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Normally the full height fencing allows a path for the boom lift to drive along the entrance road while they are working on the track. Its normally outside the ride barrier fencing in like this corridoor spaced away from the kerb so the boom has solid concrete to drive on. Same thing was in place when they were closed before christmas holidays.

Id say any combination of the trusses, battens, rafters or purlins are probably rotten through and the whole lot might need replacement. It looks like they put the thatch over marine ply or something similar, so it was more about look than ever being dense enough to help keep the weather out. Remember the huge pine tree that used to be there on the other side? It cracked the walls of the building and lifted the path, so i wouldnt be surprised if the whole thing is condemned. Which of course means village will just cover it up and let it degrade futher by pretending its not there until someone realises its a fire or safety risk or something.

Someone, or even multiple people should go to jail for what happened, but sadly, it doesn't seem like they are going to hand down any personal reccomendations. Multiple instances of negligence and poor management contributed to their deaths. It was shown during the investigation that, based on their own processes the ride shouldnt have opened. It was shown that a few thousand dollars was put ahead of guest safety. Nobody took any accountability for what happened and the lowest denominators, the ride operators had blame heaped upon them by management and supervisors who had loads to answer for themselves. Feel so sorry for the families that went through this, have lost loved ones, but also the staff members traumatised by the incident too. The company let everyone down and even another 20 million in civil lawsuits is not enough retribution for management all the way to the top putting personal motives and arrogancy, along with ultimately $$$$ ahead of the personal safety of their guest and staff. New industry standards and compliance have followed, but the laws implemented following this tragedy that allowed site operators to be held personally liable, following the deaths that occurred at eagle farm race course during the same period, should be utilised against the operators (those in charge of critical park decisions, not ride operators) and management who failed so completely here too. They prosecuted the guy who was to blame for providing no escape for his workers who were ultimately crushed under concrete tilt panels they were errecting, but this seems to have dragged on and on with no action from worksafe qld and its just sickening. Was it a wake up call? Yeah, it provided new jobs, more middle management to see compliancy in an effort to bring an entire industry up to a standard. Still leaves a bad taste in your mouth when it feels like justice hasnt been served though.

Think it was one of the super funds that purchased the land.

What is it? 8 years since the kumback upgrade? You could hardly say it killed the ride after the conversion given the time span. I guess what do you define as a serious crack? One that occurs largely due to fatigue and is anticipated; Or one that shouldnt occur, but has, and everyone freaks out about it? One probably happens frequently enough its dealt with and repaired to a standard or procedure, the other probably grounds a ride until the manufacturer can work out wtf happened and put a fix in place. You wouldnt need vekoma to come in for pretty much anything other than control systems I imagine. A motor is a motor. Theres plenty of people that specialise in that locally. Changing the control systems though I imagine is akin to having kumback replace the lower section of the train. Someone doing it is going to have to take on all the risk, so you probably cant just google someone local for an upgrade.

Green lantern is apparently being repainted, so it probably explains the long closure. I cant remember ever seen the arms come off doomsday during annual maintenance? I wonder how long they have on the transmission/gearbox between overhauls as the ride would be roughly 4 years old when it goes down for maintenance.

It seems more like they are actively trying to fix whatever the issue is, given the open/close cycle. Yeah, its an old ride, but its generally pretty reliable all things considered. Down time between open periods could be waiting for parts or repair/testing. Especially if age is making it hard to repair or find parts. If it was just a case of its old, we cant fix it, they probably wouldnt have been reopening it multiple times over the last couple of months. Youd just write it off and close the ride when it looked like it was a difficult fix.

Rather than potentially be stuck with needing to store components, plus i imagine there is a large up front cost to get building on a coaster so any discount is probably offset by that. I wouldnt at all be surprised if you have to make full payment of the ride before hand though, and maybe if you have issue with delivery, the manufacturer might try and package another deal together to sell the ride so you dont lose out on a stack of money. I honestly cant see the manufacturer being left out of pocket though. Theres all sorts of protections in a contract for buying a car, let alone a multi million dollar roller coaster. Its not like you can burn that company and go to another and have one ready to go instantly. So i cant see you getting a refund or dropping out of the purchase without some sort of cost incurred.

As in, it was ordered by another park and they didnt go through with the delivery and dreamworld picked it up.

