14 hours ago, TomiJ said:

Yea spot on mate. Lols don't reply to the forums if you are heavily under the influence 😂🤣🍻

Honestly we need a drunk discussion thread anyway

The ride harnesses have arrived

@Theme Park Girl

^The seats too!

^^ and the test seat.

(no test seat is seen in the photo but the test seat has arrived)

The seats are now fitted

In Green Mountain Park in Saudi Arabia, a few days ago, a similar ride to this snapped in half mid-ride, leaving at least 23 injured (3 critically).

X/Twitter Video - https://x.com/i/status/1950966029393261010

It literally looks like the beam snapped in half! 😶

I never knew this was even realistically possible as i thought the beam was in one piece? What maintenance failures would have lead to this happening?

Do you think this will deter people from riding it at Dreamworld?

 

Edited August 3Aug 3 by cheski

The ride is manufactured by Sinorides, and appear to be a chinese company, with a very extensive portfolio. https://www.sinorides.com/360-large-pendulum-rides/

This seems like a complete accident and should be investigated extremely thoroughly because for the ride to snap like that, multiple welds and reinforcements have failed. (This is the smaller model of the ride, i'm assuming the one in the video is the same scaled up as there is a boxy panel covering how it attaches to the axel/swingy bit)

The scope of these rides are very very different. One of them is a permanent fixed attraction and the other one looks like it could be moved to a different park each week.

King Claw is manufactured by INTAMIN, whereas i've never heard of—and i'm sure no one here has heard of— Sinorides. Most of these gyro swings are manufactured by Zamperla and INTAMIN, both are very reputable companies in the Amusement Ride and Coaster Space. The new one opening at Six flags Qiddiya is Zamperla iirc.

It won't stop me from going on gyro swings, I've been on a bunch and always felt safe. But everyone has their own reactions to events like these happening.

Edited August 3Aug 3 by TV15

1 hour ago, cheski said:

I never knew this was even realistically possible as i thought the beam was in one piece?

With that type of ride model it’s seperate pieces joined together, but something like this wouldn’t happen on a ride like King Claw because it’s a completely different design and engineering.

My take on that incident is either the ride wasn’t designed correctly, it’s not been maintained properly or (if it’s a travelling model) it wasn’t built properly.

5 hours ago, cheski said:

In Green Mountain Park in Saudi Arabia, a few days ago, a similar ride to this snapped in half mid-ride, leaving at least 23 injured (3 critically).

X/Twitter Video - https://x.com/i/status/1950966029393261010

It literally looks like the beam snapped in half! 😶

I never knew this was even realistically possible as i thought the beam was in one piece? What maintenance failures would have lead to this happening?

Do you think this will deter people from riding it at Dreamworld?

 

Was horrific footage to see, but you cannot compare the shoddy workmanship (can you still say workmanship?) that is apparent there, and what we will have with King Claw. One’s a Chinese manufactured carnival style ride in a country with what I’d imagine to be fairly lax govt or industry body oversight, and one is a permanent Intamin manufacture, installed and to be tested under the rigours of Australian safety and operational practices. 
 

the apparent ride op running out the gate and away from the accident rather than attending to the injured also fills me with confidence about the quality of operations at the park…

Yep, AAA made rides don't fall apart in Australia.  Cough, cough, GL.

Yep, people don't die in Australia because of our rigours of Australian safety and operational practices. Cough, couch, RR.

Does Australia have an Australian safety and operational practices guide?

On 03/08/2025 at 4:29 PM, TV15 said:

The ride is manufactured by Sinorides, and appear to be a chinese company, with a very extensive portfolio. https://www.sinorides.com/360-large-pendulum-rides/

This seems like a complete accident and should be investigated extremely thoroughly because for the ride to snap like that, multiple welds and reinforcements have failed. (This is the smaller model of the ride, i'm assuming the one in the video is the same scaled up as there is a boxy panel covering how it attaches to the axel/swingy bit)

The scope of these rides are very very different. One of them is a permanent fixed attraction and the other one looks like it could be moved to a different park each week.

