Richard

No, not really. Our policies about promotion are pretty much as @AlexB described. Organic discussion of anything and everything theme park related, yes. Self-promotion and advertising, no. And always open to discussion about sponsorship or content collaboration with organisations big and small.

Which attraction/s did it not save to your profile @troll under the coaster? At a glance it looks like you checked off Big Pineapple yesterday. Was it just this one, or others as well? Were you doing it from the attraction page itself, or from the search result listings? Are the issues with forum posts not submitting/saving ongoing for anyone? I had the same issue the first time I posted with the upgrade but never since. @AlexB and @themagician, we've removed the flood control settings for Parkz Crew.

https://www.parkz.com.au/attraction/cleveland-steamer

Looks like your browser is caching an old stylesheet. I've just done a quick fix that should get around that issue.

As you can probably tell, we've made some pretty big (and long overdue) changes to the site. Forums We've upgraded the forum software. In addition to an overall cleaner look and feel they are a lot more mobile friendly and also open the door for a whole lot of new features we hope to implement down the track. We'll be spending some time theming it with more of a Parkz vibe in coming days/weeks. Parkz The main site has been given a pretty major overhaul which has been in the works for 3+ years... far too long! In addition to a whole visual refresh that's cleaner, neater

After the fact, absolutely. Sounds like the necessary boxes are being ticked. But the suggestion was that WHSQ were happy simply by virtue of being informed of the incident and because luckily no one was injured. This is objectively not true given a presumably preventable incident occurred that resulted in notices.

Three safety notices over an incident is objectively not “WHSQ are happy”.

So despite the mother stating emphatically that this was not the case, despite the fact that Dreamworld’s statement acknowledges the injury, despite the fact that Shine would certainly not be taking the case if it weren’t clear-cut injury... you guys think it’s still a possibility and worthy of speculation?

How did you come to that conclusion when you literally quoted me saying that this can indeed be discussed? Note that the media have done nothing more than interview the mother and publish a statement from Dreamworld. They are not speculating about pre-existing conditions, menstrual cycles, swimwear or weight. There is no publicly available information to suggest that any of these have any bearing on this incident, a somewhat common injury that happens at water parks around the world. We're not going to stymie discussion or tell you what you can and can't discuss beyond a pretty basic

No this can be discussed given it's a widely covered news story. However the amount of pseudo-medical opinions and finger-pointing concerning an eight year old child is definitely on the weird side. Maybe being a theme park fan on the internet doesn't give people the authority to discuss a young girl's period, weight, swimwear choices, etc? As others have said, these sorts of incidents are not uncommon at water parks around the world. I know similar injuries have happened in the past at WNW and I would imagine through sheer numbers of guests over the years it's also happened before at

A bit of perspective folks. Something happened to a guest that shouldn’t happen. Instructions were possibly not followed — that’ll be a matter for investigation between the two parties — but if the safety of an attraction relies on an excited young child following verbal instructions then it is by definition not 100% safe. It might be 99.999% safe and that’s OK. And when that 0.001% happens then lawyers and insurers get involved and a resolution is found. These sorts of incidents are not infrequent and payouts for injuries sustained at theme parks happen all the time so the idea tha

We've merged all these threads into one. Apologies to @Baconjack who was first with the news, as your post was replaced by the auto-generated Parkz post in the process.

I wouldn't describe Mack as affordable. These days there's essentially no daylight between them and say Intamin or B&M in terms of price. B&M have been on the radar of Australian parks for quite some time now. They pitched for Rivals and have been on the list for AA's "billboard coaster" replacement. Price might have been a factor in the past but it isn't why we haven't seen one here yet. Not entirely sure the criteria "must please enthusiasts" and "will have a significant impact on attendance and revenue" are actually different. Certainly the attractions our parks

The physical model was provided by M&V and reflects the final layout. I thought this was fairly common knowledge? Here's pretty much everything you would want to know about Leviathan...

You can guarantee there was a debate about whether to significantly delay it or even pull the plug but ultimately they went ahead on schedule and there were no significant delays as a result of TRR. Name/theme/marketing changes sure, but groundwork was underway prior to the incident, track showed up a few months later and it was assembled like clockwork, save for a few design/fabrication hiccups. No doubt the certification/approval process was more involved and a few things were changed, rushed or scrapped but it was always destined for a September 2017 launch.