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  1. The peak is very easy to predict, it's the start of the first week after boxing day. The busiest days this year will be the 27th, 28th and 29th.
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  2. Finally got to ride Steel Taipan today, walk on all day with 1 train operations (spinner). The ride really packs a punch, although I did notice a jolt when going into the backwards spike over the swtich track. I didn't try the spinning seat, but I rode in row 1, 8 and 3. Personally I found the back of the train to be more intense than the front and it's my prefered seat. I can't decide if I prefer DC Rivals or Steel Taipan more, as they are both very different in what they offer. I think I would -just- give the edge to Taipan due to the variety of elements the ride offers. I will admit, getting airtime in an inversion was certainly a strange feeling though. That barrel roll at the end is certainly a holy crap moment when your legs are slammed into the harness with quite a bit of force. It's truly a ride that Dreamworld needed, and I can't wait to ride again.
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  3. Couple of days? That sounds like something that could keep it closed for weeks maybe even months
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  4. I don't get the barrier reef theme tbh. Like a beach theme in Ocean Parade, sure! Theme it with surf/surf culture, cool. Pristine delicate eco system and shoot the chutes go fast big splash doesn't mix in my mind.
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  5. I would prefer for DW to move on from this theme. It is like arguing to bring back Gold Rush. A Great Barrier Reef themed shoot the chutes (Jurassic Park style) would be pretty cool and fit with the direction that DW have taken theme wise with ST and Voyager. Could be presented as a boat tour of the reef. I would love DW to even go with a Dreamtime story as a theme - an attraction themed to the Rainbow Serpent story would be very unique, maybe a dark ride or a flume. Totally different to what you see at Village
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  6. That only started yesterday and the parks are always quiet pre Christmas, it’s from the 27th for a couple weeks where they get very busy
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  7. Parks are always quite leading up to Christmas.
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  8. none of the parks have been too busy these holidays tbh, maybe it has something to do with the unvaccinated not being allowed?
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  9. But based off them having several preview nights, days of staff riding and the hundreds upon hundreds of hours they were testing it, I don’t think they in anyway ‘pushed’ it to open before they should have. I think it was just the usual ‘first few days/weeks of technical issues’ that almost every new ride has had before
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  10. Yeah 100% agree with this. Dreamworld need to keep the positivism and momentum that is now currently building with the advent of Steel Taipan. Yes this is a major ride and most likely we will see nothing in the next fiscal year but if they were to announce/tease the next big attraction for a late 2023 opening then this would follow the momentum wave quite well. Having a large capex attraction followed by a small addition the year after follwed by the next major addition cycle would see the park quickly resume its former glory.
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  11. Local radio station did their morning show from DW. I CUT & PASTE this from the GCB JOHN Longhurst stood amid a 85ha cattle property in Coomera in 1974 and told an incredulous media pack that he wanted to build a theme park. The businessman had invested his savings and would use a borrowed bulldozer and the cheap labour of his family to make the dream a reality. Seven years later, on a wet Tuesday morning, Dreamworld opened its gates. About 500 people an hour flooded the park. John Longhurst in 1981 when Dreamworld was being built. Wednesday marks the 40-year anniversary of the Coomera theme park and the start of an evolution that helped turn the Gold Coast into Australia’s fun capital. Mr Longhurst is today age 88 and still lives on the Gold Coast. However, he is too ill to talk. However, his son, Tony – the project’s construction manager at just age 17 – this week told the Bulletin: “There was a real sense of achievement in it and now, looking back, it really hits home, seeing how it evolved. “The opening day was so exciting after all the years of work. People thought we were going to go bankrupt, people didn’t think it was going to happen, but it did happen.” John Longhurst in 1981 Picture: Bob Barnes. The genesis of Dreamworld came from a trip John Longhurst took to the US in 1969, during which he stayed with relatives in Anaheim, California and visited Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm. He later admitted the idea came to him in a dream while on a flight between Hawaii and Japan. The team of more than 100 men who worked on Dreamworld in 1981 to complete it ahead of its opening. Pictured in the centre is construction manager Tony Longhurst, then aged-24. Picture: Gold Coast Bulletin archives. The idea percolated for five years until John Longhurst bought the Coomera land and submitted a development application to the Albert Shire Council. “The approval process was amazing,” Tony Longhurst said. ”Instead of the bureaucrats you have to deal with today, the entire application was just one-and-a-quarter pages long. “Instead of having to waste tens of millions of dollars on consultants, it was approved in just 60 days. Dreamworld through the years VIEW GALLERY Cooee the Gumnut Fairy drives Kenny and Belinda Koala in the old Model T cars at Dreamworld. was the theme park celebrates its 40th anniversary Picture Glenn Hampson “It could never happen today. If you wanted to do it, there would just be too much red and green tape.” Rather than assemble a giant team of builders, Mr Longhurst and his son were among a team of seven people which toiled away for three years between 1974 and 1977. After being taught how to operate his bulldozer, Mr Longhurst worked 12 hours a day gouging out an 800m waterway that was 30m wide and 3m deep. It took two years to complete. Kenny & Belinda Koala in the 1980s. Once filled with water, it was named “the mighty Murrasippi”. “There were just seven of us who worked for those three years when my dad began digging the lakes and doing the earthworks,” Tony Longhurst said this week. VIEW GALLERY “We did the railroad station, laid the tracks and built the paddleboat (the Captain Sturt) which were all done onsite. “It was a real family affair. All our savings went into building the park and I remember working seven days a week on it, even Christmas Day.” The Thunderbolt was a popular ride for more than 20 years. An unnamed worker putting the finishing touches on the log ride at Dreamworld in 1981. Picture: Gold Coast Bulletin archives. Parts and attractions for the park were obtained from Australia. The original steam train that ran through the park was bought in Goulburn, NSW, taken to Sydney and rebuilt for the park. The Model-T Ford replicas, which today are Dreamworld’s last operating original attraction, were built in-house by John Longhurst’s brothers. The designs were based on plans of the real vintage vehicles. In the final year of construction, a team of more than 150 people, led by the younger Mr Longhurst put the finishing touches on the park before its December 1981 opening. Dreamworld in the mid-1990s. The original attractions included the Log Ride, the Captain Sturt, a shooting galleryand the famous Thunderbolt double-loop rollercoaster.” The younger Mr Longhurst said he had fond memories of the log ride and steam train and lamented their eventual closures. “It was absolutely unique back then and if you were a purist, you would probably say it was great through until the 1990s when it got carved up to become more about the thrill rides,” he said. “There was nothing else like it.”
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