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I think, under a new owner prepared to spend money, Mark would do a spectacular job of turning Dreamworld around. I wouldn't want him to take the reigns under Ardent otherwise a new owner would think him part of the problem - and let's face it - Weiss wouldn't give him the freedom he'd need to lift the park.

And a comment like that isn't turning it into TPR?

Mark for new ceo for Dreamworld..

Back in the day, if I remember correctly, the East Side Photographer sat in the spot on the right of THIS image. The Western side had/has the lifeguard style that used to house the photographer, as @themagician has said. When they stopped using photographers, they installed an automated camera in the same spot the photographer used to sit. A photo I took in 2005:

Mark seems intelligent enough to not jump on the Titanic 100m out from an iceberg.. Also, having had direct, sustained and successful theme park experience makes Mark far too qualified for the job....

https://www.weightwatchers.com/au/ For this forum sounds like you all need it or else we'll turn into TPR.

Well said Slick. It's like when Disney used to bend down on his knees and get the designers to do the same. pointing out the view of the shop window thro the eyes of a 6 year old. When you get all the details right, people don't consciously notice, it just feels good on a subconscious level. If parks are supposed to provide fantasy and escapism from the real world, you can't have conduit pipe sticking out of the flower bed or dirty toilets/scraped paintwork.

I'd expect them to be Whitewater like the existing slides. There is already provision on the current tower for another two slides starting from the lower deck (presumably going out over the pump/filtration shed).

News Flash! I have just been informed by the Park that they will double the size of the Water Park this winter ready for next Summer re-opening of the Water Park. Trading has been very strong this summer. GW is a work in progress, the guys know it but they are making great strides. At the rate they are going they will eclipse the others in time.

So the ride did what it was supposed to do? I'm guessing the" lack of communication" would've been they weren't happy being told they were stuck and they couldn't tell them how long it would be. What did they want, someone telling them every five minutes that they were still stuck and they would be off soon? Or a full technical explanation of how the ride works and how the safety systems may be activated? Given the price of food at DW food vouchers would be sufficient compensation. "The Bus is now leaving for Stopping Well, South Australia"

Respecting loyalty? Because in business it's cheaper to keep an existing customer than obtain a new one? Because they can? No. And i'll tell you why - A while ago, an entrepreneur launched a business in Australia, and his aim was to undercut the big players by offering a budget product. He was successful, and managed to get quite a bit of market share from the big players. Later down the track, he rebranded it slightly - but kept a fairly similar name. He started providing a more polished product. Offering extra services. Then he started charging a bit more. These days, he tries to market himself as being on the same level as the big player in the industry and the product is far closer to 'on par' with other big players - but unfortunately, many still regard the product as a 'lesser standard' than the big boys, because of their budget, cut-price history. The minute Dreamworld tries to tackle the 'budget' angle, their reputation will forever stay in the toilet as the sub-standard park against Movie World \ VRTP. No matter what they do to the park after that - the budget monkey will forever be on their back. If you haven't yet figured out the entrepreneur's business, its

I can't remember without looking over the notes but I think the empty raft was a test raft that was sent around after the pumps had faulted earlier.

ok...got excited for a minute, but its a PRESTON & BARBIERI Swinger....

If Dreamworld continues with the current status quo on the little things, then something big is pointless, because the status quo is they don't give a shit. Of course rubbish and toilets aren't the current issues, they were just simplistic examples. The actual "little things" at the park are a little more subtle, yet still very noticeable. Its the little things like having your rides open for the same amount of time that your park is open. Its like operating a ride that has 40 seats with 20 empty seats because if you load it any more, you'll break it, and if you load it any less, its too expensive to run. its like having a brand new ride working, staff trained, everything ready to open, and not opening it, and not telling anybody why. its like cutting off the walkway to half of your park, making everyone walk the alternative, much longer way around, and then not operating your lone transport ride to help move people around the park a bit easier. Its like having multiple alternative locomotives you could run to keep a train operating, but opting instead to shutter it, because the alternatives are more expensive its like identifying a risk of injury to riders and bolting on a homemade contraption rather than talking to the industry to use the same device far and wide about how they managed it. its like resetting a pump for the third time, by a technician who wasn't supposed to reset it, to keep a ride running that policy says shouldn't run if it needs resetting more than twice in a day. its like not bothering to upgrade your rides to modern safety standards like having properly functioning e-stops. its like having numerous incidents where people could have been killed, and not making any changes, until someone IS killed. The current status quo in small things means they have no business building big things. Its bigger than garbages and toilets - but I guess even Dreamworld can't fuck up trash and shit.

Say all you want about coasters but if it wasn't for adding The Great American Scream Machine two years after a death from another coaster we wouldn't have Six Flags Great Adventure. They are a proven way to draw people back to a park after a major incident. Having someone run the park who has a clue as to what the fuck they are doing also helps things.

If Dreamworld added some shit to GD gondola themselves I can imagine that post accident when they reaudited their rides they decided to remove anything that wasn't put there by the manufacturer.

The new Batman at MW is looking great 😂 (Photo TPSN)