Brad2912

Pretty clear I’m talking about the present moment where half the Gold Coast is being disrupted by staff shortages. It just isn’t possible. in the pre-covid world I was a firm supporter of extended summer hours

sounds like a well thought out plan.

That just means cycle times won’t change between peak and off-peak….

Providing the plans haven’t changed in the last 9 months, then yes it’s for real

It would be due to staffing. Whilst not confirmed I have heard that movieworld has in excess of 100 staff isolating who can’t work and that is affecting operations and ride openings. Half the restaurants on the GC and closed or only opening for dinner as not enough staff left. local council pools also closed as no staff left to run them

It’s a family duelling boomerang and a family suspended. No inversions. Really you are replacing nothing with family attractions. AA has been SBNO for long enough that the GP are not thinking “they are replacing this with that” but that you are adding 3 new rides

There’s no denying the other severely lacking area is WB kids area , and I hope that’s the next focal point after this

It will all come down to the theming and elements they put in and around the rides. we’ve all learnt that artistic impressions are not necessarily (and rarely in-fact) a reflection of the final product. i think the generic layouts pulled from vekoma’s website however are positive and adding 3 more family attractions, and being coasters I think that’s a massive positive. Being able to offer 5 family coasters, on top of WWF and JL gives MW a big jump on rival parks for the families with 7-12 yo kids/young teen market

Hasn’t been posted onto Parkz. Won’t be posting it unless someone rules it’s not open slather to post anything you want - but that generally isn’t the case

It won’t be inverting… Well now that someone has decided to leak the info.. does that mean we can post the actual details? Tbh I didn’t think this kind of post would be approved without an official announcement

Using the estimated capacities and track lengths that were mentioned in the town hall - you can work out the exact models straight from vekoma’s website as the model specs were just copied

Photos are checked, and on the handheld scanner it shows whether an adult or child ticket

I’d argue TOT was far more iconic than GD and they were happy to let that go. Whilst I don’t think it’ll happen short term, the minute upkeep outweighs perceived or real benefit, GD will go.

Looks fantastic. Hope it is a long term (min 12 months) addition

Not really comparing apples to apples though. DCR didn’t launch in a covid arena with highly impacted domestic travel, community trepidation with crowds, and mandates stopping many families and/or groups of people from attending. The La Niña weather pattern doesn’t help planning a day out with certainty either at the moment

They have certainly had their management and logistical issues (especially kitchen related) since opening. My company used to run a weekly entertainment program at the venue, it was making them an absolute shit tonne of revenue and profit every week at a generally off-peak time. It ended up growing beyond what they could accommodate with their kitchen, so instead of making it a ticketed style event or limiting numbers on a first come first served basis, they just said "well thats all too difficult to manage and we dont want to disappoint people" so they axed it all together - thus disappointing everyone rather than just some people, and costing themselves a weekly cash cow.

Ardent Leisure, owner of Dreamworld has dumped its $75m plans for a new hotel, tourist park Dreamworld has dumped its plans for a $75m resort project after a breakdown in negotiations with the developer. Parents company Ardent Leisure announced its plans for a new hotel and tourist park, Dreamworld Resort, in May. The project was to be funded and developed by Gold Coast Airport Hotel developer Evolution Group on part of the surplus land owned by Ardent next to the Dreamworld park. The accommodation offering was to include a 4-star 250 room resort-style hotel, 40 bungalows and a 5-star tourist park with 100 powered sites. In an announcement to the ASX on Tuesday, Ardent said those plans were off the table. “Since notifying the market earlier this year that a non-binding agreement had been entered into with developer Evolution Group to develop a resort style hotel and tourist park adjacent to Dreamworld the parties and their advisers have been engaged in negotiations, however they have been unable to reach agreement on key aspects of the proposal,” the statement said. “As a consequence, the Company has ceased these non-binding negotiations.” Ardent, which launched its $30m Steel Taipan roller coaster at Dreamworld just last week, said it remained committed “to exploring an on-site tourist accommodation offering at Dreamworld”. “(The board) will now focus its attention on progressing the other available options, as well as continuing to explore opportunities to maximise the Group’s total surplus land holdings adjacent to the park,” the statement said. “The company is optimistic that, with the Queensland border now re-open, the theme park business will benefit from increased visitation off the back of pent-up demand.” https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/business/gold-coast-business/ardent-leisure-owner-of-dreamworld-has-dumped-its-75m-plans-for-a-new-hotel-tourist-park/news-story/f1f07f6274dfea8245ceadaef9146073

Moderator. Such an impersonal name - can we call you Sven?

Couldn’t think of anything worse to do in the heat of summer, and all for a elevated view of a carpark and motorway. if the stairs are anything like the ride at the moment, every second one is probably broken anyway….

At least they could get some ongoing marketing/naming rights royalties out of it

Have Disney completely demolished a 30+ year old attraction and then built a replacement attraction that’s a different ride style altogether and given it the same name/theme as what replaced it? dreamworld isn’t re-theming or rebranding an existing ride - RHLR is gone. It’s building a brand new attraction and as such, it should have a brand new theme.

Wedgie has only been operating the last hour or two of the day and green room closes when this happens. No split queues

Agree. All staff should be wearing this

Good to hear it opened eventually. We hit scooby after the buffet, was about a 20min wait

DCR has jus reopened after being down for about 90mins too Scooby re-opened about 30mins ago