2014 In Dreamworld - Tail Spin construction, Wipeout refurbishment, Triple Vortex construction

[iwerks]

From Gold Coast Themeparks - Triple Vortex construction:

https://www.facebook.com/goldcoastthemeparks

[bladex]

^already posted on page 43

[aussienetman]

Some nice pictures, but only one fact is offered: "The Giant Drop - the tallest freefalling ride in the world."

And that isnt true anymore is it?

[rac2703]

No it is now the 3rd tallest.

[Tim Dasco]

It was and still is Australia's fastest and tallest free falling ride.

[iwerks]

It was and still is Australia's fastest and tallest free falling ride.

Yeah, it would have been nice if they had said that or the Southern Hemisphere, but they didn't. How hard would have that been to fact check? Probably was an old article or a lazy sub-editor, if they have those people anymore.

[themagician]

The first part of Tailspin has been installed

[Reanimated35]

^Photo credit for the above goes to Dreamworld via their Facebook page.

[liz.wis]

Not that we can tell much from that, but so far it looks like it'll resemble the concept art.

[Reanimated35]

Except for the obvious water

[nitromefans]

I was at Dreamworld today, pretty quiet however a few things have happened. Firstly the claw is getting a re paint everywhere except the top motor area. Approximately half of the ride has had it's paint stripped and is a dull grey. Anyway the central column for tail spin us up as well as the main control hut. (The control room isn't the one pictured in 'themagician's' photos but is behind it instead.) They seem to be using a reasonable amount of themeing (Nice job DR) as there is a medium sized plane model as well as some other bits and pieces in the area with the Vortex's parts. MDMC is also missing a train (Not operation and not in the maintenance bay).

Sorry, no photos as I only had my 4th gen iPod with me which is extremely fuzzy.

Edited August 12, 2014 by nitromefans

[themagician]

^Thanks for that update. It's good to hear that they are giving the claw a much needed repaint. Is it closed, or would you say they are just doing the work at night? And, it's good to hear that the plane will be featured with the theming of tail spin.

Also, the GD is under maintenance at the end of the month, so the on ride video cameras may be installed then.

[nitromefans]

The claw is open and operating so the work is being done outside of park hours. There's also temporary fencing around the garden on the end facing the Hot Dog stand and Cyclone.

[Jakev8]

Looks like dreamworlds been reading this "DREAMWORLD 2014 form" and taking notes good to see them really starting to put some time and money in to giving the park a major face lift, will be definitely renewing my pass this year ?

[pin142]

Noticed on Sunday that The Claw will now be using the middle queue line for Q4U. Whilst it is good to see the queue line finally used would have been great to see it used like the Wipeout and handle single rider as well.

[Brad2912]

I don't think claw requires a single Rider queue. The current process is more than efficient

[downunder196]

Except when you're waiting in line on your own and there are empty seats every cycle.

[Santa07]

I don't think claw requires a single Rider queue. The current process is more than efficient

Indeed, the claw just wraps around. A queue for single riders isnt really needed here

[BigKev]

Except when you're waiting in line on your own and there are empty seats every cycle.

I think when there is a line every ride should be single rider, ie you get on in the order you are lined up until the seats are full.

The luxury of leaving seats empty so people can fit their entire group on a ride at once should only be allowed at quiet times, after all it is a ride not a table at a cafe.

I think a rule like that would quickly change the way people queue and great increase efficiency.

[Brad2912]

On the claw effectively everyone is a single rider. There is no carriages, you just sit down in a seat. It's pretty simple really, I personally think the same of wipeout

[Gazza]

Single rider works well on fast loading rides where lots of spare seats are likely to come up and turnover quickly, and particularly on rides where vehicles hold 6 or have 3 across seating.

Test Track, Radiator Springs Racers, SFMMs green lantern, Mammoth at Holiday World.....all examples where it works well.

On a flat ride it becomes less than necessary. The attendant can pre batch a group to fill all seats, and if they come up under its not hard to call from the front of the line for a group of 2 etc to fill the last couple of seats.

Single rider on something like the claw I think would have the potential to be a real time waster for people trying to use that queue....I mean realistically, I don't think I've ever waited more than 2 or 3 cycles, so if you were only getting one spare seat per cycle, all it would take is just two or 3 people in the singles queue and they'd effectivley be waiting the same amount of time as the main queue, and thats assuming a single seat comes up on each cycle.

I think when there is a line every ride should be single rider, ie you get on in the order you are lined up until the seats are full.

The luxury of leaving seats empty so people can fit their entire group on a ride at once should only be allowed at quiet times, after all it is a ride not a table at a cafe.

Nice in theory, but parks also have to juggle customer satisfaction and they defintley would take a hit in that respect if family groups were being broken up.

[AllegroCrab]

The new paintjob on The Claw looks great, but we waited too long for it.

It looks like tail spin isn't just going to be a plug'n'play attraction, but they're putting some effort into making it look nice. Good to see.

[themagician]

Just drove past WWW and I'm not 100% sure on this, but it seemed to appear that they have add stairs that come down from the top of the tower, which will lead to the start of triple vortex. It was only at a quick glance, so I am probably wrong, but can anyone confirm this?

Edited August 14, 2014 by themagician

[westical]

I wish you lot kept your eyes on the road when driving past the parks instead of trying to spot new stuff*

*OK if a passenger

[themagician]

^I was the passenger (I know I said just drove past WWW, but I wasn't referring to myself as driving).

Also, someone asked DW on FB if there would be what some of us thought was water under Tail Spin and they replied saying it isn't, it's blue concrete.