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Oh god, so basically it is permanent. Just put Doomsday out of its misery already and replace it,

Following guest feedback, we have learnt this ride is awful, unreliable and should be replaced, but instead we have amended the operations of the Doomsday Destroyer ride to make it even more awful.

A $333 million hotel development at Movie World next to the Gold Coast’s film studios is recommended for approval by council officers. Councillors at a planning committee meeting on Thursday will vote on the project with officers in a report backing the plans by Village Roadshow Theme Parks. The 22-storey, 600 room hotel will feature a “panoramic sky deck”, infinity pool, bar and restaurants on its 21st level. Council received 22 objections with residents concerned about building height and scale, the impact on traffic and localised flooding. Four other submitters wrote of their support. The mega development on the theme park’s existing car park, fronting Entertainment Road at Oxenford, will include stand-alone entertainment and function facilities. “The development footprint is located primarily within existing carparking areas, which are proposed to be modified to accommodate the proposal,” officers said. “Additional carparking spaces and internal road networks are proposed to service the development as well as Movie World.” Planning officers after a detailed assessment found: • the building height and scale will directly support and enhance the city’s tourism and film making industries by providing for a modern, large scale short-term accommodation and function facility within a major tourism and film studio precinct. • approving the height would not spark adverse development due to the unique nature and location of the subject site. • the building is located centrally within the site, significantly setback from property boundaries and adjoining uses, to reduce any visual impacts and any direct amenity concerns. • the development provides for an excellent standard of architectural design. The development application was impact assessable because the proposed 79m building height exceeds the level identified on an overlay map of 27m. Officers reviewed potential traffic impacts from the development on the busy surrounding road network. Residents have warned the hotel will “choke Oxenford traffic even worse than Exit 57 M1 traffic does now”. But officers believe there will not be any adverse impacts due to the short-term accommodation check in and check out times. Functions would be staged outside of existing peak hour traffic periods of weekday mornings and afternoons, they said. A nine-storey development was approved for the site but an increase was sought “to better serve the current and growing needs of Gold Coast’s tourism sector”. “The proposed development directly supports and enhances the Village Roadshow site and its three major theme parks and attractions — Movie World, Wet’n’Wild and Outback Spectacular,” officers said. The hotel would deliver an integrated and consolidated tourism node in the theme park precinct in the north of the Coast. It also would serve as a much needed accommodation option for the film studios, including travelling staff and crew to further boost the city’s movie industry.

Very late to the party, first ride today. Impressions the same as the consensus so won’t go over old ground, but I did notice the frame rate on the screens was struggling on my second go. There’s an A-Frame sign near the entry to Atlantis advising of an alternate path to Leviathan, but it neglects to mention the main entry is currently a dead end, so the alternate path is actually the only path.

What part of following guest feedback we have amended operations isn't blaming guest? Blind Freddy knows what is going on here, the ride can't run at normal operations without breaking down, but MW is telling us it's because guest want it that way. This is exactly the same blame game DW tried when DW said guest want shaded seating over a new attraction to replace the Wipeout.

It isn't the case. They can't run 'extreme' mode as the ride is not mechanically able to - this is why we've had all the downtime, and operating like this is what is supposed to relieve it It's not just raw development and construction - take away retheme and construction - and just look at the state of the parks. Dreamworld right now is a much more pleasant place to visit, IMO.

Just to clarify yes you are the idiot in case it wasnt clear

MW has a new low of blaming guest.

The guest feedback they’ll be referring to is the fact the ride is never open. But the way they’ve worded definitely comes across as if they’re blaming guests for why the ride is like this

I’m calling BS on this change being “guest feedback”

Bold of them to assume Dooms Day will be open on the 4th of February