Has Coast Entertainment given up on Whitewater world?

[Ash]

Seriously I don’t understand what could be so wrong with this ride? 

[Naazon]

50 minutes ago, Ash said:

Seriously I don’t understand what could be so wrong with this ride? 

WhiteWater World: Lachlan Steger broke collarbone on Triple Vortex, mulls court action | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

 

To jog your memory

[STRAWS]

4 hours ago, Naazon said:

WhiteWater World: Lachlan Steger broke collarbone on Triple Vortex, mulls court action | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

 

To jog your memory

It reopened since then though I have a feeling the internal investigation forced it to close again and its not reopened since.

Edited March 18 by STRAWS

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Didn't they entirely reprofile the bowls? is there maybe some compliance issue with the new profiles?

[Coasterjoe]

Visited WWW yesterday for the first time since 2010! Wow where has the time gone? 
 

I think it was definitely a wise choice to focus on DW first, it was in a much worse state and WWW although its not perfect its still ‘good enough’ to put on the back burner while they focused on the main park. 

 The Green Room is still the superior slide imo and I enjoy it more than Tornado at WnW. The rip really struggles to keep a moving line and you get the feeling it really needs triple vortex firing to keep it from being blown out. Temple of Huey tower is still great with something for everyone. The bro is still awesome, and being a bit heavier I get some serious speed on him, always fun.  Fully 6 was a little disappointing, if only the tubes were a little faster. 2 and 3 look fun, and it leaves a sour taste knowing they will probably never reopen. 
 

Another chill people mover like a family tube ride like mammoth falls and a lazy river would be the first investments I would be looking at for new attractions. They really need to remove Wedgie, being a slide that aesthetically trumps everything thats open and is permanently closed is just a bit of a let down. A bar closer to cave of waves would be a really good move, bit more like the WnW set up. A facelift on cave of waves to improve theming would also be awesome. Looks cheap and dated up close. 
 

Finally returning the back gate near gold coaster for easy park hop would be awesome. Considering their main marketing for WWW is two worlds in one day it makes little sense to make guests exit DW to enter WWW. This would be great if they ever decide to return ocean parade to its former glory and have a nice transition from that into WWW. 

 

 

[New display name]

The closing of the thoroughfare between the parks has been mentioned before. (and we all agree, it sucks) The gate was original located in the Flowrider shop which made sense, because the staff of the shop would let you through.    DW have since created a dead area at the back of the park, which have created challenges with accessing WWW from DW. 

DW had a staff member on a gate to check passes. 

DW removed staff member and DW & WWW became one park. 

DW went back to staffing the gate. 

DW locked the gate.

 

 

 

If the arcade was moved to the thoroughfare location, where guest from DW & WWW could utilise the arcade and the staff of the arcade, could control the movement between the parks, this might work.

[themagician]

I definitely agree being able to access WWW from DW would be a smart decision, particularly when they offering deals like they currently have where it’s $99 for a one day ticket to access DW, WWW and SkyPoint. Being able to set yourself up in WWW for the day, then pop in and out of DW as you wish would be perfect. It could even just be during school holidays if there isn’t as much of demand in general weekends. 
 

That store was a great way around having to staff someone at the gate to the right of the former Flowrider. I believe that store was utilised by the temporary Trolls attraction and is now just used as storage. As we all know, the back of Ocean Parade is a bit of a mess and needs a lot of love to bring it back to life. When that time comes, I definitely think they need to look at a way to open the access between the parks once again, while being able to also close it off during WWWs off season. 

[New display name]

Fingers crossed DW have plans to fix "Compton" in the near future @themagician

[Ash]

Greg young was just interviewed on Danes Theme Park Life once again, they are wanting a non thrill ride for White water world, good podcast, imo sounding like the lazy river as he mentioned through put etc