Baconjack

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)?

Best food - dough bros at dreamworld best guest experience - dreamworld best park operations - adventure world best flat ride - Hair Raiser Best coaster - dc rivals Best family coaster - jet rescue best themed area - Rivertown best kids area - Nickelodeon land Best show - aqua light show at sea world best new ride - jungle rush best park - dreamworld

Valid point but I’d reckon given there will be plenty of space around the park in the not too distant future you make the effort to switch things up rather than do like for like replacements. Lantern will be the next to go, might come closer than one would think considering how problematic it is. That space could fit 2 flat rides - DC land sorely needs its filler and Vortex would be better suited to movie world’s needs. By comparison you have much more space to work with from doomsday out next to West for a future major in 6-7 years. Helps with guest flow a bit better not cramming all the majors at the front of the park and getting people out towards the back. You’ll need something to replace Lantern at the end of the day

Surely an announcement comes any day now Its still on the website and park map

WOZ coasters were in pieces on site this time last year. It’s not uncommon for them to arrive early We also don’t even know when this will open. Could be as early as September for all we know given almost a year’s worth of construction & commissioning for a flat seems a bit much to me

Isnt that specific section of the ride the one that's incomplete? Little bit of extra effects added (like maybe some projection mapping around the face which should brighten up the room slightly) would make that bit less scary. (for the record haven't been on it yet I'm operating off very limited glimpses of the switch track) Gonna say it would be the external sections. More people than you think are turned off by the thought of a ride going backwards - no one does Rivals backwards even when the experience was cheap. If West's backwards drop was exposed I'd guarantee that a lot less people would have been on it.

Abyss is a good ride with the wrong restraints. If they had lap bars on it from the start there would be no headbanging. Also runs very rough when it’s hot but that’s a problem with every coaster known to man in Australia. Even rivals gets a rattle on a hot day.

To add isn’t the rights to the film owned by Warner themselves anyway? Wouldn’t this be covered in the royalties/licensing deal Village already have with Warner for their brand name plus IP like DC, looney tunes, and scooby-doo or at most renegotiated to include Oz?

Yeah thanks for the links I knew that I read somewhere that WOZ was initially quoted at a much smaller figure. Im going to go out on a limb and say they’ve combined the spend with Flash and the scooby renovation. Maybe that might make a bit more sense then but I still don’t think all of those things add up to $100m.