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Perhaps if the company hadn’t treated the workers involved like crap and ensured they continued to have the care and help they needed once the cameras stopped rolling he wouldn’t need to sue. Also the comment of ‘choosing to still work at a theme park’ fails to consider what if thats the industry he knows and has worked his whole career to be good at? The only people Ardent treated worse than the workers who were involved in the rapids tragedy were the guests who they left without heads.

Guess thats what happens when ya outsource ay 😛

Yeah, um - a couple issues with that....   Guy kinda has a point here

Did we watch the same video?

There is a different between willingly carelessly negligent and technically negligent. And also responsible. It’s also the right thing to do, guest gets injured on your property, you give them compensation. I’m honestly surprised that this whole situation is such a hard concept for many to get their head around. This exact situation has been playing out in our parks for the past 30+ years.

1) This discussion is kinda creepy given we are talking about an 8 year older girl. 2) People get hurt at parks, and they get paid out. It’s a take as old as time and it’s totally fair. These sorts of injuries used to happen A LOT at Wet N Wild and the old water parks and it’s why most of the speed slide type things got removed. The park can’t make these things beyond safe so nothing can occur. But also it’s not reasonable to expect you might get hurt, especially severely. It’s like it a rule was to hold on at all times on a coaster. But if you put your hands up you actually hit the ride structure and broke your arms. You didn’t follow the instructions, but it’s not a reasonable expectation that would result in injury. If this kid was standing up trying to ride and got a head injury then I’d be like tough shit. But in this case Dreamworld isn’t negligent, but neither is the child. And as Dreamworld is the business and the kid is the customer, they need to pay. This is why they have insurance, they will settle out of court, happens waaay more often than you’d think.

Lots of inaccuracies in this thread. JUST NO!!! The last thing I want to see is Wild West lit up like a car park. If it’s going to be done it should be fine right, to a high theatrical standard, it’s the most immersive themed attraction this country has. I’m definitely not in the ‘anything is better than nothing camp’. Also noise is not an issue, lighting is. Running the ride is definitely worth the extra expense to raise the park capacity overall. But lighting the ride properly would be a huge job and probably a bit of a stretch this year. I think the extended operating time is a great trial run which might see the money invested for future events for full night ops.

Incorrect. That’s why it’s closing at 6:45

That’s actually a very interesting take on things I hadn’t heard before! Also it’s kind of laughable at this point right someone is asking for a source as to where the idea the ride was being removed came from. Like sure they aren’t going to come out and confirm it, but that almost accusations email is a big cringe.

Bla bla... it’s so good unlike others they got all their rides opened on time for their reopening rather than rio people off for constant delays and lack of rides running... something something

Well I did worry that we might never see this day so very pleased to see construction actually happening.

Seemed like it for a bit 😛

OMFG would you ride this crazy coaster at xyz happy land?

I feel like several years ago that the idea of cheaply moving surfrider to SW would have definitely be something signed off on by VRTP executive. Then a month into the project would turn out something “unexpected” was discovered and the project would blow out by 3 million dollars. Thank god that sort of dumb stuff seems to have gone away with the old management.

I’d say most likely it’s already been planned and ordered and we’ll see work at least start next year. Possibly 2022 opening because Covid.

Yeah a video with sound would have been much more useful than annoying music IMO

— Previous Post was removed — We don’t need to start posting a million videos of projection mapping. If you’d like to make a projection mapping thread please create one in chit chat.

The 3D visualisations of the rides lighting will never be made public as they are confidential between the park and it's contractors. To satisfy curiosities though there are 6 sequences for the Disco Room Lighting: 'Laser Retro' Red and Magenta Blue and Beamy Warm Firey Pride Dark and Moody There may or may not be a 7th 'secret' demonstration show which may as well be called "Have a nice Weekend"

Ok guys it’s not a measuring contest if who is a superior park enthusiast. Let’s just share knowledge ok.

Definitely a thing. Or in Universals case “can you just knock us up another Hulk coaster so we can replace all the track”

Yes reality is with any moving light in that sort of duty cycle the mechanical components will die much faster than LED source. The good thing is in a project like that the lights are cheap, the infrastructure is expensive. So replacing something when it does fail is pretty simple/low cost. It also helps as you say if the programming takes into account the environment and deliberately gives some fixtures a ‘rest’ throughout the course of the ‘show’. This is why (apart from greater guest experience) you will see that the Disco Room in Scooby actually has several different light shows that rotate so you get something different on multiple rides.

Yeah I’m specifically talking about the sections of track at Dreamworld that hadn’t been painted. There’s no major foundation issues at Jet Rescue. It was clarified here that what was seen was just some mortar removal to access the hold down bolts and release a piece of track. Plausible scenario (I know nothing from the park, this is pure speculation on my part): Section it track was found to have an issue. Requires replacement - pretty common around the world. Fabrication facility in Europe is shut because of Covid. Park is waiting for new track but doesn’t have ETA so has removed reopening date.

Didn’t someone suggest Sidewinder was done for because of some paint/track evidence the other day and many were quick to say “doesn’t mean anything”. But now Jet Rescue has the same and we’re convinced that’s the end for the ride?

I didn’t say they passed them off as anything other than traveling rides. I just said I personally don’t like it. Wild mouse gets a pass because most wouldn’t think that even travelled and it’s so unique I’d have it anyway.

Very little in the smaller end of moving lights still using lamps now if any. You really have to be looking at things 1200w (or equivalent output) and above to still have new fittings using lamps, and even those are rare. Everything in Scooby is LED