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It is a ghost town. What's interesting to me is how much they're trying with in park entertainment and the like. My view of rides closing early has actually significantly softened after my recent visit. There just isn't anyone there. The problem DW has isn't that the rides are closing early, the problem is no one is there to go on the rides. I'm also of the view that DW desperately needs a new kick ass coaster, both to draw in crowds and to allow 1 or 2 of the old rides to be retired gracefully. I also totally understand why there isn't one in the pipeline. Post accident the idea of adding a new scary ride just seemed unthinkable, and a new family ride 100% seemed the only way to go. Thing is with the long lead in times for a coaster they actually should have signed the contract the first Christmas after the accident. Unfortunately that's something that you can only really see with hindsight. SV when it opens will help the in park experience, and it might do something to help attendance a little, but I think bringing a new coaster to market now rather than a (by all accounts) quite good simulator would do more to change the story of the park. When SV was announced, many people had the idea for Aviation Land on what was Gold Rush. I think Aviation Land with a relocated Tail Spin, Rethemed Buzzsaw, SV, & anchored by a new coaster would do very well. In ocean parade replace Wipeout TailSpin and Trolls with a modern Shoot The Chute ride. DW as is isnt getting people through the door, you need to do something drastic to change the narrative.

Weekend update: Went to LPS again to check on the Volare, thinking not much progress had been made. But, low and behold...

I think there is a genuine claim for anyone who saw what happened, more so for those first responders, but this makes no sense. I'll just have to put it down to poor journalism and hope what their involvement was gets explained later. From all the photos though there's only 2 rafts involved and wasnt even one anywhere near the scene on the Conveyor. Feel like if there was a third boat or if there were people in the first I'm shocked that this is the first I'm hearing of it.

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If they had kept what was originally there and added projection mapping to that, the ride would’ve been a major improvement

The reporters essentially misreported parts of this (surprise surprise). If you look at photos of the incident from the news choppers, you'll see a third raft sitting at the unload platform. That's the raft this family was on. They disembarked the ride and were walking away when shit hit the fan. The husband then essentially told the wife and kids to get out of there as he turned back around to go toward the flipping rafts to try and "assist" Edit: A lot of news companies literally just rip articles off from eachother so if one reports incorrectly, a majority of the other articles will also have incorrect information.

That was the Octopus (unsure if this was the name or not) that operated til about 2002 and was then moved to Aussie world, where it continued to operate til about 2015 or 2016. Parkz says that the manufacturer was the Eyerly Aircraft Company, however I'm pretty sure that it was manufactured by some Italian company.

If Dreamworld added some shit to GD gondola themselves I can imagine that post accident when they reaudited their rides they decided to remove anything that wasn't put there by the manufacturer.

I think @wikiverse review is very true about the ride, just what makes it disappointing for me is there are aspects where they don’t seem like they cared. As you make your way up to the elevator, if you look at the demons heads that are smashing through the walls, you can clearly see the pole holding them in place, there was no effort at all to hide them, and because of the lighting inside, it makes it more obvious. And the lighting throughout the ride is just off, not being able to see the track in the original version made the ride surprising and fun, now you can see it throughout the whole ride. All the screens mean you can see the buildings structure, wiring, and parts that aren’t themed. If you are going to have lighting like this, the ride needs to be perfect in every way, so that you don’t notice things like this

Four people died, but 6 people were on the raft. The other 2 people managed to jump out before the raft flipped

I thought it collided with an empty raft????? Where did these people come from💁🏻‍♂️

Hyper coaster has a tester seat. Scooby probably has the least forgiving harnesses from what I have seen in terms of people not being able to get the required number of “clicks”.

I think by projection, he means the big screens with the animations on, not projection mapping

If you don't think Dreamworld is thriving, I'd suggest you can't have been lately. It's pumping. Much better atmosphere than any other theme park in Australia, that's for sure!