BigMal

just to let you know. i used to work at Dreamworld on Wipeout. When you feel the pain the harnesses it is often the ride op tightening the harnesses extra tight. Wipeout is designed to loosen up during the ride. I know i was taught to double lock the harness. Whatever you do, do not in any way hold the harnesses out, a kid did that one day when i was working. Harnesses got triple locked that day. everyone bitched but the kid could of fallen out. Btw when the wipeout pool is drained and the ride operating. Leaves some fun times to **** with the guests heads had one girl ask why the pool was drained. we had her thinking the harness she was in failed the day before and we had to clean out the blood.

the reason he may of gotten to ride it is the staff preview was tonight as well as a promo done for channel 7 chatting to my mate now who got to sit next to one of the channel 7 presenters (hes not to sure who it was he was to busy wanting to go on the ride more). he assures me it "owns"

ive been under the cyclone area. although that was at the end of season staff party after i dropped something and it fell all the wya to the bottom. luckily it wasnt broken

i hate to burst all your bubbles but Dreamworld rep came into work the other day and he has told me that there are NO plans for ANOTHER roller coaster in the future as not enough $$ for a new coaster. sorry guys.

i did report it actually, but because i was there with work it had to go through different channels because ie my boss > to her boss > sales and marketing > movieworld sales and marketing and then on up the ride.

u want to talk bad safety. last time i went to movieworld the lap bar would not secure on the wild wild west the words out of the ride op were "dont worry bout it" i almost fell out of the ride coming down the drop. never again will i be going to movieworld. o and there is ALWAYS two ops on cyclone. u just dont see one of them.

with the paint issue on cyclone im sure that its getting close to the time they shut down for annual maintenance and i wouldnt mind betting it would get a repaint it then as for tower it could need to be down for maintenance as well for a bit, last ride i knew they were doing was log ride. who knows which one is next

hrm 32 seats still not the biggest ride in the park but still the wait times wont be to bad

dreamworld has rides (plural notice) in the pipeline for the old thunderbolt area i know that, next time i see the Movieworld sales rep at work ill try and get some info out of them. i know for this year there is no new rides they advised us that they will be "upgrading" and focusing on older rides. dont know when they will be around next but i do have an email of the sales rep

dont even try and get the new ride info out of current staff most of them wont give it up. i have nagged my mate something cronic and he wont give it up, when i went to big brother i ran into a few of the ride ops and they wouldnt give it up, i even bugged the Dreamworld Sales rep when he came to work for 20 minutes and he wouldnt give it up bastards

i just didnt fully explain it well i never really paid that much attention in training

sadly no, my stint at Dreamworld was stuck as a Level 1 on Wipeout and Wild Thornburies Memories of kiddy hell do bring back bad memories i still get Dora the Explorer stuck in my head every now and then, although i do have a dora doll on my desk simply as a joke from when i was at DW. If you ever talk to anyone about the Summer 03/04 group i was known by a few nicknames (Dora/Eliza/Thornburies Nazi)

"Operational" means that the ride is "broken" but still safe to operate "Code 6" is the ride is broken and Unsafe to operate if you ever hear the words "Wet Mess" at dreamworld that means someome has thrown up or in the case of Nick Central it means someone has peed or taken a dump in one of the kiddy rides (dont laugh it has happened and it happened twice to me ) other than that thats all the codes we had

the only noise that i dont like about ToT is the warning signal, otherwise its fine but only other noise i didnt like at Dreamworld was the Nick CD, hearing Dora the Explorer for that long was VERY annoying by the way slick i looked on that site you linked to for the video but couldnt find it, could u email me a link to it please kaell116@optusnet.com.au

Ride Breakdowns, welcome to every day life at Dreamworld, You can guarantee at least 10 "operationals" or "code 6" at ToT a day, its a given simply with rain, the computers or power spikes or e brakes, always happens Wipeout stops half the time and you wouldnt even know it, when it is trying to re dock the computer will just not dock it properly, that technically is a operational we would just reset the computer and it would dock properly Reptar being Code 6 is a new one to me, ive never once seen it ****ed up, if they are working on it during the day in the open then something really is wrong with it O and for those who have been to Wild Thornburies before I am the only staff member to ever call a Code 6 on that ride Giant Drop has had problems since i was working there, when i was there the West side was closed half of the summer holidays (03/04) no idea why it just was