Slick

Not only are they considering how to make this attraction better, but they're also being transparent in the process and communicating that to their fan-base. Good on you, Dreamworld.

C'mon, seriously?

I'm also not posting invites to take all my fellow enthusiast friends out to Q1, the Lego Store or Top Golf when it eventually opens.

Okay, so i've seen at least three or four theme park facebook pages post about Top Golf and organising events for the grand opening in mid-2018 - so I need to ask this again - why are enthusiasts all so collectively crazy keen about something that literally has nothing to do with theme parks? My best guess continues to be that that it's a proximity thing. So because it's next door to a theme park it's just instantly cool, because if it was some sort of interest in the idea itself or the company that's bringing it over, people would've been swarming to Kingpin when it opened (which broadly is the exact kind of product) and working off their churros at Goodlife gyms when Ardent had still owned both.

Their crappy design makes it look like a council ad about not driving over flooded roads.

I feel sorry for your nuts.

The website uses a lot of my photography (with notable exceptions to rides they've sinced added more themeing to e.g. Rampage, which only goes to suggest further that is a theme park) which is the very source you use to ironically justify being a giant douche in suggesting you haven't used my photography to form said ironic opinion. If I used satellite imagery from my keyboard warrior armchair instead of going to experience these places first hand, Dreamworld would be called "tree-world" and Wonderland Sydney would be called "no one cares because it's been gone for over a decade."

I'll agree with the point @Skeeta is making - the only fun i've ever had credit whoring is when i've had quite a few to drink at a theme park, at which point, both the embarrassment that comes from riding a children's attraction and my inhibition that stops me from doing exactly that are both well and truly gone, which at least, for me, makes it kinda enjoyable and funny. Still sad. But really funny. But still kinda sad. People should be credit whoring the parks themselves. Theme parks to me are excellent waypoints that enable a traveller to procure great adventures and memorable stories in the process of getting to said waypoints. One time I missed the pathway to Tobu Zoo by a whole a hundred metres or less and ended up strolling through multiple farms, walking an odd country dirt path and jumping a river to be escorted to an alternative entrance by staff. To me that story of quite literally going off the beaten track is more memorable and brings me more joy than say the memory of riding the kid's coaster at Sea World.

The fibreglass mould for the first carriage varies between LPM's version and Brisbane's one. I'd put money on it being Rob Croft's conversion that never worked out as planned. Good idea in theory but as the article alluded to, it'd have a pretty high centre of gravity for the relatively small axle that was originally designed for Zamperla's track guage and thus quite painful to operate off-track.

5th SEASON. not year. that ride hasn't done 5 years service like a gold coast ride has. Hell - Superman has been going for 13 years and you wouldn't catch most people calling it rough... As far as I'm concerned, for a park that shuts down for such a big chunk of the year, maintenance ought to be top notch, as there's plenty of time to deal with refurb and upkeep. Eh, being the only good coaster in the most isolated city in the world makes me think the "smoothness" of that ride is probably over-analysed and over scrutinised. It's a Gerstlauer Eurofighter, not a B&M hypercoaster - it is what it is. It has abnormally tight, crazy elements and transitions in disgustingly hot weather that's so hot that for most of the year it would come close to the edge of Gerstlauer's operating temp limits. With that in mind, it runs pretty damn well in my mind, but then again, I wasn't overly sensitive or fussed about DC Rival's "vibrationgate" either.

I can think of a few reasons: i'd imagine a lot of buyers were scared off after the two in Great Adventure were scrapped this was at the tail end of the "faster, taller, longer" rush for parks, and Intamin's hydraulic launch system was favoured as it was able to deliver those marketable metrics this is very speculative, but after Intamin ejected a few folk with their lap-bars, all the parks went through a phase where everything needed an OTSR (ala Superman Escape) and so parks would've shied away from their lap-bar train designs. It's not all bad though, Premier have made a comfortable comeback by delivering a really solid few post-GFC products that leverage their LIM tech for smaller, lower capacity and yet visually impressive roller-coasters (Tempesto at Busch Gardens, Williamsburg.)

