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Think you’ll find season passes will quickly disappear, given the landing page on their website no longer mentions them and focuses on the annual pass, which has never been the case until now. Craig mentioned he was happy the discounting phase of the past decade has now ended.

Seems they wasted no time implementing their new pricing strategy that was mentioned the other day... No chance in the world I will be renewing in June at that price point with nothing overly concrete locking in for their future.

If you are going to be pedantic and try to correct people, at least be right... looks like a 7 to me...

Make sure you let Channel 7 know so they can send the chopper over from DW....

Well there was white sheets there immediately after the accident for obvious sensitivity reasons. as for the black sheeting you see now, it’s only a guess but I’d take a stab that maybe the entire conveyer was covered in this after the investigation to have it non visible from the air or vantage points based on it largely being the focal point of the accident. several months of elemental effects (or more likely the ripper storms of last week) have torn, removed some of these.

Whether he actually has $1b in funding is up for some conjecture... but let’s see what happens..

I beat Top Golf’s social media team to posting it by 45mins, but theirs wasn’t taken from the M1 so it’s a little clearer than my shot haha

Illumination !!

As I said, I’m not privy to the facts so therefore I base my decisions on what I’ve seen and heard. What else Do I have to go off? You are telling me your opinion and facts, and that adds to my knowledge base for my decisions around dreamworld. The removal of the slats/increased spacing was obviously also a contributing factor, I precluded that as I believed that happened prior to Ardent taking over, but guess I was mistaken on that one. @Minions! not particularly sure What you found funny about my post, but regardless, even if only senior operators could run TRR, they are still rookies/novices at that ride on their first day of training. Being proficient at running The Claw or Buzzsaw doesn’t mean you walk over to your first day on TRR as an expert on its operation and procedures.

My opinion on TRR is that it was a tragic accident that COULD have been prevented, but COULD NOT have been predicted to have occurred. Im also not privy to all the facts however. I’ve read that a pump had broken down which lowered the water level - could this have been fixed quicker? I’ve heard of the ride operating sans 1 pump numerous times with no issues. ive heard that a girl on her first day was at the control panel. Would a more experienced attendant noticed the queuing and e-stopped prior. I’ve heard a sensor that stopped the conveyer failed. Would this have mattered had a more experienced attendant been working, or if the water level was higher. From my understanding (which could be wrong) there was numerous contributing factors that all played a part in the tragedy, and if all hadn’t occurred simultaneously it wouldn’t have happened. Pump & sensor issue with an experienced attendant - crisis averted New attendant & pump issue with no sensor failure - crisis averted Ultimately its DW’s job to provide a safe ride no matter what (excusing for morons deliberately circumventing safety producers). So yes, in that regard it’s their fault. I’d argue though that unless the sensor failure was known about and ignored, then I don’t believe there was a malicious ignoring of safety precautions. Freak accidents can occur. They are still avoidable (“what if we didn’t even open the ride today”) but they are freak. I believe that QLD investigators and the coroners office were unable to replicate the incident despite days of trying to during the investigation - for me that represents a freak event Need to add to that though that I don’t begrudge or judge anyone who won’t step on their rides. It’s an entirely personal decision. Have 2 completely differing opinions in my own household!

Fair call, you are more than entitled to your opinion. I can see and understand your points, I guess I am probably not as steadfast as you in putting unconditional blame on them for TRR (whether I should or not I guess is another thing). I won’t boycott them as at the end of the day they employ close to 1000 people from the community and, in my opinion, it would be to the gold coast’s detriment to lose DW from the landscape. I certainly do understand however why others, such as yourself, feel differently.

Interesting comment Skeet. I take it therefore that you believe the TRR incident was as a result of a “reasonably” avoidable failure on their behalf? By reasonably I mean something that was known, acknowledged or ignored that could have prevented the accident but wasn’t done through choice

Can’t believe you’re not at DW getting photos of Gold Rush bring torn down. as resident photographer, you’re letting the ball slip @themagician

Try harder “see more” means you... see more.

There are a couple of paywalled DW articles that have appeared in the last 24 hours on news sites but the usual work around on google doesn’t seem to work anymore. One I about a new CEO from the US

Not aware of that at all. Think it was speculation

Seemed a pretty clear statement from VTP on pricing - they see themselves comfortably as the dominant player in the business, so they will charge as us. I really don’t think we’ll see discounting outside of a potential family style Buy 3 Get 1 Free type of deal

Haha.. didn’t say you were strange Push, just that your idea was..

That’s one of your stranger ideas Push... The water parks in the UK are indoors because for half the year it’s snowing or not far off, and the other half of the year is about as warm as a QLD winter. It’s indoors or frostbite.

So I can wear a camera on my head, but not a hat... stupidest thing I’ve ever heard... “Headwear is worn at the riders risk and will not be retrieved”. Simple.

WnW buggy was new once too, but I don’t recall it getting a heap of airtime here. Is it still even running? Tbh I don’t know anyone personally that done it, or heard about it in ages. I guess out of site out of mind - bit harder to miss Top Golf

Forgot to mention in my RHLR review the other day.. strange occurance.. guy in the group in front of me was wearing a baseball cap, and a go pro with the head strap over the cap. Now I thought “oh for sure they’ll tell him to remove the go pro”. But nope, the ride attendant tells him, once he is already in the boat, “sorry mate, no hats allowed” so he off comes his hat and the go-pro, and then the ride op says “oh you can keep the go pro on your head mate, just not the hat” hmm...

KDV Sports has a great reputation, haven’t had a chance to check it out yet myself.

I know right... i actually think they have done well with top golf. It’s had a social media presence for a few month already despite being still 4-5 months away. They’ve shown enough to keep people interested. I think they’ve done well.