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Looks like it’s running a bit faster than it did pre renovation which is good to see Glad everything has been done to original spec. Could have easily neutered the ride with modern brakes if they wanted to improve its reliability

Are topple towers still in production lol? If they get one of those they’re clearly not doing their homework. If you thought doomsday was the biggest lemon of a ride on our shores think again.

RCDB got rivals' height incorrect. Iffy on sources sometimes but do agree on the whole

RCDB is run by one bloke i'm interested to know what's his source on the matter

Grona Lund is also quite a bit bigger than Luna Park, isn't built on a skinny plot of land and doesn't have big rides and large buildings that are heritage listed (ie: about a quarter of the land) Good luck cramming shit on top of each other (or build things underground) at Luna Park. You'd pretty much have no luck.

If I was to guess it's probably an asset sale that needed to be done to fund the cost of the lease and doesn't indicate any plans for park investment. Wasn't the lease quoted at $70m originally? Oscars appear to be asset rich at a glance but who knows if they had the cash to afford the lease. "Revamping" the park is pointless when everything is basically new. The overwhelming majority of the rides are just over 3 years old. On top of that Wild Mouse has been completely rebuilt, the venues have been upgraded very recently and a large chunk of the food & beverage outlets have been somewhat recently renovated. Multiplex did up the place top to bottom before they sold. What could you exactly do with the park? Renovate Coney Island again (it's already in great condition as it stands)? Change the food and beverage outlets again? Luna Park investment wise is an ultra long game - Multiplex spent 15 years milking the existing park to its last dollar before getting new equipment in ready for a sale. It's also a cash cow - Big Top is a money printing license - probably why companies are interested in Luna Park as an asset to begin with. (for the record i'd love the second generation hot racer trains on big dipper which has fixed the roughness issues with the model, but i doubt it'll happen)

Having been to SNW in Japan yes those stairs get obscenely crowded. I was shocked at the land's layout having gone in pretty much blind, it is so poorly optimised for the crowds USJ gets. The stairs were packed basically all the time and my timed entry was a couple of hours before close. Could barely move in there. I'd imagine it would be even worse with Donkey Kong open. That said Singapore gets nowhere near the amount of patrons that USJ gets I think the stairs won't be too much of an issue in that iteration. As for Harry Potter, the park is landlocked and Hogsmeade takes up a lot of room. Would be very very hard to fit it in that tiny park without coming at the expense of the ride count.

If doomsday was coming back it wouldn’t have been deleted off the website or park map. The rides wires have also been chopped up into little bits rather than you know unplugged I think it’s safe to say it’s not going anywhere

Village came very very close to building one instead of Oz so never say never. They might revisit that once an opportunity arises to replace a major down at DC comics corner.

At least data seems to back up my observation from 1 visit. At least when I lined up for enchanted tale of beauty and the beast there were things to look at throughout while rivals has pretty much nothing. People at village most likely read these forums and have engaged with us in the past. At this point dreamworld will need to get back to 2014-2015 crowds (which is going to take a while) in order for anything to change

Not sure how you’d miss “All loose items including anything in your pockets should have been left with a friend or in the lockers at the entrance” being blasted at ear piercing volume every 2 minutes but you do you I guess

At movie world yes they do it’s not even a contest. I’d argue at the busiest of times it’s even worse than the likes of Disneysea/usj but you are correct it’s because the operations are painfully slow. It’s a bigger sample size sure but I’ve seen longer lines for rivals than the wait times I experienced for journey to the centre of the earth (which was the busiest thing there on my visit and the lines were no longer than 2 and a quarter hours throughout the day). Thankfully rivals has the single rider line and I can dodge it for the most part. There are cameras everywhere in an indoor queue id say its pretty easy to get caught pissing in a water fountain, and you’d get the kick instantly for it.

Move vortex provided it has a better cycle programmed Otherwise I’d like to see a Gerstlauer sky roller (think tail spin but attached to a tower). You could make it pretty tall if you wanted to Would love to see a screaming swing at movie world but as I’ve said before highly doubt village buys anything from S&S given how Green Lantern has turned out

The ride is new so teething issues are an expectation (ie: leviathan) But seems very strange considering this is the time of year the second trains for superman and rivals get removed from service typically

Start of February is historically the time of year where everything stops running at full capacity until next summer I must say it’s pretty silly to buy a dueling family boomerang and only run both sides for just over a month every year if they’re operating on this schedule What happens in future? Assuming that the control systems for the rides are independent of each other, excluding a repaint this ride could have very short maintenance periods as one side could be worked on while the other is still running?

Does rivertown have shade and places for someone to have a sit down at? Much easier to call WOZ incomplete when village decided it was a good idea to open the land with sections of queue in complete exposure to the sun without fans or shade and with nowhere to sit down after lining up over an hour for 1 ride Theming is theming but it’s mind boggling Village thought guests would be fine in a slow moving queue exposed to the Queensland heat with nothing to cool them off. How does that pass OH&S? To be quite frank they’re very lucky no one needed an ambulance called. Cut village some slack they didn’t even acknowledge the existence of DC rivals until it nearly finished construction They’re still trying to get to the “Let’s announce an opening date to get people excited for our new ride” stage of being a world class theme park business

Not privy to what goes on now but I heavily doubt village roadshow would ever buy anything from S&S given how green lantern has turned out Not only the trains have a long list of design flaws but they nearly killed people as well, id say they would have blacklisted them for any major capex projects after that happened

By all accounts the one at Busch gardens is very unreliable They might have improved on the tech since then and it’s definitely very cool but replacing a lemon with another is not what we want If I remember right Dreamworld decided against a conversion of giant drop because it was too intimidating so that might be a factor too

If that were true (which i wouldn’t know anything about) Intamin sell a bunch of drop towers and a small collection of flat rides (only 2 or 3 rides they design themselves). Thats it. They don’t have many choices Drop tower? They already have batwing so no tourbillon? Made by the same guys as doomsday (ABC) and are also lemons so you can rule that out if Village do their homework Gyro swing? There’s one up the road that it will inevitably be compared to By the process of elimination we can welcome back the sea world pirate ship

It is also much easier to sell offshore given the vast majority of parks here already have a pendulum ride themselves and absolutely zero chance Village Roadshow purchases a ride second hand.

Doomsday's individual page has now been deleted off the park website and the ride has been taken off the maintenance schedule, however is still on the map and appears on the attractions page Again surely an announcement comes soon. The ride is gone and whatever replaces it i'd imagine would be during 2026 at the very earliest (given its wet n wild's turn for capex this year and the area has re opened to public access without any substantial demolition work taking place). Surely they would have had time to prepare for a replacement given it was a lemon, right?

Nope it’s still on the map and website

It’s ultra landlocked yes but there’s heaps of old flats they have they could pull down for it if they wanted to The ex carny power surge and Frankenstein’s monster enterprise are some of them

LPM should have some interest they are one of few parks here that doesn’t have a pendulum ride of any sort. They’ve got space for this iirc. Would love to see Claw remain on our shores

Wasn’t dreamworld making record profits in the early 2010’s while theming was rotting away everywhere in the park (and as we know now safety practices were near non existent)?