Dreamworld engineering and projects departments both knew as early as the 3rd week of October last year that there was a extremely high chance that the Sky Voyager wouldn’t be ready to open before January 15th.
They were planning alternative temporary Christmas holiday attractions that they were happy to spend $100,000 + on.
One of the ideas was to have a flower display show similar to Toowoomba’s annual display.
Then days later the 2nd part of the inquest started with very damaging new evidence from Dreamworld engineers and management.
The planning on alternative temporary attractions was quickly stopped.
At least part of the reason why the ride is not yet open is clearly due to the initial poor projects planning.
Also what may have contributed is that with such an initial small timeframe, more than 3 technicians/ mechanics from the ride supplier needed to come to Australia to help assist work on the ride.
Theme park attractions over the previous years have been delayed before, but not at the same time as the theme park is on it’s knees.
