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I believe he was referring to the ‘Giant Drop’ text that’s been installed on the overhead mesh on the gondolas

I believe that was Tim Fisher. Clark came on in May 2017. I know Greg (who I believe was GM at the time) also had a major role in the attraction

Every major ride addition since 2005 has had a DC IP. I can’t wait for the day when we get a new major attraction that isn’t DC.

Maintenance listing for 2022 has been published online. For the most part, pretty standard, but these 3 have some lengthy downtime

Wow that’s a length maintenance period

With the current winds, I don’t think they’ll be installing anything right now. And it’s still holidays for most of the construction industry. We won’t see trident installation begin from the end of the month at the earliest

That may be true, but you can’t deny the park has improved greatly in recent years. It’s still far from being at its prime, it’s still merely a shadow of its once great former self. But my understanding is the current management for the park understand this, recognise what is iconic about the park and are trying to bring as much of that back as possible. Just look at all the school holiday offerings they had last year; they’ve never done that in the past and it was overall all successful. They’ve produce a great new attraction which has had some of the best marketing we’ve seen from a GC theme park in a long time. There is still plenty more to do, but based off 2021, they are on the right track.

And it was the best thing that could have happened for DW. When Greg moved, followed by other staff/management members of VRTP, DW has changed dramatically and has become a much better park. Still a lot of work to be done, but I think it’s on the right track. Unfortunately VRTP seems to have taken a bit because of that (their ride operations being one of them)

I’d say mid February we will see testing begin. And vertical construction of trident hasn’t begun, but I’d expect it too by the end of the month

That’s great to see they have finally fixed the maintenance situation for storm. That was needed since the ride opened 9 years ago, but at least they’ve finally done it.

When they do retire this Giant drop, because it’s such an icon for the park, I’d love them to construct a she new Giant drop. New and taller tower, with potentially Falcons fury technology. Maybe one side is normal, the other side is normal. Or it’s seats the entire way round. They could even try get the worlds tallest drop ride record again. The new tallest drop ride is about to open in Orlando and will be about 131 metres tall. The current Giant Drop only needs to be 20 metres taller to easily break the record. That can also allow for the removal of the mess that currently is around the GD.

I find it hard to believe since they’ve just done some refurbishment on the gondolas. It’s got to have another couple years left at a minimum

The area you are referring to is the bird aviary which has the Tassie devils within. There is a ramp that goes around the tree kangaroos and into the nocturnal house. That ramp however is closed to access the nocturnal house.

I was there on Tuesday and it wasn’t open, the rest of Corroboree is (which it has been for quite a while now). I believe the nocturnal house is still closed because a lot of the animals weee given to others parks/zoos during the major lockdowns.

How was the wait for Steel Taipan?

I wasn’t at the park today, but I’ve heard everything was operating and the park was very busy

No Adam West, just the 1989 movie onwards

MWs carpark today was full, with a couple dozen cars on the overflow grass. DWs was about 60-70% full. WnWs carpark in front of AOS was about half full. With all the different factors as mentioned above, I think the park crowd levels are pretty good, but any ‘normal’ year the parks would be booming right now and we would see the car parks full. The longest I’ve waited for ST is 15 minutes and that was with both trains operating. I don’t think we will see long queues for it for some time unfortunately. Maybe this Easter, but I don’t think we will see major queues until next Summer. The tourism is definitely here to an extent because MW was booming (long wait times partly due to slow operations, out of action seats/trains), but it was much busier than DW. I think with all the attraction closures over the last couple years, the general public doesn’t necessarily see the park as worth it unfortunately. Even with all the extra events/entertainment they are currently have. They really need to sort out the log ride area next though because walking through that area I heard several people comment how there was a ride there or thinking that was where the river rapids was. On a positive note though, there was a lot of people in the ST area and everyone coming off the ride were saying how much they loved it. And with the space active with guests, it’s a really nice area to be in.

That’s good to know that it wasn’t technical issues, but the wind. I agree with the ST staff. The staff they’ve got on that ride are outstanding; so enthusiastic, excited, fast and just good at their job.

I checked it out this morning and it’s my favourite exhibit they’ve done yet. It could be because I’ve always loved (most) of the Batman movies and to see these props, costumes and vehicles up close was great. The setup was really good and they were pacing the groups out so it didn’t feel crowded.

I spent the afternoon at the park to take in all the nostalgia. It is so fantastic seeing all this return. It brings back so many memories and makes you start to feel like you are in the old DW. Goldie the Clown is as fantastic as ever and which he would visit the park on weekends/every holidays. There are also some other random Street characters like prisoners and miners who are entertaining people on Main Street. There are a few more pieces of merch available too The river is clean They have opened up the food market area even though there isn’t anything available in here other than extra seating. If I was the park I wouldn’t bother opening this up unless the park super crazy and they are running out of room for places to eat. They have also repainted this shelter opposite the shaded seating area

No track works have happened in the last few weeks, but the fence is complete and they have begun installing the automatic boom gates next to the central station

GD seems to be closed today. Shockwave and Tailspin are having some temporary issues. Steel Taipan is running both trains, not a massive queue, but every tra J is running full.

Unless they were operating both, but the speed they were cycling then made it seem like they only had one operating for each

At the park currently. GL is having issues. Rivals only has one train operating, queue is full and extends towards GL, currently over 2.5 hours. WWF new station is dramatically slowing down the queue, so it’s over 1.5 hours. Even Doomsday is 60 minutes. Scooby is over 2 hours using the entire internal queue and external overflow. And SE is one train, entire internal queue and extends back towards being under the launch track.