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Id guess it has to be produced, not just off the shelf. And no doubt you don't replace chain without doing sprockets either.

Who built the ride though? Rides built in house or from manufacturers who are defunct seem to be on the outer and being phased out post dreamworld accident.

They can give her money but that leaves them open to still being sued unless its all settled legally. Nobody does that. They go on legal advice and dont admit to anything unless they were told to. This is nothing new though honestly. It all becomes a numbers game and the whole situation stinks. They literally want a report that says this girl will have a diagnosis for the rest of her life so they can calculate what the impact on her earning ability will be, maybe throw a little in for anguish and suffering, then try to beat that figure down to the lowest point an agreement could be reached. Ardent said they would provide support for the recovery process and it honestly reads like they are, but that its not being utilised. Health assessments are fluid and can change rapidly, even if it wasnt an insurance company making you jump through even more hoops. If the other family members have settled with the company already, the best advice would seem to be to take some of the settlement money and engage a law firm on behalf of the girl and serve ardent and their insurers an notice of intent and have their whole team of PR staff run a negative publicity campaign that will make them wish they had of settled years ago for pretty much anything the family demanded. The law firm handles everything and ardent and the insurers are left to pickup their fees and associated costs in the judgement or any settlement. Playing devils advocate here a little... i would not be surprised if thats whats already happening. Surely there would have been plenty of offers to represent the family so they didnt have to go it alone legally.

She can get help whenever she wants, but if you dont co-operate with the requests for assessments, which requires you to engage with the health professionals they want to send you to, then this is what happens. They just let it drag along, doing the absolute minimum they should be doing so they can turn around in court and make it look like they have been doing all they can and the other party isnt responding or meeting all their requests. Anyone who has had the unfortunate pleasure of dealing with an injury claim through workcover will tell you how terrible it is to deal with. Its entirely heartless with very little care for continuing damage caused by the process. People need to stop saying ardent ardent ardent and start by finding out who their insurance underwriter is for the public liability insurance which will be controlling everything.

Village always play everything close to the chest, they pretty much never announce anything that keeps the public informed about long term plans until its already in progress. On top of that, its usually not until they have something more to go on other than only reporting a negative. They always want to put an upward spin on any bad news. So I wouldnt be surprised if its just a matter of wanting to plan future new attractions to announce the bad news of ride closures. Could literally just need more time to work out what they are doing after the closures before they make any announcements.

Have to remember too, its insurance companies and lawyers who will be dictating whats going on. Maybe not specifically ardent. I imagine the stalemate could be the lack of any resolution or progress with the psychologists etc. Legal people deal in absolutes and they want definition. If theres no discussion happening and no support being utilised, may struggle to have doctors put their names to any diagnosis and form any opinion on her welbeing which wont sit well with insurance companies.

Have a read through this (in particular the first bulleted paragraph) and look at rides that are going through extended maintenance and rides that are old and sbno. https://www.worksafe.qld.gov.au/laws-and-compliance/workplace-health-and-safety-laws/laws-and-legislation/work-health-and-safety-amusement-devices-public-safety-amendment-regulation-2019

I thought thats the reason why it sat closed for a long period of time.

The free events and the area kinda being locked down to other people is the attraction though. Especially if you can't have more than 10 people in a public place together. Might as well stay somewhere closer to home and avoid the restrictions that don't apply to the rest of the state (if victoria and nsw can even enter qld by then anyway).

Didn't a lot of the trouble with buzzsaw start because someone in maintenance ran the car through the station with the station gates closed and caused a bunch of damage?

From pimpama. Now the gold coast comes under the same 10 people limits like the rest of the greater brisbane region. They cancelled schoolies for this year too which will probably hurt the coast a lot as it's usually a good lead in to the christmas holiday period for tourism and accommodation, etc. Having 2 weeks of high occupancy before the holidays would have been a nice lift I imagine, with events cancelled and restrictions on how many people can be out in public together, might turn people away from even going?

Even if it was timed, it was setup with the intention to open. So you had to be training staff already before the monday expecting it to go live soon. Its also had the dates changed 3 times over the week. I think youd know if you had trained staff or not, and not need to keep changing the date each day. Besides which, you only need the minimum staff (4?) to open it. Anyone else that needs training or a refresher could do it while open. Sounds like something technical keeping it from opening, or even a number of unrelated failures across a number of days that keeps missing the deadline.

If superman was closed longer due to staff training, the park was ready to open the ride on time and posted about it on their facebook page that morning. It didnt open and the post was removed. So it would suggest that they had it staffed and intended to open it on monday, but something went wrong.

