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  1. I think I may have suggested this before, but more communications would be key here. The whole "ohhhh theme park secrets and what's coming soon, ooh ahhh stay tuned ohhhh" was abandoned by most theme parks including Disneyland decades ago. So instead of both the board and the park going "we've got plans and it's all very hush hush", I think given the current state of the park, being super transparent and just being open about safety, current facets of the park and the future in an ongoing conversation with the public is where they should be at.
    5 points
  2. Maybe you have to pay extra to get a set of augmented reality goggles to see the whole tree.
    3 points
  3. @pushbutton go inside. It's a new dark ride just for you.
    3 points
  4. MW sold half the tree to help pay for Rivals.
    2 points
  5. Don’t be ridiculous... only The Flash can phase through people...
    2 points
  6. There are plenty of works happening throughout SW too And it seems like an all new attraction is coming to the entrance pathway outside SW And an update on the Sea Lion Theatre
    1 point
  7. I'd really like to see Sea World get new rides for the next few years. If Movie World doesn't get new rides for a few years as a result that's ok. Sea World is in dire need of major investment.
    1 point
  8. From what I've been told by guest services the ride is pre-timed, the effects are not activated by an incoming car. I've had the issue before and when we enquired they told us it was due them needing to stop a car at the end for a longer period of time than usual for an older couple to exit - this put all subsequent cars out of sync with the effects. they apologised and gave us a fast-track to go back on later that day.
    1 point
  9. There's something very cooked/shit about how the show timing for that ride works. Did you stop mid ride? It's like it starts the timing when you dispatch and then runs because if ever there's a stop everything is out and runs out before you end the ride.
    1 point
  10. It would be pretty wicked if they did a re-enactment of the Gotham tree lighting from Batman Returns... maybe the gaps are to install the boxes to hold the bats ready for release....
    1 point
  11. We know what you meant, were just taking the piss out of you. We're Australian, it's what we do.
    1 point
  12. I love going to the driving range however I always felt like it was never as fun as something like mini golf as it doesn’t have a “competitive” aspect to it. It’s like going to a bowling alley. You can bowl on your own but when you’re with friends & seeing who can get the highest score, it’s a lot more fun IMO. So yes, I would have gone even if it wasn’t built by VRTP. Because of the location I would most likely only go after a trip to the theme parks or the GC (I live in Brisbane). If it was closer to home, sure I would visit more regularly depending on first experience & how much myself & my friends enjoy it.
    1 point
  13. Yeah, I don't really care. If I want to hit a golf ball I'd go to Victoria Park, not drive 40 minutes down the highway. Who do they actually expect to go there? It's not really a tourist attraction and it's a reasonable distance from the bigger population centres why would people go there (and probably pass something similar on the way). Golf and a few beers are buddies so it makes it even harder and more expensive to hit a ball and 'have a few'.
    1 point
  14. Can't agree more with this. And because many are now posting their ten cents worth, I will also do so. People are complaining about the quantity of rides being closed most likely because these are some of the most popular rides in the park and are their favorites. Although I have no statistical facts about what rides are the most popular, I know that a lot of small kids love the merry go round and many adults (especially the ones in my family) love wipeout and buzzsaw more than other rides. It also doesn't help that most of these closed rides are big thrill rides either (because then people start using the whole "1/3 of rides closed!!!" thing. Let's not forget that, as @themagician has said already, this is standard for any theme park and is not necessarily due to the accident at the park (although Log Ride is a different story). In June Movie World had Batwing, Superman, Green Lantern and Wild West Falls closed for quite a while which was shockingly bad. Remember that? Although we have our opinions on the state of the park, the state of the older attractions I will agree is quite poor. I however don't agree that we should exaggerate the situation that Dreamworld is in and how many rides are actually closed. Although they are taking a wee bit long to fix some of the closed rides, lets not forget that Dreamworld is still a completely enjoyable theme park with over 40 rides and attractions.
    1 point
  15. To be fair, they only have 5 rides closed: BS, Wipeout, TailSpin, log ride and Merry go round. And when it isn’t peak season, that’s pretty standard for the park. If it was still like this in Summer, then I’d have my concerns, but right now, no.
    1 point
  16. Definitely go to Dreamworld, you will have an awesome time and especially kids in that age group. I actually think Dreamworld will be more enjoyable for kids of that age especially with lots of family rides and wiggles world for small kids. Plus some really cool animals too. Whitewaterworld is incredibly good, you and your kids will have a great time there with Pipeline Plunge and Wiggle Bay. Give it a shot
    1 point
  17. Dreamworld as an entity is certainly capable of bouncing back. The real question should be, is Ardent Leisure in a position to facilitate this recovery? How do they justify the tremendous capital injection this will require over say the next 3-5 years, when they're neck-deep in an aggressive Main Event roll out across the USA. Why would they divert funds away from a business that is capable of delivering ~30% ROI? The two year recovery that Ardent Leisure touts is a pipe dream. A year (or even two) from now I don't think even VRTP will be back to where they were before the accident decimated the industry. I don't see anyone expecting Dreamworld to be back to normal. No one is calling for investment in new attractions right now nor expecting business to be going gangbusters. But there is plenty to suggest that Dreamworld are floundering and throwing inadequate resources at too many inconsequential projects. Physically the park is in worse shape now than it was after it reopened and went through numerous audits... there's no logical reason for that. The strategic benefits to Rivals will be seen over the next decade or two. It was always a long-term play and the ride was locked in well before the accident. At the same time however, I think there's plenty to suggest that it has been a jolt of energy that changed the narrative for Movie World and will perhaps help them bounce back sooner rather than later.
