Photo TR Gold Coast Parks

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So I managed to be able to make the 9 or so hours drive up the coast to the gold coast to visit the parks.

 

First park I hit up was Dreamworld. As you all probably know last year the Thunder river rapids ride malfunctioned and caused the deaths of 4 people. Which lead to the park being shut down for weeks and most of the rides also being closed to be checked over to make sure they were safe.

 

I went to dreamworld on the 5th Jan. Which is smack bang in the middle of the school holidays so usually the park would be full. This year was a bit different. I was reading for days before I went to the park how empty the park was, carpark half empty etc. I was thought that maybe it was the media still trying to stir up stuff. But to my shock it seemed to be right although the car park did seem at least 70% full so maybe a fair few people went to the water park that day. As for the crowd at Dreamworld it was empty everything were either a walk on or at worst a 10-15 Min wait. Hopefully this was down to the fact that only 3 of the big 9 were open although I got lucky and a 4th one opened up later in the day. It will be interesting to see how the park goes in the future as many people think that Dreamworld and by proxy the other theme parks in Queensland are now unsafe death traps.

 

 

Anyway on with day 1 Dreamworld

The park was actually open from 9am to 9pm which was nice and with the cheaper tickets they were selling was a bargain. With the low crowd I was about to ride everything as many times as I wanted

Sign board out the front say which rides were closed. Sorry for bad photo my phone didn't like taking photos of the boards

main street about 50 mins after opening,

I hit up the Motor coaster. I only got one smooth ride out of it. The front seat, all other seats were jerky and clunky

Walls around the now infamous Thunder river rapids ride

Poor photo but 2 guys working on the giant drop, I assume they were doing some maintenance while waiting for it to pass safety inspections

Inside the Claw line. Fun ride. These types of flats are my favourites

Second ever haunt, I really like this fun and scary too

Fun little Kung Fu Panda themed bumper cars

They have a whole area themed to Kung fu panda and it's awesome

Looks fantastic at night too

Signs out the front of all the closed rides

Lunch for the day. This cost all up about which for what it was wasn't great, Typical theme park food

Got lucky with Tail Spin opening the day I was there, Saw a guy working on it but didn't think it would be opening. I guess I got lucky. P.S don't go full out spinning right after lunch NOT FUN.

After I had recovered from tail spin by watching a 4d movie in the Dreamworld theatre. I headed over to the BuzzSaw. I love this ride don't know why but I just do. Also this is probably my favourite shot of the whole trip

Bad photo of the car park but it was actually quite full which was nice to see

Fireworks and laser show. Good show great way to end the day at my first park since 2012

 

So that was the end of the day at Dreamworld, Great day being able to ride every ride how ever many times I wanted. Funny story the restraints on the claw got stuck and I thought I might've had to watch the fireworks and lasers from the claw but that didn't happen. Coming up next Part 2 Seaworld

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