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What's the go with Doomsday Destroyer?: SCSC is still scheduled to re-open on Boxing Day according to Warner Brothers Movie World's website's attraction maintenance webpage.

From The Courier-Mail: When did they make DW 'change' Buzzsaw 1st? And what 'new changes'? I only remember Buzzsaw getting the only 3 prohibition notices DW received from Workplace Health & Safety QLD inspectors.

It's not a guess as the hypercoaster is clearly next to the swamp which they've interpreted as a 'lake'. The same swamp is very likely the 'lake' in VRTP's proposed 'lakeside precinct' (so the swamp might be converted to a 'lake' in the future) but I don't think the 'lakeside precinct' is part of MW. I think it is separate and more near TopGolf's rumoured site & the western side of the swamp.The plans for the 'lakeside precinct' and hotel have already been approved but yes, VRTP might want to announce everything at once like they did when SE was formally announced - when SE was formally announced, they announced expansions at all their theme parks.

I know a lot about the usage of The Spit but not about how often locals travel to The Spit to utilise these uses (apart from SW) and no, I definitely don't think you are wrong. If visitation to the beaches of The Spit is enough to produce constant sufficient demand throughout those days for a cable car/gondola, then yes I think it would be fine to have a cable car/gondola connecting Southport with SW.

True but those are in or very near the CBD of a city where people are going to/from all day. The only thing most tourists would go to The Spit for is SW only and that's only around 10am & around 5pm. I only brought it up as despite how wonderful the idea is, the capacity of these gondolas/cable cars have to be considered & I believe the capacity is too high in this situation. And no, I don't think one way ferries in this case are viable. Didn't forget but as a non-local, I don't know how often locals travel to The Spit for non-SW reasons. I took an assumption that locals rarely do but until you posted, no one argued locals use The Spit regularly for things other than SW but still in your argument, it's only in the summer - only making it a seasonal attraction so far.

Because demand for transportation to The Spit would be less during the main portion of the day (11am to 4pm) maybe to the point it is not worthy to operate it then. Other Australian tourist cableways operate during the day because there is constant demand in the day for it's usage such as Cairns' Skyrail, which operates to about a 60% or more capacity. But yeah, I agree operators won't care about the general public's opinion if the cableway is still financially feasible.

Source? The last official information posted on here was that Rocky Hollow Log Ride is still undergoing it's safety audit.

@bladex, @AlexB is referring to the plants not Viking's Revenge. I'd say it is temporary until Viking's Revenge's station is demolished, which probably won't happen until the summer holidays are over. Plants are thus visually better to have sitting there until the demolition occurs instead of having this sitting there for months & months & months...:

Here. DW's tigers were born in: Hirakawa Zoo (2) Poland (1) Cairns Wildlife Safari Reserve (1) Krefelder Zoo (1) Tiger Island, DW (8) None were born in the natural habitats of tigers. The home of most of the tigers is DW.

I never knew this but that does help. I still think though even if fewer cars were run, the cableway won't operate most of the day & thus still be considered underutilised. @AlexB's monorail suggestion, to me, is more likely. Imagine if they connected Jupiters Casino's monorail to SW's monorail? But then people probably would wonder why they built the light rail then. I agree with that but I wasn't ignoring it. The cablecar/gondola would be very useful around 9-11am & 4-6pm but might be rarely used between 11am & 4pm. The same would apply for the hotels. The casino/entertainment precinct I can see getting increased visitation after sunset depending on the entertainment on offer. I still think a cable car/gondola would be underutilised & being labelled a 'white elephant' unless there is something on The Spit that will have the need for people to travel to & from between 11am & 4pm.

Is this Facebook comment made by DW about the Rocky Hollow Log Ride a more definite indication that they may re-open it in the future?

I know that @themagician - I was just referring to distance in general not whether you can see it or not.

The main problem I've seen with cable cars/gondolas is capacity. Yes, they got high capacity which in most cases is good but in this case, it's too much capacity. Assuming SW has the same average attendance as DW, that is 6000 people per day on average. SW's former Sky High Skyway could handle about 4000 people maximum in 1 whole day. These gondolas/cable cars can handle double that in 1 hour. Most cable cars/gondolas would thus be very underutilised and be labelled a 'white elephant'. Even with the casino's visitation added, it'd probably be only a slight improvement. If it was to help local commuters, well how many people commute to The Spit? Probably not many extra. Tourists would only use it and there is still too few tourists to justify building it. It may also be too high to meet height restrictions (unless they relax the restrictions) and may be deemed an eyesore by local residents. If anything, I'd extend the light rail to terminate at SW from the Main Beach stop in it's own branch line. By the way, the cruise ship terminal is not part of those plans. That would probably work if you can encourage visitors to not drink too much alcohol.

They are not re-opening the thrill rides based on distance from Thunder River Rapids otherwise Mick Doohan's Motocoaster wouldn't have been the 2nd thrill ride to have re-opened. They also wouldn't have re-opened a small portion of Town Of Gold Rush if they were completely avoiding that area.

Dreamworld CEO also later briefly said 'after Christmas'.

