Brad2912

No rain forecast for SE QLD in the next 10 days. Should be sweet!

Removed tunnels retrofitted boats with upgraded safety features landscaping works completed printed new park maps with ride re-appearing media call announces ride will reopen next week THEN... ”oh, we overlooked that this water ride required a pump. Shut it down!”

My knee just isn’t up for jogging these days... I’m more of a leisurely stroll kinda guy...

i can unequivocally inform you that the VTP C&E (conference & event) Team do not share staff with the maintenance team... Starh (I know people go out of their way to spell kids names stupidly weird these days but this ones a stretch to imagine is real...) most certainly isn’t sitting at a desk in her business attire answering corporate enquiries and then interrupting a prospective client to get changed and run down and reset an e-stop on GL... i also heard that every public swimming pool in Australia is being closed down as it has a pump, and so did TRR....

What an absolute crock. I know it’s school holidays, but it’s only week 1 - surely you can’t be THAT bored already...

Yeah, the turn the lights ‘on’ but they were already on. They just turn them all off prior to the lighting. A few years back it was just general lighting until the countdown/ceremony.

Went along last night... my review... much the same as FN’s really. It’s a good night, you can’t REALLY complain, but it’s defintely gone a little stale. If it was your first time you’d love it, but as a 5th year veteran, it needs an injection of something new to bring the spark back. The only difference to last year was the ‘elf dress up’ pop up store, and the Rudolph 4D movie which is literally a made for tv Xmas special I remember watching about 25+ years ago as a kid. Other than that - no new floats, shows, anything. They’ve even cut costs by removing an actor out of the gingerbread man costume and literally skewering the costume up the Ass to make it stand up on the float.. the “lighting ceremony” of a few years back is sorely missed as it created a real wow moment - nowadays all the lights are already on when you walk in. Christmas buffet clearly the highlight. 6.5/10, with the honey baked ham, great crackling and a great dessert range bringing it up from a 5.

Nice little video (what is with that dudes Mo...) i like that it can be semi competitive with points etc, that makes it interesting for sure food looks great too

Terrible decision if that proves true... I hope it’s not

I’ve done backwards twice, one day run, and one night run. that’ll be it for me unless I have a mate up doing a first visit who wants to give it a run. im not usually a nauseous person on rides, but I was getting there by the end of the ride both times.

No idea what this is supposed to mean ..???..

Yes, yes it is.

I’m with Push on this one... JSD is very well themed for a kids car ride. Anyone saying otherwise is because they are downplaying it as it isn’t a ride for their demographic or because they are overly critical as it replaced LTRR..

The same reason any ride closes... the cost to maintain or repair is too prohibitive to continue operation.

No, no it’s not, it’s a bit hard to view a rollercoaster from old entry to LTRR, given it’s indoors. yes, it’s a staff office now

Just put a Cage around the chair... #simples

Sounds like a great idea to me... how much of the show building is currently utilised by JDS? Looks a significant portion or it only about 50%

Dunno where you guys find all these vomitters from... I’ve been going to theme parks for near on 27 years and have never seen someone vomit first hand on or after a ride

Alright.., we’ll lets just leave as a lot of people work, a lot of people don’t. Back to the topic at hand...

Well tradies are usually self employed, so they can choose, I’m yet to meet one who works between xmas and New Years, maybe your family members are smart and get everyone elses business. Lawyer - i’d consider that largely an essential service depending on which branch of law. My 2 brother-in-laws work in manufacturing - both plants/factories have a 2 week closure. I work in corporate hosting and event management and even we close except for 1 person manning the phones. Childcare? Never heard of any open in between Xmas and new year on the Gold Coast. Again, I’m sure you’d find one or two, but certainly not a majority or a standard. A lecturer? What educational institute runs classes between Xmas and new year?? None.

Maybe it’s due to there only being 1 train running? But literally just watched about 10 cycles plus mine and that’s how it was loaded

pretty much every non-essential/non-tourism, hospitality or retail industry closes down for 1-2 weeks - including most tradies and builders

At MW now and in the single rider queue currently for DCR. Interesting to note that regardless of the groups in the regular queue line - row 10 is always given to 2 people from the single rider queue.

I do read the whole article... I have also read approximately 20 published re-opening dates on rides this year at DW that have not been met. I have zero faith whatsoever that the entir structure will be gone. They basically have less than 2 weeks to get it done as it’s not gonna be touched between the 22nd Dec and January

And you think the mountain was an eyesore sitting there unused for a decade.... let’s hope we’re not now stuck looking at that terrible framework and ride out in the open for 3 years....