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Why do the media want to destroy the industry. They are part of the reason the parks have gone through the struggle period. Assholes.

You may also be a little too close to the subject to comment fairly, being loving theme parks, so anytime anything negative is mentioned = media are bad. To be devils advocate here for a moment. Let's just remember MW had a very close call with GL, that was the fault of the manufacturer, not the park. Plus let's just be very clear DW were negligent for years and resulted in someone being killed. That's not a media beat up, that's a fact. When people talk about parks they still mention DW to this day and some are too scared to go still, and even if articles weren't still mentioning it, it would still be in the back of people's minds and will be for a very long time. And what the TRRR inquest showed us was this incident had happened before, but no one had been killed. Now how many other close calls have rides had that we just don't know about because thankfully no one was injured? Disney parks have killed people, Cedar Fair parks have killed people, so have Six Flags parks, Luna Park has had people die, people have died at fairs/shows in Australia and thanks to the internet we know about even more accidents where third world countries safety standards are a lot more relaxed. We can even watch them on YouTube as people film these accidents. I'm not saying this won't be bad publicity for the parks, I'm also not saying it will be entirely factual. I'll hold judgement until I watch it. But people go to these parks expecting to come home safely and some people haven't, therefore that makes this a human interest story, that frankly I'm surprised has taken this long to be developed. As soon as there is an accident where the general public wouldn't expect there to be one, that shocks them, and we find out safety standards were lax, 60 Minutes or Sunday Night always run a story on it. Now Sunday Night doesn't exist anymore, instead replaced by 7NEWS Spotlight covering one topic each week, so there will be an entire hour dedicated to it, so hopefully they can go in depth to how safe these rides can be, not just the dangers. The promo also appears to interview staff from Cedar Fair. This is the blurb from 7: In an hour of television your family will remember watching together forever, Spotlight goes behind the screams to reveal the tightly held secrets of the global billion dollar theme park industry. Featuring never before seen vision and interviews, Spotlight takes viewers on a wild roller coaster ride across Australia and the United States through tales of innovation, survival, tragedy and triumph to bring you the most fun you will have sitting down this year. Anyway, that was completely off topic from the DW update, which was great btw.

Jamberoo has released the velocity falls logo as well as some more information

I understand that this has been added to their website around the last week or two but just thought I'd leave them here. Movie World has added planned maintenance periods for the following rides in 2022:

Steel Taipan rises over Log Ride rubble at Dreamworld Dreamworld's recovery continues, with Steel Taipan well on the way to completion, and further disused attractions being removed from the park. Click here to continue reading

Oh dear, even Jamberoo is using the word "precinct" now...

Couple of issues: 1. Even if they did go for this (why would they?) they would still need to remove the tunnel to install the new track, so they tunnel would need to be demolished anyway. 2. Intamin don't sell hydraulic launched coasters anymore, LSM's of that caliber would cost more to operate in power consumption than TOT did. 3. For them to get the longest life (and best ROI) out of a new ride, it'd be in their best interest to build a completely new structure, as you don't want to have to factor in the replacement of the tower in 10 (or whenever) years time when it reaches the end of its serviceable life. The track location was always an issue in the middle of the park so they'd be better off relocating it to the edge of the park if they could. "To make way for new attractions" was the official reason wasn't it? Though I've heard the following reasons mentioned: Power costs to run Upkeep costs Age of ride Dwindling ridership Location in the park Noise When you think about it, it kinda makes sense. Why would you keep shoveling money into an old, dated ride that everyone complained about being noisy and broke down a lot, when you could be better rolling that money into a new experience that costs less to run? As much as I ended up liking TOT it's time had come unfortunately. I wouldn't say their current version is even in the same class as TOT, it just looks smaller, slower, and boring (to me)

Dronkey Flyer maintenance extended until June 25. I would say a Dreamworks rebranding is coming. Pretty poor the park waits until 9:00am on the day its supposed to open to extend maintenance.

And inadvertently you've found the post I was talking about ☺ https://www.parkz.com.au/forums/topic/7745-dc-rivals-hypercoaster-construction-discussion/?do=findComment&comment=152437

"Vintage cars benefits from the now-defunct log-ride photo camera" "Train line benefits from all the left-over corrugated sheeting they bought to hide TRRR after they killed four people." I'm fairly certain that past the woolshed area the fencing was old timber sleeper style fence, with maybe chicken wire on it, wasn't it? not pool fence? (agree that billabong area had pool fence though).

I went to MW today. Dommsday still down, with no visible works happening. SE was working well, with all effects working including water on stairs. WWF was working well with all effects when I went on it in the morning, but closed after lunch due to technical difficulties. Unsure if it ended up re-opening. GL is back to only running two trains, making the operations seem even slower. No Audio on the trains again. Rivals and Scooby both running normally with everything working.

Yeah there isnt much Hollywood left. More like DC WOOD.............

Here’s a look at what’s left in the car park Anyone know what this part is for? Station update Do you think they’ll build a retaining wall along here for the train track? Because I’d imagine they would have removed it if they weren’t going to use it Track updates

Good to see they are saving some of the rustic theming from demolition. It would be good to see it placed in the Vintage Cars

That's the second worst thing to happen to a DW water ride conveyor

If you look closely, the 1991 MW is actually just a photo of Movie Park Germany

Hey @Brad2912 don't watch 😂😂 20210528_130258_1.mp4

Absolutely - I mean, what a great first post, well done old chap - but with both your steering wheel AND dashcam in the photo, there's no getting out of "you just did something both illegal and incredibly stupid at 110km/h"

The music in Main Street has change from pop music to ragtime styled music. It definitely changes the atmosphere of Main Street. Small changes like these make huge differences. Hopefully they do the same with the Gold Coaster’s queue as the ride is themed to circa 1970s Gold Coast yet it currently plays modern day pop music.

opportunity for another article => another article for people to read => another article for people to see ads on => more ads being seen and/or clicked on => more money for the media The media don't care about their consequences, they don't care what/who they ruin, they don't care how truthful the information they are sharing is, the only thing they care about is making money. Any way that they might be able to make even a slight profit, they will take and they will milk - Exhibit A: relating anything remotely to do with theme parks or the Gold Coast back to TRRR. Of course, I'm not saying every news outlet is out to get whoever they can in an effort to make money, but sadly, far too many are - because there should be 0.

I vote keep the tunnel and use it as a launch run for a new strata coaster that goes up and over the giant drop tower like King da ka or top thrill dragster. Now that would be an awesome addition.

Australian loves milking that story to death don't they

Goodbye old freind

Below is a video from the YouTube channel destination dad and daughter https://youtu.be/8x1k42GyLR0