Parkz News Dreamworld CEO talks thrill ride replacements off the back of Ardent Leisure cash injection

[Whombex]

2 hours ago, AlexB said:

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Personally, I think an amazing new woody would impress the market, and give one hell of a WOW on the highway (especially if it were to overtake most of the old goldrush, blue lagoon and BB ampitheatre area) - but they better get in quick before someone else steals the idea...

How many years have we been asking for this? A while before the TRRR incident, that's for sure. As for you saying "before someone else steals the idea", I for one wouldn't mind the "arms race" restarting.

54 minutes ago, Baconjack said:

 

I don't care if it's Sea World or Dream World, a Lech style Vekoma would be great.

Edited April 16, 2019 by Glubbo

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

13 hours ago, Glubbo said:

How many years have we been asking for this?

Correct, however prior to the demolition of GoldRush, there wasn't space in the park that would have an impact. We spoke a while back about something over the island, but so far back it doesn't have that 'wow'.

Dreamworld recently marketed using a park 'silhouette' (that accidentally had Superman Escape in it) - imagine the Skyline if it had the entrance, flanked by a giant woody on one side, HWSW on the other, with ToT behind!

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14 hours ago, Glubbo said:

How many years have we been asking for this?

True but it wasn't to MW lifted the bar with Rivals that anybody thought it was a possibility in Australia.

14 hours ago, Glubbo said:

I don't care if it's Sea World or Dream World, a Lech style Vekoma would be great.

It looks like a solid replacement for HWSW but not a trophy coaster.  How does it ride?

Edited April 16, 2019 by Skeeta

[Brad2912]

1 hour ago, AlexB said:

imagine the Skyline if it had the entrance, flanked by a giant woody on one side, HWSW on the other, with ToT behind!

It would be fantastic, but by the time they order, construct and open a woodie, would TOT2 and HWSW have more than a couple of years of life left in them?

 

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6 minutes ago, Brad2912 said:

It would be fantastic, but by the time they order, construct and open a woodie, would TOT2 and HWSW have more than a couple of years of life left in them?

 

I thought that was the idea of getting a new thrill ride.  To replace the poop ones.

Edited April 16, 2019 by Skeeta

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

12 minutes ago, Brad2912 said:

It would be fantastic, but by the time they order, construct and open a woodie, would TOT2 and HWSW have more than a couple of years of life left in them?

 

true, but the skyline impact would look amazing, and hopefully iconic enough that when they remove something old, it prompts them again to replenish with something new and just as iconic...

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Why not take a page out of the Carowinds book and have a new coaster dive under an entrance path like what Fury 325 does?

[Jdude95]

Or Cedar Point with the wing coaster. DW have a lot of space that can be seen from the highway and nothing is a better middle finger to Rivals (that's visible from the highway down the road) than a big coaster wrapping around the park that can be seen for miles on the highway