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Well i’ll be damned...

Let’s be honest here. NO ONE is Goggling “Village Themeparks” anything 😜

So wait, does it close at 6pm

Surprised nobody has called this out yet, but word on the street is that Dreamworld didn’t order this coaster. so anything is possible, I guess...

No discount but it means you don’t have to wait the usual 3 off years for a production slot. Dreamworld definitely jumped on someone else’s misfortune with this one. You can’t get a coaster in 12 months normally. Great move by them.

Nah, 7pm. That's what it says above.

As in, it was ordered by another park and they didnt go through with the delivery and dreamworld picked it up.

It is a succinct and nicely put together series. Disney has allowed some of the gloss to be wiped away so we can see the rawness underneath (some, not all, because it’s Disney, of course!). Disney fans will know some-to-most of the content, but there should be a few tidbits and Easter eggs for even the most die hard fan in each episode (and some of the imagery is rather special too) Leslie Iwerks has done a great job with this, and if you like the imagineering story, when you’re finished go to “extras” on Disney+ and check out a few others like The Pixar Story (also a Leslie Iwerks doco), Frank and Ollie, Waking Sleeping Beauty, to name a few.

You know you don’t count as staff, right? As for testing a new product, let’s not pretend village didn’t just purchase this off the shelf from another developer or park that already had it working. Shouldn’t need to be tested much as a result, and the issues with reliability or accuracy are probably more to do with the fact that the person whose job it is to keep it updated, probably isn’t doing it properly.

Do you mean the last little drop which has the large projection screen? I agree a better effect to mask the drop should be put back here. The old lush tree theming was good in here and maybe something could be done along those lines.

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Honestly, Merlin buying DW would be many an enthusiast's dream come true, and it does make a lick of sense as they are making investment into Australia. But I don't see it happening. Merlin already has their hands full with opening Legoland Discovery Centres in this country and building new Legoland parks every other year. Dreamworld would be far too big of an investment to take on for a company so new to Australia even though they have bought parks in the past with their acquisition of Gardaland and Cypress Gardens in the past. Alternatively, and this might be a far-fetched theory to some, but this is the most likely way Merlin will invest into DW - Merlin could buy the park as it is like Cypress Gardens and DW will become the next Legoland. Still not a great park but its better than housing , and the Gold Coast definitely has the tourism base to build a Legoland if Legolands are being built in Korea and have been completed in Malaysia. Who knows, Merlin may want to take the next step with bringing the Lego brand into Australia and build a theme park. DW is the prime position for a Legoland. Even if it is a strictly family only park due to its IP and attractions, if that is what keeps Dreamworld alive, I'm all for this transformation. At the end of the day, Dreamworld being protected by legislation a la LPS will be the only way to ensure Ardent won't be the park's final owner. The park is iconic to millions in spite of its weak reputation in the community following the TRRR disaster. If the park did actually end up closing it would be a national tragedy, on the scale of when Toys R Us collapsed around the world in 2018. Every single member of this board would be sad to see DW close whether or not you saw it coming. Not to mention from an analytical point of view, it would damage our industry massively - VRTP would essentially have a monopoly over theme parks in Australia as they have no competition in the region and very little investment would be made in their parks in the future compared to today. The competition between DW and VRTP has brought us rides like DC Rivals, Superman Escape and Tower of Terror, among others. Big rides were built to draw the crowds away from the competitor and towards the park building it. We wouldn't be getting rides on the scale of those if VRTP didn't have any competition. Whether you like the park or you don't, it needs to be recognised that Dreamworld needs to remain in operation to ensure our parks' profile on the world stage continues to expand.

Fully 6 and the new coaster would have been well into planning and contracts more than likely in place well before Greg showed up, especially for the coaster.

I don’t think polar bears are particularly ageist... if the males are still alive I’m sure they’ll give Mishka a run in a few years when she’s ready...