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Sure, if you ignore the all day lockers they have for $10-15 too

I had <5 hours last night. You can do it! I don't go back to work til monday though so I don't need sleep.

Without damage to them, yes. Without temp closure of them, I doubt it.

Think of the drainage they'd need to add though. Probably just as expensive as filling it in.

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Sadly no. I did however manage to convince optus to connect only my unit to cable internet instead of ADSL

You forgot the Dreamworld staple of hiding old rides.......

I love how everyone is lamenting the loss of the ride and thinking it's never coming back despite no suggestions at all from the park this is happening. The ride went into maintenance before Dreamworld's incident. The fact that it doesn't have an opening date is likely the result of two things. 1 - Flume maintenance always seems to take parks longer than expected, whether it be DW, MW, or SW, they always seem to find something wrong with either a belt or a pump. 2 - Given it was in maintenance before the DW incident, as mentioned earlier in the thread, it's may have been staying closed slightly longer while waiting for the results of the audit. Given the audit is now complete for Sea World as far as I know, I bring you back to point one. It's maintenance.

I can just imagine that meeting.... "Fifteen million nine-hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine-hundred and ninety-nine.......*ding* ..... oh it's a new financial year, better luck next year boys." @AlexB - eventually yes, but I don't think any of our parks are anywhere near that yet.

That could be a good idea, assuming they added lockers near JL3D & DD - they don't seem to run out of the ones they have now. Maybe an extra $5 to be able to move your stuff around though so they're not wasting lockers?

Turns out that you have to redeem and download the beta separately, the alpha doesn't automatically upgrade to beta, so you can have them both installed at the same time. Fortunately it's only a 5gb download so only takes <10 minutes or so, but that's 10 minutes I could have been playing PC!

Can I play devil's advocate here and say that when you've paid bugger all to get into the park, $15-20 for an all day locker isn't really asking for much IMO. I'd like to see them add a new all day locker building along that path between JL3D and GL, then more out near DD and WWF.

It was a maintenance area at the back of one of the kids rides. No guest access. They just asked for a new handrail to be installed on a platform. The park complied. Everyone was happy.

Don't I? Everything sounds bigger in centimetres

Aren't we back to it being WnW's turn for some capex now? Sea World just had the plaza. Movie World has DD and the coaster. WnW is due again. Whether the money goes to the GC or the under-performing Sydney park is yet to be seen. I'd like to think Vikings still has a future though. There's no real reason for it to be removed, surely? Shouldn't cost too much in the grand scheme of things for some new boats and a new conveyor belt?

That's true, and should happen, but they're likely going to be looking at it with the short time in mind for now. Moving on this quickly, or announcing plans to do so, isn't going to be a short term win for them. IMO, an announcement should be made a few months after the park has reopened that there will be a new ride or two, and I mean decent ones, not space fillers, by 2019. Memorial done by October 2017 and open it on the anniversary, or just beforehand. This gives them enough time to consult with everyone and build something decent so it's not seen as a half assed attempt.

They're not closing it "out of respect" at all. It's a business decision to try to save face with the public. As much as I hate the decision, look at your options really. > Ride reopens - media chastise the park for not honouring the deceased. Park is criticised for pretending it never happened. - Overall BAD PR. > Ride remains SBNO - media berate them for leaving an "open wound" at the park. Public complain there's no reason to visit that end of the park now. Enthusiasts finally have a new SBNO ride to move on to after Eureka. - Overall MODERATE PR impact. > Ride is filled in too soon - media & public claim they're trying to forget it ever happened and cover any trace of it existing. - Overall BAD PR. > Ride is completely removed - media & public complain none of the ride was kept as a memorial, but at the same time say none of it should be kept as a reminder of what happened. - Overall BAD PR. > Part of the ride is kept as a memorial - media & public complain they've kept a reminder of what happened. (you'll never please everyone) - Overall MODERATE PR impact. > Some other scenario I haven't thought of - UNKNOWN PR impact. So really there's no winning this, regardless of what they do or don't do.

Media conference stated the ride would be "decommissioned" and not removed at this point. No word if any of it may form part of the memorial at a later time.

Where was that? I was looking for something on the supposed 1pm announcement but couldn't find anything.

With the amount of Super Hero stuff that is/was planned for the park already, are we really expecting this coaster to not be DC themed?

Lucky it's not based at Dreamworld or we'd probably be losing JL3D too. http://www.behindthethrills.com/2016/11/ride-technician-dies-at-universal-studios-florida/

I personally think closing it was an absolutely stupid decision. This was a tragic accident. People died. That doesn't mean the ride should be removed. People have died on plenty of other rides that are still ridden by thousands of people each day. As much as I want to go back to Dreamworld to support them, decisions like this removal of yet another classic ride from the park are making it extremely hard to justify the cost of going back. Their management had really better start looking at some big draw card attractions, and fast. The park is just kind of..."meh" at the moment, even without the rapids incident.

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I'm from that generation of people who aren't still living in the past. What's all the options, but in metric this time?

IIRC that was because they had issues with the boats bottoming out there when the pumps were switched off during evacs/other reasons for the pumps to be off. That was done just before the extra stuff was added to that gate to prevent the rafts from floating to the reservoir.