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Perfectly summed up!

Not much effort to replace it with a new system though. It’s just a couple of towers, gondolas and drive system. skyways are still very big business today worldwide.

That side of the park is the only day time operation ‘back of house’ access for vehicles, plant and other services. You’d also have to pass through back of house staff areas and maintenance workshops to get to it. Else you’d have to go in front of the dock which obviously can’t work because then it’s not a dock. Yes there are terrible chock points in the park, but opening that path to guests just isn’t an option.

They do though... because we’re talking about commenting on a photo. Pretty much everyone down to jo public is bombarded with images of what Disney and the other too minds are producing today. And that’s just theme parks. What about things like Vivid Sydney, or Marina Bay Sands? Whilst the photo in question I would say looks moderately cool. So do a lot of standard urban and shipping centre developments these days.

Why that statement? Its common knowledge is the App is from Accesso who aren’t exactly cheap and are kind of the standard for this sort of thing in parks.

I feel like there isn’t all that much hypothetical to this topic actually when it comes to Green Lantern’s impact. Regardless of whether the incident led to tragedy or not I don’t think the outcome would have changed much in terms of government oversight. The government isn’t silly, it would have known how close things came. The big difference between this and TRR is this was an engineering and design/manufacture problem. Is wasn’t a systemic failure in process of management, compliance, regulatory oversight and safety analysis. The only real difference in outcome as I see it as the ride would likely have been removed. Yes there have been fatalities on rides overseas that have reopened, however the fact Green Lantern is not that special a ride, and a giant big reminder of tragedy at the front of your park is somewhat less than desirable I think tends to suggest it would have been removed. The big impact that TRR had on the public was not so much that someone died, it was that the park clearly cared more about the bottom dollar than they did on safety. So the public felt betrayed because it was almost as though DW caused the accident. As opposed to a freak unforeseeable tragedy.

I actually think this looks good also

People rave about that roger rabbit ride but for me it never did anything more than say Mr Toads or similar.

Man they are some ugly done truss towers! ...the base not the top

They should build a Huss Rainbow

It looks very...blue I’ll leave it at that.

I would be planting 3 lovely big trees (one family member’s family reportedly don’t want a memorial) down the back in Corroboree and having a plaque saying “these trees dedicated to xyz). That’s literally it. I would not mention the accident or the deaths of why. That way there is something for the families to visit if they so desire. I’d keep it as far away from the accident site as possible. Firstly for the same reason, the family probably do not want to go back to that spot. Secondly you don’t want a big “death happened here” reminded, regardless of if it’s a big or small plaque, etc. I think the memorial should be as subtle and discreet as possible. It’s about about acknowledging the people for the family of the family so wants so. Anything more prominent or public starts to enter the world of being for the park, and almost using the deaths as goodwill by implying “look how great we are, we care, here’s a plaque.” I think subtlety is key. I’d also say don’t put it in a prominent area that is likely to see development because if you have to move it, that will just cause more outrage.

Its find to have a nice subtle plaque somewhere somewhat out of the way. A big ole Garden with a sign saying DEATH HAPPENED HERE - SOZ BUT HONESTLY IT WAS OTHER PEOPLE'S FAULT would definitely be a bit weird.

Sorry apparently typos are illegal now... my bad. And maybe just hold back on your rant! I didn't question anybody... ...you know what I started to compose a reply and try and refute whatever you were accusing and then I realise doing so is actually quite sad and not a productive use of ones time 👍

So you’re just going around randomly inspecting ambulance bathrooms?? ...that’s not weird at all

Seems a very solid and reasonable plan hey have in place.

It’s pretty standard for boats on flume rides to be able to bump each other when stacking up. They’re kind of designed around this on everything from original arrow log flumes through to splash mountain. As for park capacity. They haven’t been reaching their 50% cap but I feel a lot of that has to do with public concern on going out. After all the Gold Coast is pretty much at 100% occupancy so the people are here. Raising the cap will hopefully flow on to greater public confidence.

Come on though, some person on a theme park forum has a gut feeling. That enough to stake your investment options on right!

Its almost like if old Bodgy Macgee Mr "I shouldn't be expected to know how all rides worked" didn't keep whacking on his home made modifications to the rides and did things properly you'd have a bunch of good rides still there. And if past cheap skate management had taken up the option to upgrade ToT when they were given it, that too would still be running.

We can only hope

Yeah I would say the inside show scenes of the ride probably are well past their use by date and we’d need to see some kind to ‘WWF Next Gen’ level makeover before we see some big changes there. Let’s just hope such a thing does happen, but it’s not botched up like the last attempt.

I think it’s a big stretch to say this means the theme park licensing will end. Film distribution has alternatives and they are streamlining their model. Where as the theme parks licensing is a completely separate beast onto itself.

Who cares? 🤷‍♂️

All effects are working outdoors. the geysers, wobbly rocks, ghost down saloon, water trough, water tank etc. Looking better than it has in years.

Could probably just stop at Community Page and know we are all doomed. Cesspool of the internet right there.