DaptoFunlandGuy

I see you recognise the benefits of not operating year round if it is unprofitable to do so.

You silly billy! You forgot to register your domain! Right... but the weekend visitors are families likely to eat and drink at the park facilities and spend more money - also, white water world is open on weekends, so the staff and utilities are already an expense - so some additional passholders isn't making your costs go up - but it is increasing the value of the annual pass. If the bus doesn't go to your park, your park is shit CLOSED BECAUSE ONE BUSLOAD OF KIDS ISN'T GOING TO PAY THE COSTS OF OPENING.

it seems I was right Just a reminder As for your other observation FUCK ME, @New display nameTHINKS YOU CAN PROFITABLY OPERATE NOT ONE, BUT TWO WATERPARKS ON A SINGLE BUS LOAD OF SCHOOL KIDS! I'M IN THE WRONG BUSINESS AND AM OFF TO SPEND MILLIONS ON A WATERSLIDE TOWER. I'M GOING TO MAKE BANK! Wait. I should do my due diligence. I have some additional questions. Will this ultra profitable bus turn up every day? Will they pay the same entrance fee to attend every day? Will they want to go swimming in June? How many other ultra profitable buses are out there, and how do I get them to come to my park, while still making a profit? If the ultra profitable schoolbus doesn't come to my park - how do I pay my staff, utility bills and other expenses that are inherent in the daily operation of such a large facility? Is there a magic wand I can use?

Cairns is close to Townsville like Bundaberg is close to Brisbane... it isn't. The tropical northern waters contain both stingers and crocs - neither of which are a good idea. The population within a 1 hour drive of greater melbourne (which is about the distance between Melbourne and Adventure Park or Melbourne and Gumbuya World) is over 5 million people - so give or take, around 1.6Million people per park as a conservative estimate. Cairns and Townsville's regional (within 1 hour) population is around 200,000. Tourism is likely to give this a little bump, but it is still way short of the numbers you've got around Melbourne. Bold to face the wavepool away from everything else instead of putting the pump and machinery against a boundary. Makes maintenance harder and means folk have to walk around the entire wavepool to get to literally anything else.

Sir - Bravo. This is such a well put together plan, makes use of existing facilities well, but removes those where impractical. I love the entire concept. I would like to see Dreamworld do all of this save for two things: Relocating the shell is probably not viable. If you need to move it - just remove it. Consider a new picnic \ shaded seating area in the new zone, but don't restrict yourself to rebuilding the same thing you already had (and probably don't want to relocate it anyway - it looks pretty tired) BB House - it can't go there. The proximity to Beattie road will be hell for sound recording. It's too close to a public space the production can't control - anyone who pleases to can park outside the house during production and just lay on their horn to make the footage entirely useless. I appreciate you calling it out that it won't happen, but when you're looking at things like this - consider what it is you're removing. The 'BOH building' you're removing is the Dreamworld ride maintenance facility. It's a significant space, and you'd be better off going around it than removing it. You don't need to stick a clone into a space at the cost of everything else - work with the space you've got.

oh for sure - not advocating that at all - you'll get 18 months of increased popularity just because it has finally returned - just talking into the future. all we were discussing is that it wasn't on the original attractions list, and only added later when one of the other attractions was removed.

Pretty sure they held back WOZ and WWF, but brought them online when Superman shit the bed. There's still plenty of other things to experience on this event without riding something that in no way matches the rest of it. On that note though, i'd love to see them do overlays for scooby. Here's some random thoughts: decorate the queueline - pumpkins or christmas trees? tinsel or extra cobwebs? Add some additional props to the ghost train section - again, pumpkins or christmas trees? tinsel or extra cobwebs? stick a santa hat on the scooby animatronics - or even the 'spooky' animatronics too? Replace the axes in the hands of the suits of armor with candy canes Up the haze in the disco room for halloween, play spooky soundtracks (can just be SFX - or maybe look into licensing relevant tracks - Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' perhaps? Maybe the Scooby movies have something useful? If the lighting package has some interchangeable gobos or something - swtich them out for spiders or something? For christmas, ditch the haze, and stick some snow machines in instead. Fall backwards out of the elevator and get enveloped in falling snow! Play some (public domain) christmas songs with a good beat. Something like "Jinglin'" by Toby Rand. christmas gobos... i don't know what's out there. Now this is obviously based on my knowledge of the original. We have no idea what they've got planned here. If there is still any projection utilised - then perhaps they could switch out the generic day time background for some themed halloween or christmas themed backgrounds. This would actually give a reason for riding it during the event. Yes, it's already very popular and gets long queues - however - plenty of folk avoid it for that reason. these sorts of overlays would encourage those folk to try to ride it - increasing demand and making fast track purchases more likely, which increases revenue. Just spitballing. I know it's highly unlikely. just thought I'd throw it at the wall anyway.

