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King Claw went out for tender today. Images from public tender.

Some great videos on Dreamworlds Instagram story at the moment, showing the indoor queue, station and outer temple structure. The ride is looking really impressive.

If they sell Dreamworld its likely they won't look to buy anything else and are wanting to wrap up the Coast business.

DW have a great opportunity to light the creature up on top of the ride so it can stand out from the highway. Lasers shoot from out of the eyes, blowing up cars on the highway, during peak hour, is also acceptable.

I don't believe you'll find the property shutting down anytime soon. There would also be some complications (not impossible to navigate however) about the lease use of the land to which the site sits on. You can't forget that Palace purchased the park for a bargain. Even better so than their original offer the year prior. Following the acquisition and change over period they drastically right sized their shared service side of the business and slimed down their P&L making it a profitable 'regional water park' in the eyes of its owners. With that being said its likely to continue that way, a regional/seasonal style water park that continues to plot along with occasional commercial capex that has guaranteed ROI. But id be shocked if we saw any sort of significant new investment anytime soon unfortunately.

If they were to sell they wouldn’t sell to a developer for the land it sits on. No shit. Coast is not pulling a Sunway. But at the end of the day its land value is still a component of the park value. Add the additions to the park, especially in the last 5 years, and you’ve got a park that’s worth a lot more than what Macquarie/Ardent/Coast bought it for originally.

The fact their last online was 15 minutes after account creation, i'm leaning into spam.

This has been the endgame for the Coast business for quite a while now. Greg and the rest of the Coast Executive team stand to directly benefit with its sale, this is still their focus.

Makes no financial sense? They sell the entire company to another buyer, and all shareholders get a windfall profit from the sale...? They don't have to keep running a business just for the sake of it...

Dissappointed about the feet not returning though.

So they do seem to have used the same platform location, and rotated it to face Main Street rather than swing adjacent to it. Should create an even better effect from there, especially with the queue entrance being framed directly underneath the swing, also facing Main St. Big fan of its presentation so far.