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  1. Baconjack
    I agree MDMC is in urgent need of change (preferably with all new trains that are more comfortable) and that should happen in the next year but another flat is needed down the track. A ride to fill the gap Wipeout left is still required to keep the ride count up and I’d prefer it be in Rivertown instead of more shit being crammed into ocean parade.
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    $99 renewal isn’t that bad for the rate of investment. You’ll get King Claw in that span of time too, that isn’t going to take very long to build and will open September holidays at the latest (if not earlier) Annual passes at our smaller parks are more expensive so even if you bought a new pass it’s a pretty good deal. Cheaper than village and you get a year’s free access to objectively the best water park and the best run theme park on the coast. Not to mention the perks (don’t get any of that at village)
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    Highly doubt there would be asbestos in the building, it was only built in 1996. Not many homes of that age seem to have it If they planned on removing it, it would have been gone a year ago when they were re-doing Dreamland. You could feasibly use it for an expansion flat in Rivertown if you wanted to down the track though.
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    Yeah I’d say this is far enough in advance that they aren’t putting down Superman as being closed for longer. Which I think it will given the updated queue, a lot of work in addition to the usual work they do on it every year. Scooby going back online in June is plausible, maybe a couple of weeks later in time for the winter school holiday break. That said it’s been closed for long enough and it’s extremely hard to follow progress given all the work being done is indoors. It could realistically open at any school holiday break after that point whether that be July or September or in time for summer, with a few weeks heads up.
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    You’d think the usual 2 month block for superman is not enough time to rebuild the trains and renovate the queue? Could see it down until June
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    This is a really dumb argument when you think about it. Should dreamworld not get a water ride outside the water park ever again because of the accident especially one of a type that’s never been built before at our parks? A shoot the chutes is not a rapids ride and most of the modern ones employ a standard roller coaster chain lift & anti rollback which makes the machinery eating the guests impossible. You know like on Wild West falls? the fact west continues to get a massive line shows that the appetite for water rides still exists.
  7. Baconjack
    The consensus dream water ride - a well themed shoot the chutes - I'd argue will bring people back. Jurassic Park helped set attendance records for USH when it opened. There's certainly precedent.
  8. Baconjack
    Whatever your opinion on roofs are I think we can both agree that the end product of the vintage cars show Dreamworld has come a long way with retrofitting roofs on rides. As for the "they are model t ford's not off road cars" upon a quick google image search of "1920s off road vehicles" i think the cars will look similar enough to what comes up on there. Model t's were also used for off road purposes by the army, so if you think its that, there's a fair bit of historical context that allows it to fit the theme (such as: the explorers purchased some really old vehicles from the army and are taking tours around the jungle in them)
  9. Baconjack
    The dry park needs water rides (or rides to cool you off in summer) too. Gone from 2 to 0 within 5 years. WWW can wait for all I care. Their slide lineup I reckon is still better than wet n wild and younger on average. Wet n wild took 15 years to catch up and install a hydro coaster and they don’t even have a bowl of any sort yet, Www will be fine all that they need is a lazy river
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    Could you explain for me how a guest can get around a metal detector being swiped around the front and back pockets of their pants and around their jacket? Or the big walk through ones like what you see at airports? Unless they don't work properly I think they do their job spotting phones, wallets, keys etc. Valid point I visited in a quieter time than summer so there was obviously going to be less staff on. That was from that point on for flying dinosaur - lots more staff were present earlier in the queue. The walk through detectors like you see at the airport should be on Superman at a minimum. You don't need extra staff on for that as the usher at the entrance can check for things when they come up. When the station is renovated to have the lockers at the midway point, just move the thing to that point in the queue. Rivals and green lantern you can do what USJ does with hollywood dream and give the restraint ops metal detectors that checks riders after putting stuff away and before they get in their seat. That's the only way to make sure everything comes out and prevents guest-related delays in the boarding process.
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    Having visited USJ yesterday it shocks me that our parks don’t have metal detectors of any kind before boarding and especially on newer rides. You’d think having sections of queue planned from the start to have a set of those airport-style metal detectors before you get on the ride would make sense. There’s enough staff during summer to run that, universal had 1 person do it on flying dinosaur. Then you have 1 usher, 2 people checking restraints, and someone on controls. Or even the Hollywood dream method - before you get on you get the metal detector check after putting your loose items away and before you get strapped in. having this would completely eliminate that issue.
  12. Baconjack
    Is the WWW gate to the right of the car park not open anymore?
