Dreamworld Fire Station Refurb

[themagician]

A few years ago the addition of an interactive button was added to Dreamworld’s Main Street Fire Station. Just recently the rest of the building has been given some love, with a complete repaint and the return of the fire truck. 

There has been a temporary white picket fence around the fire truck, but now a more permanent fence has been installed

And the white fence around the Baldwin has also been replaced by the same style of permanent fence

Photos by DW’s Golden Years

[Park Addict 93]

It's a shame guests can no longer get up close to the Baldwin or Firetruck but it makes sense considering how stupid and litigious people can be.

[franky]

'Do not climb' is only a suggestion for a lot of people unfortunately.

[New display name]

Makes no sense DW.

You can't climb this:

But you can climb this:

 

[Cactus_Matt]

It makes *some* sense, the highest (easily) climbable point on the Model T is like 3 feet (the back seat rest) whereas the highest climbable point on the Fire Truck is easily above 7 feet and if you have a bunch of kids climbing and rough housing on that thing it's more likely than not someone falls off. That said I said it makes "SOME" sense, for reasons I'm sure are very granular and come from an insurance point of view, but I don't agree with it either.

For example, there's a climbing structure for kids in our local shopping mall that, while enclosed is like 15-20 feet high and any kid can go on it and (presumably) fall to injury or worse and yet it's still there after god-knows how many years. So yeah, I don't agree with the Fire Truck being inaccessible, but I understand it from a presumably very insurance minded and risk-aversion management that Dreamworld is no-doubt focused on after ~the incident~.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Isn't the model T on that rubbery play flooring stuff too? so not quite as hard as blacktop?

[New display name]

@Cactus_Matt You can easily reach roof from the back seat.    I have also seen kids swing from the roof of the Model-T.  The fire truck isn't high (the kids play equipment across the the road, is higher without safety barriers) instead of DW rushing off to Bunnings and buying the cheapest/ugliest fence they could find, making the Fire Truck safe, could be achieved.