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I can't believe this didn't make your list.

You don't have to worry about that now considering Doomsday is down and out again.

@GazzaSo many rides not on the list, I don't know what to ask for.😬

I'm willing to sell my beer to DW.

DW should change the name to the Great Drop. Put a beer tap on top of the tower and shower you in beer as you ride

Rumour is, Village is currently going through a staff shortage. With White Christmas & mandated vaccines to keep your job maybe the staff are burning out. Carnivale being pushed back to the end of Jan says to me the rumour could be true and Village don't have the staff to run an event and deal with the Christmas crowds at once. Maybe the seats being out has nothing to do with getting the parts and has more to do with they don't have enough staff to fit the parts. (just thoughts)

Fixed. Unless you had something to do on it, like you taking photos, you wanted to get off by the time you reached the first bend.

Sounds like they are trying to lower the weight of the loaded train.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the people who continue to complain about the removal of the paddle boat never rode it in during its final years.

Parks are always quite leading up to Christmas.

Annastacia Palaszczuk has come under fire (by idiots) after promoting a new ride being debuted by Dreamworld, five years on from the fatal Thunder River Rapids tragedy. Queensland's premier took to Twitter on Wednesday to announce the Gold Coast amusement park had added another roller coaster to its list of attractions. 'Dreamworld's new $32 million rollercoaster is officially open,' she wrote. But some felt it was still too soon after the 2016 tragedy for the Premier to be promoting Dreamworld's rides. On October 25, 2016, Kate Goodchild, her brother Luke Dorsett, his partner Roozi Araghi, and NSW mother Cindy Low were killed when their raft hit another and flipped, leaving them trapped underwater in the mechanism. 'This Dreamworld?' one man wrote in response to the Premier's tweet, alongside an image of a media report about the incident. 'Are ride operators trained in safety procedures this time round?' another wrote. 'I can't believe you didn't shut down this theme park from the sinister and deadly event that took place,' someone else said. 'Is that the Dreamworld that killed 4 people then blamed it on a low paid 18ish year old girl who was untrained and on her 1st day of work? That Dreamworld?' a fourth wrote. Others questioned what role the government played in funding the rollercoaster and in helping keep the troubled park open after the notorious incident. 'Didn't the Government (Treasury Corporation) have to stump up $10 million for them for continued operating costs?' one man asked. 'Yeah the QLD government paid for that [new] ride,' another said. Will the news ever let it go?

Melbourne Star Observation Wheel could shine bright again with multiple parties expressing interest in buying the landmark structure. Grant Thornton announced it had launched a sales campaign for the iconic wheel in October. Speaking exclusively to Docklands News, liquidator Andrew Hewitt said a “number of parties” both locally and internationally had expressed interest in the tourist attraction which has been a part of the Melbourne skyline for 15 years. He said while it was “hard to say” whether a buyer would emerge, he had hoped offers would be made by the end of November. “We’ve had a number of parties reach out to us independently but we’ve also identified some operators and some people who we think [the wheel] may be of interest to. We’re in the middle of that process at the moment,” he said. While he could not say who had expressed interest in buying the wheel, he confirmed there were about 10 to 12 parties who had registered their interest, with a “mix of local and international groups,” adding “some of them are only interested in specific assets, others are interested in the whole lot”. “We’ve also identified about another … dozen to 15 parties that run other tourism type-assets that we have connections with, and so we’ll be talking to them about the opportunity.” Melbourne Star has accumulated a debt in excess of $3.9 million. Sales process of The Melbourne Star have drawn to a close and final offers are being made. The details are contained in the latest report to creditors lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

If it's not a RMC hybrid it's not worth doing.👍

Pay back the money DW owe to the QLD Government for ST.

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If@Jdude95didn't get himself banned he would've known people have been riding it for days./s 🤣 Good to see you're still at it.

I don't have Facebook and I can view the link.

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.”

On the bottom of the plaque, it states they are continuing to work on the train and it’s part of the 40th birthday celebrations (Vintage photo trail) so I hope when the party is over the train may make a track appearance occasionally.

It says "may not be available for the entire duration of each day" Never says it won't open for a full day. The email reads if you turn up, sometime that day ST will be open. With DW cutting the preview short, I wouldn't be rushing to DW tomorrow thinking it will be open.

I wouldn’t divulge it was going to open & I wouldn't make it an annually pass holder event. I believe Rivals had a A-frame sign up at the front of the ride explaining what was going on.

In comparison to I paid less for DW & VR combined for the year, yes, it is but at the same time GC parks are crazy cheap. It would be interesting to compare the cost for items like food, once you enter the park.

Are there any deals going on the annual pass?