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It's a convoluted mess of steel, rust, wood and foam.
This ride is a mess. Any sensible theme park would recognise that 30 years is a typical lifespan for a steel roller coaster, and invest in something new in its place.
Whatever Dreamworld's plans are for this ride, there's little they can do that will hide this ugly structure in a meaningful way, short of a replacement mountain that would be well outside of any minuscule budget such a project has.
Much of the structure for this roller coaster is wooden.
It's puzzling that a theme park with any sense of reason would press ahead with resurrecting such an outdated ride.
It is an ugly ride. Poles and beams of all different styles and materials have been indiscriminately welded and bolted together, clearly made up as they went along.
The mess towers over the high fences that hide Thunder River Rapids from view.
The foam is caked onto everything and it all needs to come down so that they can start inspecting and testing the quality of the structure to determine how feasible it is to open the ride.
Efforts are being made to preserve the ride's track so that they can press ahead with longstanding plans to resurrect this old ride.
The removal of the decaying mountain reveals an equally ugly ride structure that was never built with looks in mind.
The Mine Ride's mountain comes down after more than a decade of inaction.
Dreamworld's roster of street performances continues daily despite the park's lack of crowds, which is admirable. Part of their "fake it till we make it" strategy that really doesn't seem to be working.
Wipeout is yet another ride that has certainly reached its used-by date, yet Dreamworld clings to.
Happiness isn't even the park's slogan anymore, let alone a vaguely accurate representation of this sad, dilapidated theme park.
Grid Burgers has had this much-needed area added so guests no longer need to trek with their meals into Brock's Garage or over to the faded old eating area in the middle of Ocean Parade.
The Claw operates with a small handful of riders.
Ocean Parade isn't so much a "parade" as it is a collection of broken rides and construction hoardings as far as the eye can see. Palm trees are beachy though...
Yeah, that drop...
Merry Christmas... apparently. Tell you what Movie World, remind us again in about seven weeks.
After the amazingly expansive and open roller coaster experience, exiting guests are funneled into what can only be described as an claustrophobic shipping container to view their ride photos and shriek loudly to friends, family and 20-odd strangers.
