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And the white fence around the Baldwin has also been replaced by the same style of permanent fence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

 

[Levi]

i’m pretty sure that fencing has been put in because of that family that tried suing Dreamworld over their kid climbing something that said no climbing and injuring themselves, you just can’t trust parents to be as attentive to their kids these days.

Edited May 1 by Levi

[New display name]

I have no problem with DW protecting themselves, it just looks DW went with the cheapest option.   If you believe parents aren't as attentive to their kids theses days, you should have grown up in the 80's.  Kids can't even climb trees today, without falling out of them.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

1 hour ago, New display name said:

it just looks DW went with the cheapest option.

The cheapest option is black powdercoated pool\perimeter fence panels with slide on mounting brackets and posts bolted into the ground. these posts have had holes cored out and then new posts cemented into the ground with no protruding fixings, the panel mounts are welded to each panel, each panel is more decorative with an additional crossmember towards the top, plus it is coloured to blend with the painted cement behind it, which does help (a little) in making the fence disappear into the background and allow the fire truck to pop.

It might not be your design preference, but it isn't a bad choice for safety, preventing small climbers from gaining access, and it certainly isn't the cheapest way to have gone about it. 

[New display name]

2nd cheapest option.

A non-sucking option, so it's still worth taking a photo is something like what DW have done with the car, as you enter Rivertown.

A garden in front of it.

A wishing well pond, the fire truck sits in.  (you could even have Kenny on a hose).

 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

and maybe when that part of the park comes up next for redevelopment and renovation they can consider it. The fire station wasn't part of the Rivertown budget. So they have to allocate resources. There is a safety need for them to exclude people from the fire truck, they made a permanent fence, which is inoffensive and doesn't break the bank. i'd rather they did this than skimp on ops expenses like not running their second train on rides to save a few bucks...