King Claw - Larger Replacement Intamin Gyro Swing for Dreamworld

[Naazon]

14 hours ago, TomiJ said:

Yea spot on mate. Lols don't reply to the forums if you are heavily under the influence 😂🤣🍻

Honestly we need a drunk discussion thread anyway

[themagician]

The ride harnesses have arrived

@Theme Park Girl

[Gazza]

^The seats too!

[New display name]

^^ and the test seat.

(no test seat is seen in the photo but the test seat has arrived)

[MickeyD]

The seats are now fitted

[cheski]

In Green Mountain Park in Saudi Arabia, a few days ago, a similar ride to this snapped in half mid-ride, leaving at least 23 injured (3 critically).

X/Twitter Video - https://x.com/i/status/1950966029393261010

It literally looks like the beam snapped in half! 😶

I never knew this was even realistically possible as i thought the beam was in one piece? What maintenance failures would have lead to this happening?

Do you think this will deter people from riding it at Dreamworld?

 

Edited yesterday at 06:12 AM by cheski

[TV15]

The ride is manufactured by Sinorides, and appear to be a chinese company, with a very extensive portfolio. https://www.sinorides.com/360-large-pendulum-rides/

This seems like a complete accident and should be investigated extremely thoroughly because for the ride to snap like that, multiple welds and reinforcements have failed. (This is the smaller model of the ride, i'm assuming the one in the video is the same scaled up as there is a boxy panel covering how it attaches to the axel/swingy bit)

The scope of these rides are very very different. One of them is a permanent fixed attraction and the other one looks like it could be moved to a different park each week.

King Claw is manufactured by INTAMIN, whereas i've never heard of—and i'm sure no one here has heard of— Sinorides. Most of these gyro swings are manufactured by Zamperla and INTAMIN, both are very reputable companies in the Amusement Ride and Coaster Space. The new one opening at Six flags Qiddiya is Zamperla iirc.

It won't stop me from going on gyro swings, I've been on a bunch and always felt safe. But everyone has their own reactions to events like these happening.

Edited yesterday at 06:30 AM by TV15

[themagician]

1 hour ago, cheski said:

I never knew this was even realistically possible as i thought the beam was in one piece?

With that type of ride model it’s seperate pieces joined together, but something like this wouldn’t happen on a ride like King Claw because it’s a completely different design and engineering.

My take on that incident is either the ride wasn’t designed correctly, it’s not been maintained properly or (if it’s a travelling model) it wasn’t built properly.

[Brad2912]

5 hours ago, cheski said:

In Green Mountain Park in Saudi Arabia, a few days ago, a similar ride to this snapped in half mid-ride, leaving at least 23 injured (3 critically).

X/Twitter Video - https://x.com/i/status/1950966029393261010

It literally looks like the beam snapped in half! 😶

I never knew this was even realistically possible as i thought the beam was in one piece? What maintenance failures would have lead to this happening?

Do you think this will deter people from riding it at Dreamworld?

 

Was horrific footage to see, but you cannot compare the shoddy workmanship (can you still say workmanship?) that is apparent there, and what we will have with King Claw. One’s a Chinese manufactured carnival style ride in a country with what I’d imagine to be fairly lax govt or industry body oversight, and one is a permanent Intamin manufacture, installed and to be tested under the rigours of Australian safety and operational practices. 
 

the apparent ride op running out the gate and away from the accident rather than attending to the injured also fills me with confidence about the quality of operations at the park…

[New display name]

Yep, AAA made rides don't fall apart in Australia.  Cough, cough, GL.

Yep, people don't die in Australia because of our rigours of Australian safety and operational practices. Cough, couch, RR.

Does Australia have an Australian safety and operational practices guide?

[Baconjack]

On 03/08/2025 at 4:29 PM, TV15 said:

The ride is manufactured by Sinorides, and appear to be a chinese company, with a very extensive portfolio. https://www.sinorides.com/360-large-pendulum-rides/

This seems like a complete accident and should be investigated extremely thoroughly because for the ride to snap like that, multiple welds and reinforcements have failed. (This is the smaller model of the ride, i'm assuming the one in the video is the same scaled up as there is a boxy panel covering how it attaches to the axel/swingy bit)

The scope of these rides are very very different. One of them is a permanent fixed attraction and the other one looks like it could be moved to a different park each week.

King Claw is manufactured by INTAMIN, whereas i've never heard of—and i'm sure no one here has heard of— Sinorides. Most of these gyro swings are manufactured by Zamperla and INTAMIN, both are very reputable companies in the Amusement Ride and Coaster Space. The new one opening at Six flags Qiddiya is Zamperla iirc.

It won't stop me from going on gyro swings, I've been on a bunch and always felt safe. But everyone has their own reactions to events like these happening.

Thanks for this. On a quick google search this company comes from an area of china (henan province) well known for making rides that are cheap, extremely low quality and straight up unsafe by design. So unsafe that most of them are illegal in western countries. These companies don't provide after sale service that folks like intamin do. Lots of rides coming out of here cause injuries all the time, there's a fair few videos of the arms snapping in half on gyro swings that are going around the internet and nearly all of these installs have come from this area (video attached for more info)

King Claw or any intamin ride for that matter are well built and supported by their manufacturer, have properly designed systems with multiple fail safes, are made of A+ grade steel thats welded properly and are expensive on purpose because of these things and more. It is a waste of time to compare it to the ride in saudi arabia because they are nothing alike apart from the basic design and ride experience. One ride is designed at the lowest cost possible at the expense of safety and the other is designed to be safe from the beginning.

Edited 5 hours ago by Baconjack