Baconjack

$100m and this doesn't exist. LOL. Are there safety videos or no? Now the real question is does the seatbelt thing exist on TNT or is it solely restricted to the coast (and whoever village's insurance company is)

I reckon the $100m figure is a bit of a yarn. I can recall the project being marketed as $50m-$60m as recently as a few months ago. What’s the extra $40m been spent on since then? Surely the budget for the project hasn’t blown out that much. Do fans exist in the outdoor portions of the FOTWW queue (like the ones Rivals has)? I’d be shocked if they weren’t there given how harsh the QLD heat gets at this time of year

Always thought food at our parks across the board was on the pricey side but $26 is not all that bad for a schnitty. Some pubs charge more for them than Dreamworld does

Yeah this is what I thought. It looks like a screen with an accompanying animation should be in the place of that mural. It’s a shame that the standards have gone backwards from Leviathan while the budget has gotten bigger. This area had a lot of potential (and shows that in portions of the area) but it really needs to be finished, I’m not sure if there’s anything left to finish given how long this land has spent under construction when by comparison Rivertown was built at the last minute

Oh boy that 2nd half of the wicked witch queue is awful. Station looks about as good as Rivals too, a mural in the station is a massive step backwards from what we got on Leviathan 2 years ago. There's no way $100m has been spent on 2 off the shelf rides with incomplete theming past the preshow and the start of the queues for the coasters (which I'll admit is pretty good). I thought the land was $60m a few months ago, why's the figure been almost doubled? $100m is approaching Universal/Disney territory As for rushing construction, this started its build much earlier than Dreamworld did with Rivertown. Even if there was stuff left to be added, they had the head start by a few months on a project of similar scope. You'd think it would be in a better state than this?

You don’t see statues of Mickey and Minnie in spaceman costumes in Tomorrowland. Merchandise is OK but maybe a meet and greet a few times a day in Rivertown would have been a better “meet in the middle” option

There is no universe where jungle rush runs 1 train in the immediate aftermath of it opening to the public. The lines would genuinely be madness and the last thing dreamworld wants is to spit in the face of its customers by making them wait more than 2 hours for its newest major when they are still trying to convince the public to return.

I agree MDMC is in urgent need of change (preferably with all new trains that are more comfortable) and that should happen in the next year but another flat is needed down the track. A ride to fill the gap Wipeout left is still required to keep the ride count up and I’d prefer it be in Rivertown instead of more shit being crammed into ocean parade.

$99 renewal isn’t that bad for the rate of investment. You’ll get King Claw in that span of time too, that isn’t going to take very long to build and will open September holidays at the latest (if not earlier) Annual passes at our smaller parks are more expensive so even if you bought a new pass it’s a pretty good deal. Cheaper than village and you get a year’s free access to objectively the best water park and the best run theme park on the coast. Not to mention the perks (don’t get any of that at village)

Highly doubt there would be asbestos in the building, it was only built in 1996. Not many homes of that age seem to have it If they planned on removing it, it would have been gone a year ago when they were re-doing Dreamland. You could feasibly use it for an expansion flat in Rivertown if you wanted to down the track though.

Yeah I’d say this is far enough in advance that they aren’t putting down Superman as being closed for longer. Which I think it will given the updated queue, a lot of work in addition to the usual work they do on it every year. Scooby going back online in June is plausible, maybe a couple of weeks later in time for the winter school holiday break. That said it’s been closed for long enough and it’s extremely hard to follow progress given all the work being done is indoors. It could realistically open at any school holiday break after that point whether that be July or September or in time for summer, with a few weeks heads up.

You’d think the usual 2 month block for superman is not enough time to rebuild the trains and renovate the queue? Could see it down until June

This is a really dumb argument when you think about it. Should dreamworld not get a water ride outside the water park ever again because of the accident especially one of a type that’s never been built before at our parks? A shoot the chutes is not a rapids ride and most of the modern ones employ a standard roller coaster chain lift & anti rollback which makes the machinery eating the guests impossible. You know like on Wild West falls? the fact west continues to get a massive line shows that the appetite for water rides still exists.

The consensus dream water ride - a well themed shoot the chutes - I'd argue will bring people back. Jurassic Park helped set attendance records for USH when it opened. There's certainly precedent.