King Claw is manufactured by INTAMIN, whereas i've never heard of—and i'm sure no one here has heard of— Sinorides. Most of these gyro swings are manufactured by Zamperla and INTAMIN, both are very reputable companies in the Amusement Ride and Coaster Space. The new one opening at Six flags Qiddiya is Zamperla iirc.

It won't stop me from going on gyro swings, I've been on a bunch and always felt safe. But everyone has their own reactions to events like these happening.

Thanks for this. On a quick google search this company comes from an area of china (henan province) well known for making rides that are cheap, extremely low quality and straight up unsafe by design. So unsafe that most of them are illegal in western countries. These companies don't provide after sale service that folks like intamin do. Lots of rides coming out of here cause injuries all the time, there's a fair few videos of the arms snapping in half on gyro swings that are going around the internet and nearly all of these installs have come from this area (video attached for more info)

King Claw or any intamin ride for that matter are well built and supported by their manufacturer, have properly designed systems with multiple fail safes, are made of A+ grade steel thats welded properly and are expensive on purpose because of these things and more. It is a waste of time to compare it to the ride in saudi arabia because they are nothing alike apart from the basic design and ride experience. One ride is designed at the lowest cost possible at the expense of safety and the other is designed to be safe from the beginning.

Edited August 4Aug 4 by Baconjack

Regardless of who the OEM is for a device, Intamin or a cheap Chinese device, these days the risk of such a serious design flaw in a device entering or being installed in Australia is mitigated by a very stringent design registration process. Which requires one of very few, Australian registered and qualified engineers to verify the design of a amusement device in order for the regulator to issue design registration, among many other things. That includes assessing the loads on critical components etc. 

Most states follow the same guidelines with some minor variation here or there. For example I believe Victoria allows devices pre 1995 to operate without design registration, but that's being proposed to change. 

Don't stress people, according to @Levram__the same Australian registered and qualified engineers checked GL's critical components.  //s😂😉 

 

Do I think the arm will fail on King Claw.  NO

Is there a chance one day a critical component will fail on a ride in Australia.  YES

1 hour ago, New display name said:

Don't stress people, according to @Levram__the same Australian registered and qualified engineers checked GL's critical components.  //s😂😉 

I did say "these days" being present tense. Important to note, particularly in QLD significant changes have occurred since 2015 with regards to the legislation and the introduction of the code of practice. There is a greater responsibility on all parties involved in the process, the engineer, the operator and the regulator. 

Love your optimism though... 

11 minutes ago, Levram__ said:

Love your optimism though... 

Don't encourage him.

17 minutes ago, Levram__ said:

I did say "these days" being present tense. Important to note, particularly in QLD significant changes have occurred since 2015 with regards to the legislation and the introduction of the code of practice. There is a greater responsibility on all parties involved in the process, the engineer, the operator and the regulator. 

Love your optimism though... 

I know rides entering QLD have to comply with:

AS 3533

EN 13814-1

ISO 17842-1

ATSM F2291

 

"includes assessing the loads on critical components"  where is this completed in Australia, and who is doing it?

I know who verifies all of Mack Rides calculations and the company isn't based in Australia.

 

 

Anyway back to the thread  title.

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CZAN7zq9a/

A couple of photos from today (I didn’t get too close, as there were a lot of workers on site). 

12 hours ago, Noll_57 said:

In the right side of that photo, are they already planting out garden beds around the ride, or are they the existing garden beds around Shockwave?

They are the original gardens.   The garden near Shockwave has always been within the hoarding.

King Claw eyes were lit up this morning, looks a little lacklustre, hopefully more to come, eyes colour is a purplish colour. 

On 3/10/2024 at 9:15 AM, New display name said:

3 hours ago, Ash said:

King Claw eyes were lit up this morning, looks a little lacklustre, hopefully more to come, eyes colour is a purplish colour. 

That matches the concept art 

This evening. Sadly got switched off right as it got dark...

Taken today 😊