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I didn't even know it that far along in the construction process

Kinda impressive considering Oceania was only 1.7% of the vote: I'm suprised Steel Vengance is still number 1 after all this time, especially with the likes of Iron Gwazi, Zadra and ArieForce One existing now.

I just dont see this panning out. There'll be individual lap bars like RR/WWF that'll need to be checked and rechecked before dispatch. There'll be storage boxes or lockers and no more taking loose items on the ride. Capacity is going to be worse, not better. Every ride that's had an overhaul is like this now. Safety standards have changed. I hope I'm wrong.

There are more than only two fish in that pond.

From new display name on page 4 "Wagner Mesh decking on support structure over pool" Looks like the globe will have visible water, but not really under the ride...

It actually looks like there's been a fair bit of activity in Scooby based on the tire marks on that new concrete turn around. A post from TPSN the other day showed a pile driver on site, so it looks like they might have started on the footings for the new coasters:

The storage boxes on JR aren't nearly as big as the Motocoasters revolving shelf. It's really only big enough for phones/hats/sunnies etc. For us we needed a locker for our backpack so we just chucked everything in the locker at the same time. I remember seeing the ride op struggling to slide the cover over and having the fight with bag straps etc.

From that overview it mentions a cougar day yard (bottom right), do they have cougars now or are they foreshadowing them?

Yessssss! I like it, but I hope that's just plonked down for delivery and that proper installation follows, cause those blocks just make it look tacky. Keep this up Dreamworld!

We taking bets yet as to whether you'll still be able to take loose items with you on Scooby 2.0?

Maybe that's a recent change then? We got off Rivals at about 4:45 yesterday and it had the Ride Closed chain across, someone was also manning the entrance to Batwing as we were leaving. Rivals did go down at about 4 (we were already in the queue) but maintenance attended and it reopened in about 30 mins. I've gotta say though my experience at Movie world yesterday was vastly improved to some degree. Ride queue times were frustrating and I agree with webslave in that there's still no sense of urgency from ride ops. The park itself however looks better than I remember it from our visit 12 months ago. Rivals queue has had some mulch and extra fencing installed to help the plants not get picked by bored guests. Superman has new working screens in the queue, and it felt like the A/C was actually working in the queue too. We went to like up for West but the queue was at the entry door, so we gave that a miss (we can't stand listening to that 10 sec music on loop)

According to the website, only Lantern (and obv. Scooby) are planned outages. SE has only been down since today and is an unscheduled closure.

I know that while I was VQ'ing for a ride, I wasn't buying anything, I was waiting in another ride queue. I wonder if someone has actually ran the numbers on the backend after it's implementation and realised that VQ didn't translate into additional spend in the park. This is most likely the answer.

For all its faults I remember spending many hours trawling through it's content over the years, even though I only attended Wonderland a couple of times. Chris, thanks for at least keeping the site active after all this time. Looking forward to seeing its transformation when the time comes.

I would expect that the door between load/unload on Superman would need to be integrated much the same as ST's switch track is, would it not? Failure of the door would need to result in the dispatch being halted until it was fixed/bypassed as it's in the ride path.

Looks pretty good to me. Credit to Dreamworld's Golden Years - Past, Present, Future on FB

Making the structure look less neglected and tidying it up. Remember they never even announced Arkham as officially closed, they just started pulling it down after they announced WoO. There's so much evidence pointing to it's removal (or at least never returning to service) and not that much for retaining. Evidence for never returning: - University study on what to do with the track - FB comments from VRTP that said it was permanently closed and later retracted. - Disposal of other monorail trains - Not reopening it after Atlantis construction completed - Removal of components (as above)/ - Adding lighting/electrical into the path of the train Evidence for remaining: - It's still standing - There's still one train left and is still parked in the station - They're doing maintenance on the track itself (painting etc) I'd hope that the monorail is adequately 'locked out' like any other form of machinery undergoing maintenance, and that any maintenance is completed before the lockout can be removed (including re-installation of shrouds).

Visited LPS for the first time today, which is kinda mad considering we only live a couple of hours away. Took a couple of snaps of the Wild Mouse. The cars have been moved back outside and are under covers. There were no pinball machines inside Coney Island, the space where the cars were in a previous photo was just empty. There were a couple of pieces of track behind the fence just outside the Wild Mouse entrance next to the covered up cars.

You said it better than I could @TBoy

Saw this this afternoon; Universal announcing new Dreamworks lands Seems to me like the loss of Dreamworks at Dreamworld was more from the point of Universal wanting it back rather than it being too expensive for Dreamworld.

So a faster, taller (in height), shorter (in length) version of Steel Taipan?

No, you didn't. Justify it to yourself however you want but you still jumped the queue. Unless you're all there when your party joins the queue, you queue jumped.

Is it actually just painted on though, or is it made via differing the sizes of the holes in the mesh? The latter would be much harder to fix. To their credit, DW has been pretty proactive about fixing their signage when it's been pointed out (or at least that's the impression I get). Examples: Taipan lettering upside down, ABC kids world signage, flyer hoarding. The GD shelter has been pointed out before, and before the extended maintenance period. This tells me that it either simply does not worry them, or that the fix is a lot more involved than we think.

Was VQ working last holidays? It was turned off for duration of our visit.

During our Easter visit last year, we had a seven day pass. Each day we rope dropped Rivals and then either waited once for another ride like Superman or Lantern. After those two rides we left and went to either Dreamworld or Seaworld depending on our mood, it was far too busy for us to hang around all day, seeing as though the wait times never really went down. For comparison when we were at Magic Kingdom last year, most of the rides' wait times dropped to about half around lunch time (after the rope drop rush) and were practically empty after the fireworks, that didn't really occur at any time at our parks; they were consistently busy from open to close. I don't know if recent holiday periods have been as busy, as there was quite a lot of Covid "revenge travelling" happening last Easter, but my experience back then has taught me that MW simply doesn't cope well with the number of guests in holiday periods and is best avoided if at all possible. The other option is to stump-up for Fast Track if you are time limited, but again you need to be at the front of the queue at park opening to have a chance at snagging one.