Its all iron, the bit under the rocket is bright, but the other parts where the boxes are was painted to look like floor boards. Brown with black lines for joins, knots, etc. I doubt they have kept it nice and fresh though, given the lack of cosmetic upkeep in their parks anyway, so the qld sun has probably killed it and its just an oxidised mess, but you can see the "effect" in videos. Regardless, its about on par for village, and the factory is definitely the station. I remember it used to have a big wile coyote on the front too, like the rocket (train) has run him over and he's pinned to the front like in the cartoons. Its a shame because village parks seem like a death of a thousand cuts. All these little things not kept/maintained over the years really add up when you didnt really have much to start with. A bit of effort in the cosmetic and visual appeal would make a big difference in the park. Id love to see some random placement of IP hidden around the park, giving the kids something to look for/hunt around kinda like a treasure hunt. Would keep our kids interested when walking around/standing in line and waiting if they have hidden easter egg type things to find on/in the facades and gardens, etc. How is it embellished? The back story is on point, and honestly, the ride was probably one of the better themed rides and it's just been left to deteriorate. Look closer inside the station next time. See the size of the timbers and the construction? They are massive wharf piers, built like an old factory. Same with whats on the roof. There used to be cactii and things in the ride area too, along with the ground looking like a desert, all dry and sandy, not full of trees, gardens and dirt like it is now. Plus there used to be a really well done mural around the side that looks like wile coyote had met his match after the rocket ride. Even the walk way was painted. It all looked exactly as they said. It's just a lame impersonation of the one it was based on in germany.

Aside from the boxes of fireworks and a giant rocket you speed past? The roof isnt like a roof either, its like timber floorboards. Maybe the second floor of a fireworks factory? Its hardly disney or universal, but its not like they made no effort to the back story.

Forgetting the station building?

They were good when they were still putting money into the shows. Anyone remember when they still themed the pre show area like with journey to the center of the earth that had the giant forest scene and shrek had the punch and judy show?

Current management are staying on after bgh takeover.

You may be very lucky under the grounds of no australian worker is available, but critical infrastructure is things like telco, medical, power etc and recovery industries are pretty much all your major exporters; mining, agriculture, manufacturing, etc. And even then they are denying a lot of people coming from countries of high risk like the US.

What? Where did they generate liquid assets prior to covid then? Where do you think the money will go that it's flushing it down? It's not going to keep people employed? pay accounts and services? There's absolutely no return on the investment? 100 million dollar losses didn't come until after the accident and included the valuation losses to the business. How is it not profitable when prior to the accident they were generating about 33% margins and ebitda profit figures of 30-35 million on average per year for the 5 years prior? There's a reason why dreamworld returned valuations of around 220-230 million prior to the accident. It's because it operated within stable division generating steady profits, not because the park is worth 60 million dollars in land and completely mismanaged. Like the direction the park has been heading in or not, it matters very little when they were still seeing 2.4 million people through the gates each year. Don't get sentiment confused with actual operations.

You cant fly to australia period unless you're a resident, citizen or immediate family member of a resident here. The borders are still closed. There are very few exemptions you can apply for, skilled workers aren't on the list.

They are handed government money to keep about 1000 people employed, along with all those funds that filter down through the supply chain that keep probably hundreds of businesses turning over. If you cant see its in the states best interest to keep a significant employer in business, paying their bills, paying for goods and services, money that ultimately flows back to the government, and instead focus on a miniscule maximum potential fine of 4.5 million; Youre either blind with rage or a complete moron.

Problem is the recovery is unknown. The 100 million capital they have just generated to help them through this period doesnt account for anything getting worse or factor in how long it will take to reach pre covid levels. Its just for immediate running expenses through into next year. That could mean regular injection of substancial capital over the 2-3 years AFTER state and nternational borders are open and people are allowed to travel freely anywhere. You could be faced with a 4 or 5 year return plan, which could basically make the company insolvent if left unchecked and recovery is slow. The 350 million debt turns into 500 quickly and could reach 600 or more to complete planned works. The company values continue to drop and suddenly your ability to generate more captial dries up and your stuck in a situation that dreamworld are. They wouldnt let it get that far, so it means years of thinning costs and reducing expenditure, likely throwing your plans for new rides and attractions in the bin. Its kind of the opposite of everything you want to be doing to recover from the complete unknown that is covid. BGH have capital to inject without needing to seek financing, so its a good situation for the company vs taking on more debt and trying to trade out of it. It could be another decade before you see that money paid down just to get back to pre dreamworld incident debt levels.

Given how early corona hit and the park closing, I wouldnt be surprised if they hadn't produced anything for this years fright nights yet. Doesn't anything left over usually end up at sales? so might be pretty thin on the ground for previous years stuff too.