1 hour ago, New display name said:

Shutting the torture chamber while the ride count’s still on the low side, feels like removing seats from a lifeboat. Very strange.

What is your proposed alternative? How do they redevelop that area with new rides unless they close it?

Dreamworld has not announced any redevelopment plans for the area. Given how quickly they’ve revealed every other attraction in the last 5 years, the silence feels telling. Unless they’ve returned to pretending the very visible coaster construction somehow isn’t happening.

37 minutes ago, New display name said:

Dreamworld has not announced any redevelopment plans for the area. Given how quickly they’ve revealed every other attraction in the last 5 years, the silence feels telling. Unless they’ve returned to pretending the very visible coaster construction somehow isn’t happening.

Disagree, I think everything from the past 5 years show they know what they are doing.

The silence doesn't feeling telling whatsoever imho.

This is what I was replying to.

2 hours ago, wikiverse said:

What is your proposed alternative? How do they redevelop that area with new rides unless they close it?

I never said they didn’t know what they were doing. It’s possible the plan was simply that the ride was due for a major service, and DW didn’t think it was worth spending the money when they planned to remove it in a couple of years anyway. DW might have a plan but the silence it telling me, what they want to do isn't happening tomorrow.

I saw what you replied to I meant “the silence“ is planned, as others have mentioned building anticipation and having speculation isn’t a bad marketing move.

I don’t see the ride being SBNO for a prolonged period is likely.

Case closed. Nothing locked in.

(from1st half year results)

This does at least confirm that it will be replaced

I would really like to see something like this built to replace Motocoaster

If Intamin can cram in a hot racer into the tiny plot that Luna Park’s one sits on and still make a good ride, imagine what they could do on motocoaster’s spot which is much larger. Could get something decent out of that.

I think they need something that continues the rivertown theme, interacts in some way with the river, and has a large capacity.

16 hours ago, themagician said:

This does at least confirm that it will be replaced

Interesting to see which way they go, with the piggy bank not quite as full as it was two years ago.

Still, if all else fails, at least we might get to pat a sheep again this year.

1 hour ago, New display name said:

Interesting to see which way they go, with the piggy bank not quite as full as it was two years ago

Their cash position is still extremely healthy, not to mention they still ended up reporting a growth in their cash inflow over the 6 months, with the King Claw capital costs being absorbed within operating cash flow.

Healthy, yes, but for Dreamworld, ‘healthy’ might just mean disappointing some people’s wild wishes. DW started the rebuild with 106m cash in the bank, DW now have 37.6m in the bank. Do you think they will put all the money into one attraction @levram_?

So they spent ~$70m building Rivertown, JR and retheme/rebuild of MM and removing Claw, building king claw? Math kinda does check out that they might spend $25-30m

Cash at rebuild is not an accurate reflection of total investment costs. During that period, cash reserves continued to be deployed across a range of initiatives, including buy-back schemes, which are an example of non-direct investment expenditure.

A large-scale investment for a Village or Coast asset would typically sit within the $20M–$30M range. In the current environment, any capital deployment beyond that level would generally require a robust and well-substantiated return on investment case.

While it appears unlikely, based on Greg’s comments during the call, if a decision were made in the coming months to proceed with an investment of that scale, and allowing for a 16–20 month delivery and opening timeline, current operating performance of DW/WWW and capital investment trends indicate the business could reasonably absorb up to two-thirds, if not more, of the project costs through operating cash flow, while still maintaining a healthy cash position.

DW could throw everything including the kitchen sink into one mega attraction, but from what I’ve seen DW are more than one “shut up and take my money” ride behind MW when it comes to proper theme park must-dos.

While I think DW are ahead of MW in many ways, I think they are just one major thrill coaster and either a water based attraction or dark ride away from being ahead of MW in their attraction line up

I’m not sure DW would even consider another water ride anytime soon, and you’ve only just had a dark ride added with JR. Will be interesting what path DW take.

it begs the question. Does indoor rollercoaster = dark ride?

Does JR qualify as a dark ride?

Does Scooby Doo? or Space Mountain qualify as a dark ride?

I don't wish to derail this thread further, so I've started a new discussion here

The now closed "Motorcoaster" was a perfect symbol of where DW went completely off the rails. Shocking location for the ride and totally destroyed Longhurst's great orginal layout and theming!

The motor coaster didn’t detract from the area any more than the TOT track did. There’s nothing unusual about a park relocating a ride to make space for a new one, and they could just as easily have removed the Vintage Cars entirely from the park. The real problem was what they considered acceptable for the Vintage Cars compared to what the attraction used to be.

Popped into the park today and noticed that the train has now been taken off the track. No other noticeable changes though.

Nice pickup. thanks for the photos.

It just occurred to me that when they do pull MDMC down and\or start redevelopment, that this zone is inside the railway track, with zero alternate access points, so this will, yet again, shut down the dreamworld express.

7 hours ago, Noll_57 said:

Popped into the park today and noticed that the train has now been taken off the track. No other noticeable changes though.

It's sitting in the maintenance bay. If you zoom in on the launchtrack/station, you'll see that the switch track is set to the maintenance bay. You can also see the plastic windshields of the bikes in the maintenance bay. Seems like it will be SBNO for a while.

i mean... I can't say I went on MDMC very often - and i've zoomed in (and also cross-referenced with google overhead imagery too) and I cant see the switch track. I also can't see the windshields. can someone help me out?