The Emporium has been repainted to remove the bright red, replaced with a better looking brown which gives it a better vibe. Apparently the whole of main street is being repainted to make it look more timeless. I think it looks great, and am happy to see the rest get painted the same. (thanks to Gold Coast Theme Parks on FB)

 

Saw this in person, it fits the area brilliantly and looks great! The street will look fantastic once it’s all done. I actually would love to see the roof taken down and some real charm returned to Main Street, although I doubt they will remove it. Pop a few hedge planter boxes out the front of the building and it will look even better. 
side note, has anyone noticed they have removed the Australian flag from the top of the entrance building? Not sure if it’s related to the Reno’s or something else? I sure hope they have enough decency to return it. I wouldn’t have thought the average public would notice however it was a random person waiting in the entrance line who mentioned it before I had realised, so people do notice this sort of thing. 

Looks great!

Although...

Not to piss on anyone's bonfire, but there's still the renovated theatre building which will still look inharmonious with the "timeless" aesthetic of the other buildings. I imagine they'll be sticking with it.

21 hours ago, CR4ZE said:

Looks great!

Although...

Not to piss on anyone's bonfire, but there's still the renovated theatre building which will still look inharmonious with the "timeless" aesthetic of the other buildings. I imagine they'll be sticking with it.

The Cost to re build the Sky Voyager facade back to suit the area, while I believe is important to do at some stage, the capital can be better spent in the short term on more impactful projects that have better ROI. Such as a new ride. While impactful these works on Main street is more or less just repainting. The cost to rebuild the facades on Sky Voyager will be significantly higher. 

Seems as good a place as any to post this…

nice little subtle dig at the park down the road….

 

I hope the staff are being rewarded/recognised also. 

59 minutes ago, Naazon said:

I hope the staff are being rewarded/recognised also. 

from what i’ve heard they are recognised and treated very well, makes sense why all the staff seem like they actually want to be there.

1 hour ago, Rivals said:

from what i’ve heard they are recognised and treated very well, makes sense why all the staff seem like they actually want to be there.

From my past experience I have no doubt this would be the case. I know that back in Greg's leadership days at Village he would personally meet with team members from all departments who would receive positive guest feedback to thank them and also take the time to get to know a little bit about the individual. 

I'm sure this kind of approach would have trickled down to the current day leadership at DW. 

47 minutes ago, Levram__ said:

I'm sure this kind of approach would have trickled down to the current day leadership at DW. 

Given how many of the VR leadership followed Greg to DW, i'm not sure how much trickling would be necessary!

But agree, regardless of what the guy was or was not responsible for at Village, his people skills far exceed others in similar positions.

4 hours ago, Levram__ said:

From my past experience I have no doubt this would be the case. I know that back in Greg's leadership days at Village he would personally meet with team members from all departments who would receive positive guest feedback to thank them and also take the time to get to know a little bit about the individual. 

I'm sure this kind of approach would have trickled down to the current day leadership at DW. 

I can confirm that Greg and most of the upper management in the park were very good leaders and some of them actually personally trained me when I worked for Movie World. Basically when Greg left, he took the good ones with him and left some of the others behind haha. I do remember one day when I was working, getting a bit of a shock when I looked up at the Superman control room to see Greg in the operators seat haha. 

And I know people that currently work for Dreamworld, and that same culture from what I have heard is very much alive in the park. Honestly from an employee standpoint, 2006 - 2014 really was some of the peak years for staff in regards to how they were treated.

Well youve got to have great people skills when bringing such great zingers to the park as scooby next gen and doomsday

1 hour ago, Gobbledok said:

Well youve got to have great people skills when bringing such great zingers to the park as scooby next gen and doomsday

You don't like Rivals?

To be completely honest... the CONCEPT behind Doomsday was a good idea, a decently themed flat ride. If the ride actually worked properly, and wasn't a total potato it would have for the most part been alright. It was just a shame that the ride was so unreliable and was down so often because from what I gather that's the biggest complaint with the ride (apart from the B mode it's now running in). 

I really don't think they would have chosen the model if they knew it was going to be so unreliable. Honestly if it had been me though, I would have moved SurfRider to Movie World at that point in time and put it where doomsday was and chosen something different for Flash but that's a whole different story. Scooby is much the same, the idea was good (refurbishing and bringing it up to new standards) but the execution kinda failed. Although from what I heard, what Movie World got vs what they paid for was not quite right. I will give them props for bringing back the theming standard for the ghost train to the original for the most part (we do not talk about the screens though...) and getting the light show running properly. So IMO it wasn't a complete failure, just some things didn't go quite right. 

The area looks nice but it doesn't create the right atmosphere because the area doesn't feel dangerous or scary.  

1 hour ago, New display name said:

the area doesn't feel dangerous or scary.  

You’re 100% right on this and the one scary/intimidating aspect they included in the area (the doomsday statue that used to roar and have red glowing eyes) they have facing the wrong way and goes very unnoticed. 

12 hours ago, Spotty said:

I really don't think they would have chosen the model if they knew it was going to be so unreliable.

The only other park install of an Intamin Suspended Twin Hammer was in Malaysia, which opened in 2003 and closed in 2015 - the year before Doomsday opened - because it was so unreliable. So they should have known, or at least should have at least contacted the Malaysian park for a reference before buying the ride.

Zamperla make the Hawk model that does the exact same thing, has many more installs and is a much more reliable ride.