Yeah, I know that will happen but it's better than nothing. It would reduce congestion to an extent. Other solutions could be to: Re-route Arkham Asylum's main entrance to Lethal Weapon's original Chinatown Alley entrance &; Re locate Batwing Spaceshot's exit so people leave in the direction of the Fountain Of Fame The above might not solve the congestion problem but it would help a bit. I haven't assumed that (others might have though) as I don't have enough information yet to make an assumption about that.

@jjuttp, the brochure tells the general public about these: Tap 'n' Play Extra Shade Dinosaur Lagoon Village Bean Coffee House Club W Summer Days Pass 2016/2017 Season Opening Days/Hours Cinema In The Sand ShowTime FMX Summer Slam Summer Music series Nickelodeon Beach It also mentions 5 'top tips' & provides a voucher for 1 day of free parking.

Received a Wet 'n' Wild Sydney brochure today. This is part of what it reads: Is this them acknowledging the park isn't up to the general public's expectations only after 3 years of operations? Better than no acknowledgement I suppose...

I agree with @AlexB but it would be the biggest walk between a ride's entrance & exit in the park - beating it by AA's by about 40 metres, which is approximately 130 metres long. This wouldn't be a problem for the hypercoaster's riders but it might be for people who are waiting for people in their group who rode it particularly if they don't know where the exit is. Maybe the hypercoaster could have 2 entrances/exits - a general public precinct entrance/exit & a 2nd ride entrance/exit so the general public has to enter via 1 entrance & exit via the other while in-between it's a precinct home to the hypercoaster's main ride entrance/exit? Here's a quick schematic I've drawn up if I didn't explain it clearly: The red area is the hypercoaster's queue/exit while the orange is the hypercoaster's 'precinct'. The grey areas are the entrance & exits to the hypercoaster's 'precinct'. The blue lines are 'no exit' and 'no entry' signs. ...so before the end of next year. Also, like what I've said before, it would match what they did for SE if that ended up as the case - SE was first formally announced to the media in a media call about massive expansions at all VRTPs. That media call happened in mid-September 2005. In my updated guess timetable, I've put that as happening in mid-April 2017.

According to DW's webpage for the attraction, it will close (or have it's opening hours changed) on Sunday the 15th of January 2017 too.

He said "for next year...for this year sorry" - which, to me, made it sound like he was indicating an opening date (which we now know isn't the case - his correction, that is) but I agree with the interpretation that @gumb00t & @Tim Dasco made of what he said. I assumed 'building' included the actual track installation. Based on the SE timetable, construction fencing marketing would indicate track installation is about to begin plus that the track parts would have already arrived (did they hide them really well? or have they just not arrived yet? ). Here's an updated timetable basing it on a 30 September 2017 opening: Mid November 2015 - Rollercoaster development application approved by Council/New MW attraction to be "one of the world’s best theme park drawcards" confirmed to shareholders June/July 2016 - Site prepartion/footing placement tender advertised confirming the rollercoaster is a 'hypercoaster' Early July 2016 to mid January 2017 - Site preparation/footing placement Mid August 2016 - Original (but now delayed) announcement date Early September 2016 - Mack Rides confirmed as manufacturer due to their crates seen on construction site Early November 2016 to Late December 2016 - Track parts arrival Mid December 2016 - Construction fencing marketing added Near Future - Currently most likely time period for the hypercoaster announcement Late January to Mid May 2017 - Track installation Late March 2017 - Outdoor media marketing campaign begins Mid April 2017 - Trains arrive/Media call Mid May 2017 to 30 September 2017 - Theming/landscaping Early July 2017 - Train 'pull-throughs' Late July 2017 - Main marketing campaign begins/Testing begins Mid/Late September 2017 - MW website update Late September 2017 - Preview rides/Media launch 30 September 2017 - Opening By the way, I'm not going to update this timetable everytime an error is made (if anymore occur). Given an approximate opening date was confirmed today and the timetable was based around an approximate opening date, this is an exemption. The timetable probably won't be updated from now on (unless you really want it to be).

I believe all the Gold Coast theme parks' maintenance pages all automatically update at Midnight each night so given Wet 'n' Wild didn't update their maintenance page before midnight last night to extend Super 8 Aqua Racer's maintenance period, it's listing disappeared automatically at midnight and as you can see, they didn't re-publish it (and extend it) until earlier today.

Thought it was there based on what little information I had. Thanks for that confirmation. I did more research yesterday on the National Library Of Australia's Trove service (somewhere I haven't used before for theme park history research) & found this image of the maze:

I've only been to Timezone Gold Coast, SkyPoint, Infinity & Ripley's Believe It Or Not? - there are all good fun and SkyPoint provides stunning views. I've always wondered how Infinity works? @pushbutton, remember SkyPoint is owned by Ardent Leisure & is included in DW's annual passes. Is Timezone Gold Coast really 'the worlds biggest indoor entertainment complex'?

In the video, I don't know if there is more context prior to 09:30 that makes it more understandable but why does he say it will be built 'next year' before correcting himself to saying 'this year'? It's not going to be built before the end of 2016 unless he means financial years which would be before 30th June 2017? If he actually meant 2016 and there is no extra context needed, I wonder why he said it?