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dylan_oregan @ parkz.com.au schrieb:Wow, what can I say Dreamworld has done a great job with Sky Voyager. I had a chance to ride it tonight due to a work function a pov will be coming soon. Downstairs there is a short video of where you are about to travel to etc. Once you head upstairs it is themed like an airport with planes, run way strip flooring etc. You will then wait for an attendant to lead your way into the gondalas. Once the film starts you take off from the Gold Coast airport which I think is great. It then leads to Brisbane showing Brisbane Wheel, South Bank etc, Melbourne, ayers rocks, perth, Cairns , Sydney etc. It then ends back in Dreamworld which I was exactly hoping for as this is a great Soarin Over California feature of the ride.
When going over water mist is present which is great.
When taking off fog is present as well. So Dreamworld haven't overlooked these elements at all.
QuelleDREAMWORLD staff have taken their first rides on the long-awaited Sky Voyager as the world-class gondola sits ready to launch for paying guests — although when that will happen is up in the air.
The ride is yet to be granted registration from the State Government, whose tough new laws on amusement park rides came into effect this week.
While Sky Voyager is fully operational, the park is still working on the internal training, testing and procedures required to commission it.
CEO John Osborne said the park was working with the regulator to have Sky Voyager registered, but would ensure the process was not rushed.
“I suppose in the eyes of our guests and people watching from the outside, it has been delayed,” he said.
“I think the expectation that it could open around Christmas was a bit ambitious.
“Clearly we’re making sure, as we always would, that every i is dotted and every t is crossed, so we’re going to the absolute nth degree to make sure that all of the training, commissioning and work required to open the ride is a new benchmark for the industry.”
A spokesman for Workplace Health and Safety Queensland said it received a design registration application for a new ride from Dreamworld on November 7 last year.
The department said it was awaiting additional safety information, including a compliance check of components used in the ride, before it would issue the registration.
Mr Osborne has himself, as part of the commissioning process, ridden Sky Voyager so many times he’s lost count – and is certain it will be a turning point for Dreamworld.
“When you’re sitting on it, you feel as though you’re flying. It’s meant to be skydivers diving out of a plane and you go from landscape to landscape and lots of little thrills happen while you’re doing that,” he said.
“It stops with a really spectacular finale which I’ll have to let everybody see when they get there.
“When I’ve been on it, I literally forget about what’s going on in the rest of my day and for me that’s actually unusual from a personality point of view and with what I’m doing these days.”