Baconjack

Yeah agree with above. Anyone who’s been on this board for more than 10 minutes can figure out exactly who you’re talking about. The name and shame wasn’t subtle at all Could have copied and pasted the article and that’s that. You might know who it is but it’s clearly a confidential matter, let the facts unravel themselves and if you reckon who it is, just keep it to yourself.

Wooden coasters need wood replacement all the time. It is stock standard upkeep for those rides. Leviathan is not getting retracked 3 years after opening

Theres no way it takes that long for the park to start getting to work on putting lipstick on the motocoaster pig. Assuming construction goes on for 7-10 months aiming at a September holidays/Boxing Day opening Would be at least a year and a half time gap from motocoaster closing and 2 and a bit years for the full project. Surely its more than just a refurb that seems like a very long time for such a project

Looks like a bit of trolling. Re using the motocoaster station and queue for whatever they build next makes perfect sense to me - where it is, it is just about the perfect set up for a brake run, turn, and a station on that bit of land.

If Intamin can cram in a hot racer into the tiny plot that Luna Park’s one sits on and still make a good ride, imagine what they could do on motocoaster’s spot which is much larger. Could get something decent out of that.

Control systems are not a cheap upgrade (from what I understand Movie World didn't see the value in replacing Arkham's one that was life expired and opted to pull the whole thing down instead, among a whole bunch of other issues). Gold coaster's been rough for 20 years (and by accounts was also rough when it was in Sydney). A few of the transitions kind of stink. It was so much worse with the old trains though, I've never had a problem with the vests and find them superior in every way. This is a convo worth having in 2030 in my view. At the end of the day Dreamworld needs to keep the ride count up and there's no other roller coaster between Jungle Rush and Steel Taipan, so its in their best interest to keep it around until they're ready to replace it or some major operational issue with the ride forces their hand. The fact day-to-day upkeep for it is as simple as it is, is the reason it's stuck around as long as it has.

Resident gold coaster enjoyer here (hence the profile picture ive had for a number of years) The ride is very easy and cheap to maintain like all arrows. The components are simple enough to be reproduced by a third party and is still well supported for parts by S&S. The layout being how it is, means there's limited stress on the track, but if need be, more crossties can easily be added to the inversions as bracing (a lot of boomerangs and older arrows are getting these). The control system and electronics are quite new and were replaced in 2023 so the park have financially committed to keeping the ride going for a while.

Whatever the replacement for motocoaster is, if they’re planning on moving fast on it a replacement would have been ordered years ago. Lead times in the industry were generally about 2-3 years depending on the manufacturer as recently as a couple of years ago (Mack was 3 years if I remember right). Not sure where it’s at now, but I’d imagine it would be something similar in terms of time frame.

Yep is a new Mack ride. Pretty sure there’s one that’s been built already. Looks like an awesome concept, but I’ve been huge on a well themed shoot the chutes for Dreamworld for a while now. Something like Jurassic park on the coast would be awesome.

No big loss this ride sucks. Thought they would have rethemed it as opposed to pulling it down. I suppose in a way the door is still open to that until we see construction equipment on site, but they wouldn’t make a song and dance about this coaster closing if they were just going to reskin it. Well done to dreamworld for having plans for their park done ahead of time as opposed to closing a ride and figuring out a replacement later. Their neighbours down the road should take notes I listened to that podcast this week, if I remember right he said he wouldn’t build a water ride unless it was something seriously special. Wouldn’t rule out a highly themed flume or shoot the chutes for the space. But generally agree with your point whatever replaces motocoaster should be a ride that cools off guests on a hot day, whether that involves water or air conditioning (or both)

Ok so having watched the pov it is for sure an improvement over next gen. Most of the screens being gone is a good thing, even though some of the scenes before the elevator imv don’t look as detailed as they used to be. Only major criticism is the wild mouse portion being in the dark. For me I reckon I’d like it but for the majority of riders it’s probably too intense for them. I suspect the lights will return as people tend to get hurt from not anticipating what is coming next. Scooby being back is a good thing for the park in many ways, fingers crossed the park looks after it and doesn’t let it go to shit like every other themed ride they have

Thanks for the report mate. The effects in the dark ride section haven’t been working properly for a while. Most recent POV’s of the ride skip past a couple of lines of dialogue the same ones you pointed out and you can’t see the water effect very well (which itself operates in B mode). Disappointing but not surprised, probably not enough room in the budget to fix these things (or that queue update they were talking about) I’d really hate to yap on about the harness shit again but to my knowledge the harness thing is not an Intamin recommendation as it never used to be this way (on superman, tower of terror, Surfrider etc). So unless there’s a service bulletin relating to this type of restraint from Intamin that I don’t know about, it’s some shit that village has put in either from an insurance writer or an operations manager who thinks they know better. haven’t been on superman in 5 years so operating on fuzzy memories here, but isn’t there always a cast member in the queue that operates the front of the line? Isn’t it their job to get the next cycle of riders in front of the doors after the people in front of them have stepped through? Seems weird

Queue looks nice. Hoping there's a single rider line

So how exactly would that work with a separate unload/load station assuming the ride operationally remains the same?

Finally a 3d sign in the park