DaptoFunlandGuy

Yes it all seems quite baseless. This has all been discussed before - recovery was botched, they made changes, the park is now showing positive growth, albeit not yet at pre-incident levels for the aforementioned reasons. Comparing to Village is the biggest stumble though - it's hard to compare apples when Village is delisted, but the beat up may just serve to make someone some money. Noteworthy this guy bought most of his stake in the company in the past month or so - he's just stirring the pot.

For those who don't speak Skeet - MCU is a 'material change of use' and it's what you need council to approve when you want to do something with land that hasn't been zoned for that purpose. Now council have approved the material change of use, they can seek approval to build it... or sit on it like everything else mentioned.

I guess it depends on what BGH wants to do with it - sell the brand with a hotel, or with plans approved to build a hotel? If they do get it built, it'll be open before the olympics minimum. anything else is variable.

https://youtu.be/5drjr9PmTMA

At least the test seat is always operating.

Not sure if that's got any more info than the one Brad posted two weeks ago - but we knew council had voted it up a while ago...

Just remember the Australia tax. It costs more to ship here, and our construction workers also cost more. Our dollar is tanking right now too, so there is an abundance of factors that mean any price quoted for something like this in USD is potentially up to double in AUD.

HERITAGE PROTECTED STRUCTURE. Just putting it out there.

That's a fair assumption to make by default.

If we're going to criticise ride name\themes as being a bit sparse, we should start with all the existing ones that don't live up to their theme descriptors. Last time I rode Storm it was a bright and sunny day with barely a light breeze...

In this day and age of urban sprawl and housing development, it's about as much of a koala habitat as you see in the real world..

This was posted earlier... Maybe they decided to keep it for another year???

I don't think you get what you're saying, so I doubt we will. The first shot I saw was a justice league billboard with the MW logo on it, and given you're suggesting the headliner won't have an IP, and you can't tell what it would be, i'm guessing Justice League has nothing to do with it, as that would be an IP, so all i'm left with is that the first shot just tells me this event is at Movie World.

Because the general nature of people showing fear, scare actors in full makeup pursuing them or looking creepy etc couldn't possibly form the basis of a 'general' advertisement advertising fright nights as a whole without tying to a specific maze, right? they wouldn't just advertise a multi-night event on it's own, right?

20? Try 30, Councillor.

What I found interesting is that Wild West is supposed to operate this year. We knew this was possible after the recent upgrades the attraction has had, but that will certainly be an interesting ride - I wonder if they're planning an 'overlay' of sorts?

September holidays normally suffers at MW just because much of their efforts are going towards fright nights, so this will be a nice simple addition that doesn't require much in the way of staging - it makes a lot of sense. I've been travelling for a while but I love live music. i'm coming home soon so 100% i'll be on my way to the park these holidays to check it out.

This checks out. The below plot is a rough shadow map of Batwing based on Nearmap shots. (North is up). The blue lines are taken at various times throughout the years but all are 10am or later in the day. The red line is the only one where the photo is taken prior - at approximately 8:30am Batwing is approximately 60 metres high. The new hotel is proposed to be approximately 80. If someone wants to dust of their pythagoras books and work it out precisely go for it, but i'm gonna do some back of the napkin math and say the longest shadow is 150% of the tower height - so our 80 metre hotel shouldn't cast more than a 120m shadow: I've guestimated the tower position but i'd say this is pretty spot on. In the early morning it might just kiss Road Runner, but the front entrance will still cop full sun. It's so perfect when you imagine the batwing lines replicated in the same fashion, it avoids almost every part of the "on-stage" park, i'm almost inclined to say this was their intention.

Mt Druitt Waterworks long endured the rumors of razor blades in the slides and that was only an urban legend that also got said about Grundy's, Amazon's and most slide parks world wide. I don't think the Tram rhetoric is going to kill them - though it will obviously keep having an impact until there's enough reasons to overcome it (mostly financial i'm sure)

I'm surprised nobody else got this up yet - GCB reported yesterday that council officers had recommended the hotel be approved by council. There was a summary of objections and details of the reasons why it should be approved. I can't get past the paywall but i'm sure somebody else can... https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjm7qn8vsuAAxWOxDgGHeUlDYAQFnoECBQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goldcoastbulletin.com.au%2Fnews%2Fgold-coast%2Frevealed-city-set-to-approve-333-million-hotel-complex-at-movie-world%2Fnews-story%2F20360e3e6838ec1ee47e9682a2ec4d58&usg=AOvVaw2GtYE1ZfbOlkWZGMb6yzfM&opi=89978449

It isn't the case. They can't run 'extreme' mode as the ride is not mechanically able to - this is why we've had all the downtime, and operating like this is what is supposed to relieve it It's not just raw development and construction - take away retheme and construction - and just look at the state of the parks. Dreamworld right now is a much more pleasant place to visit, IMO.

I mean, it's almost like the Doomsday area was made to be Western themed....

Given the nature of the system, i'm sure it's entirely possible that it has happened. If it hasn't, i'm sure it is still possible. I haven't seen it or heard of it happening though.

It's a smart change to the terms and conditions - a lot of folk buy a pass on sale, but don't plan to visit until the holidays, so by not activating it they can make it work for two holidays. I just hope they make this part of the terms prominent enough when people buy or they're going to get a lot of pissed of people when they realise the offer has expired or been void.