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Doesn't that rely in it's entirely on DW announcing KC's opening though?

Now that you mention the other WB IPs I feel like Movie World should have brought The Funtastic World of the Hanna-Barbera to their park since WB owns Hanna-Barbera if they added motion simulators into their park that is.

I could see that happening. There certainly was a lot of workers and activity on the site yesterday

Might be a new mini event for the Spring Holidays, like "Music on Main" they did in 2023 - but with "action"?

I believe Warner/HBO own the series but unsure about the merchandising and theme park rights. Sony still retain the game rights, and likely the merch and theme parks rights (at least for the games, not sure about the series)

Universal only license the rights for their specific parks and exclusion zones around their parks. Village could license Harry Potter from WB at any time (and have previously) for an attraction. WB World in Abu Dhabi is currently building a Harry Potter World. There are plenty of other WB/New Line or Village Roadshow IPs to choose from: Dune, Mad Max, Happy Feet, Final Destination, Lord of the Rings, Austin Powers, Mortal Kombat, Ocean's 11, The Matrix, Gremlins, The Exorcist, Wonka. They also distribute the Monsterverse (Kong/Godzilla) for Legendary Pictures, and Mattel movies like Barbie. Mattel previously licensed Hotwheels to Dreamworld. There's also all of the WB/HBO TV series like Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, Friends, The last of us, Rick and Morty, etc. Village don't need to look outside the WB catalogue for popular IP that would create amazing theme park experiences. They just need to be willing to spend the money on the license AND creating an amazing experience.

Live in hope, but it could end up just being another main street performance like Wonder Woman/Catwoman

Green Lantern was testing quite frequently this afternoon with it not meant to reopen until September 19th, i wonder if it will be reopening early due to the issues with Flash and Superman.

They realised that it would improve the guest experience and they didn't want to break their current streak of "that will do".

It certainly would and they used to have one!

Hopefully if true they re-do it from scratch and make a completely new one but knowing Village nowadays they will make it even cheaper than HWS2 to cut costs and reuse the same set being used since 2008. I would love a Mad Max stunt show: it's Australian, you don't need to perform much upkeep given everything is rusty and abandoned and it's the perfect theme for a stunt show.

With all the great Action IP Warner Bros own and would make a great stunt show, seeing that huge area wasted on a boring and corny drifting show is a big disappointment.

Technically we had Shrek 4D from 2005 to 2010 at Movie World, although I believe DreamWorks (pre-Universal) owned the rights rather than Universal and it was just licensed to them unlike most rides

I’d assume it will be a new arena stunt show (at least that’s what I hope it is because HSD2 sucks)

Movie World has just put up a post on their Socials teasing 3 new upcoming announcements with the taglines: * Serving Soon * Spooking Soon *New Action soon first two are pretty obvious as to what those will be announcing if you’ve been following rumours but the third is a complete mystery as of now. Curious to see what people think it is.

Can’t say it won’t happen, but it won’t happen. An IP like Harry Potter requires a tonne of amazing theming, our parks just can’t keep up with that. Just my opinion, but look at OZ, beautiful big plain green walls with amazing prison guard fencing

If only Village Roadshow & Warner Bros could make a deal with Universal & Blumhouse. Because well how many would have wanted Five Nights at Freddy’s in Fright Nights?

I know this won’t happen, but since Universal gotten the theme park rights to Harry Potter via a deal with Warner Bros. If Village Roadshow and Warner Bros made a same exact deal with Universal to bring one of their IPs to Warner Bros Movie World which one would it be? For me it would be either Universal Monsters via Darkmoor with Monsters Unchained & Curse of the Werewolf or How to Train Your Dragon Isle of Berk with its coaster, show, and other attractions. Note: I tried to make a poll, but I keep getting errors.

+ OZ isn't the immersive theming they promised.

Only 3 of those were true, No Superman locker refurbishment done, DC Rivals still only 3/4 painted, and Oz, yes only 2 coasters (ones a duelling coaster that doesn’t duel) and as for the immersive theming? Yeah nah

So, this has been memory-holed at this point, but what ever happened to the refurb of the Superman station and the removal of the locker system that MW announced last year?

I wouldn't be talking about it if I hadn't seen the plans. @DaptoFunlandGuyconsidering the amount of people who go to the Ekka with special needs, one would think, they were on top of. 😢

The current stable arrangements are untenable, and unsafe. I've had animals in these facilities and the upgrades are overdue. Moving animals into the arena via the current vomatorium is alsodangerous as it is a major thoroughfare for crowds moving from gregory terrace to access the train, the parking station and the precinct on the north side of the arena. The multi-storey stables are part of the arena upgrade to machinery hill, which means arena animals can be kept within the arena envelope and not have to shut down accessways \ block patrons in the middle of the event. While we're on the topic of arena upgrades - the current disability access is fucking woeful - something that has long been fobbed off on the basis of legacy or historic excuses, while the RNA sold off parcels of land for development without bringing its main facilities up to modern standards. These changes are also well overdue and about fucking time. Look, I personally like the idea of building a new purpose built venue like they did in Sydney. The main issue with that is that many of the facilities the RNA has here are heritage listed - so even if you move RNA to a new home, you can't do much with the heritage buildings that remain. QGOV has committed to keeping the Ekka here and they've committed to upgrading it, so its a done deal. They're going to make more efficient use of the north eastern facilities around the arena, which allows them to condense some older facilities that are no longer suitable and turn those old facilities into housing, which - in case anyone hasn't been paying attention - is sorely needed across the country. It's not the outcome I would have preferred, but it all makes sense.

You’re welcome to look at the plans if you have that much interest in it.

Don't you mean more land will disappear to make way for the the athletes village and horses will now be housed in a 3 storey pavilion to go along with the 3 storey carpark to see the livestock.