  13. Baconjack
    Having 3 majors open when private schools nationwide are starting to finish for the year is pretty poor form. Hoping the issues are fixed in the next week or so when people start showing up in large numbers
  14. Baconjack
    Whats funny is that the shed was painted in a rusty colour when originally built for lethal weapon, so they clearly went into the effort of repainting the building (and recoating the white parts of it) Go away green (like what Dreamworld did with the side of the jungle rush building facing Tiger Island) would have looked better
  15. Baconjack
    T bars have seatbelts underneath covering the lap iirc. Dragster would have had them & xcelerator would have them otherwise ASTM compliance wouldn't be achieved.
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    Dreamworld only being open for 7 hours a day in summer is horrible. You're probably looking at the busiest summer for the park since 2015, with a new ride being added to the mix that's going to have people line up for 1.5-2 hours for it because it is new. Minus half an hour or so for lunch that's a sizeable chunk of someone's day taken up by 1 ride. If you want to ride Taipan, that's a majority. And you're including a water park in the mix too - for the price of admission you aren't going to get on much. Movie world being open for 8 and a half is better but if Rivals gets 4 hour lines like it did last summer, people are for sure going to feel like they've been ripped off. The onus is on the park to keep operations consistent with the amount of people they're letting in
  17. Baconjack
    Legally speaking in most parts of the world rides of Superman's level of thrill are required to have fail safes in their restraint design which is what the seat belt is for. All accelerators are delivered with such to be compliant with regulations. No idea what the go is with australia standards but I'd assume they are very similar to what you see in America and Europe. Rivals if i remember right is manufacturer best practice. Superman and flash are caused by the insurance broker In any case i love to complain about this too but companies are money first and you have to make it work. The buck stops with the managers. They should be the ones keeping their staff engaged to get rides out as fast as possible because 4 hour queues in summer is unacceptable and insulting to customers when you don't get anywhere near that anywhere else during a peak period. Unfortunately what you get is apathy - whether this is the owners/execs passing it down to them or incompetence on their part is anyone's guess
  18. Baconjack
    Popular is the understatement of the century. Getting Potter was a game changer for universal and nearly singlehandedly made them a disney rival. Even many years after opening Potter related attractions are near the top of ridership at each of the parks. The fact USJ had timed entry for potter land up until a decade after opening speaks volumes on how big of a brand it is. Oz rides on an old movie that a lot of people haven't seen (myself included), a musical that people who don't go to theatres have no clue what it is and a movie based on that which has come out this year while sure is making money isn't lighting the world on fire. It's also been tried at a theme park before - USJ - and it lasted 6 years. It annoys me how people on this forum are engaging in mental gymnastics to suggest the biggest IP get in theme park history doesn't usurp oz instantly. It's a cool land and something different but it's not reinventing the wheel
  19. Baconjack
    No but if i were to guess the GFC probably put it on hold then the transition from macquarie bank to ardent killed the whole thing for good. As we know dreamworld spending (both on a day to day operational basis and in terms of capex investments) dropped off after that transition and i don't think the regime at the time would have had the ambition to spend $$$ on building all of that
  20. Baconjack
    If you respray the model t's and make them look a bit weathered then they are ok I suppose but they don't fit the theme It reeks of running out of cash because too much money has been spent on jungle rush
  21. Baconjack
    Lazy river has been in the works for yonks and has taken many forms. The adventure river was just the latest example. in terms of pre 2016 dreamworld and where the entire park was at, they’ve spent the last 3-4 years cleaning up the park from top to bottom and there’s still a few rides to replace on the dry side. Of course there’s no capex for the water park because it looked quite nice while a ride on the dry side killed people. Clean up the dry park first then look to renew WWW.
  22. Baconjack
    Wonder if this is a manufacturer recommendation from Intamin or it is another insurance broker’s decision given there is no precedent on other installs throughout the world I am aware of Anyone in here manage to get a ride on Kingda Ka and can provide some insight?
  23. Baconjack
    To be fair Mach 5, LTRR & Batman all had contracts for their replacements signed when they closed. They of course varied in quality but at least they were there. Cant say much about the others which have either taken years to get off the ground or still sit as empty plots.
  24. Baconjack
    You new around here? Common practice for Village Roadshow
  25. Baconjack
    Lol the germans aren’t wrong. The Mack family runs Europa park at Disney level efficiency with numerous common models to movie world and across the village roadshow chain generally. Why doesn’t village upper management take a trip there on their next purchase from them and observe how they do things? Hilarious how inept village has been at this when movie world gets similar attendance figures to many parks in Europe and yet hasn’t ever figured out you can dispatch a coaster train in less than 5 minutes. You want to be world class you should act like it. World class theme parks don’t have half the rides shut going into the busiest period of the year. People coming from overseas take the piss out of how we do things.
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