Go to the park for extended trading right now and tell me im wrong, that rides arent still running after 5:30. Rivals was still doing loops last night when we went to wet and wild for the movie, it was well after 6. They are advertising the rides are open to 5:30. That means if you walk up to a ride at 5:25pm youre going to be allowed into the queue. If the queue is full, its going to take maybe even 90 mins to clear with some of the crowds this time of year. If you go during non peak times, the same thing happens at 5pm. They run the queues out. If its a busy day you can still be riding at 5:30. Security give you time to loiter around a bit and start shuffling people out the park. It never closes at 5:30 during peak or 5pm any other time of the year. Busier it gets, longer the rides take to clear, longer the grace period.

6 pm is the official park close time, its right there above. They dont close queue lines early to make the cutoff, they dont close the rides with people in the queues either. Running at peak times you could have a queue of 90 mins or more at superman, dc rivals, etc. So if you joined the line around 5pm you could still be waiting until after 6 before you even got on the ride.

It took movieworld roughly 2 years to see their hypercoaster manufactured and delivered. So do you think that 1) they already coughed up the money for a coaster well before greg moved camps, or 2) they purchased an already built coaster, possibly ordered by someone else? People seem to overestimate how big these companies are and how much time it actually takes to manufacture structural steel components when you have a waiting list of clients as it is.

He hasnt been in the job long enough to have ordered new boats and have them ready for delivery. I doubt its a simple, slap together in a few months deal to have them arrive even if they did shell out for new ones to get rid of the canopies. I wouldnt be surprised if its getting another upgrade. Building shit changes pretty drastic in 12 months sometimes. Cant imagine what an industry like this one being driven by deaths and safety investigations with a coroners report casting shadow over everything is like. Could literally have a standard or control change within months and render lots of previously coded stuff obsolete. Hell, even insurance could change and make it difficult to find coverage if you dont have a manufacturer to fall back on, given what happened with their other inhouse ride. Lots of risk to assume even if you think everything is safe.

They open earlier AND close later at movieworld though. Park opens at 9am, closes at 6pm*. 6pm is a loose figure as we all know, because they run out the queues, so it's more like 6:30 or maybe even later depending on how busy it is. I havent been during these holidays, but last christmas ones there was a 45 min queue just to get off the highway, let alone through the gates. So the earlier opening at both parks might help with the traffic, even if it sucks that you still get stuck at the ticket booths. Why does it take so long to process ticket purchases. 😫

Id say whatever cms they use for the website had a date that expired. Its showing closed again without a date.

Ideally youd probably like to project the image from behind your subjects so you dont see the light from the projector, but thats not really possible here when the car would get in the way.

Arkham Asylum originally said 06th - 10th like doomsday. So it has been updated again since yesterday.

I imagine there is no replacement period. Theres probably a measurement for wear and stretch, and if its ok, you keep using it. Wouldnt be surprised if theres like 100k in cost of chain that size/length. Youd want to get more than a year or two out of it.

Dive in movies are back at wet n wild too for a few weeks after christmas, which I actually can't wait for. Hope its worth it financially and they stick around longer. Friday and saturday nights used to be great in summer. If the movies were crap you just spent the night on the slides.

They still own shares in the park dont they?

Wasnt the name change forced upon them because the owner of the trademark split from their partnership? No more name, no more building facade. Had to change it all.

They already get crucified for high prices by the general public. Even if it is seen as a better deal, portion wise, with tasty food. It doesn't seem to work in australia. It's like the guests are more focused on the cost, not what you are actually getting. Some recent examples of trying something new was movieworld with the deli and the opening of harrys grill. The deli is pretty much gone, which is a shame because the sandwich options were brilliant. While the grill is kinda meh now. Seaworld got in franchise stores which was a suggestion we had when this topic was raised before. That didn't work either. Fresh food/ingredients must get expensive if you are throwing large (by comparison) amounts of it away each day when it doesn't sell. Only ends up with bean counters cutting into the quality of the ingredients, jacking up the price, or removing the options all together because they aren't prepared to keep running while losing money even while it gets established. No incentive to try anything else if your previous efforts have been pretty lack luster, they just see it as it's not what the public wants and stick with what they keep turning out.

Looks like they used the pile driver to build a dyke, or at the least, retaining walls. Can see the panels driven into the ground and a few unused ones laying on their side in the first photo.

You guys are dreaming. If they replace Arkham, a realistic spend would be 10 million. Not 4 to 5 times that.

Again. What are people hitting their ears or heads on when riding Arkham? It hasnt had the over the shoulder vekoma restraints since the refit, its literally just webbing now. If people are complaining about being jolted around when comparing it to something like superman or even dc rivals; age of the ride (so its design and manufacture) removed, its a totally different ride. Its not designed for air time hangs, its designed for speed and force. Youre going to feel differently going through that many inversions even if it wasnt built using technology from nearly 30 years ago.