Baconjack

Not privy to what goes on now but I heavily doubt village roadshow would ever buy anything from S&S given how green lantern has turned out Not only the trains have a long list of design flaws but they nearly killed people as well, id say they would have blacklisted them for any major capex projects after that happened

By all accounts the one at Busch gardens is very unreliable They might have improved on the tech since then and it’s definitely very cool but replacing a lemon with another is not what we want If I remember right Dreamworld decided against a conversion of giant drop because it was too intimidating so that might be a factor too

If that were true (which i wouldn’t know anything about) Intamin sell a bunch of drop towers and a small collection of flat rides (only 2 or 3 rides they design themselves). Thats it. They don’t have many choices Drop tower? They already have batwing so no tourbillon? Made by the same guys as doomsday (ABC) and are also lemons so you can rule that out if Village do their homework Gyro swing? There’s one up the road that it will inevitably be compared to By the process of elimination we can welcome back the sea world pirate ship

It is also much easier to sell offshore given the vast majority of parks here already have a pendulum ride themselves and absolutely zero chance Village Roadshow purchases a ride second hand.

Doomsday's individual page has now been deleted off the park website and the ride has been taken off the maintenance schedule, however is still on the map and appears on the attractions page Again surely an announcement comes soon. The ride is gone and whatever replaces it i'd imagine would be during 2026 at the very earliest (given its wet n wild's turn for capex this year and the area has re opened to public access without any substantial demolition work taking place). Surely they would have had time to prepare for a replacement given it was a lemon, right?

Nope it’s still on the map and website

It’s ultra landlocked yes but there’s heaps of old flats they have they could pull down for it if they wanted to The ex carny power surge and Frankenstein’s monster enterprise are some of them

LPM should have some interest they are one of few parks here that doesn’t have a pendulum ride of any sort. They’ve got space for this iirc. Would love to see Claw remain on our shores

Wasn’t dreamworld making record profits in the early 2010’s while theming was rotting away everywhere in the park (and as we know now safety practices were near non existent)?

Best food - dough bros at dreamworld best guest experience - dreamworld best park operations - adventure world best flat ride - Hair Raiser Best coaster - dc rivals Best family coaster - jet rescue best themed area - Rivertown best kids area - Nickelodeon land Best show - aqua light show at sea world best new ride - jungle rush best park - dreamworld

Valid point but I’d reckon given there will be plenty of space around the park in the not too distant future you make the effort to switch things up rather than do like for like replacements. Lantern will be the next to go, might come closer than one would think considering how problematic it is. That space could fit 2 flat rides - DC land sorely needs its filler and Vortex would be better suited to movie world’s needs. By comparison you have much more space to work with from doomsday out next to West for a future major in 6-7 years. Helps with guest flow a bit better not cramming all the majors at the front of the park and getting people out towards the back. You’ll need something to replace Lantern at the end of the day

Surely an announcement comes any day now Its still on the website and park map

WOZ coasters were in pieces on site this time last year. It’s not uncommon for them to arrive early We also don’t even know when this will open. Could be as early as September for all we know given almost a year’s worth of construction & commissioning for a flat seems a bit much to me

Isnt that specific section of the ride the one that's incomplete? Little bit of extra effects added (like maybe some projection mapping around the face which should brighten up the room slightly) would make that bit less scary. (for the record haven't been on it yet I'm operating off very limited glimpses of the switch track) Gonna say it would be the external sections. More people than you think are turned off by the thought of a ride going backwards - no one does Rivals backwards even when the experience was cheap. If West's backwards drop was exposed I'd guarantee that a lot less people would have been on it.

Abyss is a good ride with the wrong restraints. If they had lap bars on it from the start there would be no headbanging. Also runs very rough when it’s hot but that’s a problem with every coaster known to man in Australia. Even rivals gets a rattle on a hot day.

