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Dreamworld's website home page now: See my post above. See this post I made - it actually was literally less than 4 hours after the incident - not days/weeks - before scrutiny happened. Even if it did 'plummet' like you say, it is no higher than what the share price was 2 years ago - which has remained roughly the same since and after the incident. Any 'plummet' would have to be way worse to have such an effect on the park's finances. Given trading finished a couple of hours ago and the incident occurred close to end of trade, expect any real effect of the incident on the sharemarkets to occur tomorrow.

I don't understand that - clipped on the way down yet needs meshing above the riders? I'm also reading news reports that Ardent's share price has dropped heaps as a result of this incident but after looking at the ASX, it is not a significant drop so ignore those reports. After reading all posts so far, I don't think this has been posted from Ardent Leisure's ASX announcement regarding the incident:

I read this in an IAAPA article on permanent panic rooms a while ago: Remember, MW's panic rooms are temporary so operators won't be as flexible in extending time in the room/providing hints.

Thanks for embedding that photo! I looked for a photo but couldn't find one clear enough. It definitely looks identical (minus the hand)!

That's what I thought?

Nine News Sydney are really giving it to the Gold Coast theme parks sadly - a story dedicated to nearly all previous incidents in ALL Gold Coast theme parks from pyrotechnic mishaps to minor ride malfuncations to passengers misbehaving on the rides. They reported in 1998 a piece of metal fell from the Giant Drop - is that true?

Press Conference Live (now finished)

Due to cost, I also doubt it will be the longest rollercoaster ever (my current guess is 1.9km after all) but in general, the rollercoaster's construction site size doesn't necessarily equate to the rollercoaster's length. The more complex the rollercoaster can be in that site, the longer the rollercoaster can be. Example: Alton Towers' The Smiler. It's 14 inversions gives it a length of 1,170 metres yet is only on approximately 6,000 square metres of land. MW's rollercoaster construction site currently (that is, excluding any track going over the swamp) is approximately 24,000 square metres in size.

@iwerks, in the video you linked to, is that the former prawn from DW's Gamesite at 38 seconds in? I might be wrong but it looks very similar & I don't know when DW installed the prawn at Gamesite's main entrance. Oh, yeah. I didn't recall that when I wrote the post but still the building was in tact (minus the letter 'E') like you said & for an indoor theme 'park', that makes it look enough to still be recognised as an SBNO theme park (even if it was a furniture store at the time).

I've seen videos of Arkham Asylum's themed queue but they are not good enough for me to understand the narrative that is told in the queue but from what you said about audio, that means the audio, writing on the walls ("Welcome to the Joker's Funhouse! " etc.) and I believe the VR contains the Joker consistently throughout it (rather than just a brief segment). When you read MW's description of Arkham Asylum, it does sound like it's a Joker rollercoaster (just more Batman villains appear as the narrative goes along): Compared to other Batman franchise rides that have featured at MW, Batman is rather low-key in this one - the Joker is the main character.

So just Dodgem Cars are the only permanent ride still operating? I could see the Waterslide on satellite images but given the growth of grass around it, I thought it was no longer in operation? I always wanted to go on the Titanic: The Experience! I was disappointed when I found out it closed down (several years after it actually closed as I confused Fox Studios Backlot with the actual Fox Studios as well as the Entertainment Quarter for a long time). I was really curious how the sinking was recreated as a ride (assuming it was from the point of view from a person trapped on the Titanic & not someone on a lifeboat). I was researching Fox Studios Backlot the other week and it seems they did try to point out that it wasn't a theme park. I found this article from the Newcastle Herald which was published a few days prior to Fox Studios Backlot's opening. It mentions:

I see what you are saying but even though Arkham Asylum features more Batman villains other than the Joker, the Joker is pretty central to the ride's theming/narrative - his writing is all over the walls for starters. Compared to Justice League, not one member of the Justice League stands out in the ride's theming/narrative - they all receive equal treatment - which is the difference to Arkham Asylum. I thought that scenario is different as they were 2 different types of rides (one of which was kind of already operating for 15 years) & especially because Christopher Nolan's criticially-acclaimed Dark Knight trilogy had only just begun 2 years prior to Batwing Spaceshot's opening. Well we'll find out

Sorry, like @Santa07 said, I meant both track parts & support poles. Also, a Joker rollercoaster can be ruled out because it already exists (Arkham Asylum).

I read something about that @Wil_i_am_not but wasn't sure how old/accurate that statement was so I took a guess & assumed that happened prior to its 'permanent closure'. Anyway, that sounds like a travelling carnival if the portable rides aren't stored on location year-round. The permanent rides are all SBNO though? Nice video @iwerks! I never knew videos existed of the Fox Studios Backlot.

