Baconjack

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

I'm sure there will be some productive and insightful discussion on Facebook over this

195 cm height cut off is a little disappointing, guess that ill never get to ride it as superman and jet rescue is already a coin toss whether or not I can ride depending on what shoes I wear to the parks Intamin really gotta design their flats to accommodate up to 200cm consistent with everyone else in the industry, they’re the only manufacturer out there that has it this restrictive. From what I understand it’s not a clearance thing but it’s a fitting your body within the restraint thing, the logic is that your head needs to be up to the head rest. There’s quite a bit of folk that are going to get turned away at the gate (Upon looking up a few other big Intamin gyro swings around the world there seems to be no height cutoff, so what’s the go here)

I don’t see it that way. Hasn’t Movie world been charging $109 for day tickets for ages (at least that’s how I remember it on my last visit 2 years ago)? have no idea when the $99 ticket came in that’s news to me. Correct me if I’m wrong but movie world was charging $109 (ie full price because it was set at that all year) for day tickets when half the park was closed in the middle of the year Jury’s still out on when it gets to may/june and at least a third of the park is shut. Happy to eat my own words on that but if village was happy to charge full price for that then, I don’t see it being any different now

I really doubt they are going to lower the price for off peak seasons. I’d guarantee they’ll keep it at $109 even when half the park is closed. This is just an exercise to grab more money off the people travelling from down south and nothing else

I really doubt they are going to lower the price for off peak seasons. I’d guarantee they’ll keep it at $109 even when half the park is closed. This is just an exercise to grab more money off the people travelling from down south and nothing else

At least this park seems to be backed by some kind of money, that raises the chance of it opening in any form by about 2% zero chance that it’s completed in its proposed form though. It’ll be reduced to the shops and the theme park whenever the first stake is in the ground

Yep start of this year to Oscar’s group I went in the park fairly recently and it was in horrible shape. Place was dirty and some of the rides were running very poorly. For those playing at home - publicans do not seem to be very good at running theme parks and in fact make current village roadshow look like experts

What a shame if it goes. Best drop tower in Australia imv, it is very intense. If its time is up I hope they can replace it with another drop tower however I know the park have pretty strict height limits to work with. Would love to see an Intamin sky jump on our shores

IMO and just my 2 cents A high throughput family ride is dreamworld’s number 1 need. I’ve been a fan of a shoot the chutes at dreamworld for ages but a modern flume would also be a good option. Please do not put this in ocean parade when there’s plenty of space on the other end of the park that needs something big to distribute crowds Motocoaster is not leaving it’s more likely that it is rethemed Nebulaz where flowrider is, please and thanks Dreamworld in my view is set for high thrill rides for now and I don’t see them installing another high thrill coaster unless they plan on pulling down Gold coaster in the near future (which they aren’t) Kevil hill/trolls village is off limits until big brother stops using it (whether the show is canned again or production leaves dreamworld) WWW is almost a fully fleshed out park, it just needs a lazy river, thankfully there’s a spot ready for one where they attempted to put one before.

You are probably on your way to the park already but I would recommend getting on steel dragon first as it closes at 2 (I believe) each day I reckon you’ll have enough time to do a lap on the big 3 coasters, the park does get packed during the summer time. Make sure you have cash with you if you want to get a fast pass (they are pretty cheap) there’s an atm in the 7/11 next to the park

Must have changed it recently. I can remember the key when I first went on flying dinosaur 6 years ago. They had the piece of paper when I went again December last year. Keys better - no possibility for issues with the scanners not being able to scan your QR code when you come back. The piece of paper won’t fall out of your pocket when it’s being held in by the lap bar It does get very hot and humid over there in summer. Roller coasters tend to run quicker and rougher in the heat, rivals can get a rattle in summer too. Lots of rides in Asia (and here for that matter) have this problem unfortunately

Ride (which looks like a Huss pirate just like the original) not far away from commissioning (from Perth theme parks on FB)

Superman had a few too many tins and meat pies

The screens are not terrible but it would be nice to upgrade the graphics from PS2 quality to something like the leviathan station

Kinda weird that Sea World’s wild expansion ended up at a different park 10 years after it was meant to open!

How many air launch coasters are currently open? Most of them have been pulled down for very good reason they are well known for reliability issues If this was true Village wouldn’t be ordering new parts custom made from Intamin I would say they are committing to running superman as is for a while