Baconjack

Wait a few years for the plants to grow then you’ll take this back. I have always maintained that rivertown as a theme will look better in 3-4 years time than on opening day. Every park known to man looks barren on day one then the plants grow and provide natural shade. Everything will look better with a bit of weathering. I think it’s a bit of a silly expectation for an Australian park to install mature plants in a new build area considering how expensive it is to do so.

Have nearly 2000 hours on the original planet coaster so this was a day 1 buy for me. The features added are awesome (particularly pathing and scenery) but have limitations (hard to make intamin accelerator cars look like commodores unfortunately the scaling is a bit limited for those specific details). The content is pretty bare bones as well It's quite difficult to really detail this pub I'm trying to make in my Australia DCA-style park. Will get much better with DLC's though

How so it’s been pretty well established that the main entrance is next to superman If anything this is just that extra path that spits you out next to scooby, the exact same one in the arkham days.

If they were to sell they wouldn’t sell to a developer for the land it sits on. No shit. Coast is not pulling a Sunway. But at the end of the day its land value is still a component of the park value. Add the additions to the park, especially in the last 5 years, and you’ve got a park that’s worth a lot more than what Macquarie/Ardent/Coast bought it for originally.

Yes you know that Coast’s shareholders can wind up a company that’s solvent? Shareholders would get a pay day as well given how much Dreamworld would go for if sold. Brisbane Olympics are around the corner if you were a publicly listed company with an objective to make profit and look after your shareholders, you’d be a fool not to take advantage of the land prices that are surging across SEQ and sell at the right time. The level of capex investment that’s been made over the years has also added quite a bit to the park value. All of it points to a sale in the future. You don’t have to keep a business running for the sake of it

That looks really nice. Yeah I thought they would flip the ride position. If it was kept in the same spot you’d be encroaching on shockwave. Will look really imposing to guests from Main Street (you’d see it in action from the car park and highway too probably) and will be nice to get a different view swinging towards tail spin. Thunderbolt’s land will probably go to whitewater world (as much as the nostalgia nerd in me would like dreamworld to rework the old station for another thunderbolt) Rocky Hollow is the next cab off the rank but I’d imagine ocean parade is the last thing they touch before Coast sells. Gold Coaster has only operated for about 25 years total and has still got a fair bit of life left. It’s a waste of time to replace the track as it’s not popular enough to justify that expense. It’ll go when the time is right to invest into that corner of the park

Dreamworld social media team definitely read these forums, the jokes that have been made in the video give it away

Those Zamperla restraints are genuinely awful for people above 6 foot tall or of a larger build though. They're designed for skinny short folks. I've been on a couple discoverys and being a taller person the restraint dug so far into my shoulders and could barely close properly, it destroyed the experience for me. Gimme this over Sledgehammer at Luna Park anyday. Intamin over the shoulder lap bars (that are also on Big Dipper and Goliath) are the greatest thing since sliced bread Having been on Beast a few times I have it on high authority that King Claw will have a better cycle too that doesn't stop right as it starts to get good. Doomsday was an ABC Rides baby brokered by Intamin. Claw has operated reliably for 20 years and both it and its successor is designed by Intamin themselves. Your point on Doomsday is dribble lol

Surely you wouldn’t need to remove shockwave if you flip the ride position in the direction facing tail spin? At a brief glance on google maps you could fit it there and have plenty of clearance room with the Main Street shelter.

Like you definitely could but then where do you put the house? Dreamworld is rezoning the land which the old house sat on and management today probably hasn't got any interest in hosting.

Interesting to see the comparison between the nitty gritty details between Rivertown and Wizard of Oz land. Done by the same company, presumably on a similar budget across both companies. Movie World's approach with Kansas (jury is still out on the other parts of the land) looks plasticy and brand spanking new while the temple is already weathered and looks a lot better IMO

Do intamin still make condor style rides? Village may have interest

Is this the first time they’ve changed the map for like 20 years? Giant drop looked pretty much the same on the map since I was a kid

Yeah but not allowing guests to do their own seatbelt and making it another layer of the 69 layers of staff checks is world class didn’t you hear. Every other park known to man does it. World class theme parks have slow moving 2 hour lines as the standard.

I’d say it was when the ride was repainted and given enhancements in 2014. That would make it 10 years since the last inspection but not sure if it was a ‘major inspection’, but given the nature of ride repaints I’d make an educated guess that the structure got a solid look.