Baconjack

The ride is just not very good though. Comfort is just the worst of the issues. Replace the shit motorbike trains with quad bikes and its a boring coaster that loses all its speed after the first turn and just meanders around. Really there isn't much to work with. I don't have any idea what the layout changes are going to be and I'm sure whatever theming they do will be at a very good standard like the rest of rivertown. But I feel it'll have to take a lot to make the ride decent let alone better than its cousin at sea world (something that was designed well from the outset) Totally agree, motocoaster stuck out like a sore thumb in rivertown and that needed to be addressed (I think we can all agree on that), but i reckon something ground-up would have barely cost more than a reskin of a ride that doesn't have a lot going for it

A person falling out of a roller coaster in this day and age is unthinkable There are lots of variables at play (photo evidence of the man being a bigger fella, the train returning to the station with its lap bar fully open, Six Flags maintenance budgets getting cut, and by all accounts safety culture amongst that park's staff being not great) so really hope the investigators can get to the bottom of it as soon as possible Thoughts go to the victim, their family, workers, bystanders and those on the ride at the time

That Ferris wheel is pretty large and is 40+ years old while being exposed to sea air the whole time. The new owners of Luna Park have NFI how to run an amusement park (i no longer renew my annual pass because of how shit it's got) but its definitely at the age where you think about replacement.

https://archive.is/1TURU Telegraph article from yesterday

It seems to me based on the evidence available X2 is done I've been on eejanaika, and as much as i love it that's already a bit of a challenge to ride on an outside seat. Would hate to know how X2 rides but by all accounts it is quite rough particularly on the last raven turn. When the vast majority of people who go to parks don't watch POV'S and have NFI what a ride like X2 does, good chance bad shit is going to happen (and head knocks are pretty fucking scary as anyone who's played contact sport can attest) X2 is on my coaster most wanted list, no doubt about it, but as much as I'd hate to say it it's probably the end of the road. The industry goes around when there's a promise of safety between the park and the guest. For a prototype 24 years is not a bad innings at all

Not an expert at how much these things cost but if the decision to refurbish (ie through retrofitting the launch to LSM's) over replacement is a more viable prospect the park should 100% take the former option. And there is proof of a ride being converted this way without needing a swing launch. It can be done by at least 2 companies. Very much possible its just a matter of what village would like to do.

Building with precut track resolves the roughness problem

At least the eddys are making the park their own out of the gate and are keen to clear some land up for new stuff

Legitimately this. I don't care about the environment but AI art is incredibly lazy and with a trained eye its not very hard to pick out When Rivals was built Village plucked a random guy who posted his Nl2 pre creation based on the footings onto Parkz to do the animation for them for the ride's marketing. Something like that wouldn't happen now. Plenty of australia based creators who'd do something like this for free

Either a mack rocking boat (like what dollywood's installed this year) or a shoot the chutes (jurassic park like) are at the very top of the wishlist. Would go for a dinosaur theme. You have rainforest/jungle, outback, beach, main street. Dreamworld clearly tried to make the Gold Coast equivalent to Adventureland with Rivertown, why not do something like the Jurassic Park lands at Universal next?

Intamin make these trains new I'd suspect dreamworld would have bought straight from them as opposed to salvaging from another ride. Also pretty sure that Blue Lagoon's area is being used for the citywalk/hotel/housing expansion (as per the plans) and not the park itself

That's a lot of money to spend on renovating a ride which is nothing to write home about. At least it should be more comfortable to go on

Ocean parade has always been a mish mash of random crap. Nothing cohesive about that area at all apart from "it's blue and water". King claw on one end, repainted ancient Chinese facades on the other, and aeroplanes elsewhere. Not far removed from a time where it had zombies, wipeout, and v8 supercars

Obviously the case still has to play out but it seems very similar to the crash that happened on smiler where the block brakes functioned as intended, but operators that thought they knew better overrode the PLC without a visual inspection of the ride. Did village not learn from this accident which affected the industry worldwide? Especially when safety at the parks has been under a microscope in the last 10 years. Do fucking better village, they're very lucky that the lady wasn't killed

Ngl $99 for 5 and a bit hours of park that is best case scenario 75% open is a really bad value proposition compared to other entertainment options around the area. It's obvious PE cost cutting that we should expect from village but I hope that people who arent annual pass holders dont fall for that pricing.