Could Big Brother return to Dreamworld?

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

1 minute ago, New display name said:

they let a kid on a construction site.

It looked like each scene was on the very edge of the relevant section. I've absolutely no doubt given the construction manager was the other guy in the video that they would have cleared whatever relevant steps they needed to. The sunlight and shadows shows they filmed it very late in the day too, so no active work was going on at the time either.

I'm sure anyone who thinks Dreamworld has flouted WH&S will have already contacted WorkCover Queensland to dob them in.

[RobMac]

If there's one thing DW should N-O-T do, as in NOT DO....EVER......is go again down the dark path, of that Pathetic Twisted Rubbish!

In other words, yeah DW management is capable of saying YES to shooting themselves in both feet in yet another way and hosting that Pathetic Twisted Rubbish!

[Brad2912]

56 minutes ago, RobMac said:

If there's one thing DW should N-O-T do, as in NOT DO....EVER......is go again down the dark path, of that Pathetic Twisted Rubbish!

In other words, yeah DW management is capable of saying YES to shooting themselves in both feet in yet another way and hosting that Pathetic Twisted Rubbish!

Whilst there is zero chance of BB returning to DW, the original iterations of the show filmed at DW were highly successful and had a positive impact for the park in terms of revenue, visitation and marketability. 
 

not sure why you are hooked on “pathetic stupid rubbish” as a descriptor, and while I agree for 2-3 recent pre-recorded series have been failures, the twisted comment makes no sense. 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

I've gotten the impression that RobMac really has a bee in his bonnet about Dreamworld lately. Certainly entitled to his opinion but I can't say I agree with almost anything said lately.

[Themepark Enthusist]

Yeah maybe he is salty about something we dont know. 

[New display name]

or @RobMacshould be breathalysed before posting.

[New display name]

[Cactus_Matt]

I'm weirdly nostalgic for Big Brother at Dreamworld (and I'm not nostalgic for a LOT of things, so consider this special), yes reality TV is trash, yes Big Brother as a concept and as a show does NOT mesh with the presumably "family friendly" image Dreamworld is going for these days but my favourite memories of Dreamworld as a teen in the late 90's/early 2000's will always be these 3 things:

#3. The Big Brother cafe that overlooked the Log Ride. Don't know why but it was always kind of built anticipation for the auditorium itself. 

#2. The Control Booth in the auditorium, again kinda weird thing to focus on but the fact that the control booth was featured on TV (specifically the Up-Late) show but it was so cool to see so many TV's with eyes through the various cameras AND for the fact it was showing live feeds AND their was the allure for my young, impressionable teenage brain that I might see nudity was kinda captivating.

#1. The fact the house was just there. You might be surprised to see that an apparently big 'Big Brother' fan (which I apparently am (at least for the first couple of seasons) has no interest in evictions shows and that's kind of true, I went to precisely one eviction show and I kinda thought it was boring, at least until the evictee did their exit, everything else was bland. So what's the Number 1 thing about 'Big Brother' being at Dreamworld, the fact that this "thing on TV" was just a couple hundred meters beyond the park.

And so I come to my final thoughts on this whole ~thing~, do I think Dreamworld should host Big Brother again? I don't care, I don't live in Queensland anymore so whatever... Do I think Dreamworld would financially or culturally benefit from hosting Big Brother again? Again, no, at least not for the TikTok generation - unless - and this is a BIG unless, unless the next Big Brother series could cross the cultural zeitgeist and be relevant to kids and teens and yes, even us "old-heads" bother to watch television again.

TL:DR, 'Big Brother' is a big draw, but for very different reasons and not for the reasons it was. If it was to be relevant now it would need to be some cross-generational cultural defying phenomenon and ALSO capture the whole 'live TV show in a theme park' shtick which is understandably harder to define in our 'every famous person just exists on our phone' kind of mentality that every iPad kid has grown up with.