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ZOMG YOU GUYS I GOT TO RIDE SKY VOYAGER TODAY! IT WAS AMAZEBALLS! THE STAFF SAID IT WAS GONNA OPEN THIS FRIDAY AND THEY WERE JUST RANDOMLY PICKING PEOPLE IN THE PARK TO GET TO RIDE ITS SO WIKKID YASSSS!

There's also plenty of BS going on around the park.

What ride at Disney is good if you dont count the themeing though? Pretty much all their rides are average but they're dressed up to hell. Even for a family coaster, 7DMT is laughably bad as a coaster but people queue for hours to see the themeing. ToT is a weak as piss drop ride, but totally enclose it and theme it to twilight zone and you get something special. The bit of Haunted Mansion that makes it amazing is not the physical sensation of riding the Omni Mover ride vehicle. Frozen is a standard flume ride. If thats true then ToT is a below average drop ride and Test Track is literally the same as driving to the park.

The problem for Aussie parks is 10-5 is already lean. There isn't really any fat to cut off it for changing seasons. I honestly think they'd e better off saying 'weekdays the whole park is open 10 till 4' than pretending that 4 rides constitutes an open park. Half functioning park all day is worse than a full functioning park for one less hour. Apart from that there's no where to go so calling for flexible hours isn't going to help.

"unprecedented floods in townsville last week have impacted on the park's Q2 profitability"

I think it should be pointed out that we have found out recently that SkyVoyager was never built to "save the park" as you say @joz. A ParkChatLive interview early last month with DW's COO revealed they had planned SkyVoyager 3 months prior to the Thunder River Rapids incident occurring. Since SkyVoyager was announced after the incident (13 November 2017), we've all assumed this is what they were banking on to "save the park" but since they were planning it before the incident, that means the Whitewater World expansion is now most likely their 1st true reaction on how to "save the park" after the incident. How that & their other post-SkyVoyager plans occur should tell enough about how Ardent have been dealing with DW's future. SkyVoyager seems to have never been built to fix DW's attendance and finances. It seems to be just a coincidence that the ride's development began roughly when the incident occurred and after the incident, it seems Ardent just 'hoped' that in 2 years it would open, fix all their problems and everything will be back to normal. Also, can anyone explain to me why the COO's name tag says 'Melbourne, Australia' on it? (See 47:56 in the video)

And in the forums......just saying. :-)

You mean like back when we had Belinda/Kenny/Someone posting as an anthropomorphic Koala on here?

So... TOT2, GD, TS, SW, RHLR are now only open until 4, including on weekends MDMC open 11-4 All of ABC4Kids Land closes at 3:30, including weekends 90% of Dreamworks closing at 4 every day How to destroy a theme park 101

Ardent Leisure Group announced today that it will announce it's HY19 Financial Results on Friday 22nd of February 2019 at 10am (AEDT). This should be an interesting announcement on 22nd of February given how DW's state has changed since the last financial results were released - their major new ride, SkyVoyager, has still not opened & ride operating hours are reducing. All the answers to these issues should be answered during that announcement. And it should be more interesting if the Thunder River Rapids Incident Coronial Inquest Findings are released prior to then or coincidentally, at the same time.

None of this is helping the public image of this once great theme park. I have been hoping they would pull there finger out and save the theme park but with too many rides that are too old and always breaking down it not looking great. I still hope that they just close the park down for 6 months remove the broken and re open as a refurbished with a few new attractions (keeping sky voyager for reopening)and a new image for the public so people can trust the place, I would hate to lose another theme park in the end like we lost wonderland

Hi Jobe, the old Go Karts were located where the Red Baron & Crazy Coaster are now

Hi Jobe, Correction the Kraken Racer at Funfields is 113m long. ProSlide did a case study stating 113m. The Octo at WWW is 120m long (states around 50kms/hr). Not sure about the H2Go Racer; looks like a longer ride duration and a bit slow but no idea on length.

@Slick I've believe since TRR incident, there has only been a week when all rides have been operational I have been been to the parks and can understand why WWW is only open from 11-4, the waterpark is empty. No real queues for anything. It is a rainy day, so that could be potentially why. I do remember last year the waterpark had reduced hours, but was mostly in the winter period. Really they should've done 11 or 12 to 5 or even 6. They could push that really hard and try get people visiting after school to cool down. DW did have a few people in the park, but no major queues.

Sorry Alex, I pushed the submit button before checking it. My mistake.

To be fair, a lot of rides did only at around 11am as very often testing was running late. However, A very realistic option which would allow Dreamworld to save a tonne of money but also keep customer satisfaction would be to operate rides on a weekday timetable similar to that of Rainbows End in Auckland. Having 50% of rides operating throughout the entire day would be much better than having all rides operating after 11am and closing 90% of them past 4pm. A simple 10-1:30 and 1:30-5 timetable would ensure that there are plenty of rides open at a given time and they wouldn't be being closed all at once. The new operating hours are very, very random and confuse the hell out of me, given it's the most random rides open past 4pm (claw, panda and Madagascar ) customers are not going to know which rides are open past 4pm and there will likely be a lot of complaints in regards to this. A SIMPLE timetable which is UNDERSTANDABLE to the customer would cut costs on labor and operation expenses by miles.

Bingo.

So it is easier to list what is open all day, also the only rides open after 4pm: Pandamonium The Claw Escape from Madagascar Bumper Cars And redline simulators until 4.30.

There's three that I know of - Monash in Glen Waverley, Melton Waves and MSAC.

WWW has reduced hours of 11-4 and the majority of DWs attractions have reduced hours, but these do vary

Next minute.... it opens Friday 🙃

Wonderland did the same thing...

Really feel for the frontline staff here who will cop it from the guests while also having their hours cut right back. Not sure how someone is supposed to live off 5 hours a day, its not like the staff are making a heap of money to begin with. I think reduced hours were clearly coming, but only 4 rides open after 4, and one of them is bumper cars? That's pretty crazy. It's getting hard to see how they intend to get out of this hole they're in or even if they're still trying. I agree that operations do need to be more lean but holy hell what positive things can you point to? Sky Voyager is late and way over budget, so many of the rides have ongoing unexpected downtime, hours cut right back and attendance down on last year. I get the impression they were expecting a triumphant return to being profitable this year but there is a such a long list of things at the park still trending in the wrong direction that at this point I really can't see how they can turn it around without serious money going in. For the first time ever not only do I think DW will close, but I now suddenly get the impression it will close with 2 weeks notice. Probably not until this time next year to be fair, Sky Voyager alone cost a lot of money so you'd want to see what affect that has on things before you pull the plug, but Sky Voyager alone will not save the park, and it won't be enough to turn the tide while everything else around it is spiraling downward.

Who is dictating? I was just agreeing with you... (also, it's pretty clear by the fact I missed the latest 'fun with Dylan' that i'm not here 24/7). Side note - can someone tell me when all the kids go back to school? (#cantwait) You're right! @Richard did cover this in his post on Parkz Policies. I've underlined it, but i've copied the whole post in case you're incapable of visiting that thread to read it for yourself. Dylan has done you a big favour - by comparison, you're a saint. Don't bring the spotlight back onto you by whining about something that's actually stated by the site owner clearly in the forum policies. That's a surefire way to piss people off.