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And we move on from Corroboree towards the imposing fencing that has surrounded the Log Ride since the park reopened late last year.
You get a charming view of the some barbwire fence and Dreamworld's plantation of eucalyptus trees used to feed their koala population.
Oh wait, adventure! There's some koalas unceremoniously placed in the middle of the area! Surrounded by a chainlink fence with sheet metal paneling that stops koalas climbing out... and does its best to block your view as you drive past. It's a cheap and incredibly tacky attempt to inject some atmosphere into an attraction utterly devoid of it. Swing and a miss, Dreamworld.
Any semblance of adventure however stops with the name. It's still a barren, nothing of a ride; a shadow of its former self when it was positioned where Motocoaster now sits. It's inexplicably included as part of the park's "Gold Rush" area despite in an entirely different corner of the park. That's not confusing at all...
"Adventure" has been added to the name, presumably as part of Dreamworld's apparent commitment to offering unique experiences.
The cars themselves have been given a lot of TLC and look great. The ugly canopies have been removed as well, returning the cars to a more vintage state.
The Vintage Cars have reopened.
It'd be great if Dreamworld took a bulldozer to this long-abandoned attraction while they're knocking things down. It's been twelve years since this attraction closed.
Dingos remain at the far end of Dreamworld Corroboree.
Fencing runs all along the area that previously housed larger kangaroos and emus.
A large section of Corroboree has been closed off, likely to form part of a new koala breeding program that Dreamworld received a government grant for.
At this point it's not even worth commenting on the perennially swamp-like river.
With Buzzsaw closed, there's really nothing to see in this sad corner of the park.
The ride's original station building remains.
Inside is a mess of steel beams that are exactly what you'd expect from a company that had no experience building roller coasters when it opened in the late 1980s. HyFab, the ride's manufacturer only ever built this one roller coaster.
Even if the ride passes modern safety requirements, even if they find a way to make it not look hideous, there's still the fact that in its heyday it was a thoroughly average roller coaster.
There's that track!
Under all this carnage is a roller coaster's lift hill.
From the ride's old entrance there's a big brick wall and a streel structure and just a few remaining pieces of the melted Tupperware mountain.
There's going to be many truckloads like this to remove all the debris.
