King Claw started preliminary testing last night. Don’t think it reached full height or speed, but testing is underway. The figures eyes were lit up and there is also lighting on each seat.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AP96CUy5q/

Looks like full swings now.

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19m4GNsWFn/

The park has shared a video on its socials showing the ride in action (during the day)

18 minutes ago, themagician said:

The park has shared a video on its socials showing the ride in action (during the day)

Can someone explain the construction fence photos? How is that relevant to King Claw? Reminds me of the old Windows desktop backgrounds. Tacky 

6 minutes ago, Jokes_on_you said:

Can someone explain the construction fence photos? How is that relevant to King Claw? Reminds me of the old Windows desktop backgrounds. Tacky 

Country Fair theming. After school holidays they’ll have the king claw fencing back again

I got to see this beast in action tonight. The gondola is now spinning and they were testing a spotlight to light the face up more which looked great. I just wish the face was a lot bigger. 

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSDknAFA2/ 

8 hours ago, Brods said:

I got to see this beast in action tonight. The gondola is now spinning and they were testing a spotlight to light the face up more which looked great. I just wish the face was a lot bigger. 

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSDknAFA2/ 

Is it just me or does that head on the side look incredibly tiny when you consider how big the supports are and the fact it is called King Claw? I would have thought something at least twice the size or bigger......

The sizing defiantly doesn't live up to the name.

Intamin would have the final say on the size and weight of anything attached to the structure.

They would have designed specific mounting points with appropriate specs considering things like forces from wind, clearances around the motor/catwalk for maintenance.

Tigeren's is around the same size (possibly a little bit bigger), but it might just be a bit less flat and has matching paint on the structure to make it feel bigger.

I think most people are going to be looking at the gondola though, and the lighting on that looks great.

If it was a competition Tigeren would win.

 

 

 

Edited September 17Sep 17 by New display name

Wow, that looks terrible!

Before big brother filming for sure is on agenda and yes I understand commission and test take a lot of time . They will be trying for sure .

Edited September 17Sep 17 by dbo121
Accuracy

On my visit yesterday I noticed test dummies have now been added. Things are progressing very quickly. The queue now has railings, along with further electrical work being installed (lights, fans, speakers etc). Can’t wait to see this beast finished! 

 

Some updates from today. It’s coming along nicely! 

 

Also, the park was unbelievably busy today and the crowds were some of the biggest I’ve seen in years. The car park was literally full, with people resorting to parking on the grass at the rear of the car park and along nearby roads. By comparison, Movie World’s car park wasn’t even half full when I popped in during the afternoon. 

1 hour ago, Noll_57 said:

 

That’s some nice looking themed fencing!

13 hours ago, Noll_57 said:

the park was unbelievably busy today and the crowds were some of the biggest I’ve seen in years. The car park was literally full, with people resorting to parking on the grass at the rear of the car park and along nearby roads

That’s great to hear and I don’t think it has been like that in almost a decade. How did that make the park feel and what were the wait times like?

Would love to know the split between DW and WWW. It was a warm, long weekend

1 hour ago, themagician said:

That’s great to hear and I don’t think it has been like that in almost a decade. How did that make the park feel and what were the wait times like?

People love a water park.

2 hours ago, New display name said:

People love a water park.

*in summer

19 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

*in summer

Don't stress!  Nobody is running around with a tape, measuring your pecker when you get out of the pool and besides, the water is heated.

11 hours ago, themagician said:

That’s great to hear and I don’t think it has been like that in almost a decade. How did that make the park feel and what were the wait times like?

The park had a great atmosphere, it was really buzzing. Wait times varied quite a lot for each attraction, but in general the operations were fantastic. Jungle Rush in particular was a standout. It had an advertised 50min wait, though it only took me around 35mins to get on. They were getting the trains loaded up and dispatched extremely quickly. It was a similar story with Steel Taipan, the staff were doing a great job trying to get the trains out as fast as possible. I think the attraction with the slowest ops and longest wait time in the park was the Dreamworld Express. For some reason, it was taking almost 10mins to load/unload guests at both stations. It would definitely be good if the park could look at speeding that up a bit. 

Balustrading = 🔥  

My family and I were there on Saturday, we found one of the few car parks left down the very far back of the car park, haven’t had to do that in many many years! The park was heaving, the atmosphere was awesome! And thankfully the rides/staff kept up! The longest we waited for jungle rush was 25mins (that thing is an absolute people eater when operated well) sky voyager never dropped below 60 so we missed that one, and I agree with the train, it was unbelievably slow, both stations took at least 10mins to unload/load. We couldn’t work out why, but it was painful. And a lot of people being turned away because it was full. All kids rides were either a walk in or one ride wait. Couldn’t really fault them overall for such a busy day! My last trip to MV was mid week with not many guests, and we waited at least 20-30 for a basic kids spinner! A great day dreamworld! Noticed A few nice new pieces of Rivertown merch as well! 

I'm glad to hear Jungle Rush is doing well operationally, it definitely presented itself as a ride that could go either way when I visited twice earlier this year. First visit was fantastic on 2 trains and seemed to be running super efficiently. Second visit was on 1 train and slow operations even considering the reduced capacity.

It's a ride with the capability to chew up crowds, and our Aussie parks have a tendency not to take advantage of that, so I'm glad to hear Jungle Rush is doing that, even if that's the bare minimum really.

Sky Voyager is always slow, it's decent capacity per cycle but long gaps between cycles, which is honestly worse because you stand in the same spot in queue for so long.