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The main tower is just about all gone Also the flood lighting for steel Taipan is on, cool.

About time. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 As of 17th Dec, folks need to be fully vaccinated to enter Queensland anyway so it'll affect a whole lot of 0% of interstate travellers. As for Queenslanders, if you're part of the tiny fraction of folks who think vaccines are bad, speak to a trusted GP and get vaccinated. Vaccine hesitancy and vaccine mandates aren't a new thing. All in all, i'm very doubtful it'll impact business in a meaningful way, and these kinds of mandates have shown to increase vaccination rates, which is a really good thing.

That's simply not true. Here's an article from a reputable news source. Here's their data. Vaccines lower transmission rates and enormously lower your risk of death if you are infected. Here's another article from another reputable news source. Here's supporting data. You are correct - it's 100% a choice. Societies are full of choices - when you get on a road, you agree to the rules we as a society agree upon (don't drink and drive, don't speed etc.) - if you don't like those rules, you're welcome to challenge them and/or simply choose not to participate. The thing I loathe about the "democracy is over because they're forcing me to get vaccinated" argument is that while everyone is protesting about faux government over-reach, the government is actually over-reaching and no one is blinking an eye about it.

Agree with this. If it were discriminatory - something someone couldn't help about themselves, but not getting vaxxed is a choice, and those choices come with consequences. You can't have your cake and eat it too. No doubt - i feel more safe knowing unvaccinated folks will be excluded from the theme parks, and I for one will be more inclined to visit regularly knowing those restrictions are in force.

* see’s a post about vaccines on Parkz * Me: oh, this is going to be fun. Real fun.

I'm not interested in the covid vaccine debate in terms of choice - but it's a choice. As a vaccinated person you are just as likely to get covid from a vaccinated person than from a non-vaccinated. You are mingling with unvaxxed people every day now, and will be until the 17th. In my opinion its a giant crock of shit. You are all entitled to your opinions, i respect them, but i personally disagree with segregating society and moving backwards as a state.

In the english language, there's a common unspoken agreement between speaker and listener. Speakers often use implied context to save time on sharing redundant information or clarifications, and listeners, through a combination of understanding of the subject matter, previous information shared and through understanding of the speaker themselves, will inherently gather that information for themselves and form a basis of understanding in good faith. Now that you know about the agreement, you don't need to ask about things I was clearly not speaking about.

When NSW hits 95% double vaxxed which is hardly the same situation. Most people did the right thing earlier and have and are seeing the benefit of that.

I agree it is a choice. We make choices in life every day - each choice has its own consequences and we must make ourselves aware of those consequences - and accept them if that is the choice we make. Vaxxed people have fewer and lesser reactions - and I believe are infectious for shorter periods - so the odds of them spreading it are also therefore reduced - so I respectfully disagree - you aren't 'just as likely' although I agree it is still possible. The more of the herd that have it, the less likely it is to spread though. True - but we're also wearing masks, social distancing, capacity limits, non-vertical consumption and so on. Many of these things will be phased back or phased out when the vaxxed targets are met. I accept that everyone is entitled to have, and share their opinion in a respectful manner. I personally don't understand that view though (to be clear, I accept you have that opinion, I just don't understand it). I guess though that it's kind of like how some religious folk don't accept that Dinosaurs were a thing - scientists and other -'ists dug up their bones, found fossil records etc - but they just didn't accept that to be truth. (despite religion causing loads of wars throughout history - the world didn't end because of those differences!) Your opinion is again respected, but I don't see this as anyone forcing segregation - folks had a choice, remember? this is the consequence. As for moving backwards as a state - I for one am very glad to be living in Queensland, and not Victoria.

Interestingly Aussie World have removed the cringe furry backstory from their website:

Intamin Looping Starship

I’m not here to argue, to each their own. I’d happily sit down and have a beer with anyone, vaccinated or not.

That’s because they’ve managed the situation pathetically for 18 months. They’ve been locked up more than any place in the world, so of course getting some freedoms make them happy. In Qld we’ve basically had nothing of note - hence the comment we move backwards while others go forwards. From mid December in Sydney there is no different rules whether vaxxed or not

Ironically Victoria has the exact same laws and people are just happy there to be able to go do these things again.

^IDK are neckbeard jokes fun at parties? ***** So are these rope lights permanent or is that all there is to the WC lighting?

You must be fun at parties.

Not asked to me, but feel the same way so: By that point herd immunity will well and truly be in effect... so no?

No, 17th is the day even if 80% isn't achieved. Unvaxed won't be shut out before the 17th but vaxed people could get restrictions reduced before the 17th.

History suggests they would'e been up by now, and you're right, I'd say it's synonymous with the event at this point, so here's hoping it's still happening.

That'd be the result of CMYK dot printing, hence the aforementioned yellow banding. You can learn about big dots and little dots here. A mix of different film stocks, sunlight and John changing his mind several times during construction made figuring out the final opening day colour a bit tricky. For example, when I took a photo of one of John's books and then added a film stock look to the photo, the muted colours make it look like this. But this aerial shot (scanned from that same book for John's biography) shows the colours more towards what I understand is true to life.

It would be so good for re opening if they brought back the old colour scheme. The rest of mainstreet yeah whatever that can be the new colours....but I think there was some definite original design intent that the design of the station and the design of the main entrance building Dreamworld should complement each other. Plus with a fresh new colour scheme it helps sell it as a fully refreshed attraction.

Can confirm there's a little train in there that used to go semi-regularly out onto that little bridge. I'm almost certain it's on a basic timer from memory. It's essentially just a little circular model train track that plugs into 240v. Was working up until Happy Halloween 2019, it was unplugged for lights and wasn't plugged back in. I think i've pointed it out once or twice before on here and usually Dreamworld are pretty good in taking feedback from here and using it to improve the park, so there's probably a good reason why it's not running again yet (probably the overgrowth). Fun fact - neither the train or the climbing fig were opening day touches. Not sure if they're a later John Longhurst addition or not, my guess would be yes given how nuts he is about trains. I've added some photos of the station in from one of the books John's loaned me. Would love to see it return to these more traditional colours too, along with the hanging baskets etc.

Interestingly, Jags Journeys’s on Facebook are suggesting that Buzzsaw has been bought by a park in Australia. If this is true and 100% legit, care to speculate on exactly where it will be heading? Who wants to lay some bets? If it’s true my money is on Gumbyah World. Dark horse? Luna Park Melbourne!! Bets are now OPEN!! 😂