Found another abandoned amusement park in Sydney - O'Neill's Adventureland. You can see a satellite image of its location here. Finding this made me realise how many SBNO theme/amusement parks there were in Sydney in 2004/2005 - Sega World, Magic Kingdom, O'Neill's Adventureland, Wonderland...(any more?)... Given Luna Park's revolving door history, is Sydney just not meant to be for theme/amusement parks? I mean I hope Wet 'n' Wild has a great future in Sydney but from what I hear, people are heading back to Jamberoo Action Park & given Western Sydney is Wet 'n' Wild's main target market, surely that isn't a good sign after nearly 3 years of operations? At least Luna Park is currently having it's least disruptive period of operations since 1979. Only 32 more years and they'll break the record of 44 years without closing (1935-1979)! Bit off topic I know...

It's been over a year since it opened (late July 2015 to be exact) but here it is: The Illawarra has got a 2nd amusement park - 'Granties Maze'. It does sound like a standalone tourist attraction (being a traditional hedge maze) but there are many more attractions (thus, qualifying it as an 'amusement park'). If anyone is wondering where 'Granties Maze' is, click here. The hedge maze looks really good & definitely worthy of a visit but the rest of the attractions aren't as much to get excited over. The layout/design of the site (apart from the maze area) needs improvement as well as general marketing of the place (I think they barely do any marketing for it - at least the publicity they got for their opening reached well around the Illawarra region) but to be fair, 'Granties Maze' can have the potential & if you read the history of why the place took over 30 years to open, they've done pretty well to weather all those problems to finally get it opened - the dedication has to be admired. It's taken roughly the same time as the Orphan Rocker to open but at least, this one has opened! Here is the 15th of July 2015 Kiama Independent newspaper article about it's (at the time) upcoming opening with photographs from Georgia Matts:

Actually, that was what I meant! The exception being track colours though. I do think the media are at least intelligent enough to link the colours of tracks for a new MW rollercoaster to a particular movie without needing to go to sites like Parkz.

I noticed the two 5's prior to posting but completely forgot to change one to a '6' as it should be. Most of Dreamworld is still themed to Australia when you think about it. It's just those few things that broke with tradition that made be wonder why? (Apart from the obvious commercial reasons) ...particularly when they take up a large part of the park like Dreamworks Experience. SkyPoint is a very different situation as it is located nearly 20 kilometres away from Dreamworld. That's clearly a good enough distance for tourists to recognise them as separate entities.

I don't think Mack Rides will say the slightest unless it is in conjunction with MW. Announcing it around the time of the IAAPA Attractions Expo would be a good for Mack Rides if it ends being a rollercoaster that is a global leader in it's field as then, with the global publicity, Mack Rides could gain the benefits of the Expo's visitation, which would be from all over the world. The IAAPA Attractions Expo also fits with the current time period for a potential announcement on the new rollercoaster. I predicted in my guess timetable that the track parts will arrive in early December so I do think there will be some sort of teaser at a minimum in mid-November like we are all expecting anyway. If they waited until after White Christmas, we might have found the track parts laying around in the car park and from the design & colour of the track parts, we're highly likely to have figured out the theme & rollercoaster features/type before MW even announced it. Given the hype built around this rollercoaster, I feel MW would definitely prefer announcing it themselves rather than letting the media find out through websites like Parkz this time more than any other previous time. Since Parkz began, nearly all new rollercoasters have been figured out from the arrival of track parts prior to any official announcement. Apart from the Mack Rides crates & the roller coaster DA, MW has kept details of this rollercoaster incredibly well secret and I'm sure they would have realised by now that track parts is an easy way for theme park enthusiasts (and to an extent, the media) to decipher the theme & rollercoaster features/type. A mid-November announcement would be before the track parts arrive ensuring that MW controls and makes the most of the publicity this new rollercoaster will generate.

Someone did ask Whitewater World a very similar question on Facebook yesterday. Their question just wasn't specific to the front gate. The response they got was: This sounds conflicting given Whitewater World-only tickets are no longer sold online?

Just noticed that Whitewater World changed their logo on social media last week by removing the original 'coat of arms' logo featuring the purple/green checkboard escutcheon which had 2 surfboards forming a cross on it as well as 2 dogs on either side of it licking it. It was meant as an allusion to the Australian coat of arms. They also added the spiky blue sphere in the background as well as changing the words from 'By Dreamworld' to 'Only At Dreamworld' (maybe indicating possible future incorporation of the park as officially part of Dreamworld?): Given the timing of the change (particularly since the logo has barely changed since the park's opening), could it be related to what @www worker 2.0 talked about last month?: Logo changes would definitely require consultation between upper management & the marketing team after all. Marketing teams don't just change logos without the approval of higher management.

@Tim Dasco, to add to @themagician's map, read this post I made back when Stage 1 opened.

From Jamberoo's 'Retail Shopping' webpage:

Ok - just checking as a previous photo update showed the new steel around the top edges (similar in your 2nd photo). The only thing new in your photos I saw was the new top edge steel in the north-western corner (1st photo) & the scaffolding (both photos).

More steel has been installed - no question about it - but you weren't mistaking most of 'the steel' for the scaffolding? As there is a lot of scaffolding around the building's exterior now.