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And I counted 15 track pieces left in the car park to be installed

Ahh i'll quickly make a subscription! Luna Park will reopen these holidays with nine new rides — but the park’s managing director has revealed they are struggling to find staff to run them. Each of the nine new rides, including four roller-coasters, will be undergoing a routine safety check with test dummies before the opening. “This will become the biggest refurbishment that Luna Park Sydney has ever done and it will be the largest number of new rides since it opened in 1935,” Peter Hearne said. “What we’re doing now will put the park on the world stage.” Included in the rides will be a new Big Dipper, a family-friendly Little Nipper coaster and an adults-only ride known as the Sledgehammer. New rides are being added to Luna Park and they are currently in the testing phase. Picture: Jonathan Ng While delighted the famous grinning gateway was set to reopen on June 26, Mr Hearne said COVID-19 and lack of backpackers had made it difficult to fill vacant positions. “We had our first recruitment drive last week and invited 410 applicants for interviews — only 161 people turned up,” he said. “We need a minimum of 275 casual employees to get the Park ready for opening these school holidays.” Jobs available at the amusement park include ride attendants, cleaning stewards and food and beverage positions such as chefs, waiters, kitchen hands and baristas. But even its $30 million refurbishment — the biggest ever — and the extra rides were not enough to fix what has become a chronic shortage of people in the hospitality sector. Peter Hearne said they are struggling to fill vacant positions at Luna Park. Picture: Jonathan Ng “It’s a common problem across our industry. Until we get a situation where the borders are reopened or we allow people back in the country, we’re going to continue to struggle,” Mr Hearne said. “The worst case scenario is that we won’t trade for two days but we’re certain that we can fill those roles.” Mr Hearne added the amusement park had also been caught up in the recent shipping traffic jam caused by the giant container vessel getting stuck in Egypt’s Suez Canal. Some shipping containers which included their new ride structures were delayed due to the incident. Luna Park is currently testing rides with dummies. Picture: Jonathan Ng “If they hadn’t been on time, they may have well been thrown into the Suez Canal,” he said. About 220,000 overseas workers left the labour market between December 2019 and March this year. Employment Minister Stuart Robert said the government was launching a campaign to get every young person currently on Youth ­Allowance into a job by contacting each of the 122,000 recipients individually. The public can start buying tickets and annual passes from Monday at lunaparksydney.com.

Green Lantern is back to running all 4 trains and is offering virtual queue again.

Forgot to mention that more of the meshing for the rock work has arrived in the car park

Hey all, More Big Dipper track has arrived and permanent fencing has started to go up around sledgehammer and boomerang, The control box for sledgehammer has also been installed, The top of loopy lighthouse has completely disappeared from the park and Finally the tumble bug sign was removed today into a skip bin it seems it went to

SV is still closed today, but BS at least for the moment in operation. in other news DW is moving to no physical annual cards too like VTP. We renewed during the week and went it today and whilst they’ll give you a card if you really want it, they want people using their mobiles and soon won’t be an option. And Pandamonium has just broken down whilst we are in queue. One of the arms won’t move into “home” position so they can’t undo the harnesses so everyone is stuck on the ride while they wait for maintenance

Exactly, the coaster reached a cheerely new point today

Some better close ups of the station building (credit) au_dreamworld_fan from Instagram

Well they only have 4 months left so they have to start construction next month if they want it for October. So there probably will be a Short list of mazes this year.

@Gazza is gonna be really cross about this! I'm not a crackpot... *ding*