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More stuff like this would seem to be a good fit in the dark ride sections. From what I've seen so far the indoor sections and the promised 'show scene' seem pretty underwhelming. Still a great ride and well presented, but I was hoping for a bit more from the indoor parts

The overflow car park is accessed from the front of the park. You can see the gate on your left before ST. There is no access to the road on the other side because where the road ends, the land isn't owned by DW. There is no requirement for the owner to extend the road and the council don't want to approve an island. My guess is DW are working in the road will get extended and the council is working in there isn't a road. (just a guess)

Seems like the council is too lazy to open google maps and see that there is already roads leading directly to Lot 3? Plus theres the road that Dreamworld already uses to reach the overflow carpark when its in use, though tbf that is only 1 lane wide

This hasn't aged well. Council has now asked for a stop on the application to give DW time to respond and time for council to review DW's response to the matter of access to Lot 3. The council more or less want more information on how vehicles will/can access Lot 3.

Awesome to see Dreamworld continuing to add more to Jungle Rush. Looks awesome with the mist. My take the family today to go have a look.

Saw this today. It’s new and I thought it was pretty cool. It’s in the gem room in the queue

I'm wondering if someone could get crazy enough to create a zacspin style track for a zipper - so rather than just the loop it could do more? probably not practical for a traveller but that thing would look insane - i'm just spitballing what they could do to the humble zipper to reinvent it?

I've seen the same thing at many parks that open midweek in the off season. He frequently doesn't. The point about the attendance is that it increased on the prior year - by more than the amount you saw in the park no less. I'm quite sure someone said recently 'a water park is not a theme park'. It makes less sense to open it in winter. you're competing with a small enough crowd as it is. Dry park on the other hand, if you're open, you're forcing customers to choose between you and a competitor. If you close, you're giving the game away. As for the insurance payout, i'm sure it was absorbed into the capex for rivertown, so in a way, they did rebuild it - just elsewhere. (and even if it didn't technically get absorbed into the rivertown budget, it's all CE's money so it really doesn't matter. they got paid by insurance to rebuild vintage cars, and they rebuild vintage cars. end of. First of all, they're not sacked. Let's not start using emotive and inflammatory language to get people upset about a normal thing that happens every year. They're hired on contracts and the contracts have a fixed end date. As I understand it Raging Waters in Sydney has a similar issue with retaining staff over seasons, but its just the nature of a seasonal business and the workers go into that eyes open. I think more than a few waterpark folk double as Ski Resort workers in the winter, and many come back year on year. But that isn't a good enough reason to open the waterpark in winter. It is however a good enough reason to keep your dry park open.

You can apply that same theory to sacking all the WWW staff each year. WWW operated for months this year on a 3 day roster.

the thing with only opening Friday-Sunday, we will end up with the shit show that is Movieworld and their operations, which imo would happen because they would be relying on younger staff/new causal hire to only work the 3 days instead of having staff that have been there many years working a full weekly shift. Just my opinion

I read it. Don't agree with it. Dapto is averaging out the attendance over the year which is 👎 .Dapto is happy to average out DW but not WWW. CEH only made a net profit last year of 2.61m which included the insurance payout for rebuilding the vintage cars which DW never did because DW was already replacing the vintage cars with Murrissippi Motors.

Did you not read anything @DaptoFunlandGuysaid? If they took your advice and closed it during the week, they would lose not only any extra money they could have, + tour groups, but also about half their total employees, which is those on a contract. I could say more, but just read the below post instead. A more reasonable option would be to push the opening time out to 11.

and DW still wouldn't be making a profit. Everybody keeps telling me if you can't make a profit you close it, I don't know why DW is open Mon-Thur.

well yes that’s the exact point on why they have reduced hours?

From what I have heard Triple Vortex is staying but I dont know when or if it will reopen.

That's a shame - Triple Vortex was fun. They'd have to be disappointed having to remove at least two of the 'newer' slides surely. It's not a big park as it is

The supports are now in the carpark

The majority of the ones in Australia that we have actually run faster than the Chance Rides models as well. I don't really see any showmen in Australia buying a brand new one. They aren't really as marketable as rides like The Beast or The Warrior (speed and height etc). As much as I'd love to see it, I just don't see it sadly. Hopefully one of the other Aussie built ones comes out of retirement like the Bad Ass Zipper recently has.

This is interesting, might be big, might not. There is an audition notice for scare actors out for a month-long Halloween event in Alexandria by Haus of Horror, teaming up with: "one of Australia's biggest entertainment brands for a massive month-long collaboration." Scare actor roles are described as : "Each role involves different levels of interaction with guests, from lurking in the shadows to engaging in live-action scenarios and games." Running from Oct 3 to Nov 3 (5pm - 9pm Sun - Wed & 5pm - 12am Thu - Sun). Scare With Us — Australia's Number One Immersive Cinema Sounds intriguing, could be just movie screenings, could be more (described as an "immersive haunted experience"). Luna Park Halloscream has gone way downhill the last 2 years, a major Halloween event would be welcome. Anyone know more?

Sure not run by the park, but its not like its a static asset just sitting there, my point is renting it out would likely make more than opening it for regular business in the off season.

I would reckon that dreamworld would be sick of dealing with Triple Vortex's full season downtimes for the past few years so unless they can sort out that slide's issues, I wouldn't be surprised either to see Triple Vortex taken down either this off season or the next.

The other day, I witnessed the JR train being sent with 3 people onboard and the 🚗 had no queue.

plural? so either fully 4 is losing weight or triple vortex is going?

So, just to be clear, the person who was crying the park closed an hour early... is now suggesting the park should close in the off season instead? Just for the record - the 2024 annual report indicated attendance had increased by 14.3% from 2023 to 2024. On average, that's an extra 478 people in the park each day*. I am willing to bet that the opening of rivertown will have boosted this number again. Are there likely to be some days with low attendance that eat into profits? Yes. Does it make sense to shutter the dry park entirely in cold months? Not at all - events like winterfest are a hit and people are willing to visit a dry park in colder months - in fact the lower attendances make it a nicer visit for folk who prefer lesser crowds. Additionally the park being open midweek opens the opportunity to have school or tour groups drop by. International tourism is still increasing in the sector so offering a wildlife product to compete with Paradise country is also a source of additional profit. If they close the park entirely due to low visitation on some days, they give up the opportunity to turn a profit or welcome tour and school groups which supplement the park income. They also decimate their full-time employees who are no longer able to fulfil their contracted hours - which then leads to staff shortages in peak seasons and 3 hour waits for a hypercoaster.Nevermind wrong park. Does it make sense to shutter a water park in colder months? Yes it does. You're unlikely to make a profit, especially if you're competing with another one down the road. period. *Yes the group reports attendance across all properties including Skypoint so this isn't precisely indicative of park attendance. I'd like to say 'you get the point though' but I suspect you'll ignore it.

Greg Yong did say on the Dane's Theme Park Life podcast a few weeks back that some rides would be removed from WWW soon, so the wedgie won't be standing much longer at this rate.