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People that live in Studio Village need to just shut up about the noise. They moved next to a working studio and theme park. We do events at the park all year long and 10pm, we have to cut all noise because these idiots moved next to an entertainment precinct. The next problem is GC city council has no backbone and bows down to these people.

Winterfest will be looking the goods tonight!

The industry is in big trouble. Currently a lot of the showmen are shut down as the underwriters have not renewed the policy's that have already expired. They guys currently still trading are using the current PLI, but when that runs out... unsure what will happen. All the big underwriters have pulled out claiming covid impacts and loss of income. Some experts are saying that because premiums were not paid and just a hand full of payouts happened, it hurt the bottom line, so the underwriters just pulled out. They have based alot of the data off the US and UK markets that have significantly higher claims and losses durring covid than the Australian market, and this is the problem when most of the underwriters come out of London.

Thats exactly what I am thinking too about the slide incident. The program did they more harm than sympathy. My wife (a youth support worker) also noticed the kid makes a gang sign (education queensland has banned that sign in all schools) when they are filming the family hanging out the front of the house. Over all, 30 minutes of stock footage, a nice build up and the thrown under the bus for 40mins. The ride inspector part was interesting that they went down the path of an accident, but I did hate that they put the candid part of him asking whn it airs to try and through some shade on him. all up, 1 stale chirro out of 10

this is totally false. I work and do media for a major fireworks company and during the bushfire, they got hammered by the media. cut to a week before NYE it was all about cancelling and the media feeding it purely for click bait. One reporter gave us an absolute uneducated spray on the 20th of December that got alot of people upset and then on the 28th did a fluff peice about how good the fireworks would be for Surfers Paradise. I called him out infront of the media pack and he sheepishly told the whole pack, that what ever gets the ratings. Australian media its all about online click bait for advertising and what ever gets a rating. I have 10 years of experience with the media and its the same shit day in and day out. It's infotainment, over hype, opinion and also most never just the facts. So please don't embarrass yourself by saying that the media don't high five when they though and indusrty under the bus and get huge ratings. 4 years I took for them to stop mentioning death and dreamworld in the same story.

The whole area is being leveled. It will be a picnic area for the future until the ground has settled. Its been marked as a future attraction site

That area is on the side of the swamp. Once the ground work is done, its going to have to sit vacant while the ground settles. Could be a few years before they do anything with an attraction on it. Dont be surprised if they turn it into a picnic area!

Saw some demolition engineers down near the log ride, I believe its about to come down in the next few weeks.

Correct, it also allows them to compete with places like BIG4. Look at BIG4 at Sandstone point, its has the cabins, bungalows and camp site is has been almost fully booked the past 6 months.

Pre Covid, Movie World was operating events and conferences almost 5 nights a week. Having to bus conferences guests (some that book entire wings or on occasions that whole resort) from seaworld was a logistic pain in the butt. It opens up a new hotel with conference facility's to play host to multiple offsite dinners and events with out having to use non VRTP venues. So basically, they use their own facility keeping all the extra cash in house. It was a huge market to them and with bookings now starting to come back, its a no brainier. There event team is very good at selling their venues and its sort after by cooperates

Pre Covid, Movie World was operating events and conferences almost 5 nights a week. Having to bus conferences guests (some that book entire wings or on occasions that whole resort) from seaworld was a logistic pain in the butt. It opens up a new hotel with conference facility's to play host to multiple offsite dinners and events with out having to use non VRTP venues. So basicaly, they use their won facititys keeping all the extra cash inhouse. It was a huge market to them and with bookings now starting to come back, its a no brainier. There event team is very good at selling their venues and its sort after by cooperates

The addition of an RV and Camp site is a very smart idea. Dreamworld have had this in the works of a number of months, with a former high level manager stepping down to focus on other projects for the park. Them the whispers

Anyone go and see the monster trucks?

Any near miss incident should be reported, if the Murdoch news fiction paper reported every near miss that is reported with Qantas, no one would ever fly. Its a media beef up. Click bait about dreamworld sells unfortunately and Facebook doesn't help. 100's of near misses are reported across Queensland every week, Im glad that they are taking it seriously and reporting.

Shine Lawyers... But Im not after money at all!

There is about 70 more containers to go, they are being sent at different times so they all don't arrive at once. If you landed all the containers at once, your would fill the entire carpark up with parts.

The facde of the building is attached to steal beams, so if the wind took out part of the facde, then for safety reasons they would have removed the whole section. Cant leave it to flap in the wind. That's what it looks like to me. I was at Dreamworld and the only part that was damaged was a shade sail that was taken down for the same reason.

Anyone checked that is not storm damage? On Saturday MW had lawn bowl size hail and 120km hr winds...

unfortunately, you picked a terrible day to visit. The claw was down for maintenance and the ice cream parlor has its rooftop off. they were all good on Sunday. Last week the place was looking the best it has in years!

Some photos of Happy Halloween from last Friday

Here is a quick video of some of the work Skylighter and High Impact Lighting have created at Dreamworld. https://www.facebook.com/SkylighterfireworksAUS/videos/862636074272423

The reason its taking so long is the actual painting. Its not uncommon on any project to start the paint job while other trades are also working, come back and fix the paint or rub it back to do work and then repaint again. This is who projects get done in month and not years. Its the same way they repaint bridges. There is also significant over spray that tends to blow from the south, so they can only paint from 7pm to 5am. Otherwise they cover all the guest and staffs vehicals in the carpark. This is why the carpark was closed back at Buzzsaw when only the Lego shop was open, because they could paint during the day. Also the Genie Lift has a wind rating, so when the wind gets up, they have to bring it down and stop work. But i did enjoy the conspiracy theory's

The chemicals they use keep working on surfaces even after several hundred touches, . The last up to days but in high traffic areas most will recommend a reapply at 30 to 60 minutes. Same stuff they use in hospitals in infection wards. . Same chemicals on long haul flights too. Its now just mass produced to meet the demand

Holy Shit, the media didn't mention the tragedy. I am actually, genuinely shocked... mainly because the media are the worst! But then again, they did show rides that are no longer operating...

There is a whole legal process that none of us are privileged to know about happening. There will be a significant amount of medical professionals, lawyers, regulators, work cover and many more parties involved. You are also take into account that this is not one law suit, but many. Don't speculate about feelings or whats write or wrong, its will be black and white, percentages and math that will dictate the outcome for this family. That's the way this works and that why lawyers get paid so much. I hope she gets all the medical help she needs.