Slick

Well its not as if we're in a hurry as such..... Oh I just remembered, the first Claw tests will be done this weekend!!!!!! So it will hopefully be swining by Sunday, but that's about it though, not actually opening for any of you "dolts" or anything.....

I think some people have very large imaginations. One word, meh.

Sports Carnivals. Beauty. Seeming I wasn't in anything, and "team spirit" just means sitting on a grass hill exposed to the "elements", I'd rather be in LPM than at school. Besides, it was optional anyway!!

No it doesn't. It swings 110 degrees each way.

If you look closely I would say it was the author's intent to make the photo like that.

Obviously not. Some of the Dreamworld ride-ops are the most funniest people. Yesterday I was on an E-brake on the Tower and they both jumped out going "e-brake, ooh yeah, half an hour brake, ooh yeah, e-brake..." actually I forget the song now but the point is is that some Dreamworld ride-ops and Wonderland ride-ops are the coolest people i've ever met. "...How did you know about the Cherry Picker....... oohh, I bet you you're that Slick guy aren't you?" "...Yeah the one that knows too much and has funny photos of Dreamworld stuff..." "...Yeah, it's a tough life, but some one has to annoy the crap out of the admin....and ride-ops...."

TOT -"Yeah, i'm just afraid it'll stop at the top and we'll be stuck up there." -"So how fast does this thing go." "I Think it was about 260 kilometres." -"I hope we don't blast of the top of the tower!!" Wipeout -"Yeah there was this once where they were stuck upside down for 3 hours." -"If there's no power they just leave you there." Thunderbolt -"I remember when it got stuck upside down for an hour and then they sent a man up there to get everyone out." -"last one just less pathetic" -"the reason why they closed it was because one of the trains fell off the track." There all the ones I can think off the top of my head. Must play counter-strike now!

We went on a Sunday and the place was empty. The only thing that had a "real" wait was Goldrush of about 5 minutes. The CCCC had no wait whatsoever, so we got about 15 rides in about an hour.

You know there's a saying that rove says that...... WHAT THE...????

That way they can build up the suspense......

Hmmmm... yes quite.

Especially the dome cinema! That thing was horrible on the neck, and the quality of video was terrible (probably because it was made from Real Player )!!!

On Friday it was like a very bad headache, Saturday afternoon when I was waiting with ops for the GD's power to come back on I began to have a very intense cough. Apparently now I have a viral infection, and are still very sick.

Hey joz, you've never noticed the emergency stairs everyone uses now? Everything else though is fully understandable though, the dilema having to wait another 3 minutes just because one little toddler is too small to ride is just unreasonable. This was also a problem for TOT once when a great friend was operating. A large group of indian people (11 to be exact) joined up with two people at the front of the line, making a lot of noise and testing the ride-ops perseverance (hopefully I nailed that one) and finally when they came through there was one boy who was too small, but they let him through to go up with his mum but not ride. But the little boy didn't understand what was going on so when the gates opened and he was about to be seperated from the group he just erupted into tears, his mum was eager to go on, so they had to unlock the harnesses, then they spoke to the boy for quite a number of minutes, then finally on of the ride-ops had to stay with the boy behind the gates. Nightmares sometimes just to get one ride.

Hi everyone, sorry about not giving any two cent coins this week but I have had some major illnesses since Friday. But that didn't stop me going to dw on saturday, ooohh, and I have a couple of photos except, I will be posting them on Saturday because I will be near my lovely friend ADSL which makes life easier. Well I guess we've all heard about about Queensland's big 700 mil upgrade in power and funny thing was that on Saturday Dreamworld was quite severely affected. The Log Flumes were all jammed up on the first lift hill, but the new lift construction did come in handy said the ride-op at the time. Then there was Cyclone, which had its train stuck halfway up the lift hill and had to have a ride-op sent up to manually release the harnesses and get everyone down. Luckily I was able to venture into areas of "staff only" origin and there is some seriously whacked stuff under the Cyclone queue line, ahem, moving on..... Giant Drop had both side's winches stuck somewhere on the tower, one was on the magnets the other was sitting at the top. River Rapids was fully drained, not to mention that one of the Rapid cars were half-sunk in the river! And the park had hundreds of screaming guests which I also have photos of and plenty more, but you have to wait for photos. Buh-bye :eek:

While a long name, I thought that maybe ThunderBolt Vengence might be an interesting theme idea. Now before you get your pitchforks out, Dreamworld still have one of the trains and one piece of track left, which they are going to use as scenery somewhere so you can hop into it and get your photo taken on it. So the "Vengence" would be this overkill of ThunderBolt and that the nature of the ride (the spinning etc.) would create a whirlwind causing one of the trains to be sucked into the themeing. Sorry, that makes no sense, I have had the biggest headache I have ever had this weekend and the GD just sparked it yesterday, go figure.

So where did you get that media release? And is there any other bits of artwork?

