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.

Went there once when village owned it - the facilities did look pretty bland and didnt have a lot of character. But for me the park's biggest flaw is that it is a concrete jungle like WWW. For a park that is designed to be navigated barefoot, that's not very good. Anyone who's visited the park after 2015 please provide some further insight if anything was different. Converting the wave pool seating area to artificial turf (like wet n wild) would be a good start. A bit of landscaping around the slides can go a long way too. At the end of the day it's competing with the ocean The slide selection itself is among the best australia has to offer, however the place was so bland and uncomfortable to move around in its no wonder why it hasnt seen a lot of success. No doubt jamberoo can fix up in both areas when they can

This is great news considering heaps of people here skip raging waters entirely and take the drive down south to Jamberoo. Owners have a blank canvas - there's plenty of land left over to do whatever they like and barely anything has been added since opening. Haven't been there in about 10 years so wouldn't know what it's like now but they really need to start with some shade and adding some grass

What skills could you transfer from the junk food business to theme parks apart from 'cost optimisation' (something which PE firms foam at the mouth over) which is probably why he's been appointed in the first place. If you're hearing that term going around then there's a chance that it won't be very good for the customer

Saw a post on the Dreamworld Golden years FB that it’s been moved to India so did my own digging and that’s definitely where it’s ended up. The paint scheme is unmistakable Indian parks have been buying quite a few rides second hand as of late so glad it was able to be snapped up by someone else as it had a bit of life left in it.

After a quick LinkedIn stalk, I’m sure that bringing in a CEO who has never worked in the theme park industry (or the wider leisure industry for that matter) is going to make things better Probably more of the same PE nickel and diming we’ve seen from village since they were bought

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.