Parkz News Dreamworld's Log Ride modifications are a symbol of everything wrong with Ardent Leisure

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Dreamworld's Log Ride modifications are a symbol of everything wrong with Ardent Leisure

The newly reopened Rocky Hollow Log Ride is a clear example of ignoring every other theme park operator in the world to come up with an untested and overly complicated safety improvement. It's why Ardent Leisure need to bow out of the theme park game.

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[DaptoFunlandGuy]

As the saying goes - if its stupid, and it works, then it aint stupid.

Sure, it's not as elegant as Disney's solution, and of course it's cheap - they can't exactly buy new boats every time a flaw in the old one is identified! Who do you think they are... Disney?

We've seen retrofit in many parks, and on many rides before. Sure, it's inelegant, and cheap, and a clear indication of the contempt with which ardent treats it's theme park customers - but if it does the job it is meant to do, and gets the ride running until perhaps a better alternative can be found within budget - then i'm ok with that.

[bladex]

i've said it before and i'll say it again ardent need to sell the park to someone who knows what the hell they are doing.

[JeffreyMoore]

1 hour ago, AlexB said:

As the saying goes - if its stupid, and it works, then it aint stupid.

Sure, it's not as elegant as Disney's solution, and of course it's cheap - they can't exactly buy new boats every time a flaw in the old one is identified! Who do you think they are... Disney?

We've seen retrofit in many parks, and on many rides before. Sure, it's inelegant, and cheap, and a clear indication of the contempt with which ardent treats it's theme park customers - but if it does the job it is meant to do, and gets the ride running until perhaps a better alternative can be found within budget - then i'm ok with that.

if its going to course damage to the log boats over time and there are chances its going to course injury. its clear it does not WORK 

[Levithian]

Ardent to blame for everything, or the maintenance department of dreamworld doing their jobs and the operations manager of the park relying on the experience of their staff and outside contractors to come up with a workable solution that fits the brief?

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

On 25/01/2018 at 7:38 PM, JeffreyMoore said:

if its going to course damage to the log boats over time and there are chances its going to course injury. its clear it does not WORK 

You have no evidence of this CAUSING any damage to the boats. It's been hypothesised only. I am yet to receive an answer to my question, about whether there has been any reinforcement underneath these mounting points.

You say it is clear it doesn't work - HOW? because you read an article? That explains a lot about SJWs in today's age.

[JeffreyMoore]

lets think this way say the accident happened on RHLR and not TRR 

does anyone think we would be seeing Ardent been just as silly and putting something like this on the TRR rafts 

[Levithian]

A cage or roof like thing on top of those tubes would be a hazard if the tube flips. It could get pinned in any of the under water structures which would drown people.

It might have ended with the ride closed because realistically youd want some form of locking harness/restraint, but that spells doom if a tube flipped over too. So it might have been difficult to have someone prepared to pass the ride from an engineering stand point.

[Slick]

54 minutes ago, JeffreyMoore said:

lets think this way say the accident happened on RHLR and not TRR 

does anyone think we would be seeing Ardent been just as silly and putting something like this on the TRR rafts 

Just a heads up - no need to post the same comments on multiple threads.

[RobMac]

All this does is again prove the park is run by inexperienced operators.

Given  the time and expensive already gone to, to basically "vandalise" their own attraction, DW WOULD have been better off investing in new state-of-the-art log-ride boats with purpose built restraint systems.

AGAIN, DW is a quality theme park...or it was originally built with that intention.....not a collection of carnival or side-show like attractions widely thrown anywhere....as has been the respective operators approaches, for the last couple of decades or more!