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Maybe night market should be pared back to once a month, and run in such a way that dreamworld doesn't have to cancel it every other month for special event nights. So - make it the first friday and saturday of every month, so they've got the remaining weekends for their own events. This also frees up those friday \ saturdays outside of halloween, winter, christmas, country fair etc to run special one-off events for passholders, or special ticketed events for private hire, fundraisers and the like. This would concentrate those that want to visit the night markets into one night a month too, so potentially attendance at a monthly night market would increase. just spitballing, i'm sure there's other problems with that too.

This evening. Sadly got switched off right as it got dark...

I did always think it was going to cause potential issues and would potentially become a deterrent to food truck owners long term if they felt that Jane’s was taking away their customers. I think it was great to have Jane’s open at night for those first few months because it was new and exciting and was a way to show off the new venue and land. And maybe during school holidays/night events hosted by the park it would be great to have open, but on a weekly basis with the night markets probably isn’t necessary.

This isn't the same show as 20 years ago. Back then they were still recording to tape. Now everything is just data that gets uploaded to post houses almost immediately. The show is much easier to produce now. It's mostly PTZ (security style) cameras, and one person can operate 10+ cameras from a single desk, depending on how spread out everyone is. It's not the big infrastructure-heavy show it used to be, which is why the 'house' is just a Set in a shed. It's designed to be temporary, and it's unlikely that the show will ever have a permanent structure again because it's expensive, unnecessary for production, and no broadcaster will be willing to pay for it given the relatively low viewership the show now has. The final series on 7 was only pulling an average 140,000 viewers per night and was cancelled as a result. The previous series only pulled 340,000. Compare that to the 1M-1.7M that ten was pulling in across its first seven series - cancelling it in Series 8 when they only pulled 860,000. They're hoping that the DW nostalgia and live eviction shows will spur some renewed interest in the show, and it might for one series, but that is not sustainable and people will lose interest pretty quickly. The show is only ever going to be as interesting as the cast, and unfortunately, genuinely interesting people (compared to charismatic people) are not usually the extroverted narcissists that are willing to sacrifice their privacy to go on a reality TV show where they're filmed showering naked and taking a crap. But if you're thinking that the scale of the production will be the same as it used to be, you're in for disappointment. It doesn't need to be, and the live shows and the production will be much smaller overall to align with the revenue that the much smaller audience generates. But the show will bring some national exposure for Dreamworld, which it still really needs.

Great we are finally getting a new ride but kind of disappointed if it's just the Bountys Revenge again. They already have Goliath which is a swinging type of ride. Wondering if Black Widow will go soon as well

Yeah sure - and let Kristoff direct from the guest bedroom of Truman's house too, right? Production needs a separate space. End of.

Haha, it’s the same every time. Selected “micro-influencers” audited by recruitment agencies and talent management companies

I'm sure most of us don't. great observation.

I don't know if the Night Market is in DW's future plans.

I think that's a very narrow view to take. According to Wiki, there are 40 different versions in over 30 countries both english speaking and not that have aired a season in either 2024 or 2025. Some of them have consistently run a season every year for a long time, others start and stop. The original raw concept also hasn't been seen in so long that it is effectively a 'new' concept for a whole new generation. I'm not saying it'll succeed, but i'm interested to see what they do, and while i'm not a die-hard fan, i'll probably tune in to see what all the fuss is about this season and how they do things. if it grabs me, i'll keep watching.

The trouble with special event openings is staffing it, whereas when you're open the same times each week you tend to have a regular roster.

Most of the production will be done from purpose built OB trucks, which do not fit within the building anyway. Sure you will have spaces for the production team on the ground, most likely your camera department, and possibly some producers, but everything else will be from trucks.

Because they thunderbolt building is very small

That was always a simple option, the fibre runs from the old house were far far longer. I think the part that was always in question was more the size of the building, and the free areas next to it. A production of this scale is going to require multiple OB trucks, ancillary buildings for production teams and so on. There isn't really any space for any of that around the DEC. It would've made far more sense to have had the house in the expansion plot next to WWW, all of the support around that space, with the live shows being held within the DEC space. It all feels very backwards.

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QR can replace sections of track, points etc in a weekend and have it certified for 100kmhr+ running for Monday morning. That short closure will be more than enough for an amusement ride for a few test laps and training (it's not classed as a railway, doesn't fall under the National Rail Safety Regulators powers).

Believe that was pulled quite a while back now (maybe when they started showing other non-Australian films)

Dreamworld have revealed this morning that their former Corroboree is being rebranded into WILD with Australian Geographic. https://www.dreamworld.com.au/our-worlds/wild-with-australian-geographic/ You’ll find the heart of Australia here in WILD with Australian Geographic, where native animals and natural landscapes come alive. We’ve proudly partnered with Australian Geographic to celebrate conservation, education, and the animals that make Australia unique. The former theatre is also returning with a new cinematic experience by Australian Geographic called 'Our Country'. It's great to see this area of the park getting some love and hopefully it leads to more refurbishments and improvements. They have been improved Goldie's exhibit recently and the addition of the new Bilby house a couple years ago were great. I know recently the damaged netting over the former aviary has been removed, so giving areas like this some attention to improve the animal and guest experience would be great to see.

That matches the concept art

All of the Gold Coast parks used to have a lot of attraction sponsorships through the 80s to 00s, it’s become a less common thing in reverent years. The only recent one that comes to mind if Sky Voyager was sponsored by Experience Oz, but was removed last year (?)

King Claw eyes were lit up this morning, looks a little lacklustre, hopefully more to come, eyes colour is a purplish colour.

I think the logic is that if a fault could befall one method of locking - if both methods are the same, the fault could theoretically befall both at the same time, whereas different methods can't fail in the same way so the likelihood that one cause could trigger both to fail is far less likely, even though the likelihood of either occurring is infinitesimally small. ie: if both hydraulic locking cylinders have a manufacturing defect, theoretically both cylinders could fail at the same time. Further - it's not technically possible to detect that one cylinder has failed during normal operation - so an operator wouldn't know one had failed until the other failed too. This is the main reason why we have coasters where they tell you not to do up your seatbelt, so the operator can perform a push-pull test on the cylinder before attaching the SRS seatbelt.

From what I have heard it's because the KMG rides do not have a seatbelt / secondary locking mechanism. Which the ride actually does as each of the 2 hydraulic systems for the harnesses are 100% independent of each other. SA is the only state where this rule applies. It's a real shame as SA misses out on some great rides that are 100% safe.

I agree you can't replace the in-person handlers - especially when they get mauled by a wild animal. I think the handler interactions, and especially the presentations, with leaps off high structures, climbing a pole, launching into water, drinking from a milk carton - all were spectacular to watch. And while the guff in the script talks about mimicking natural behaviours, in the wild, their natural behaviours would see those handlers killed. I am disappointed that they have ended the handler interactions, but in our risk elimination focussed world, there really isn't another option.

The island was more than the show. The handlers on the island all day, interacting with the tigers and guest, can never be replaced by looking at tigers through a window.