Whatever your opinion on roofs are I think we can both agree that the end product of the vintage cars show Dreamworld has come a long way with retrofitting roofs on rides. As for the "they are model t ford's not off road cars" upon a quick google image search of "1920s off road vehicles" i think the cars will look similar enough to what comes up on there. Model t's were also used for off road purposes by the army, so if you think its that, there's a fair bit of historical context that allows it to fit the theme (such as: the explorers purchased some really old vehicles from the army and are taking tours around the jungle in them)

The dry park needs water rides (or rides to cool you off in summer) too. Gone from 2 to 0 within 5 years. WWW can wait for all I care. Their slide lineup I reckon is still better than wet n wild and younger on average. Wet n wild took 15 years to catch up and install a hydro coaster and they don’t even have a bowl of any sort yet, Www will be fine all that they need is a lazy river

Could you explain for me how a guest can get around a metal detector being swiped around the front and back pockets of their pants and around their jacket? Or the big walk through ones like what you see at airports? Unless they don't work properly I think they do their job spotting phones, wallets, keys etc. Valid point I visited in a quieter time than summer so there was obviously going to be less staff on. That was from that point on for flying dinosaur - lots more staff were present earlier in the queue. The walk through detectors like you see at the airport should be on Superman at a minimum. You don't need extra staff on for that as the usher at the entrance can check for things when they come up. When the station is renovated to have the lockers at the midway point, just move the thing to that point in the queue. Rivals and green lantern you can do what USJ does with hollywood dream and give the restraint ops metal detectors that checks riders after putting stuff away and before they get in their seat. That's the only way to make sure everything comes out and prevents guest-related delays in the boarding process.

Having visited USJ yesterday it shocks me that our parks don’t have metal detectors of any kind before boarding and especially on newer rides. You’d think having sections of queue planned from the start to have a set of those airport-style metal detectors before you get on the ride would make sense. There’s enough staff during summer to run that, universal had 1 person do it on flying dinosaur. Then you have 1 usher, 2 people checking restraints, and someone on controls. Or even the Hollywood dream method - before you get on you get the metal detector check after putting your loose items away and before you get strapped in. having this would completely eliminate that issue.

Is the WWW gate to the right of the car park not open anymore?

Having 3 majors open when private schools nationwide are starting to finish for the year is pretty poor form. Hoping the issues are fixed in the next week or so when people start showing up in large numbers

Whats funny is that the shed was painted in a rusty colour when originally built for lethal weapon, so they clearly went into the effort of repainting the building (and recoating the white parts of it) Go away green (like what Dreamworld did with the side of the jungle rush building facing Tiger Island) would have looked better

T bars have seatbelts underneath covering the lap iirc. Dragster would have had them & xcelerator would have them otherwise ASTM compliance wouldn't be achieved.

Dreamworld only being open for 7 hours a day in summer is horrible. You're probably looking at the busiest summer for the park since 2015, with a new ride being added to the mix that's going to have people line up for 1.5-2 hours for it because it is new. Minus half an hour or so for lunch that's a sizeable chunk of someone's day taken up by 1 ride. If you want to ride Taipan, that's a majority. And you're including a water park in the mix too - for the price of admission you aren't going to get on much. Movie world being open for 8 and a half is better but if Rivals gets 4 hour lines like it did last summer, people are for sure going to feel like they've been ripped off. The onus is on the park to keep operations consistent with the amount of people they're letting in

Legally speaking in most parts of the world rides of Superman's level of thrill are required to have fail safes in their restraint design which is what the seat belt is for. All accelerators are delivered with such to be compliant with regulations. No idea what the go is with australia standards but I'd assume they are very similar to what you see in America and Europe. Rivals if i remember right is manufacturer best practice. Superman and flash are caused by the insurance broker In any case i love to complain about this too but companies are money first and you have to make it work. The buck stops with the managers. They should be the ones keeping their staff engaged to get rides out as fast as possible because 4 hour queues in summer is unacceptable and insulting to customers when you don't get anywhere near that anywhere else during a peak period. Unfortunately what you get is apathy - whether this is the owners/execs passing it down to them or incompetence on their part is anyone's guess