway? The Scenic Railway has a rather simple layout and this footage shows a more complex layout.

Why are all the reviews so vague? "Oh it's mostly the old ride with a few new things". Yeah we knew that....

The ride has returned most of the old theming with a few video screens with the monsters from the movie coming for you, axes are still there, lift has screens on it, disco room mostly dark still, loud music and couple of added extra sections the end of room is completely new set pieces. A little shocked to see most of the old theming that was removed was brought back still great ride wait time for those coming to it now over 1hr huge Line up into over flow

Ride is now open!

They've just plugged it on Facebook as opening today too.

Superman only has two trains, and both are being used currently. DC Rivals is only using one at the moment.

I was there on Thursday, and the line was about 45 minutes and Wild West Falls was a walk on the whole day. Also superman only had one train as well.

Dc rivals is missing second train it isn’t in the bay next to station. Could be long lines for holidays

Fake news.

Ok. Liz.if I said something that you took offence to, I'm sorry! Certainly wasn't my intention.

You can't sell more fast track passes if you don't have queues for your rides!