Brad2912

What’s one slide when the whole place will be closed soon?

Wins what? The whole “it’s just for fun & bragging rights” is BS only losers say. Like participation awards at the school cross country for the unfit lazy kids... 🙊😜

where do you draw the line? Thunderbird Park is an adventure high ropes climb in Mt Tamborine. Providing there are not on TRR-esque giant tyres being pulled along the lake, I don’t think a single connection will be made by anyone.

If it wasn’t a safety issue and was just aesthetic it would not be stopping them from registering the ride... that doesn’t mean it’s a safety floor in the ride, but it could be to do with evac routes/fire safety, fire door clearances, a plethora of things.

Ardent already confirmed the ride has defects that need rectifying before the ride can be registered.. I’d hazard a guess if that wasn’t the truth they’d have chosen a word other than “defect” which isn’t the kind of word you really wanna see in the same sentence as “Dreamworld ride” currently.

I agree! Out with the sad face, in with the facepalm, as let’s be honest most things on here that result in sad emojis are the result of facepalms...

Nice to see despite its defects and open-ended opening date, Sky Voyager is featured in the new Gold Coast tourism advertisement.. also included is SDSC 2.0 with all its super cool effects that are invisible when on the ride...

Oh I know all about the Floriade. Not my cup of tea, nor is it the cup of tea of the majority of the target market for our theme parks imo.. when you are performing poorly, $100k is $100k, and in my opinion could be spend far more wisely. In the absence of the train, I’d rather they buy/rent one of those trains you see going around fairs or like the one added at PC to taxi people around the park than flowers.

I reckon the Unicorn Vomit Express looks pretty cool to be honest.... reminds me of that technicolour T-shirt my Nan bought me in 1996... that shirt was a great dusting rag...

If they had put a flower show in as an attraction, I literally would have handed my pass back. i can accept never opening new attractions, extended downtime for rides, reduced hours and no real light at the end of the tunnel, but I draw the line at contributing to pay for f**king flowers when you can’t open your rides on time...

The wristbands have never disappeared... they just provide a free one attached to each interactive element.

The only thing wrong with Motorcoaster is the lack of any enjoyable elements of the ride beyond the launch, the height and lack of transitions in height, the terribly designed trains, and uncomfortable restraints. Everything else about it is great, especially those spinning loose items holders...

Rule number one when operating a potato camera... the sun creates a shadow... spin around 180 degrees on the spot and that shadow won’t be cast onto your subject matter

Bikash said it’s amazing, you can take his word for it...

It wouldn’t be as straightforward as cutting $14k a day on operations. it would be a case of dropping a range of middle management/supervisor positions with may save $500k a year, permanently closing a couple of retail/food outlets saving $x in electricity, gas, consumables, and staffing. Closing WWW for 4/5 months you would imagine would have a large utility saving.

The problem is quite a large proportion of DWs “signature” rides are at or close to retirement age. WO should be gone, TOT2 is on it’s absolute last legs (12 months tops) and you’d hope you could milk maybe 2 years out of HWSW given the extended downtime it’s had. Then you have the decision to if you keep the tower & therefore GD in place. The problem is how can a business with a strategy of non-investment afford to retire a high proportion of its fleet? Well it can’t.. so it either flogs the dead horse until the rides literally cannot run, with the associated high costs of continual maintenance & unreliability, or its just closes them, drops pricing and becomes a half day park. Either way, it’s not an attractive or long term sustainable strategy

Umm.. who is joking about people dying? The ride isn’t open as it has defects and can’t be registered. A defect in a ride can result in deaths. That is a fact. A shop doesn’t require registration by a regulatory body to be set up.. that is fact. Pretty simple concept to understand. if you stopped trying to be offended and playing the victim all the time Push, you could actually be a half decent contributor here...

I’m sure there would be a joke in there somewhere had HWSW retained its previous name...

That’s because in the shop if there is a defect in a shirt, no one dies.... F**king lies I tell you, lies!!

Not sure what they used as a base, but it is designed on the New 52 comic line, and looks impressive in person

Ardent would have to sell it at bargain basement cost for anyone to be interested in rebuilding the park, brand and image. Theyd make 10x more on land alone for developers - that’s what they’d be aiming for

I don’t see another operator being overly interested unless it was at a bargain place as the park would largely need a broom through it. Theyd maximise their land value by selling to developers if the council/govt indicated they would happily rezone (in exchange for copious land taxes). I personally think we’re stuck with Ardent until the decide they want out, and then we have nothing at all..

Nope.

Main Event in the US is clearly their major focus in terms of investment, growth and profit

Viable yes, and i imagine it would be a reality if the long rumoured/planned hotel ever becomes reality. I don't imagine they would have massive issues with planning permissions providing it wasn't above the 3-4 story mark. The introduction of it however would certainly bring with it the beginning of paid parking.