Still a step better than Movie World who where in denial that DC Rivals even existed until very close to opening day.

Couple of observations:

- $17m is steep considering they're (mostly) reusing an existing structure. I wonder if demolition/asbestos removal costs for the mine ride are part of this figure?

- No way does this open in 2018, based on the current state of the building. I suspect April 2019 school holidays is more likely.

A rebuttal to your observations:

The entire cinema building was gutted and it was essentially a 4 wall shell before steel installation began. Plus there was no Asbestos in the Eureka Mountain Mine or in the Cinema building. The large price would be the cost of steel, the cost of parts and the cost of labour (including hire of 2 cranes) as they essentially took an empty building and turned the inside into a cluster of steel beams. If they were to entirely rebuild the structure, it would be the least of their costs as 4 brick walls can be done in a day and cost nothing. We're also yet to see how DW will implement the facade.

Yes, Dreamworld have a habit of over-promising and under-delivering but realistically there isn't much work left to go. The installation of the steel was really the bulk of the works, now that the steel work is complete, it's mostly superficial works to be completed before opening. Yes, December may seem like a stretch but even if they don't hit the late December delivery date, I'm confident that we'll see it before the end of Jan 2019.

7 hours ago, Jdude95 said:

 Yes, December may seem like a stretch but even if they don't hit the late December delivery date, I'm confident that we'll see it before the end of Jan 2019.

Construction complete perhaps, but there’s still the whole “test and adjust” phase before they open it to the public. I’d love to see it open earlier but it seems unlikely at this stage.

Wasn’t Trolls Village six months late or something? And that one is just a walkthrough and some shops!

The ride's program has likely already been set and tested overseas in other functioning venues. Once all equipment has been bumped in they can start closing in the building, interior Q, air conditining etc.

For example, way back in the early 90's a Motion base Simulator was set up inside a soundstage over at WB's Studios Burbank where the initial Test and Programming was carried out for what later became the Batman Adventure ride at MW. It made sense to have it over there because it was where everyrhing had to get approved first and also so they could do all the ride profile stuff while the ride building itself was being constructed. 

Some of the external structure is starting to be installed 

Summer holidays opening? So early December?

No chance that is happening unless Dreamworld don't mess around during construction. I don't see this ride opening until January at the very earliest.

From all the footage yesterday the gondalas have been installed. It doesn’t really take that long to clad a building and do finishing touches. 

I can't wait!

Was very cringy watching that press talk. It was so scripted, and like he was talking to kids the tone and expressions he was giving. And very repetitive. 

But in other news, I am really looking forward to this, and hope they can pull it off and it’s at the standard we hope for 

On 02/11/2018 at 10:44 PM, aaronm said:

Wasn’t Trolls Village six months late or something? And that one is just a walkthrough and some shops!

Yes, and there was apparently some major issues with the licensing terms and exactly how it was to be done - nothing to do with physical construction which went up very quickly once the apparent licensing stuff got sorted out.

In this case, there's no licence - the film was created specifically for the park, and they've had months to work things out behind the scenes. Provided the machinery and control system functions as designed (and this isn't a one of a kind system so that shouldn't be difficult) all things should slot into place fairly easily.

8 minutes ago, AlexB said:

Yes, and there was apparently some major issues with the licensing terms and exactly how it was to be done - nothing to do with physical construction which went up very quickly once the apparent licensing stuff got sorted out.

I'm not suggesting Sky Voyager will have the same issues as Trolls Village, it's more a comment on Dreamworld's ability to get an attraction open on time. Given the current level of progress it seems quite unlikely they will open this in 2018 - there's more than just construction - commissioning the ride system, tweaking the ride program (something that needs to be 100% perfect on day one), evac + emergency plan testing, safety signoffs, and so on.

I would disagree, the current level of progress is very high. They are working on it every day, and ive driven past at night, and they would still be using the cranes (with very strong lighting). The internal steel went up very quickly, and I can imagine now the exterior will too. I don’t think it will be open early December, but definitely late or very early January 

Edited November 4, 20187 yr by themagician

Drove past last night and it appeared they were working on it.

6 hours ago, aaronm said:

I'm not suggesting Sky Voyager will have the same issues as Trolls Village, it's more a comment on Dreamworld's ability to get an attraction open on time. Given the current level of progress it seems quite unlikely they will open this in 2018 - there's more than just construction - commissioning the ride system, tweaking the ride program (something that needs to be 100% perfect on day one), evac + emergency plan testing, safety signoffs, and so on.

Since it's Dreamworld, they can skip those last steps which will save them a solid 2 hours towards opening day.

No they wont open it till they install either a roof or a complex harness system.

Well shit if they're working through the night then they must be on schedule. /sarcasm

to be fair, given the location in the park, there's a lot of things they could do more easily without the hoardings in the way. Nighttime wouldn't be a bad time to do a lot of the big move stuff.

Another video

 

 

I feel unsafe knowing DW is going to gas me.😀

To add to @themagician's post, Dreamworld had also released another sneak peek to the media earlier today, 48 seconds in duration. It can only be accessed through the link above. It's very similar to the previous 2 videos posted.

Gas? I thought it was mist?

16 minutes ago, AlexB said:

Gas? I thought it was mist?

That's what they tell you but when you don't wake up, don't blame Skeeta.

If it's the same type of gas Movie World uses in the Doowackys you wear on Arkham Asylum, it makes me happy!

 

1 hour ago, pushbutton said:

If it's the same type of gas Movie World uses in the Doowackys you wear on Arkham Asylum, it makes me happy!

 

I feel like I’ve missed something... tell me more about these doowackys you wear on AA that make gas??