Dreamworld
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| place | Coomera Australia
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| opening | 15th December 1981 | |||
| surface | 85 hectares | |||
| Website | www.dreamworld.com.au | |||
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Coordinates: 27 ° 51 ′ 50 ″ S , 153 ° 18 ′ 53 ″ E
Dreamworld is an amusement park on the Gold Coast , near Brisbane , in Australia . With around 85 hectares, it is currently the largest amusement park in Australia. It opened on December 15, 1981.
In December 2006, the White Water World water park was opened as an independent amusement park by the same company in the direct vicinity of the park . The two parks are connected by a special crossing and with a special ticket, the so-called World Pass (advertising slogan: “ Get drenched. Get dry. ” - English for example “ Get wet. Get dry ”) you can visit both parks .
Attractions
(Selection)
- Cyclone : steel roller coaster
- Giant Drop : 120 m high free fall tower
- Mick Doohan's Motocoaster : Roller coaster with a train in a motorcycle design
- The Claw : Frisbee ride
- Wipeout : top spin
- Runaway Reptar Roller Coaster : Suspended Family Coaster in the Nickelodeon area of the park
- Tower of Terror II : Shuttle Coaster ; next to the roller coaster Superman: Escape from Krypton in California the only roller coaster of this type ever built; the fourth fastest roller coaster in the world and the largest and fastest in the southern hemisphere
- IMAX cinema
- Tiger Island : Daily shows with Bengali and Sumatran tigers
- Australian Wildlife Experience : Large zoo area with an emphasis on the Australian fauna
- BuzzSaw , a steel roller coaster from Mason
No longer existing attractions (selection)
- Thunderbolt (1982-2003)
- Thunder River Rapids Ride (1986-2016)
Accidents
- October 25, 2016: Four adults were killed in an accident at the Thunder River Rapids Ride when their boat overturned. The victims were thrown out of the boat and partially trapped. Two children sat in the boat with them and survived. In November 2016, the park announced that the attraction would be demolished and removed from the park.
- April 16, 2017: On the Rocky Hollow Log Ride , a young man fell out of a boat and got into the channel of the flume; he suffered serious injuries and almost drowned when he was run over by two boats. The railway remained closed after the accident. It reopened in January 2018. In the future, an additionally installed safety roof over every boat will prevent or at least make it more difficult to fall out or stand up while driving.
gallery
Main entrance
Dreamworld Tower , where the Tower of Terror and the Giant Drop are located
Cyclone (yellow) meanders through White Water World
Cyclone
Mick Doohan's Motocoaster with the Dreamworld Railway track in the foreground
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ultimaterollercoaster.com about the "Tower of Terror"
- ↑ Thunderbolt - Dreamworld (Coomera, Queensland, Australia). In: rcdb.com. Retrieved November 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Fatal accident in Dreamworld Australia: four people die while white water rafting. In: Parkerlebnis - Freizeitpark-Magazin. Retrieved October 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Dreamworld in Australia: Four people die in the Thunder River Rapids. rp-online.de, October 25, 2016, accessed on October 25, 2016 .
- ^ Three of the four victims killed in Australia Dreamworld theme park ride horror. dailymail.co.uk, October 25, 2016, accessed October 25, 2016 .
- ↑ After an accident: safety roof attached to wild water raft boats in the amusement park. In: Parkerlebnis - Freizeitpark-Magazin. Retrieved January 26, 2018 .