To add isn’t the rights to the film owned by Warner themselves anyway? Wouldn’t this be covered in the royalties/licensing deal Village already have with Warner for their brand name plus IP like DC, looney tunes, and scooby-doo or at most renegotiated to include Oz?

Yeah thanks for the links I knew that I read somewhere that WOZ was initially quoted at a much smaller figure. Im going to go out on a limb and say they’ve combined the spend with Flash and the scooby renovation. Maybe that might make a bit more sense then but I still don’t think all of those things add up to $100m.

They’ve spent money fairly recently redoing all the indoor seating areas in the park and retheming all the food vendors. I’d personally keep expectations very low. The last owners milked the park for all it was worth for a good decade and a half (longer than they wanted to tbf) before the rides got old and everything non heritage listed needed to be swapped out for new equipment ahead of a sale. If anything we’ll see the same cycle until the park gets another refresh in 15-20 years’ time. Haven’t watched Dream circus but from watching a few YouTube videos of it, it’s fair to say that the tech is part of an upgrade to the AV system and can be repurposed for other events they run in there. They’ve had gigs at the big top as recently as 6 months ago. These guys aren’t idiots they know the big top is a crucial component of their business and allows the rides section to run at a loss off peak.

Bit of attention is putting it lightly. Havent been on West in years but a solid three quarters of the effects aren’t working in recent POV’s. I’d have a hard time finding anything that did work beyond the water spitting out of the bucket. It’s genuinely in a horrible state. It’s the same story as superman - I’m too tall to ride it now but when “The tremors are getting worse continue to metropolis station as quickly as you can” plays twice and the pre launch audio doesn’t play “Tunnel collapse is imminent 15 seconds to cave in” anymore (as noted in all recent POV’s), something’s up. Should have been given a bit more of a looking at when they installed the new boats I reckon.

Have said this many times but Wet n wild really needs something like Tantrum at raging waters or even something like perfect storm at jambaroo (yes I know they have a tornado slide already but jamberoo have 2 and make it work). Doubt they’d have the room for either of those there especially when there might be 3 slides going in that spot (which I find pretty hard to believe given that aqualoop’s plot of land isn’t that big to begin with unless you expand out back towards where the top of aqua racer is)

Big top has always been the cash cow for LPS and effectively bankrolls the park. It was making shitloads on concerts and events for years and even to this day it’s a quality venue for those things. Pretty sure events can be still booked there based on the website. Not sure if a $29 a head upcharge show is going to beat that but we will see. Sure it’s an innovative way to introduce new attractions when you h no longer have space to plop in flats from a showman for school holiday periods like what else could they do? Run a train on Big Dipper backwards for summer? I don’t think they’ve run both trains on that thing since the summer period it opened On another note the pub group that’s bought the park are probably seeing the park for what it is - a cash cow they can let run for 20 years in its relatively new state with minimal capex. Its a shame because the only thing I’d say the park needs is the new gen Intamin hot racer train for Big Dipper which might be the silver bullet to how rough it is

I’m guessing this is a queue railing? Every railing in a queue line in any park known to man has had people’s fingernails scratch them. This is not new.

To play devils advocate, Rebel Coaster doesn’t have any means of storing loose articles. To be fair it’s logistically difficult given there’s separate load and unload stations and you’d need staff members doing grouping & offering tubs for loose items in the queue, then taking it over to the unload stations. Found this to be pretty strange considering loose articles can hit other riders, not just people on the ground. I was holding onto my shit in my pockets for dear life when I went on it earlier this year. On the second part I’m not a lawyer but how has chant’s breached their duty of care when there’s big ass “restricted area do not enter” signs all across the coaster envelope. The woman is not illiterate and can surely be capable of reading that before jumping the fence.

I presume these 2 names that were recently trademarked by village are related to whatever replaces aqualoop

I have never watched the movie but $100m has been spent and they couldn’t get a CG animation on a screen remaking this where the mural is currently? How are they doing things worse than 2 years ago?