Dreamworld wraps up tiger walks DREAMWORLD has axed its Tiger Walk Experience with the theme park planning on replacing it with another animal-themed attraction involving the park's 14 Sumatran and Bengal tigers. Tiger walks have been offered by Dreamworld for more than 10 years and cost $695 for up to five people to walk with a tiger. A spokeswoman for Ardent Leisure CEO Greg Shaw said the new experience, expected to be announced this week, was not offered anywhere else in Australia. She said while the tiger walks were still generating daily bookings it was past its use-by date and put pressure on limited staff numbers. Dreamworld is no longer taking bookings for the tiger walks but will honour all existing bookings until the end of the year.

Another attraction for this year... could this be using The Lair for tigers?

They might look odd in an African themed exhibit though.

Speaking of using The Lair for tigers...

LOL only just read your sig

Superman fast? The highway is quicker!

Clearly not the Gateway

I rarely travel on the Gateway, only to get to the airport. As for the M1 you obviously travel on it at a different time to me as I usualy have no trouble being able to do the speed limit. Your car should be able to easily do the speed of Superman anyway. Worst motorway I travel on is the Ipswich only due to the lovely 9 or so kilometres of roadworks. As for the new tiger attraction will be interesting to see what happens there. Wonder if there will be any upcharge associated with it.

Gold Rush buildings repainted Work is being done on other buildings, the pass office has been relocated to Wiggles World. The Gold Rush sign has been removed. Still hard at work on Buzzsaw. The spiral at the top of Buzzsaw. Queue area at the base of Buzzsaw. Internal walls appear to be being built. 2 large doors are also visible Another view of the queue area from on the Rapid Ride. A new view from inside the park. Another View of the top of hte ride. Buzzsaw and the Tower of Terror 2. Dreamworld skyline has changed forever.

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Thanks for the great pics. Pretty interesting to see how it affects the skyline and fares against ToT. Certainly isn't the most attractive coaster around though... I'm being a bit fussy but I really don't like the scaffold-like supports. It'd be cool if they continued with the theme and covered them up a la Rip Ride Rockit (when it first opened). Wishful thinking I know but hey, at least the station is looking good!

Looks like they might be themeing it quite good too

When I see those pictures of Buzzsaw, I get the image in my mind of an American-like theme park with huge rollercoasters dominating the skyline (even though it's just a SkyLoop and Movie World's skyline is better in my opinion)

Considering the low capacity I wonder how Dreamworld will operate the ride. Seems some parks with this model will run 2 full cycles where as others only do 1... I guess it'll all depend on how busy/quiet the park is.

Saw on Dreamworld's maintenance page - "Shockwave under maintenance until further notice". I know I'm not an expert on ride operations but this ride has been opened nearly 2 months! I hope it's not going to be a ride with frequent breakdowns/maintenance. Someone who knows more should be able to tell if this maintenance is like a concern for the ride's future.

I bought a 4-stroke mower a few months ago. On purchase, one needs to add oil to the sump. After a further 30 hours of operation, one needs to add additional oil to the sump - and thereafter it should be replaced once a year (depending on usage). Not to mention that in those two months, the attraction usually has the hardest service of it's life, and you'd want to make sure that all those new, unused parts had held up to what they were meant to...

yes, But those new parts should of been tested throughly to make sure there were no problems so the product is ok to sell and and the parts would of been tested on earlier products

It is getting on in years.

It is getting on in years.

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It is getting on in years.

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Does anyone know how BRO is looking after its refurb?

Does anyone know how BRO is looking after its refurb?

Shouldn't you know, www worker?

Shouldn't you know, www worker?

Haha! In other news I have found a video on youtube of Buzzsaw! http://youtu.be/UuBHStfnxMQ 1st part is boring. Go to 3:31 onwards

Good find Um.. I fast forwarded to 3:31 and watched the remainder of the video and its still pretty boring.

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Agreed!! Bloody brilliant!! Good to see most of us can laugh at ourselves every now and then!!!

Good find Um.. I fast forwarded to 3:31 and watched the remainder of the video and its still pretty boring.

...But 3:31 is where the testing starts from??? Not sure what else you would be expecting, its what the ride does.

haha Gazza - I was more commenting that the ride is boring and it is exactly what I was expecting to see. Randy inferred from his post that the video was more exciting from that point onwards. I was commenting that even though the ride was in motion, it was just as boring. Nathan

Anybody posted the testing video 2? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGsXvYNwRE

so is the assumption that the final ride once open will only be doing one full rotation??