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MM lighting is great but the temple and pathway requires more work. If DW were to permanently install chain lights, it should be like this:⏬ and not like this ⏬

Yep agree - at the same time, I kinda like the atmosphere that would give dockside\by the river. There is clearly a need for lighting through that tunnel area also, and I think the festoon really suit the look (though they should get Pico back in to style it a bit better).

From when I worked on Wild West Falls in the early 2010's, 99% of downtime was due to guest behaviour (i.e standing up on the turntable, or filming) when a ride stop would be initiated. Then when it came to restarting, the ride would chuck a tantrum and instead require a full evacuation. However like every ride, it occasionally had its issues but overall it was very reliable when it was in its original state. The new boats, station etc have pretty much destroyed the ride for reliability and capacity as well and honestly I kind of wish they would have just put it out of its misery. However we know that any replacement we would have got would not be up to the standards that the ride originally had anyway. In regards to the post about the pumps being shut off to do an evacuation, that was always the procedure. A ride stop normally could be reset and was used to stop the ride for a mechanical issue. Anything involving a risk of drowning (or water related) would be an emergency stop which automatically shuts off all the pumps. An evacuation was not required for a ride stop as the ride can be restarted (normally). But if the E-stop was pushed, the pumps would drain and it would instantly become a full ride evacuation.

Building approval is in for the refurb of the building at the front of the park. ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING CAFE TO CONVERT TO STARS BAR AND DINING AREA - PCG 00116953 I wonder if STARS BAR is the final name.

Because the park down the road announced their new rides opening and we need to beat them to the punch.

I've seen the lights in the park and they look temporary.

The zipper is appearing at North Lakes from Friday. https://www.facebook.com/BNEthrillfest/

Yep, AAA made rides don't fall apart in Australia. Cough, cough, GL. Yep, people don't die in Australia because of our rigours of Australian safety and operational practices. Cough, couch, RR. Does Australia have an Australian safety and operational practices guide?

But if the boats still bottom out through the flume section of the ride, I definitely don’t think things have been ironed out. It makes the experience so uncomfortable and turned this ride from a ‘must do’ into a ‘if the queue isn’t too long’.

@DaptoFunlandGuy here you go! Photos by @Theme Park Girl Considering there are lighting rigs set up in these photos and the night markets weren’t on this weekend, my guess is this was all set up for a private event. They’ve also got the DWF Gala at the start of next month which will be held in Rivertown/Tiger Island.

Perhaps you could share the photos? There's plenty of world class theme parks that use festoon lights for night lighting certain areas. I doubt they're all sourced from bunnings though, and not necessarily a cheap option for sure... In Rivertown's case, given Murray built an entire bush-mechanic's workshop, is it that unreasonable to think that maybe they figured out how to string up some lights? Honestly - without even seeing it, it's a far better option and fits the atmosphere of Rivertown. If they wanted to be cheap they could have just mounted a few LED floodlights on the existing buildings and ruined the feel of the area entirely. guarantee they'd have been cheaper too. I'll wait until I see it in person but given your recent post history i'm inclined to reserve judgment.

I believe they reprofiled the flume too, so the heavier boats don't exactly 'float' so much as they bump & roll down the trough. I don't know if this effects the reliability in any way, but i'm pretty sure it's another thing they did in the "upgrades".

Was horrific footage to see, but you cannot compare the shoddy workmanship (can you still say workmanship?) that is apparent there, and what we will have with King Claw. One’s a Chinese manufactured carnival style ride in a country with what I’d imagine to be fairly lax govt or industry body oversight, and one is a permanent Intamin manufacture, installed and to be tested under the rigours of Australian safety and operational practices. the apparent ride op running out the gate and away from the accident rather than attending to the injured also fills me with confidence about the quality of operations at the park…

With Scooby shut, WWF is probably the most complex ride the park has in terms of the number of unique parts (possibly superman might be more complex). It's also a lot easier to set off ride faults and safety faults. The optical sensors (rather than inductive sensors used on roller coasters) can be set off by leaves and birds, which can typically only be resolved by an evac and a safety block reset. Or stacking too many boats behind the station or at the base of the lifts causes a fault that needs maintenance to reset. Changes to the procedures in recent years (such as turning off the pumps to do an evac) also mean that downtime lasts longer. The new boats are heavier, and have come with a few issues, but those have been mostly ironed out.

With that type of ride model it’s seperate pieces joined together, but something like this wouldn’t happen on a ride like King Claw because it’s a completely different design and engineering. My take on that incident is either the ride wasn’t designed correctly, it’s not been maintained properly or (if it’s a travelling model) it wasn’t built properly.

The ride is manufactured by Sinorides, and appear to be a chinese company, with a very extensive portfolio. https://www.sinorides.com/360-large-pendulum-rides/ This seems like a complete accident and should be investigated extremely thoroughly because for the ride to snap like that, multiple welds and reinforcements have failed. (This is the smaller model of the ride, i'm assuming the one in the video is the same scaled up as there is a boxy panel covering how it attaches to the axel/swingy bit) The scope of these rides are very very different. One of them is a permanent fixed attraction and the other one looks like it could be moved to a different park each week. King Claw is manufactured by INTAMIN, whereas i've never heard of—and i'm sure no one here has heard of— Sinorides. Most of these gyro swings are manufactured by Zamperla and INTAMIN, both are very reputable companies in the Amusement Ride and Coaster Space. The new one opening at Six flags Qiddiya is Zamperla iirc. It won't stop me from going on gyro swings, I've been on a bunch and always felt safe. But everyone has their own reactions to events like these happening.

In Green Mountain Park in Saudi Arabia, a few days ago, a similar ride to this snapped in half mid-ride, leaving at least 23 injured (3 critically). X/Twitter Video - https://x.com/i/status/1950966029393261010 It literally looks like the beam snapped in half! 😶 I never knew this was even realistically possible as i thought the beam was in one piece? What maintenance failures would have lead to this happening? Do you think this will deter people from riding it at Dreamworld?

Nope because I don’t work at the park. But I do know it used to barely have any downtime time and since they got these new boats it has a lot more downtime and seems to be very temperamental

All I know is when they replaced the boats with new ones, they have had tons of Maintenance issues and often were running the boats at a reduced capacity like the front 2 seats were closed for a while.

Can anyone give a detailed explanation for why it is not reliable, and how it became that way?

Looks like they have added Bunnings festoon lights around jungle rush . A cheap fix to perhaps a lighting concern at night . World class theming there ? question as only seen photos and don’t know what it looks like in person yet

Is "technical delay" a new downtime excuse?

The seats are now fitted

Definitely not, it used to be one of the most reliable. The park has ruined this ride.

This is probably the most unreliable Ride at Movie World now with doomsday gone has it always been this bad?