I'll spare you all the requirement of reading another four thousand word essay and simply say this: Amusement Park - to me, I think an amusement park is simply a park that presents itself well with no true story prevalent in either individual attractions or the space they're in. Luna Park or say Cedar Point (in general i.e. most attractions & midway etc.) are parks that are generally presented nicely and represent the idea of an "amusement park" in my mind. Theme Park - again, "to me," I think a theme park is a park that has attractions and areas that carry a story or a theme. Now - it's worth nothing that debating the quality of those stories, themes or lands or even if every single thing needs to have a theme inside a park to be then defined as a theme park is a whole other debate. So, with that context in mind, Adventure World definitely gets a theme park tick, the kids land is a coherent themed space for one with clearly defined portals, and while Abyss/Goliath etc. don't exist inside a "gouhland" or some kind of over-arching title, there's more than enough effort and original creativity in a defined space of multiple specific areas of the park to warrant it being more than worthy of being a theme park (or hybrid water park/theme park.) Also, as a side note, i'm pretty confident in saying that with the exception of @Mark Shaw, @Tim Dasco and myself, most folks here haven't actually been over there in quite some time and are actually probably relying on my photos as an accurate representation of the park itself, and those photos are three years old now.

What does NFI mean? This is an amusement industry focussed website FFS, AFAIK that ancronym simply just doesn’t belong here, IMO. As I always say to my girlfriend when she asks me about what the dog can and can’t eat, “gee, if only we had the entirety of the world’s information in our pockets and readily available 24/7.”

Not going to lie - I think we're both varying degrees of correct - all of this I agree with, however, shades of grey and a moron falling out of the log are by and large the contributing factors here.

Correlation doesn’t equal causation, however I’m also not going to dig up twelve months of conversation either so... 🤔

Nope, because again, like I literally just said, the issues are un-related. The park has mentioned it's un-related, Parkz has shown it's un-related - it's unrelated. Say it with me - it's unrelated. Okay? Cool.

Just a heads up - no need to post the same comments on multiple threads.

HOLY SHIT I NEVER THOUGHT THIS DAY WOULD ACTUALLY COME. Bloody great job to the folks who made the new Movie World site - all the things I bitched & moaned about years ago are all addressed. It's mobile friendly, the imagery is large and punchy, the UX is very focussed and gets you to key information very efficiently (the mega menus are way, way more concise than Dreamworld's) and the UI is very modern (which is to say like everyone else in 2018 and thus super large and boring, it could be honestly made a few points smaller but in terms of being "boring" realistically that's totally fine because the content should ultimately do the talking, which it does very well here). There's still some bugs that need to be ironed out (like showing local's prices in Melbourne) but i'm sure they'll whack in some code to fix that in due course as not to alienate or tick off interstate customers. I still hate the park map because it's actually not at all useful but that's not digital's fault. What they need to do now is hop on getting their e-commerce portal up to snuff (it's missing lots of core features like affiliates etc.) and go the extra effort of having something solid like a rolling newsfeed on park updates & a PR portal that actually has up to date artwork and imagery. This is all pretty basic blog stuff in 2018 - the less time they spend trying to implement the world's most elegant solution and going between departments to achieve that and just go hard on keeping it simple and putting it out there will go a long way. Lastly - a lot of their video content needs improving and will play as the core of strengthening their digital comms. That's all i'll say there - not giving away concepts for free here. Definitely looking forward to seeing this rolled out across the board. Also, it's worth noting that Dreamworld have rolled out a new front page. I'm also a fan, but the biggest pet peeve as it stands as that their "learn more" button (which is the first thing people will undoubtedly see from a UX perspective) no longer goes to the pure imagination page but rather a dreary what's on page. I'm sure their heat maps will corroborate my thoughts and they'll go to work on fixing that up quick smart. (You're welcome in advance, i'll send you an invoice soon.) Do like the rolling park updates and a few other things, it's definitely a step in the right direction.

Nope, because it's been stated many times, including in the articles that the canopies had nothing to do with TRR, so saying the opposite would also apply.

Regardless of opinion on the roofs, one thing noteworthy stands out today - it's the first day in a very long while the park has had all its core rides and attractions open post incident.

Nah usually i'd just do this. This is for updates and discussion about maintenance.

I continue to be baffled by all the park's insistence on closing things for really long, suspicious periods of time and burying their heads in the sand when anyone asks about it, creating more suspicion. Meanwhile - parks in the US are more then happy to boast about making improvements to safety and comfort.

While I did leave it open I guess with my background of photography and whatnot people would've assumed the context was the imagery itself. In saying that, they're not the only options, and putting a weird cage roof thing is not the only option either.

I'll just leave this here.... Thoughts?

What did you find negative and did you agree or disagree?