Tim Dasco

It’s great to see some great promotion of social distancing.

I think people getting annoyed is more to storm being the only ride open, and the massive lack of rides at sea world in general.

From everything I have seen on Facebook the GP think cos the parks had all this extra time closed that all maintenance should be done and every ride should be open. (Not saying this is possible) But if that’s what the public are thinking when you don’t deliver your gonna have massive backlash and bad press. (Assuming the press are at the reopening) Personally I think Dreamworld win this one by taking time to make sure everything is good to go for opening, rather than rushing it.

Ok that’s fine, ardent did the same thing by cutting costs to save money for the share holders which killed 4 people. But nah they have responsibilities to the share holders. So it’s fine. Just because they have responsibilities to share holders doesn’t mean they should reopen the parks without half their rides operating.

Why rush to open if the park won’t have half off it’s attractions opened? Similar story with sea world opening with Jet Rescue closed.

So is Dreamworld hanging off a little longer a bad thing. Honestly seems like a smarter idea to open with all rides open. Rather than open a half closed park.

Honestly you grab a Ferris slide wheel which would be a big gimmick slide (draw in crowds) then add a few major proslide rides: a massive water coaster from Proslide something the size of Mammoth or Wilderbeast at holiday world. Then follow it up with a slide tower with 3 major Proslide’s (a UFO slide, a Tornado alley, Bowl Alley and tornado wall as nobody on the GC has one yet) Make them all ProSlide records longest, tallest of their kinds. All of those slides with the current line up would do wonders for the parks

I realised I miss read the statement upon further reading. But I do hope we see now with Greg being at Dreamworld it running 2 trains in at least the summer holidays being what will be the parks most popular ride (along with SV)

Considering it was reported on here that MDMC ran 2 trains for most if not all of the summer holidays I doubt this. Superman went the whole of Summer with only 1 train, likewise with Jet Rescue.

I believe it was stated Rivals costed over $30 million. Don’t think the exact figure was every said. But I thought it was rumoured around $35 million.

@Jobe Adventure World still has their slide which is similar. They have their original opening day River Rapids slide.

I have had some free time over the past few days and decided to have some fun. There is a lot of space around the back of WWW, but once it's gone its gone. Using the original Stage 3 expansion plans for WWW, there is still room for another 2 slide tower plots once HWSW is removed down the track. I also see a Suspended Roller Soaker coaster being a good fit (Zamperla roller coaster that allows you to soak people below with water guns) The main Slide tower at the back right could feature a ProSlide tower with a Tornado wall, Bowl alley and a UFO maybe? Along with an Adventure River, Kiddie splash pads and room for 2 more big slide towers. This also allows a prefect option to re do the back half of ocean parade. Remove Shockwave for a nice RMC Raptor and remove the whole Panda area. With Panda gone its perfect chance to build a dark ride themed around How to Train your dragon which will also have a retheme of Pandamonium to suit. Let me know what your thoughts are?

To be fair all of the seasonal parks in Australia Would have now closed for their off season.

HMCMA is the most expansive roller coaster ever built to date: a cost Of $300 million USD VRTP largest ever spend was $50 million AUD on the entire Atlantis project with 3 rides.

The thing is both Ardent Leisure and Village Roadshow have halted all capital expenditure. With that halted we might see stuff arrive. But construction most likely won’t start for a while.