{"id":592931,"date":"2026-04-08T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592931\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:21:09","slug":"riders-stranded-on-gold-coast-theme-park-rollercoaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592931\/","title":{"rendered":"Riders stranded on Gold Coast theme park rollercoaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riders are stuck on a theme park rollercoaster that became stranded on the tracks on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=9news+gold+coast&amp;rlz=1C1GCCA_en&amp;oq=9news+gold+coast&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggAEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg7MgYIARBFGDwyBggCEEUYPNIBCDE4ODVqMGo0qAIBsAIB8QXAnKL9CL3kJ_EFwJyi_Qi95Cc&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Gold Coast\">Gold Coast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Village Roadshow Theme Parks (VRTP) confirmed there was a ride stoppage on the DC Rivals HyperCoaster at Warner Bros Movie World.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffAll guests are safe and were being evacuated from the safe stop zones, VRTP said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/83fbd015-1e51-44cd-9449-a68ae33b1a01.png\"   alt=\"DC Rivals Hypercoaster stuck\"\/>A video posted to Facebook shows the rollercoaster stuck near the peak of the rollercoaster track, with dark umbrellas protecting passengers from the sun. (Facebook\/ShanesTreloarOfficial)<\/p>\n<p>A video posted to Facebook shows the rollercoaster stuck near the peak of the rollercoaster track, with dark umbrellas protecting passengers from the sun.<\/p>\n<p>The DC Rivals HyperCoaster is regarded as the &#8220;tallest, longest and fastest HyperCoaster in the Southern Hemisphere&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The ride travels at speeds up to 115 km\/h and reaches heights of almost 62 metres.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve got the umbrellas out, it&#8217;s very hot today,&#8221; witness Shane Treloar said in a video posted to Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Something&#8217;s happened to the rollercoaster and they&#8217;ve got stuck. They&#8217;ve got the rescue crew up there, I&#8217;d say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hot on the ground, could you imagine being up there? Very hot.\ufeff&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mercury was forecast to reach 30 degrees on the Gold Coast today.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Nearby theme park Dreamworld was the scene of the country&#8217;s deadliest theme park disaster in October 2016, when four riders were killed following a mishap on the Thunder River Rapids Ride.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riders are stuck on a theme park rollercoaster that became stranded on the tracks on the Gold Coast.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-592931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}