Cactus_Matt

Expanding upon my thoughts I posted previously in this topic, I do think the time has passed on Big Brother being some big National zeitgeist thing, especially with the ~youth~ I mean I'm an "old-head" (37) and I don't even watch TV anymore, only Youtube and Twitch streams (also anime but that doesn't count as TV). What chance does Dreamworld have in capturing that most important young demographic? Unless there's some very specific stunt casting, i.e. getting some younger influencers/content creators involved or even in the house - even if it's just as temporary intruders I agree that this show has little chance at being anywhere near as successful as it was. Even for someone like me who is pretty nostalgic about visiting the eviction stage, etc. I won't be watching OR visiting (of course I live in Melbourne now, but even if I did still live on the GC I don't think I'd care enough to watch or visit).

Since we're talking about 360 degree flat rides, i'll take 90's Dreamworld 'Enterprise' over most modern flat rides these days...

Fair enough, I'll eat crow and admit that yeah that looks crazy big, shame it won't go 360 as that'd be another selling point about why its better than the previous claw but I guess this ride type is unable to go 360 like the one at Luna Park.

NOT to be a downer, but I don't know how those previous pictures from old Claw and new Claw give any impression of how tall this ride will be because angles bias and all that shit. Also will this "new Claw" go 360 degrees? Just asking...

It's kind of funny that as human beings we're on this Earth for such a short period of time and people are devoting literal ~hours~ of their day and getting genuinely worked up over a fucking power outlet on a fake wall in a theme park in Australia. Not hating either way, I mean you do you but I can't help but just think it's kind of funny... KIND OF FUNNY!

Much as I love for this to be a coaster announcement, just quietly it would be awesome if the 400+ foot spinning coaster that was going to go to Six Flags Great Adventure as the Kingda Ka replacement ended up at Dreamworld because of all the enthusiast backlash against its replacement and was just using the Dreamworld tower as its main support. Obviously that's not going to happen and while my Number 1 coaster that incorporates the Dreamworld tower would be a vertical drop coaster by B&M that goes 75 degrees up the left side of the tower from the land the Log Ride used to occupy and then drop vertically down the tower on the right side where Tower of Terror used to travel along. With the height of the tower this could make for the first strata-B&M/vertical drop coaster and blow away most of what's happening in the states. But yeah, I'm a dreamer, and this ain't gonna happen, realistically this'll be an expansion to the Giant Drop, with drops being put on all sides of the tower so it's a four-sided drop tower and the roller coaster emoji is just because the social team doesn't know the difference between a coaster and a flat ride.

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!