In my opinion - Dreamworld removing gold coaster is not an option removing motocoaster is not an option Installing any big mega coaster (Flying Dinosaur being just one example here) isn't financially viable. doing something with Trolls \ Kevil makes the most sense and cleans up that end of the park nicely Any further DW expansion should make use of the rocky hollow plot before anyone thinks of cramming more shit at the end of Ocean Parade by venturing into the thunderbolt plot. Ideally rocky hollow development would allow them to connect steel taipan's dead end with giant drop, forming a loop - like thunder river used to have - rather than a dead end and a long walk between the two big thrill rides. WhiteWaterWorld Needs a lazy river Should utilise the shell or thunderbolt plot Install a good slide tower of body slides. Use manufacturers that don't set absurdly low weight limits requiring scales everywhere. Don't remove Fully 6 (at least not yet)

Park still closed = don't agree with you. We have both been in agreement that WWW needs sprucing up and refreshing, the only difference has been the timing. If they are starting to turn their minds towards WWW, perhaps they are pleased with the progress of the dry park. I still think the dry park is short a few key attractions, given how many were gutted from the park in the last 10 years, in reality they have added Sky Voyager, Taipan, Jungle Rush and Flyer, refurbished the vintage cars and upgraded the claw. Does that make up for the loss of TRRR, Buzzsaw, Rocky Hollow, Wipeout and technically Eureka? I'd say it's pretty close - so maybe they are ready to start work on WWW after all?

Who said it was secret?

Which always confused me - people riding a dark ride during a night event makes zero sense.

You just keep expecting them to pay more money on workforce at a time when they're still trying to build the business up, and profits are razor thin. maybe saving money is a good thing right now? At any rate, we've heard your take. ad nauseum, and on repeat. Its safe to assume that the good people at Coast have heard it too - and clearly they don't agree with you - so it'd be super awesome if this topic didn't go the way of the turnstiles and become the meme everyone references every time you yell at a cloud.

Distracted by Drea... ? *Gasp* You think the company's biggest and most profitable asset... is a distraction? 😮 Isn't Dreamworld the prize? Wouldn't shareholders be like... super critical if Coast was devoting all their time into operating a waterpark during off peak and low patronage seasons, purely and foolishly to try and compete with their big competitor down the road, instead of returning Dreamworld back to its full capability? They would? cool. Can someone go back and find that reply where I said i'm happy for them to keep WWW on cruise control while they focus on rebuilding the core product of Dreamworld and once Dreamworld is back on track, then they can focus on their other issues? And then quote it here for him to ignore again? K. thx. P.S. - when you find that - if you could happen to find all the other people also saying the same thing, while this guy is the sole voice of opposition, feel free to quote those other people too.

You could argue that, but it still wouldn't be tourism any more than your trip to Costco Coomera is. All of the recent replies have been specific to residential highrise development. Your own words were that we needed highrise residential accommodation more than we needed koalas. As you'll see if you re-read, i'm supportive of leisure and tourism developments that will preserve large habitats, and I don't support residential construction of any density within the bounds of the dreamworld land holdings... So, while we're nitpicking - and to be clear (as you said yourself) - you have skin in the game and you stand to financially benefit from killing Koalas. That tells me all I need to know.

How does highrise residential housing contribute to increased tourism?