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We won’t be renewing. Family of 5, been too Movieworld twice, Dreamworld over 20 times. Until Movieworld can improve their ride ops, vastly improve the park and feel of the parks then we will continue to support Dreamworld over Village

I'm quite surprised with the price hikes that anyone retained these pass-types!

I did a quick google (I haven't been either) and it's clear the layout crosses over itself several times, and there isn't sufficient room between them to ensure clearances. no - you can't split the envelope.

I think you mean: Viking's Revenge.

"Maintenance" is 30% keeping the ride operating well, 70% cost savings. High likelihood that both sides will shut.

They talk a big game about immersive theming, but consistently dump waste in public sight lines. Like on Wild West Falls, that old boat looking thing that I assume is for a parade, just lays there collecting dust. It's concerning how little they care. I know I am just reiterating what's been discussed for a long time, but I cannot wait until the private equity firm has had enough of leeching the park and park goers dry and sell the company.

And the day someone falls in front of a moving ride vehicle, everyone will suddenly find themselves appalled that there wasn't something as simple as an exit gate. Disney must also either be self-insured or be paying huge amounts for insurance, to allow them to skip on pretty inexpensive preventative measures. I believe it was pretty firmly established in another thread a while back that the requirement for attendants to check the harness before doing up seatbelts on DCR was stipulated by Mack themselves, due to a close-call overseas. Making this a universal policy across the park will actually be saving time in my opinion, because there's one clear rule for guests to follow everywhere. More time is wasted when guests get confused and do the wrong thing and harnesses need to be raised. Like I said just above, I'm pretty certain the push-pull is stipulated by the manufacturer. But regardless, on all occasions that I've ridden Blue Fire, it's seemed to me (who spent several years operating a ride with almost the same harness design) that the one handed wiggle of the harness would be wholly ineffective at either checking it's down far enough, or detecting a failed cylinder. I fully agree with you here. @Levithian made this point earlier in the thread, but having previously operated many of the attractions at Movie World, I think the biggest factor in long dispatch times isn't the procedure but the motivation of the staff. Procedure certainly contributes to it, particularly at the WoO rides. The attendants have to do a lot of passing through gates and moving around the station to safe zones during each cycle, which definitely chews up time. I think this is more down to the design of the stations (and possibly a lack of input/forethought from operations staff), because these are still critical safety functions.

You could visually sight the restraint is down far enough by literally just looking if it's in contact with a guest, there are few rides I can think of that actually require you to confirm minimum closed. Really, the only concern you should have is if the restraint stays down when in the closed position. You aren't checking any of this to confirm it is locked or latched as once it's no longer in the released state, every position of the restraint cylinder is a closed position and cannot travel the opposite direction. You are checking to make sure it hasn't failed hydraulically and released the cylinders, hence the pull up. The minimum closed part is done and confirmed electronically and won't allow a dispatch until achieved. The cylinders cannot function without power and the closed position is effectively the off position preventing the fluid to return to accumulator and the other side of the cylinder. Electrical faults for contactors and relays are monitored for state changes, so if a relay or contact is sticking or has failed, it will flag a fault for the circuit being in the wrong state and you'll see the position on the panel. It doesn't just know what position the restraint is in based on the flag, it also can see what state the circuit is actually in too. So really, the only way a restraint can release without warning is in the event of a hydraulic failure. If the hmi tells the seat it's no longer released, the control valve closes, and the restraint cylinder can only be moved in one direction towards fully closed position allowing you to close the gap when loading (the press down), or to account for body mass shift when the ride is in motion. The nitrogen accumulator in the system keeps the fluid pressurised, so once it's in the closed position it should be impossible for it to move towards open until power is cycled. Especially when using two cylinders for redundancy as any one cylinder is designed to be strong enough to keep the harness closed in the event of failure. It's why left and right tests are done during daily inspections because you'd never know one has failed until the second one did too and you had a catastrophic release. Newer coasters went further to combine everything with a flagged sensor of some description to provide double redundancy of harness position, usually with an optical or magnetic sensor. So the manufacturers really only want a physical pull against the restraint to confirm nothing weird has gone on. Additional locking devices like seat belts are a secondary feature and the locked position of the tongue is also monitored in the mechanism itself. So there's not even a reason to worry if the crotch belt is done up, it already knows it is regardless of who fed the tongue into the latch. It's like checking your checks have been double checked in the case that a failure of a 2nd or 3rd redundant system has also failed. For most manufacturers they are happy to trust the machine element over the human one. So a physical pull up against the restraint is usually good enough for them to be happy that the guest is more likely to be injured or die of pretty much anything else you can dream up before the ride control system fails.