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The Green Room was supposed to reopen at the end of October, it was delayed a couple weeks and was meant to reopen today, but it’s been delayed until December 13.

I've been going through regularly since i got my Osmo 2 years ago waiting for the place to be painted and all vivid so i can properly get an idea of what my camera can do, and i'm still waiting. It's so bad you can clearly see how faded Boomerang is from the Watt Park end of Quibaree.

People travel a long distance to visit Australia Zoo so if the theme park is a great theme park people will travel for it. (but there has been no indication it will be a great park) Wrapping a heavy commercial application with talk of a theme park is 100% referred to, for getting the public behind it. Songcheng Theme Park, Dreamworld expansion and now Infinity Planet.

It will become mixed-use residential and commercial offices with some retail. Disney couldn't even get a 'permanent world expo' to work at Epcot beyond the early 2000s and it's just turned into another theme park with rides themed to Disney IP. Brisbane doesn't get the tourist numbers to justify something like this as a permanent attraction. Also, a 'business and technology park with retail' might work since Northlakes isn't too far away and it's a shorter commute for residents there than going into the CBD, but a theme park and a 700 room hotel just up the road from Caboolture isn't going to happen. There is no demand for it. Aussie World can't even sustain 7 day operations or being open for more than 6 hours a day and it's right by the Glasshouse Mountains. I don't have a problem with people dreaming big and wanting to build something impressive. Dreamworld was built on a patch of land in the middle of no where with no public transport and it became a destination that arguably drove the placement of Coomera Station and ultimately Westfield. But this is just being pitched as a weird combination of business park and theme park. If the developers were talking about building specific attractions - rides that don't exist at the GC, animal experiences that don't exist at Australia Zoo, then we'd probably take this more seriously instead of ridiculing it. But they're not. They've not mentioned a single attraction other than '10,000 car parking spaces' and the concept art just shows duplicate 1980/90s rides. It tells us that exactly zero thought has gone into what this could be beyond 'spaces for stuff'. Honestly, I could see a version of this working somewhere like Hamilton/Northshore with a LPS style park (possibly slightly larger) and cultural performance spaces/theatres, Television Studios and a hotel... functional spaces that would get used, close to where people live. These people aren't interested in building a destination. If they were, they'd choose a more appropriate location. They've just got a plot of land they want to develop and they're pitching an idea around 'tourism and culture' to attract government funding/subsidies instead of just building an office park/shopping mall with their own money.

Unchanged since I was there at Halloscream (this event actually improved on the last couple of years). "Fun will be back here real soon" very cryptic, maybe a different kind of fun to the fun that is there at present lol. At least both Big Dipper trains looked operational, even if they were only using one train.

During the announcement on the news yesterday, everyone was eating cake, therefore it’s a done deal.

At least this park seems to be backed by some kind of money, that raises the chance of it opening in any form by about 2% zero chance that it’s completed in its proposed form though. It’ll be reduced to the shops and the theme park whenever the first stake is in the ground

Yep start of this year to Oscar’s group I went in the park fairly recently and it was in horrible shape. Place was dirty and some of the rides were running very poorly. For those playing at home - publicans do not seem to be very good at running theme parks and in fact make current village roadshow look like experts

The park changed ownership a little while ago, right?

Coincidentally I’m in Sydney at the moment, so I went and checked out the ride in person and this is its current status.

That'd be a first. Unfortunately human nature is to take the most efficient route which means most people heading for the ride entrance won't actually see it as they are practically underneath the sign the whole time It's undeniably a choice, I believe it to be the wrong one. I think you meant "diminishes" - and I disagree. It is collectively a themed 'land' however you can just as easily exit riders out of the attraction to the rear so that they experience the Villains area after riding. At any rate, this discussion was entirely about a billboard facing the wrong way in an AI generated theme park that is never going to be built, and the only reason Doomsday is topical is because it had a similar bridge facing what, in many people's opinion, is the wrong way. Are you arguing that the AI slop billboard of random inspirational words is facing the correct way? Because that's the point being made.

I'm not about to get into another back and forth with you, so this will be my last comment on putting the cart before the horse or you wearing your undies on the outside. You can reply and I will read but I won’t comment further. Turning the entrance to the front of the precinct dimensions the need for the precinct. The precinct is the pre-show to the ride. Unless you’re an ant you can see the sign as you enter the ride just fine.

See... I wanted to try and find a picture of a billboard that was directly behind a tall building so nobody except the people in the building could see it, but nobody is that stupid to build a billboard behind a building. The best viewing angle for the doomsday bridge is the one seen in the Parkz photo above, which is not generally at the height most guests will ever get to see. Because people are navigating around a corner to enter the queue, they're typically looking down, and those not navigating to the ride queue are facing away from the sign because they're looking at the interactive features in and around the precinct. Yes, the ride name sign \ bridge should be over the entrance to the ride queue. But the ride queue should not be accessed from the back. Like I already said... it's facing the wrong way. And billboards shouldn't face into a building - it defeats their purpose. Plus, this isn't a bridge. this is just random AI slop YOႱИƎ ƎVAH ИUꟻ

Doomsday was the name of the ride not the precinct. Why wouldn't you put the name of the ride at the entry of the ride?

The more you look, the more you find... ENJOY HAVE FUN Also it's facing the wrong way giving me Doomsday vibes

That's insanely weird and alarming. AFAIK very little maintenance has been done on the ride since it closed. The plan I heard was the park intended on deconstructing and reconstructing the ride, reopening in July (obviously didn't happen). I'm really hoping nothing is happening to it, but honestly, the park is presently in an awful state and based on how current upper management seems to have been treating the place lately I sadly won't be surprised if this is the end... I'm going to hope that its removal from the website was unintentional...

The Ranger, Circus Tent & Pirate ship are from the $50.00 bundle pack @Gazza 🤣

I can see a bit of Turbosquid in there.

No, that's pretty normal Moreso I meant the tents that were for ants (only old people will get that reference) like this one which has both a ranger and a gyro for scale.

Oh you mean the conjoined Tents?

I'd come to reply about the multiple ships, gyros and ranger\twin hammers - but since that's all been taken, i'd like to point out the multiple circus tents that can't be much bigger than a disabled portaloo.

I'm personally excited for the Arrow Corkscrew. Nothing screams 'iconic destination' like a 1980s roller coaster.

2027 for the Theme Park. You can never have enough pirate ships.

This will open shortly after the Townsville Water Park.

Take this with a grain of salt obviously, but I had a source inform me that it was potentially getting moved to a different location in the park. Not sure if this is still going ahead as I was told this several months ago.