Cactus_Matt

I'm weirdly nostalgic for Big Brother at Dreamworld (and I'm not nostalgic for a LOT of things, so consider this special), yes reality TV is trash, yes Big Brother as a concept and as a show does NOT mesh with the presumably "family friendly" image Dreamworld is going for these days but my favourite memories of Dreamworld as a teen in the late 90's/early 2000's will always be these 3 things: #3. The Big Brother cafe that overlooked the Log Ride. Don't know why but it was always kind of built anticipation for the auditorium itself. #2. The Control Booth in the auditorium, again kinda weird thing to focus on but the fact that the control booth was featured on TV (specifically the Up-Late) show but it was so cool to see so many TV's with eyes through the various cameras AND for the fact it was showing live feeds AND their was the allure for my young, impressionable teenage brain that I might see nudity was kinda captivating. #1. The fact the house was just there. You might be surprised to see that an apparently big 'Big Brother' fan (which I apparently am (at least for the first couple of seasons) has no interest in evictions shows and that's kind of true, I went to precisely one eviction show and I kinda thought it was boring, at least until the evictee did their exit, everything else was bland. So what's the Number 1 thing about 'Big Brother' being at Dreamworld, the fact that this "thing on TV" was just a couple hundred meters beyond the park. And so I come to my final thoughts on this whole ~thing~, do I think Dreamworld should host Big Brother again? I don't care, I don't live in Queensland anymore so whatever... Do I think Dreamworld would financially or culturally benefit from hosting Big Brother again? Again, no, at least not for the TikTok generation - unless - and this is a BIG unless, unless the next Big Brother series could cross the cultural zeitgeist and be relevant to kids and teens and yes, even us "old-heads" bother to watch television again. TL:DR, 'Big Brother' is a big draw, but for very different reasons and not for the reasons it was. If it was to be relevant now it would need to be some cross-generational cultural defying phenomenon and ALSO capture the whole 'live TV show in a theme park' shtick which is understandably harder to define in our 'every famous person just exists on our phone' kind of mentality that every iPad kid has grown up with.

I was done being an Australian theme park enthusiast long ago, but this shit is the final nail in the coffin. I lived on the Gold Coast for 21 years, but I'll never visit again because there's no reason to. Doesn't matter that AirTimeThrills raved about DC Rivals or Steel Taipan. Nothing's going to get me to cough up a dollar to visit these parks.

I mean... I don't really know why anyone thinks this park will be relevant to anyone in 'the West' unlike Tokyo Disneyland and even Shanghai Disneyland, I don't know ANYONE who is willing to risk travelling to the Middle East just to see a bunch of cloned Disney rides/areas that they can visit in infinitely safer parks in other safer areas of the world. The fact that even hardcore coaster enthusiasts say they are unlikey to ride Falcon's Flight - even though it'll be the tallest, fastest ride in the world says a lot about the mainstream viability of ANY kind of park in the Middle East. That said, if I was a content creator and they could guarantee I wouldn't get arrested for wearing a lewd anime shirt you better believe I'd take their oil-soaked cash and visit their borderline-slave built wonders to excess and promote it through every channel my name was attached to. TL:DR, nobody is going to the Middle East to see Disney shit when they can go to America or Japan and see the same except with better food and less moral dilemmas.

It makes *some* sense, the highest (easily) climbable point on the Model T is like 3 feet (the back seat rest) whereas the highest climbable point on the Fire Truck is easily above 7 feet and if you have a bunch of kids climbing and rough housing on that thing it's more likely than not someone falls off. That said I said it makes "SOME" sense, for reasons I'm sure are very granular and come from an insurance point of view, but I don't agree with it either. For example, there's a climbing structure for kids in our local shopping mall that, while enclosed is like 15-20 feet high and any kid can go on it and (presumably) fall to injury or worse and yet it's still there after god-knows how many years. So yeah, I don't agree with the Fire Truck being inaccessible, but I understand it from a presumably very insurance minded and risk-aversion management that Dreamworld is no-doubt focused on after ~the incident~.

