DaptoFunlandGuy

There's a lesson in there not to wait. I had heard a rumour that someone was injured on it, and there were liability issues. Entirely rumour though - interesting that wedgie and Aqualoop both close 'permanently' within such a short space of time though. See also: Fully Six Four. No more Polin please. Tee Hee! Shhh! Don't tell Dreamworld's 2010 marketing team!

Looked like a flammable gas ignition from the videos I saw. Chlorine is not in itself flammable, but can cause explosions when reacting with other chemicals. That was my initial reaction.

its an annual event in it's fourth year and by all accounts this was the first with problems. A single reported case of harassment, with several other alleged to be unreported. Everyone saying the park just doing it for money, but they're damned if they do or don't. If they'd refused the booking, the illawarra mercury would have run a story about how Jamberoo discriminates against muslims. Unwinnable in the media... But let's pare it back a bit - It was a non-opening day. Private hire. Staff were, according to the article, able to choose whether to work that day or not. The organisers requested male only staff, but this could not be accommodated logistically. The organisers requested modest attire for staff, and provided garments that would achieve the purpose. The staff wore these garments voluntarily - as has been the practice in previous years. A handful of people out of the approximately 800 attendees caused trouble. The organisers and the park are working together to resolve these issues The park has a responsibility to provide a safe workplace, and will be liable under their workers compensation for any physical or mental injuries suffered in the course of employment. The decision to host this event is up to the park, but as noted, 3 incident free events have run previously, so this could not have been foreseen. I've no doubt they will review carefully before agreeing to host another event for this group. Take the religion out of it - I've seen non muslim teens and young adults behave poorly towards women in public, and especially where there is a client \ employee relationship putting the woman at a disadvantage. It is not restricted to one culture or religion. (And let's be fair - i've seen young women behave poorly in the same dynamic reversed). Had this been a private hire for a group of private catholic school boys, i've no doubt of the possibility that some bad apples would have behaved similarly - however people would be less up in arms because "boys will be boys". The religion has very little to do with the behaviour. By all accounts, approximately 795 of the attendees did not harass or degrade the female employees - but that doesn't make good news.

The Hey Hey YouTube channel just uploaded their 1992 show recorded in the Showstage at Movie World. https://youtu.be/NGv60ERN75A?si=MTcdWqKRWNlKZgO3

How will they milk every cent of out each visitor then?

nek minnit all the crew at Pico Play are headed to hammer barn for some sledge hammers to rough it up a bit more.

wait until monday...

If only someone said this when they were talking about removing police academy. (oh wait, they did). Nobody who saw Seal Guardians, Thunder Lake or Hollywood Stunt Driver would say that. (I'm not a fan of Affinity, either - I preferred the original Imagine, but the animal activism has caused a shift in the animal enrichment programs away from "stunts" and I can't say its a bad thing)

Anyone who has ever seen their 'wet weather' version of the show knows just how bad it (the "drifting") can be. I'd like to see a return to non-vehicular stunts. high fall. human torch. The split car was both cool, and funny. the big finale building jump rig was an ACTUAL finale. it is well past time for the show to be renewed. not just the same set being used for a badly written new story (italian village meets city vs country? wut?) As soon as Wizard and Scoob are on deck, gut the arena, and do something new. I'm sure the bones are good - the skeleton of the screen, the jump rig are all still good reusable elements (kind of like how AOS always finds an excuse to use the helicopter rig) but reinvent everything else. AOS has shown it can be done without being dumb and cheesy. anyone who thinks HSD in its current form is in any way good needs their heads examined.

Are you starting with a hangover? or you wanna start from tomorrow and get on it tonight?

I've personally argued this point a lot in the past. the pushed back opening dates make it harder to plan for people who visit out of peak periods, so I can't put them down if this is the case for the longer maintenance periods. It still doesn't explain taking down so many of their majors in one go, and for the same period. I can only assume Batwing and Superman being down at the same time have to be flash related - but their crossover is minimal, so unsure what the impact could be. The point isn't one ride, it's four. They've now known for more than a year that Scooby would be offline. So when you're planning your annual maintenance, why do them all at that same time? Yeah by all rumours and accounts it took them by surprise - they'd planned it, but not so soon. Regardless, it's been closed a year now, they've had plenty of time to consider the impacts and instead of trying to shuffle things around they've gone "fuck it, we'll do it all at once, to hell with the guests paying single day prices outside of school holidays!" and and That's the bottom line.

we've seen maintenance periods and downtimes far more in recent years than we ever have before. Regardless of the reason why, it leaves a hole in the park's lineup. When you take down attractions for massive overhauls, it highlights the park's capacity constraints and everyone can feel it. Dreamworld could feel the loss of Giant Drop while it was closed for refurb (especially having lost so many others permanently in recent years too) - but with Batwing, Superman, Doomsday and Scooby all down simultaneously, we're left with Green Lemon, Wild West Flaws and Dc Rivals to prop up the park for almost two entire months. Now, I understand there are new requirements on machinery maintenance that must be adhered to, but come on - stop taking the piss - there had to be another solution than to take down those three major attractions at the exact same time, and FOR the exact same time.

