Tower of Terror 2 closing

[jjuttp]

Wouldn't it have been smarter to wait until after the summer holidays to close it?

[Jakev8]

24 minutes ago, Prequel said:

I hope they leave some sort of statue or plaque behind for the Tower of Terror II (and the first one i suppose), sad seeing it go.

The tower will still remain with most likely half of the track still running down it, so I see that as a pretty good reminder of what was one of the fastest coasters in the world. 😁🤙🏼

[Brad2912]

23 minutes ago, jjuttp said:

Wouldn't it have been smarter to wait until after the summer holidays to close it?

Can only assume that the increase unreliability and cost to keep it up or maintained effectively outweigh the benefits of keeping it for the summer peak.

to be it seems the dripping tap of money/resources being poured in to keep it working has dried up

Just now, Jakev8 said:

The tower will still remain with most likely half of the track still running down it, so I see that as a pretty good reminder of what was one of the fastest coasters in the world. 😁🤙🏼

I hope they don’t leave any track running down it, not long term anyway. Next major maintenance period for GD should see that removed 

29 minutes ago, Rabbit2014 said:

Well there goes another of the big 9 Thrill rides, I hope another ride is planned for that area in the future even know it is a small and narrow space. 

From what I have heard, and Parkz has just posted, the station area will be cleared to makeway for a connected area between Dreamworks and ABC 4 Kids. 

[Gold Coast Amusement Force]

Hopefully now they can have a more reliable ride selection. Wipeout and TOT 2 were the most unreliable rides and now that they are gone, maintenance should be easier for Dreamworld and their pockets won't be bleeding trying to keep the rides running. Although, they are going to need planned investments continuing from what has been announced so far. This is a massive loss for Dreamworld however and was arguably the most iconic ride in Australia and will defiantly have a negative impact on the park for the time being, especially so soon after Wipeout's closure.

[Baconjack]

Well that sucks. I dont get to make it to DW in time. Still at least we got some notice. This should have been announced at the time of the 2018 results or should have closed much closer to the opening of the Mack Blue Fire clone. I'm assuming DW finally threw in the towel if they closed the ride this early and wanted to extend the ride's life to January at the latest. Now they'll have a peak season with yet another thrill ride down and it is going to sting the main park considerably, at least they'll have most of WWW done and Fully 6 up to distract the guests. I said some time ago TOT's closing is a PR disaster waiting to happen, and they have handled it actually pretty well for Gold Coast park standards. Still, it's only a week, and wasnt anywhere near as much notice as let's say Vortex at Kings Island, but it's something.

Either way good riddance. Never ran as well as it did when it ran forward. Now it is time to look into that Falcon's Fury conversion to GD.

Edited October 24, 2019 by Baconjack

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

7 minutes ago, Baconjack said:

Now it is time to look into that Falcon's Fury conversion to GD.

Nice as this sounds, I don't think the tower itself has much life left in it to bother with spending a crapshack on a conversion.

[New display name]

6 minutes ago, AlexB said:

Nice as this sounds, I don't think the tower itself has much life left in it to bother with spending a crapshack on a conversion.

Fill the tower with concrete and she'll be right.   \s

[Jakev8]

1 hour ago, Brad2912 said:

I hope they don’t leave any track running down it, not long term anyway. Next major maintenance period for GD should see that removed 

True I'm actually really curious on what type of Crane will be needed than to pull the track down on the side of the tower, or can they erect a pulley system on the top to lower piece by piece. Cause don't most on road cranes max boom out at around the 60-70 m mark and the last section of track would be around the 110m? 😁🤙🏼

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Crawler cranes, between the main mast and luffing jib can get that high.

I don't see them bringing a tower crane in for what wouldn't be a long term job.

[westical]

1 hour ago, Baconjack said:

This should have been announced at the time of the 2018 results 

14 months ago?

[Baconjack]

1 minute ago, westical said:

14 months ago?

2018-19 financial year. Typo on my part. Sorry.

[westical]

You try to keep negative news to a minimum when announcing results. 

[Rabbit2014]

I would love a falcons fury at dreamworld but built in a new location and at a similar or taller height (giant drop), which would replace GD in the future. 

[Aw hype]

Is the tower hollow?

[Slick]

2 minutes ago, Aw hype said:

Is the tower hollow?

Yup. 

[T-bone]

So that’s why they count it as being in Rocky Hollow...

[red dragin]

A few years back they did a series of videos about the park, two younger guys hosted it.

One of them was about changing the warning light on the top of the tower (I think) and showed inside. Stairs and I think a small lift? 

[themagician]

@red dragin this is the one

 

[red dragin]

That's the one. Thanks @themagician

[themagician]

Greg’s full interview about the rides closure

 

[ejpdtd]

I would love to see intamin refit Giant Drop to a sky jump drop tower like Falcons Fury now that TOT is going. GD has definitely had reliability issues aswell, with only one side working for a long period of time. So I wonder if the tower is capable from an engineering standpoint to support the gyro version. Unlikely, but I would prefer dreamworld spent the money to save the iconic tower and GD than see it suffer a similar fate in 5 years or so. 
 

edit: just noticed someone has already mentioned this in this thread

Edited October 24, 2019 by ejpdtd

[yaark]

Instead of replacing the current Giant Drop gondolas, what if you kept them and added a forward tipping gondola to the side if the tower replacing the TOT track? You would get a Falcons Fury style experience and that way guests have a choice of how thrilling they want their drop experience

Edited October 24, 2019 by yaark

[Sarahscott]

I said to a staff member last night that I wanted to be the very last person to ride it and he turned around and said not sure why you would want to be that one "we aren't spending anymore money on this ride, wheels may have fallen off by then" 

[Slick]

3 hours ago, Sarahscott said:

I said to a staff member last night that I wanted to be the very last person to ride it and he turned around and said not sure why you would want to be that one "we aren't spending anymore money on this ride, wheels may have fallen off by then" 

 

Edited October 26, 2019 by Slick

[Ryanhop01]

Anyone heading to dreamworld today? Thinking of stopping in til about 2 or 3 today to get some rides on skyvoyager and giant drop, and last few ones on tower of terror.

happy to meet up