I haven't been to the NEW Rivertown, I honestly don't care whether Dreamworld wins or loses by their new rides, I just wished they gave a shit about the guest experience... forget about the manbabies who occupy this chat, and upload their boring photos I'm talking about the kids who carry the legacy of nostalgia 10-20-30 years from now THAT's what'll be important.

Too drunk to care what's being said in the meta-commentary about the creator of this video in this thread just going to say my only low-heated take on this whole Movie World palaver is this. If Movie World is "apparently" Six Flags now, I just wish it was as good as Six Flags is in the US, that's all, that's the message. Better rides, better operations, quantity over quality but capacity over art. Honestly, Wonderland Sydney could have been Australia's best Six Flags Park but it's dead and gone now so we're left grasping at straws and the straws right now seem to be sucking down some empty fuckin' cups. When Australia finally gets a B&M, even if it's a fuckin' 30-year-old piece of shit Batman clone that finally got the chop at some US park I'll lap up every cycle that I can on its sorry old bones. But that's just me~!

I've had bigger chunks of corn in my crap!

I don't know if I've already mentioned as much but it's kinda weird how 'big' a part the Big Banana was a part of my childhood (from ages 5-16 or so) we'd visit once or twice a year on our annual or bi-annual trip from Gold Coast to Sydney to visit my grandparents. But for the last 20 years since then (oh boy, I'm 37 years old... yep I'm 37...) I haven't been to Coffs Harbour and the Big Banana once. I know what I'm saying probably means very little but the kind of minimal investments that this park is doing for seemingly a large amount of money makes me no more inspired to visit even if I'm planning my first proper cross-state road trip from my current home in Melbourne back to the Gold Coast for the first time in 20 years. I'm sure I'll stop outside the titular banana and take a photo for 'the lols' buts its gonna take a lot more than what they're planning to actually spend a cent inside their park #sorrynotsorry

Woo, zero!

People get injured or die at Disneyland often, they're just big enough of a park/brand/company that it doesn't matter to the everyday park-goer. Lines of sight, indoor stations, snaking queues, a mountain of staff and the allure of getting the most out of your 'Disney Day' means that tragedies don't get the kind of word-of-mouth negativity compared to what happens at other parks. Also, let's be real Disneyland could pay off every news station and bury (no pun-intended) any death that occurs at their park plus it'd pale in comparison to whatever mass-shooting was actually the top story that day. Our parks and our country are continuously running on that 'slow news day' energy, that even mentioning Dream World for something unrelated like a new ride will give the newsroom a chance to dredge up that "it's been 1567 days since the Thunder River Rapids disaster". Long story short, Austrralia is different to Europe, Australia is different to America, we kinda suck in many ways, and lack-luster (borderline abysmal) theme park ride operations will now always be one of those things that we'll have to live with. In my waking dreams I hear the enigmatic chants of "Eight to a row or the boat won't go" as we used to funnel into the continuously moving station of the Loony Tunes River Ride... maybe one day we'll get back to that, but I doubt it.

Do they still make new 'Enterprise'-type rides? One of those would be nice, I like them *smiley face*.

I think Movie World already did, that'd explain the sub-par theming in the Oz precinct...

As much as I appreciate how prevalent water "bubblers" are in the queues of most major rides in the Japanese Disneyland/Sea parks and even some Universal Studios rides there's two things making me think they aren't necesary in Australian park queues. 1. The queues don't get nearly as long (ok maybe they do but that's an operations issue not a "this park is so damn full of people we need to cater to basic human needs) and 2. I don't trust Gold Coast people to not do something fucking nasty with those bubblers because they're in a dark queue and think it's funny/cool to rub their two brain cells together and piss in a drinking fountain... or worse.

B&M Vertical Drop coaster.

WAT?