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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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

You new around here? Common practice for Village Roadshow

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.

Zero chance. Superman doesn't have the downtime the stratas experience and has generally been quite reliable because it is smaller. When it comes time to replace it (10 years or so) it and Flash can be replaced at the same time. I wouldn't rule out Zamperla or Intamin doing a conversion along with renovating the dark ride section given the LSM conversion hasn't had many issues on smaller hydraulic coasters and the dark ride section needs a lot of work

Wait a few years for the plants to grow then you’ll take this back. I have always maintained that rivertown as a theme will look better in 3-4 years time than on opening day. Every park known to man looks barren on day one then the plants grow and provide natural shade. Everything will look better with a bit of weathering. I think it’s a bit of a silly expectation for an Australian park to install mature plants in a new build area considering how expensive it is to do so.

Have nearly 2000 hours on the original planet coaster so this was a day 1 buy for me. The features added are awesome (particularly pathing and scenery) but have limitations (hard to make intamin accelerator cars look like commodores unfortunately the scaling is a bit limited for those specific details). The content is pretty bare bones as well It's quite difficult to really detail this pub I'm trying to make in my Australia DCA-style park. Will get much better with DLC's though

How so it’s been pretty well established that the main entrance is next to superman If anything this is just that extra path that spits you out next to scooby, the exact same one in the arkham days.

If they were to sell they wouldn’t sell to a developer for the land it sits on. No shit. Coast is not pulling a Sunway. But at the end of the day its land value is still a component of the park value. Add the additions to the park, especially in the last 5 years, and you’ve got a park that’s worth a lot more than what Macquarie/Ardent/Coast bought it for originally.

Yes you know that Coast’s shareholders can wind up a company that’s solvent? Shareholders would get a pay day as well given how much Dreamworld would go for if sold. Brisbane Olympics are around the corner if you were a publicly listed company with an objective to make profit and look after your shareholders, you’d be a fool not to take advantage of the land prices that are surging across SEQ and sell at the right time. The level of capex investment that’s been made over the years has also added quite a bit to the park value. All of it points to a sale in the future. You don’t have to keep a business running for the sake of it

That looks really nice. Yeah I thought they would flip the ride position. If it was kept in the same spot you’d be encroaching on shockwave. Will look really imposing to guests from Main Street (you’d see it in action from the car park and highway too probably) and will be nice to get a different view swinging towards tail spin. Thunderbolt’s land will probably go to whitewater world (as much as the nostalgia nerd in me would like dreamworld to rework the old station for another thunderbolt) Rocky Hollow is the next cab off the rank but I’d imagine ocean parade is the last thing they touch before Coast sells. Gold Coaster has only operated for about 25 years total and has still got a fair bit of life left. It’s a waste of time to replace the track as it’s not popular enough to justify that expense. It’ll go when the time is right to invest into that corner of the park

Dreamworld social media team definitely read these forums, the jokes that have been made in the video give it away

Those Zamperla restraints are genuinely awful for people above 6 foot tall or of a larger build though. They're designed for skinny short folks. I've been on a couple discoverys and being a taller person the restraint dug so far into my shoulders and could barely close properly, it destroyed the experience for me. Gimme this over Sledgehammer at Luna Park anyday. Intamin over the shoulder lap bars (that are also on Big Dipper and Goliath) are the greatest thing since sliced bread Having been on Beast a few times I have it on high authority that King Claw will have a better cycle too that doesn't stop right as it starts to get good. Doomsday was an ABC Rides baby brokered by Intamin. Claw has operated reliably for 20 years and both it and its successor is designed by Intamin themselves. Your point on Doomsday is dribble lol

Surely you wouldn’t need to remove shockwave if you flip the ride position in the direction facing tail spin? At a brief glance on google maps you could fit it there and have plenty of clearance room with the Main Street shelter.

Like you definitely could but then where do you put the house? Dreamworld is rezoning the land which the old house sat on and management today probably hasn't got any interest in hosting.

Interesting to see the comparison between the nitty gritty details between Rivertown and Wizard of Oz land. Done by the same company, presumably on a similar budget across both companies. Movie World's approach with Kansas (jury is still out on the other parts of the land) looks plasticy and brand spanking new while the temple is already weathered and looks a lot better IMO

Do intamin still make condor style rides? Village may have interest

Is this the first time they’ve changed the map for like 20 years? Giant drop looked pretty much the same on the map since I was a kid

Yeah but not allowing guests to do their own seatbelt and making it another layer of the 69 layers of staff checks is world class didn’t you hear. Every other park known to man does it. World class theme parks have slow moving 2 hour lines as the standard.

I’d say it was when the ride was repainted and given enhancements in 2014. That would make it 10 years since the last inspection but not sure if it was a ‘major inspection’, but given the nature of ride repaints I’d make an educated guess that the structure got a solid look.