    1 point
  18. What you said is nonsense though. Even if you care to believe it. It literally doesn't make sense. If I wanted to be insulting, I would have used something other than nonsense. If you were to simply forget about dreamworld as a business, saying it's practically worthless, what it sits on isn't. So if you float the notion of a buy out, ardent isn't going to go bankrupt and have someone swoop in during a fire sale. Additionally, what is left of dreamworld that makes it a historic landmark? yeah, the park itself has been there a long time, but it has gone through so many changes that there is very little left of the original development. Rides have gone, park layout has changed, buildings have been removed/and or re purposed and developed. It's quite a bit different now than it was in the 90's, let alone the 80's. Aside from the park as a whole being a tourist destination, I don't think it really has historic value that would make it onto a heritage register. Back to reality though, just focus on the land mass. If the park shut tomorrow and was turned into a housing estate, given its location basically next to railway hubs and a MAJOR shopping center in development, combined with the fact that Coomera on the northern end of the coast is going through MASSIVE growth; the land is worth a fortune by itself. Even if you use the ultra generous 1/3rd rule to develop the land into housing, that provides for over $100,000,000 just in land development value alone. In reality there is probably more potential than that, given the actual cost of housing in the area, along with how many lots you can actually build given the area; then combined with the fact there are 4 major developers all fighting for space along the corridor between foxwell and yawalpah roads. As it stands, there is probably more value in potential development contributing to the value of dreamworld than there is as a theme park. The local council may only be able to tie it up during development application process, but given the area has thousands of lots going in and/or in development nearby, along with the infrastructure to support a major suburb; if they were to object any application the matter would surely end up in court where it might be tough to build a case against this small parcel of land when the rest of the area is booming having already been approved. Aside from that, along with development comes more revenue for the council. All the money tied up in development applications aside, the rates alone could be into the millions. So im not so sure if they would rush to stop any development going on if a worst case scenario happened. Given the park isn't the one actually doing the works, they would have contracts in hand with companies to perform the job that would usually see them lose money if they back out on the agreement; so you could lose a few million dollars just by putting them off until a later date as the companies would suffer a loss of income. Anyway, when would you rather the works are completed? If you talk about capital works, one side of the park in particular is closed off providing an excellent opportunity to make use of the quiet period between holidays. You could argue that rocky hollow is closed due to addressing existing issues of safety, so what is the issue? Aside from that anyway, it's not like their own workers would be taken off existing development works going on, halting any other progress in the park. I don't think any of the parks have a work force big enough to take on large scale developments without help from outside works. It's the same across any park you visit, they try to limit the disruptions for building and repair works to periods where attendance is lowest. See, this is the nonsense I am pointing to. That is exactly what liability insurance is for. It even covers loss of business. You can be found completely at fault, your staff members were negligent and caused the death of patrons; yet your business is covered. All those millions being wiped away would have been underwritten by an insurance company. The only question is how much coverage did they actually have and how accurate their estimates would have been when factoring into loss of business. If you think loss of life isn't one of the factors calculated when acquiring insurance coverage, then you don't really understand risk analysis. Besides which, the changes you speak of, you know they were the cause of the deaths? under what circumstances any modifications might have been performed? who performed them? when they performed them? were they inspected and audited following their modifications and years following to maintain their accreditation with the state government? That's a whole lot of assumptions unless you have inside knowledge of what the investigation found. Then you come back to the simple notion of insurance. You run a theme park based on the assumption that at some point you may seriously injure or kill a guest or guests. It's basically the same for any business dealing with members of the public. You couldn't operate such a large scale entertainment complex without having a policy that protects your business from financial ruin following lawsuits if something terrible happened. No matter how good your intentions are, how good your training is, or how much faith you put in your employees, there are far too many variables to run the risk. Insurance companies have entire departments that operate to calculate these risks. It's very much part and parcel with doing business. The problem lies in what happens after everything settles down and if your business is strong enough to recover following an incident. Im very much in the camp that dreamworld is, and that some people are seriously out of touch for expecting everything to be back to normal, or even improving 12 months on. 12 months is still short term. 5 years, 10 years, thats the sort of projections you'd have to start talking. Especially with village reporting that their numbers are way down too, revenue having dropped, so it's not like the industry is in a great place even with exciting new rides being used to stem the tide and turn it around instantly. It will be interesting to see what impact rivals has had on it's attendance figures each quarter. See if it's a short term bump or a long term increase; and if figures continue to rise steadily, how do they compare to the same time prior to the dreamworld accident. It was pretty quiet around Christmas time at movie world last year, nowhere near the sustained busy period it normally endures. If you hedged everything on one attraction turning your fortunes around instantly and returning everything back to normal, we might be in for a rough couple of years for both parks.
    1 point
  19. Sad to see the waterfall removed from Calypso, although hoepefully it is coming back. The theming on Calypso is excellent, and one of the reasons it is so popular. Harks back to a happier time where Village thought it was worth providing plenty of atmosphere and theming at WnW.
    1 point
  20. If I was the boss of MW's marketing department I would have even gone as far as changing the MW logo to incorporate DC Rival's first drop into it, at least for the first few years of the coaster's operation. The coaster is so major it should be a park-wide takeover type of thing, not just treated as another small addition. Everybody needs to know about it.
    1 point
  21. Visited Seaworld on Friday morning (27/10). Took a trip on the monorail to get some construction pictures of Cataway Reef. Enjoy!
    1 point
  22. well Dc rivals was a success and movie world are pushing the boundries on this year but what will be in store next year? a flat ride. or thrill ride a new are/expansion a family coaster. it would be awesome if movie world could get an expansion but if thay did that please do a movie studio themed ride not Dc. wheres all the movie magic? lets hope that can happen again. I love Dc but its just taking over movie world.
    0 points
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