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There appears to be a couple more track pieces left to be installed for the suspended coaster

Correct, in 2020 it was removed, stripped, repainted, reinstalled, remained closed for two years and then removed again, stripped, repainted and reinstalled at a different park.

I’m also over 6ft and don’t find it so unbelievably rough that I don’t ride it anymore. As Gold Coaster, it’s definitely the smoothest it’s ever been, but it’s also definitely not the smoothest coaster in the country (I see the moto coaster as an SBNO because for me that ride is unbearably uncomfortable). I won’t deny it does take up a lot more room, especially the overly sized queue to get to the ride. However, I love the interaction the coaster has with WWW and if this coaster were to ever close, I can’t see a new coaster replacing it. Not saying it can’t be don with a custom layout, but with the Exhibition Centre, slide tower and WWW pathways, there are a lot of obstacles. Removing the tunnel definitely freed up some land, but they’ve still kept that massive queue and station building

Not sure when this happened, but it appears the three tiers of Dreamworld annual passes have increased in price. With the Saver Pass $129, Value Pass $139 and the Locals Pass $149. https://www.dreamworld.com.au/tickets

So do I, but it does look nicely presented, good amount of gardens around the queue and it’s another ride to add the parks list; right now that’s what they need. That doesn’t excuse the fact that it’s basically the same effort as Green Lantern had. And those two small shade sales aren’t going to do anything for protecting guests during summer (they obviously didn’t learn from their mistakes with Green Lantern either)

This one is a perfect example

That’s actually disgusting to see the park has come to that. Sort your shit out Village.

From what I have found, in 2022 (the events first year) they had 18 stalls, in 2023 they had 17 and this year there is 10. If there night markets are also struggling to get external food trucks, maybe the park are having issues getting to be a part of the parks events.; hence the dip in food offerings.

But that would mean people know about it, so then they wouldn’t visit until it reopens, which means they loose revenue. When Scooby first closed, it was listed within the attraction maintenance schedule, but after a few months it was removed and place below as its own thing.

To give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe this new shed will house all of those temporary BOH facilities, opening up that former Sea Viper site for future expansion. And if it’s true that SW are using MW’s maintenance facilities for some of their attraction maintenance, maybe that will free up some space for MW to get on top their stuff (but all of that could be completely wrong and they are continuing to make poor decisions)

The post states: Construction is underway for the year-round alpine coaster, and it's set to open this winter! ❄️⛷ It will be 1.5km long, reaching speeds of up to 40km/h and riders will travel along a mix of uphill and downhill tracks featuring a tunnel, bridges and circles that traverse the alpine environment. And here are the photos shared

I just don't understand the logic of using such a prime/guest accessible area of land within a park that is already short of land. The area (red), directly links to Nickelodeon Land and New Atlantis and would be perfect for another major attraction, or several smaller rides. In recent years they've really taken over this whole reclaimed land/Sea Viper site for just BOH stuff, so why couldn't they use the most northern area (blue) so it's tucked away in a corner that won't allow for much more anyways? Surely this shed can't be so critical to the park that it can't be located 100 metres away from Leviathan. And to make matters worse, they haven't alligned the shed with anything. It's be positioned facing north, when everything else around it is on varying angles, why not allign it with something to at least use this land a bit better. It makes this entire area of the park unusable for expansion. They've taken a 1600m2 area (red area) and placed a 450m2 slab in it, leaving 1150m2 of unusable space (unless they want to add more BOH area that's visable to guests).

Neither, but I feel that (much like many other things Village have done recently), they respond to things now and don’t think about the future and the impacts it will have

They also had this response to make it ‘feel’ more personal

Construction of the shed has gone vertical (Photo TPSN)

This is the parks response to someone’s comment about the lack of open rides

@DaptoFunlandGuyinteresting. It’s been a few months since I last went, but it’s a shame to hear it’s not as good as it used to be. I was hoping they would’ve simply made the markets better with the addition of rides on top of what they already had. Have the crowd levels dropped to?

The event page was on the website last week and it did say it was returning in 2024. I am both surprised and not surprised at the same time if it’s not returning. The event was very popular, but it was also originally created as a trial for the night markets. And since the night markets are doing very well, they probably don’t feel the need for the overlap. Hopefully they have a new event to replace it during the Easter holidays, so I’m excited to see what they come up with.

Rivals reopened this afternoon

@Noll_57 further to those, here’s some from google and Facebook in the last day

I don’t know the facts behind how they could get to a point where over 60% of there rides (with the majority being ‘major’ attractions), but I’d hope that the park realise how poor this situation is and they tried to make the guest experience better in any way possible. I wasn’t in the park today so I can’t confirm this (if anyone was, please comment), but if they had more characters on Main Street, more show times, offered any sort of voucher/free merch/return ticket that would be at least be putting in an effort to try and make up for maintenance issue. I’ve already seen comments online and people indeed are not happy/impressed by the park today (and in general) and have said they won’t be returning. So I hope the park begin to realise that people just aren’t going to continue to visit with the park in this state.

So out of a possible 16 rides, they have 6 operating. Well done Movie World, well done.

I don’t think it is from a ‘we’ll close rides to save money’ perspective, but more a lack of organisation in their maintenance department to ensure they have all the necessary parts for any unexpected downtime. And also a lack of managing their attraction downtime periods to reduce overlaps. Rides have and will always need yearly maintenance, but in reason years MWs attraction seem to be needing more of it, for longer periods and more rides are closing at once. The impacts of the TRRR incident has definitely had an impact on maintenance periods, but they need to get on top of this and streamline their maintenance processes. Rides will always have unexpected breakdowns from time to time, but the way to reduce the impact from this is to not have any more than two (whether that’s two main attractions, two kids attraction, or one of each) closed at a time (Obviously having Scooby closed for several years effects this, but in this case I wouldn’t include that in this formula). And try not to have the closed attractions next to each other in the park (for example, don’t close Doomsday & WWF at the same time because that makes one quarter of your park closed). For a long time they would close Storm Coaster at SW from Feb to April because that aligned with shortly after when the attraction opened and they had to ensure they completed maintenance the same time every year. And to fix that they did two lots of maintenance so its annual schedule could be moved to the much more sensible time of the year (winter). So maybe they need to do this again with all of their rides at MW. This would mean there would be a year when some rides would need to close twice, but if that meant a better schedule for the years to come, I think that would be worth it. So no I don’t think they’re closing their rides on purpose to save money, but I do think they are saving money by not investing in a catalogue of (backup) parts that they keep in back of house so that when rides do go down, they don’t have to order and wait for them to arrive. This cant necessarily be done for every kind of part for every ride in the park, but at least some effort should be made. But I don’t have any evidence of whether that’s fact or not, but whatever they are doing now isn’t working. They have become shit at managing their park, attraction operations and their maintenance. And if it continues like this it’s going really start to hurt their performance and most importantly (from their perspective) their pockets.

Good day to not visit MW This only leaves Green Lantern & WWF as the only operating rides outside of Kids WB

@Tricoart with a good lens you’ll probably be able to see it from Production Drive as you drive towards Paradise Country