Okay, the story of Reptar..... It was 6:00am or so on Wednesday morning during the holidays and they were doing the Reptar testing while they were doing work in Nick Central using a Cherry Picker. Well as the report showed, Dreamworld DOES NOT check the track before opening and today wasn't different. So as it swooped down after completing the first 360 degrees of the 400 something degree circle the front seats collided with the cherry picker and the front seats were obliviated and the cherry picker had just over 300k's worth of damage. Coates Hire, who owned the Cherry Picker, pulled out the Cherry Picker that day and told the media that they were not doing any construction work with Maqcuarie every again. This was dreadful news for Maqcuarie as Coates Hire supplied all cranes for their Industrial work. But I guess it's alright, they have now signed a contract with SkyReach, which is actually a bigger crane supplier than Coates Hire, and now I'll be able to get all the dirt on the theme parks even before it comes into fruitition. That's how I picked out the news with how Dreamworld withdrew that 15 mil. loan. And what I mean by an e-ticket attraction (I think) was that The Claw will actually be a distraction for something much, much bigger. Think TOT big as some very expensive booms have been ordered. Nice.

Before we start, I just want to say that while they have made media releases on what I am about to say, this should still be kept only on these forums. Reptar- Well after that cherry picker that hit it that wednesday morning (or it hit it), the front carriage has now been removed, and now they are forced to always have people on it while its moving, so, when they test Reptar every morning, they have at least 40 bags of potting mix sitting in the station :cool: , that's just disgraceful, plus they've replaced the Vekoma plaque with the TV! Thunderbolt- no, i'm not talking about the actual coaster, but i've been able to go through the station and they now have the seats and other parts and they are all sitting there, in the station, plus, the hydraulics are sitting under mesh under the Cyclone and some of the platforms etc. are sitting with the the old seating and stuff under that building near the ThunderBolt station. Plus the themeing has been confirmed for the Claw, and apparently looks excellent from what I've been told by Mark one of the admin. at Dreamworld. More information about the theming will be apparently released during August. And as I found out, The Claw could be an E-ticket attraction, but I can't say too much about future attractions that cost 15 mil. plus Cyclone is just plane crap. Simple. The old paint from LPS is coming through, everything is fading, from track to themeing, and well, the is just to much headbanging on the OTSRs. Tower Of Terror is starting to get a bit rough from the rear of the pod, plus some of the bushes on the way down the track are getting really close, which is not a good thing at 130 kilometres half way down and that it no longer even reaches the point its not supposed to (see in photo). WipeOut, is well, WipeOut, and everything doesn't work. All well, so you again next week Dreamworld......

Nice, good to see progress.

Actually I don't know about that being sure as a representative from SkyReach has informed me that Dreamworld has taken out a big loan (figures starting from 12 mil. onwards apparently) and are signing new deals about the future of the park. If you have a look at rides overseas similar to the one that we have at Dreamworld, we are having a lot of BIG AND TALL ideas coming into the light and plus the BB site is looking like it will be a very hot spot for new attractions over the coming years. I guess i can't hand you a neat little package about what's happening, but now that Coates Hire are never touching Macquarie ever again, I will be able to get alot more information before the media even touches it (THANK YOU REPTAR!)

To be true indeed. One of the only reasons why I went was because of he fact that I had a day free in Auckland so i thought I better check out what's there.

All that i'm doing is adjusting to the theme already. Of course there are better things than the whole evactuation thing but Dreamworld chose what they wanted and now they're going to stick to it.

Oh well, we people who never have been there have.

Well i'm not sure how much the glass would like getting the force of the Tower Of Terror being placed against them as the speed to shatter them, unless it was plexiglass, but then you can't see as much on launch. I think keep it they way it is, and just mod the hell out of it. I'd have to say that when it comes to upgrading and making things look pretty, I may have a lot more experience, especially when my dad was an architect and I am going out tomorrow to do some more modding to my already beast computer. It's what I do. And plus, who would vandalise a security camera? The person who was operating them would instantly see the person's face and can apprehend them on the way up. And i'm definitely sure there were numerous amount of reasons why Dreamworld placed the TOT head and entrance where it is. While it was done as a rush rush thing because of Nick Central etc., it doesn't mean the whole thing was a stupid idea. I was also thinking that with the entrance of the TOT via Tiger Island (the little white bridge part), that could be widened signifgantly by moving the disable ramp to the TI cafe either behind the cafe or the other end where it would fit and would be in a more appropriate position in regards to crowd control. Whoa! New idea! The entrance could be redone. From the exit of the shop, place the entrance next to that. At that point the queue line heds straight down into a flight of stairs into an underground walkway filled with that death fealling and at the end stop up groups of people and have a plasma screen similar to what Tomb Raider's did and tell what's happening in regards to the story line. You know, u could already use the current one, and have an animation of the TOT skull giving the exact same message that is already given in queue.... "this tunnel conatains toxic wated and is contaminated". From there, the people are then given the word by the skull on the plasma screen to move into the next room which is actually another flight of stares leading into the TOT skull entrance, from there, you would enter into the normal queue line and adapt more themeing into what already is there. Look, my head is throbbing at the moment, so, if you would like to wait until next saturday I will give a full detailed guide to my ideas. I think that if i can express moreso on what i'm trying to tell you guys you'd get my picture perfectly. Trust me, something like this can definitely be pulled of well. Disney Well.