DaptoFunlandGuy

Boost Juice truck? Seriously though - Rivals was under Kirby, was it not?

I haven't kept up but assume the stinger slides are the ones on the outside edges you can see in the above pic - just supports in place? My guess is they've built the inside ones first for easy crane access to the site, and they'll now build the stingers which they can reach from the sides perhaps?

Bang on. Snowy Surfing wasn't the only cowboy activity either (although it was one of the few they were silly enough to capture on film). The one that interested me the most was someone riding a boomerang with the harness up. Interestingly the harness is semi-redundant as its near impossible to get out of the train when it's moving. The safety system on the demon consisted of a reflector on the locking 'lever' that was scanned by a beam at the rear entrance to the station. The PLC would count the reflectors (and know the distances between them) so it could tell if all the locking levers were up or down, but not if each individual harness was (I believe this was standard on arrow\vekoma coasters of the 80's and I think Corkscrew had similar systems in place) But yes - as the saying goes - its all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Following. The opening is such a rare occurrence, and lasts for such a short time each year like a night blooming cereus its a wonder to get to see it in real life.

Albeit... dare I say.... BACKWARDS!

For everything i've heard or learned about the app \ VQ, I doubt they're that smart. For years their websites weren't even mobile friendly, so I don't think they've got someone automating that.

Took me way too long to understand what Tim was talking about. can we have a thread title change to reflect this isn’t the LPS Ranger?

There were some unusual closures in the past 12 months and i'm pretty sure we discussed whether the additional time for the wet rides meant a reliagnment to wintertime. good to see that's happening as I believe West also had the same\similar change?

Maybe on one of the trains, you can ride it

Thread is BS - but just to answer this a little - the most problematic part of a drop ride is actually the safety systems. Cables can be inspected and replaced per manufacturer, and GD's gondolas have just had a refurb so by the sounds, pretty straightforward stuff, as long as the running gear, cable and magnets are all maintained well. All pretty basic stuff (then again most ride mechanisms are fairly simple in their operation, it's making them safe that gets complex) As for the safety systems, the PLC systems on Space Probe were fickle - launching all enabled gondolas occurred simultaneously, and if all gondolas didn't arrive at the top within a space of each other, the ride would fault. One of the modules (I believe it was module 2) suffered a fault at some stage and was repaired (badly) by an in house electrician. It never worked the same again, and this is why one gondola would rise slower than the rest. But this would cause the ride to fault as the first gondola to arrive would start the timer in the PLC and the last one wouldn't arrive in time due to the slower running winch. The maintenance team fixed this issue by patching a couple one-shot timers into the two faster units to delay their 'arrival' signal to the PLC a few seconds to give the last gondola a chance to catch up. It still happened occasionally, especially with weight differences, but although they consulted Intamin, they couldn't undo the damage done without replacing the entire module - (something that would have shut the ride down and required the station buildings to be partially dismantled). So the ride continued to operate on life support, and module 2 was taken out of service whenever things acted up too badly. --- I've told this story many times over the years, but this is the first time i've told this with the hindsight of the Dreamworld Inquest - and for the first time i've found myself thinking - gee those maintenance guys were a bit blase about things, weren't they?

I mean if you're going to count every closure in the last 7 years, you should probably count Sky Voyager alongside Taipan. It's not much of an improvement, but its factual. Agree with pretty much everything else you've said here - Dreamworld has a lot of fucking work to do. I'm hopeful they've got the right team and tools to try. Movieworld should have gone the SF route long ago. I also don't think they should be trying to compliment Green Lantern - from what I hear, that thing has been a dumpster fire of late.

Nice spot mate. Can confirm. im on mobile - so forgive the formatting - but here’s the latest Nearmap!

That’s what I meant by the MyGov image , it’s an official record so there should be no reason they dont accept it. the qld checkin app is easier because it shows checkin and vax status on the one screen.

Just for the record, I think comparing a new coaster with the exact coaster it replaced is a fair comparison IMO.

Places I’ve been have all asked. I saw one place that would only accept the QLD checkin “tick” or MyGov animated image. paper copies, screenshots etc were refused entry.

I’m surprised to see so many fountains in this thread. This is the first I’ve read on Parkz but I had heard this same information through an offline source. minor, no need for sensationalism, but legitimate fire occurred and I’ve heard it from enough reliable sources now to be satisfied that something small did occur. im yet to hear anyone confirm this exploded air tank at GL though.

Putting West out after Easter is smart. Probably one of the smartest maintenance decisions I’ve seen in years. wet rides closed in winter… such innovation!

I took a corporate group to TopGolf last week. we anticipated crazy busy times and wanted to book, but it was a “pay your own share” kind of thing, not the corporate card. we needed two bays minimum, were prepared to play for two hours, and everyone would be ordering lunch, and likely drinks. couldn’t book single bays. Events team told us they could take us if we booked a package but it required prepaid food and bev - basically $1000, with $500 food and bev credit, making it nigh on impossible for everyone to only pay their “share”. We got bays allocated very quickly on the bottom floor as we arrived at 11:30. Despite it not being packed half our group’s food hadn’t arrived at the 45 minute mark (the point where the game stops to ask if you want to extend). so our group decided to end the game at an hour and go elsewhere. they could have easily made their $1000 off us if they’d let us book and pay our way but they’re just so Inflexible. what I WILL say though is the catering / finding a server issue is fixed: QR code in every bay, order whatever you like, pay on phone, brought direct to your bay in minutes. Need a refill? Delivered in two minutes flat. Amazing system and I’m quite happy to use it over the servers. I will say though that Evie and Will were awesome service team for our group - it was the kitchen and events team that convinced us not to stay longer.

Regardless of where they came from, where they were, or how Long they’ve been there, take any random first-time visitor to both of those parks today, and dreamworld looks a fuck-tonne better. No bias, no rose coloured glasses. we’re 5 days away from their peak trading period - who looks more “ready”?

I'd honestly be ok if they ripped the foam off, and just hung a vinyl banner with a general yellow\black chevron image (pointing down) with the words 'giant drop' superimposed over the top. call it a 'transitional theme' while they work out what to do with it. That foam was getting on in years about ten years ago. Now its just a rotting embarassment.

is the thinking that individual lapbars are fitted to the individual rider and therefore make escape in the case of a flip over all but impossible? not that I would think a West boat could flip, but since these are new boats... who knows?

Are the OOS seats locked out in the system, or do staff still need to re-do the seatbelt on each one each time? What a shambles this soft opening has been! They should have waited until their staff were at 100% like the Rivals crew!

Like they did in Hong Kong?

Agree with this 100%

I hope you're not referring to Universal - who soft opened an entire theme park for 14 months. Can you imagine if they didn't advertise that? I also hope you're not referring to Disney - who ran 'passholder previews' in Galaxy's Edge and - *shock horror* allowed Smugglers Run to break down. Oh - and they also advertised it to their passholders too. We have no information as to why Taipan was down at any particular time during the 'soft open' for 'passholders' (you might say a passholder preview, eh?) so I think its a bit arrogant to suggest they were any less prepared than they should have been, or to invoke the big players (who also do soft opens to iron out the kinks and get their crew in shape for grand opening) to try to make your argument without at least some details as to what went wrong... If you DO know what happened to Taipan, and it WAS a case of the park pushing it open before they should have then please DO share it with the rest of us. 🤷‍♂️