Baconjack

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

Popular is the understatement of the century. Getting Potter was a game changer for universal and nearly singlehandedly made them a disney rival. Even many years after opening Potter related attractions are near the top of ridership at each of the parks. The fact USJ had timed entry for potter land up until a decade after opening speaks volumes on how big of a brand it is. Oz rides on an old movie that a lot of people haven't seen (myself included), a musical that people who don't go to theatres have no clue what it is and a movie based on that which has come out this year while sure is making money isn't lighting the world on fire. It's also been tried at a theme park before - USJ - and it lasted 6 years. It annoys me how people on this forum are engaging in mental gymnastics to suggest the biggest IP get in theme park history doesn't usurp oz instantly. It's a cool land and something different but it's not reinventing the wheel

No but if i were to guess the GFC probably put it on hold then the transition from macquarie bank to ardent killed the whole thing for good. As we know dreamworld spending (both on a day to day operational basis and in terms of capex investments) dropped off after that transition and i don't think the regime at the time would have had the ambition to spend $$$ on building all of that

If you respray the model t's and make them look a bit weathered then they are ok I suppose but they don't fit the theme It reeks of running out of cash because too much money has been spent on jungle rush

Lazy river has been in the works for yonks and has taken many forms. The adventure river was just the latest example. in terms of pre 2016 dreamworld and where the entire park was at, they’ve spent the last 3-4 years cleaning up the park from top to bottom and there’s still a few rides to replace on the dry side. Of course there’s no capex for the water park because it looked quite nice while a ride on the dry side killed people. Clean up the dry park first then look to renew WWW.

Wonder if this is a manufacturer recommendation from Intamin or it is another insurance broker’s decision given there is no precedent on other installs throughout the world I am aware of Anyone in here manage to get a ride on Kingda Ka and can provide some insight?

To be fair Mach 5, LTRR & Batman all had contracts for their replacements signed when they closed. They of course varied in quality but at least they were there. Cant say much about the others which have either taken years to get off the ground or still sit as empty plots.

You new around here? Common practice for Village Roadshow

Lol the germans aren’t wrong. The Mack family runs Europa park at Disney level efficiency with numerous common models to movie world and across the village roadshow chain generally. Why doesn’t village upper management take a trip there on their next purchase from them and observe how they do things? Hilarious how inept village has been at this when movie world gets similar attendance figures to many parks in Europe and yet hasn’t ever figured out you can dispatch a coaster train in less than 5 minutes. You want to be world class you should act like it. World class theme parks don’t have half the rides shut going into the busiest period of the year. People coming from overseas take the piss out of how we do things.

Zero chance. Superman doesn't have the downtime the stratas experience and has generally been quite reliable because it is smaller. When it comes time to replace it (10 years or so) it and Flash can be replaced at the same time. I wouldn't rule out Zamperla or Intamin doing a conversion along with renovating the dark ride section given the LSM conversion hasn't had many issues on smaller hydraulic coasters and the dark ride section needs a lot of work

Wait a few years for the plants to grow then you’ll take this back. I have always maintained that rivertown as a theme will look better in 3-4 years time than on opening day. Every park known to man looks barren on day one then the plants grow and provide natural shade. Everything will look better with a bit of weathering. I think it’s a bit of a silly expectation for an Australian park to install mature plants in a new build area considering how expensive it is to do so.

Have nearly 2000 hours on the original planet coaster so this was a day 1 buy for me. The features added are awesome (particularly pathing and scenery) but have limitations (hard to make intamin accelerator cars look like commodores unfortunately the scaling is a bit limited for those specific details). The content is pretty bare bones as well It's quite difficult to really detail this pub I'm trying to make in my Australia DCA-style park. Will get much better with DLC's though

How so it’s been pretty well established that the main entrance is next to superman If anything this is just that extra path that spits you out next to scooby, the exact same one in the arkham days.

If they were to sell they wouldn’t sell to a developer for the land it sits on. No shit. Coast is not pulling a Sunway. But at the end of the day its land value is still a component of the park value. Add the additions to the park, especially in the last 5 years, and you’ve got a park that’s worth a lot more than what Macquarie/Ardent/Coast bought it for originally.

Yes you know that Coast’s shareholders can wind up a company that’s solvent? Shareholders would get a pay day as well given how much Dreamworld would go for if sold. Brisbane Olympics are around the corner if you were a publicly listed company with an objective to make profit and look after your shareholders, you’d be a fool not to take advantage of the land prices that are surging across SEQ and sell at the right time. The level of capex investment that’s been made over the years has also added quite a bit to the park value. All of it points to a sale in the future. You don’t have to keep a business running for the sake of it

That looks really nice. Yeah I thought they would flip the ride position. If it was kept in the same spot you’d be encroaching on shockwave. Will look really imposing to guests from Main Street (you’d see it in action from the car park and highway too probably) and will be nice to get a different view swinging towards tail spin. Thunderbolt’s land will probably go to whitewater world (as much as the nostalgia nerd in me would like dreamworld to rework the old station for another thunderbolt) Rocky Hollow is the next cab off the rank but I’d imagine ocean parade is the last thing they touch before Coast sells. Gold Coaster has only operated for about 25 years total and has still got a fair bit of life left. It’s a waste of time to replace the track as it’s not popular enough to justify that expense. It’ll go when the time is right to invest into that corner of the park