Careful with those words. If I remember correctly, Doomsday's current neutered operations and the removal of The Wipeout were both because that's what guests wanted. I can't recall prices, but i'll bet you hot chips and hot dogs were a damn sight cheaper than po' boys and chowder bowls, and likely that's why the cheaper options were favoured. It's less about what guests want, and more about how the options are structured and marketed. Ahem. Take a gander over at Dreamworld's tasting trails (or Epcot's food and wine festival, or California Adventure's food and wine festival) to see the popularity of the 'tasting passports' \ "sip and savor pass" (and similar) which shows it can work. (i've personally bought both the DCA and Dreamworld options, and felt they were great value). You sell a ticket that gets a guest a small sampling from all of the vendors - this guides them to each stall in turn, ensuring they're all kept reasonably busy and productive, and well patronised. Guests given the opportunity to 'try' everything are more likely to spend more money on something that they like - even if it is more expensive. (Also, more guests walking around with a unique product from a particular stall, the more "i'll have what they're having" effect you have) A hot dog and chips is safe if you aren't sure what a "po'boy" is, but if you like what you sample, you can bet you're going back for more!

The event has gotten less and less each year. It needs a reinvention. The food they had at Movie World's carnivale event was enough to go back year on year. Now the food they have is the same boring shit they serve, but with special garnishes or decorations. Bring back the unique food. Figure out how to do some sort of street parade (you don't need giant floats to have a parade). The atmosphere in the park during carnivale is lacking and they need to make it more exciting (and having it immediately following the school holidays is probably a miss too - everyone is trying to get back into routine and this doesn't help)

Yep - they only lost one car. part of the shelter at the start of the 'brake run' was damaged, but with one less car, they may not need to replace that anyway. They may need to repair or replace the traffic light safety system though. The park has had a lot to focus on and vintage cars shouldn't be a priority. Thats also a bloody big tree, and arborists have been kept pretty busy. It seems like it would be easy enough for them at this rate to just wash their hands of it and decide VC has had it's run - not waste any time trying to bring it back online - but I also feel like the current direction of Dreamworld - trying to harken back to their roots and play on nostalgia - should restore the ride and give park fans one last chance to ride it - whether it has 4 months, 10 months or 2 years left in it - bring it back.

Yeah the closure date is the first day of QLD School term. Whether it was planned or unexpected, the new rides always tough it out over the summer holidays and go down the second the coast gets a chance to breathe. I didn't know it was down (and we'd planned to visit yesterday and only found out on Saturday it was down, but thanks to the ex-TC rainfall, we postponed it a couple weeks, when it is planned to be back up!) but visiting the coast in the few weeks post holidays is always a risky manoeuvre. The park has taken a lot offline immediately following the holidays. Thankfully they're all flats (and vintage cars has a pretty good reason) though on the bright side its nice to see Triple Vortex is coming back this week. Think yourself lucky you're visiting this weekend - If you'd waited one more week it would have been worse down the road:

LOL. Vekoma is on such a merry go round. People pour shit on them for years for things like the boomerang and the SLC and the brand becomes unpopular, and now, everything old is new again. 🤣

Yes. Right now. Not in whatever timeline we're working on where it should have been september, then Summer 2023, then April and now the equivalent of 'in the coming weeks'. Clearly they've had a problem commissioning it. the fact that they built it, then pulled half of it down only to put it up again a few days later shows that something didn't go the way it should have. They've proceeded with this project making a lot of assumptions and the changed dates prove that they got them wrong. They would have done better commissioning a brand new flat ride, or bringing in a trailer mounted travelling ride to alleviate movie world's capacity issues. It has now officially been one year since Scooby Doo went down for this extended rehab - and we don't even have an opening date for Flash - (something we had last year, though it has now come and gone) and Flash is something that we've all agreed was most likely something they did to boost the park's capacity issues while Scoob was down. At this rate, Scoob will open before Flash does.

But what time is eyes down for bingo next tuesday?

First appearance on Nearmap is May 2016, but the last image prior to that was September 2015, so I think it's probably appeared prior to Christmas. Star Tour started around July 2016, so it was probably one of the first products on the board, but possibly not THE first. Given the vehicles parked so (very) closely in the first year, it's bringing a vague recollection of perhaps a Scooby and the Gang photo Op, which makes sense being opposite the ride, but the second image is the big ambulance, so likely a fright nights prop...

Considering by all accounts this was supposed to come into the park to alleviate the pressure felt by the loss of Scooby (lol) Scooby is going to reopen before this thing does. Should have just sent it to Sea World.

There's a lot of factors to take into account when you're comparing something 40+ years old. One of them is your labour cost. In 1982 - the average wage in Australia was around $300 a week. Today* it's somewhere around $1600 a week which is more than 5 times an increase. Making a like for like comparison is really hard when you've got apples and helicopters. At the end of the day its puffery in a media release. they can explain those numbers any way they like to make their point. It's a presser, not an AGM.

Your recollection is incorrect, but it is not my place to comment on these matters. Your mark is wrong.

Fairly sure there's enough balanced viewpoints \ counter viewpoints about VRTP on here that anyone with eyes could see you've missed the mark on that one.

You can't market a ride without referencing which hemisphere it's in, can you?