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I’d heard that some of the initial plans prior to development didn’t make it to fruition, that Could account for the differential. I haven’t followed it that closely given I’m on the GC but going off comments on here what was delivered was well under the expectation

The bowling division was sold at the beginning of the year. Ardent (soon to be Main Event) now only have interests in DW, Skypoint & ME. In senior management, from Ardent level down to DW level, there is basically no one remaining involved with the business that was in place in Oct 2016. The Ardent CEO position only became a poisoned Chalice after the incident. The question is whether Ardent wants to invest which would involve redirecting funds likely planned for the ME expansion rollout, or they want to sell up.

Your quoted comment is actually an author written statement, and none of the actual quotes themselves are worded in such a way. Im actually pretty happy with the actual quotes from Weiss. Doesn’t absolve or diminish their mistakes or negligence, but points to an acknowledgement that there is a lot of work to do to regain trust and safety is the forefront. Saying nothing allows the media to create their own narrative

Something tells me that Marks’ new direction and project may show a desire to be outside the operational ground level of parks. Consultancy & project work allows your to instigate positive change without the nitty gritty of the day to day (or the stress of entirely rebuilding a theme park whose image is dirt).

That is my point. I hope some kids who have a made a lot of effort (or their parents have) gets a chance to win and it’s not given to an adult cosplayer every night. Don’t think that’s an unfair expectation or thought. Seems a strange comment from a staff member given there is a runsheet of what is on where & when being handed out to everyone.

I really do hope they mix it up on other days and let kids win the Best Dressed, after all, it’s about the kids isn’t it? Your regular parents don’t have hundreds to drop on professional costumes for their kids...

School holidays are considered to start from Monday (2/7) which is when most things are scheduled to reopen. Mechanical parts also have no concept of date and time, so telling a component it shouldn’t need replacing because it’s school holidays will just fall on deaf gears....

@pushbutton that is theme song for Trolls... it is performed by the 2 main voice talents from the movie - Justin Timberlake & Anna Kendrick. It has much more relevance to Trolls Village than it does to Superheroes. and as T-bone pointed out it’s a fan made video - but the song chosen song is still relevant entirely

I don’t know how old you are @RobMac but assuming you are likely not the target audience. You only have to see the comments on the official DW social media accounts when they’ve made mention of Trolls Village to see hundreds of people talking about revisiting or planning a holiday simply just to get there kids there. It’ll be super popular for the family market, which is there best market for them to really look after if they want a chance of rebuilding their brand and identity

@AlexB I’d make a similar assumption on the tigers escape situation, that lethal options would have be available. If a tiger is attacking people screw waiting for a tranq dart to come into effect. I just wonder who is trained and has access to such weapons. Is it security? Or Pat and his team? Do they have to ensure someone trained and with a firearms licence is rostered and on site at all times? I know this is getting a little Jurassic World and all, but do the tigers have trackers on them in case of an escape? These are questions I’ve never really considered until seeing how flimsy some of DWs safety systems and focus seems to be

July 2nd is the school holidays start - seems a logical time to having everything re-open to me

That was my hope too haha i do wonder however if there is emergency live firearms available for suitably trained security or handlers. im sure there would be a tranq gun, and I’d never want to see a tiger killed for being a tiger, but just wonder whether such a last resort measure exists

Interested to know what the “tiger escape scenario” would look like...

I’m not sure if he would, I’ve been reading his mail and tailing him for weeks and he hasn’t cracked on yet...

My understanding is the set builds were found to be a fire hazard or in breach of an updated fire code, hence their hastily removal

You don’t think anyone is shifting blame? Haha The ride manager stressed yesterday that all operators were fully trained on all emergency/estop procedures, including stressing she spend extra time with the junior ride off in training and in her opinion they didn’t even press the emergency stop button “at any time”. If that’s not saying “it’s their fault. They could have stopped this” I don’t know what is. She made no acknowlgement of an unsafe or lacking safety system whatsoever, whereas all the non-DW employees last week mentioned this as an overriding theme. DW Spin. That’s all it is.

I’m sure I’m not the only one that has noticed that there has been a “turn” in the narrative & story since the witnesses who continue to work for DW take the stand. It reeks to me of DW’s lawyers trying to shift the entire blame to the 2 operators. Well I’m sorry but that doesn’t fly with me at all. The senior ride Manager believes the e-stop wasn’t pressed at all ? Did the police investigator not give timings for when it was pushed in terms of reaction time to the incident just last week?

Interesting we’ve had 2 safety people interviewed, one said he was doing the job of 5 people, the other saying DWs safety culture is sound... not hard to guess which one still works there...

Yeah merch was there 2 weeks ago when I went through

So a senior maintenance supervisor who had worked on the ride for many years didn’t know there different timing to the e-stop buttons, and had never pressed them. If they don’t test the e-stops regularly, how do they know if they even work? —————————————— DREAMWORLD had stopped an alarm from sounding when the water pumps stopped more than a year prior to the disaster, the inquest has heard. It was the failure of the south pump for the third time on October 25, 2016 which led to a raft flipping and killing four people. A policy which was reviewed in June 2015, showed a crossed out paragraph about the prior alarm. Crossed out from a policy document was: “(An alarm will sound) when the main water pumps stop for this ride. If the pump stops for this ride then there is the potential for rafts to become a hazard to guests riding them. The rafts are very heavy and there are a lot of underwater obstacles that could cause the rafts to flip or entrap a guest”. The policy had been changed to include these words instead: “The Rapid Ride alarm will be sounded if there is a potential risk to any guest or staff member in the ride area — example: a guest or staff member has fallen in the water,” the police said. “This is a change from previous where the alarm would be activated due to the water pumps stopping.” —————————————— DREAMWORLD was operating behind budget in the months as a direction that “repairs and maintenance spending needs to stop” given just five months before the October 2016 disaster, an inquest has heard. Dreamworld safety manager Mark Thompson was shown the minutes from a meeting for the executive safety team in March 2016 detailing information about the park’s financial position. “Revenue is up but profit is down, cut backs are now being enforced,” the document said. “Repairs and maintenance spending needs to stop.”

Fair enough. Seems a little ridiculous given its largely a charity based event, but as I said, I reckon it’d work better with a Supanova tie-in at Broadbeach anyway

Less than half price annual passes until June 30 will do that haha

Nice promo/Ad for DCR during state of origin - intro from the presenter and then played the full trailer with all the characters etc.

Whilst I don’t know the reason, I doubt licensing is it. Disney has owned the rights to the Star Wars licence for 6 years, a period of time that coincided with Dreamworld having a commerical licence agreement with Dreamworks. If they inexplicably decided after 6 years they didn’t want a glorified fan club to run events in a theme park with a competing licence associated with them it wouldn’t be a case of “oh you can do one more” it would be a “it ceases now”. Think the mouse-house has bigger things on its mind than a theme park in Australia. They may have just had a better location open up, or decided to focus on other things. I imagine tying it into supernova or comic-con would be more successful.

2 boats colliding at a conveyor on a water ride. Media would have a field day with that... as for reserves paid seating for the front row at tiger island - pathetic Somehow don’t think Dreamworks would have signed off on that, given the apparent trouble with getting Trolls Village off the ground due to licensing/approvals for dreamworks