At least we know they didn't lose the hot wheel's license.

Edited February 23, 20197 yr by Gold Coast Amusement Force

*gets delayed now for an extra 8 months*

It’s now part of WhiteWater Worlds theming, because Dreamworld are too scared to operate it..

Something funky must have gone on for it to have gotten stuck there!

Maybe it was a new train, so the wheels haven’t worn in yet, hence the stoppage 

Old train wasn’t allowed to be despatched empty and had low wind tolerances so this isn’t surprising.

Maybe they forgot that was a rule 

I’m sure there would be a joke in there somewhere had HWSW retained its previous name...

Seriously though, how are they supposed to get the train back into the station. 

1 minute ago, Gold Coast Amusement Force said:

Seriously though, how are they supposed to get the train back into the station. 

Very slowly.

Normally with a winch a few metres at a time. 

They won't ever let the new guy operate that one again 😂 Normally it has to have 6 people when operating, or 6 water dummies when testing.

Surely this is enough to make the park realise it needs to go. The only rides that this happens to are Chinese knock offs. If a ride needs a certain weight to run it’s probably too old to still be operating. Do DW even get the attendance these days to find 6 people to ride at a time?

 

You get it stuck, you winch it! 

Easier to do there, than around white water world and through two loops.

11 hours ago, Santa07 said:

Surely this is enough to make the park realise it needs to go. The only rides that this happens to are Chinese knock offs. If a ride needs a certain weight to run it’s probably too old to still be operating. Do DW even get the attendance these days to find 6 people to ride at a time?

That's quite short sighted of you. There are many coasters (and plenty of other rides) that require a certain weight to operate. There are more that can't operate in certain wind conditions. Plenty of flat and tower rides that won't run in the wind, or without certain weight management either (Drop towers where cables get blown around, and things like ferris wheels that need to be balanced evenly)

If you think only Chinese knock offs can valley when empty trains are impacted by high winds, you probably shouldn't look at the moments leading up to the smiler incident, where an empty test car valleyed, stopping on the track.

Gerstlauer is not from China

Maybe, if you're gonna jump on the dreamworld bashing bandwagon, you do actually come up with something legitimate to call them out on, or at least make your illegitimate issue funny.

4 hours ago, AlexB said:

That's quite short sighted of you. There are many coasters (and plenty of other rides) that require a certain weight to operate. There are more that can't operate in certain wind conditions. Plenty of flat and tower rides that won't run in the wind, or without certain weight management either (Drop towers where cables get blown around, and things like ferris wheels that need to be balanced evenly)

If you think only Chinese knock offs can valley when empty trains are impacted by high winds, you probably shouldn't look at the moments leading up to the smiler incident, where an empty test car valleyed, stopping on the track.

 

You are right - I spoke out of turn and I apologise for the baseless statement I made. I have been bashing DW a lot lately, and it may be time to pull back.

With that said, I still think the ride is old and retiring it wouldn’t hurt the park much. Unlike some of the other old and decaying rides at the park, I personally don’t think this brings much to the park any more.

The problem is quite a large proportion of DWs “signature” rides are at or close to retirement age. 

WO should be gone, TOT2 is on it’s absolute last legs (12 months tops) and you’d hope you could milk maybe 2 years out of HWSW given the extended downtime it’s had. Then you have the decision to if you keep the tower & therefore GD in place. 

The problem is how can a business with a strategy of non-investment afford to retire a high proportion of its fleet? Well it can’t.. so it either flogs the dead horse until the rides literally cannot run, with the associated high costs of continual maintenance & unreliability, or its just closes them, drops pricing and becomes a half day park. Either way, it’s not an attractive or long term sustainable strategy

I believe the park is done, I hope I'm wrong. But for it to now back away or slow done the process off adding new attractions besides SV, is not what the average person wants. These guys need a game changer, they need something to wow the crowd, my family have not renewed our passes for dreamworld this year, despite Sea world being average my boy would rather go to the VR parks than the Ardent parks. 

Pet peeve. 

People who post restricted YouTube videos that make you log in.