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I'd axe JDS, and turn the building into a Cavu Quest based on an ACME factory.

My idea would be to somehow gut the area. Keep Road Runner, JDS (but update it), Marvin, the Parents Room and Arcade but flatten everything else and bring it indoors. Something like this at the WB park in Abu Dhabi could work but on a lower budget: perhaps a combination of matte paintings, more space between buildings and building facades closer to the walls (rather than building the whole building) could work. This would not only reduce having to spend money on repaints thanks to the sun but allow a difference to the other parks in having an indoor kids section. On a hot summer day in January where the park gets the most visitors, most families would likely rather be inside an air-conditioned indoor kids section rather than standing right in the heat.

the area really should be their next area of major investment alongside the Dc Supervillians area, if i were to do it i would; - update JDS to the current park set up (removing Arkham, adding Rivals, Flash & WoO.) - remove Taxis, Tweety’s and Yosemite Sam’s + relocate Marvin to where the old Pounce and Bounce use to be. - relocate the parents room towards the front of the land, either behind the Arcade or next to JDS. - install a Zamperla Nebulaz, and 2-3 other flat rides in the left side of the land all the past attractions use to occupy, maybe even a small kiddie coaster could work (like the Daddy Pig coaster in Florida.) - reopen Sam’s / build a food outlet, the closest one to the area would be frozen coke / gotham city cafe but i think having atleast a smaller food outlet would work in there.

Absolute ridiculous to remove JDS. People who even contemplate this demonstrate they have no kids between 3 and about 8, or have paid zero attention to how busy this is during the holiday season. The reason for having JDS and speedy taxis was because speedy taxis never used to have a minimum height restriction. If your kid could co-ordinate feet standing on a button and being able to turn a steering wheel, they could go on the attraction. If they had real money to spend, you really need to shut the area for maybe 18 months and give serious consideration for enclosing the whole area. Either, actually indoors or another canopy setup in similar guise to main street. In a country with some of the harshest sun/uv on the planet, the place is a concrete canyon.

i think the ride is very close to completion, we know they still have one more exterior waterfall to turn on. i still have hope that they’ll paint the black walls inside the temple (which would make sense to do after these holidays as it’s the quietest part of the year), and maybe add some fog / mist effects on the entries and exits of the temple.

Knowing what the park’s awful management is like these days, it’ll probably remain where it is now permanently.

Nah, they were in the other tunnels on the walls (and possibly under the track as well, it was hard to tell when travelling through there so quickly).

The Bats? They've been there for a couple months now. Still waiting on (presumably) some Spiders...

They need one to keep out people with under 5 iq from jumping the fence.

If WoO had more than just rollercoasters, then yes. Kids that age need to fill a whole day too. Right now, their options are all coasters (including Scooby) and maybe WWF if it's operating. Rides with small footprints like a Nebluaz, Condor, or ABC Interactive tower, would all have been solid additions to WoO and could easily have been themed to suit. It will be hard to add them later because so much space is wasted on the emerald city queue lines.

The fence was always inadequate because a pool fence is only designed to keep children up to 5 out.

This is the 2nd similar comment regarding the gap in coverage - isn't this the premise of what WoO was meant to fill?

The problem with wb kids as others have pointed out is that 1) the land as a whole has barely been touched up in 25 years and 2) apart from road runner there’s not much to do for guests who find the kiddie rides boring and the likes of superman and rivals too scary 1. Remove the taxis and JDS 2. Move the maintenance area on the other half of the JDS building to another facility within the park (or build a new shed like at sea world) to free up space for a JDS replacement 3. Replace JDS with a family dark ride. Make it like a looney tunes take on the great movie ride. 4. Re evaluate all the existing rides except Marvin the Martian and road runner, remove the ones at the end of their service lives and replace with similar models. 5. Install a nebulaz as an extra ride to occupy the middle ground between the kiddy rides and everything else. Provides good kinetics at every park that has one. 6. Repaint and touch up all existing buildings, signage, and fixtures. This way you have 3 rides in the land that both kids and parents can enjoy as opposed to just one, with all 3 having a low height requirement. This should be the bare minimum because some families aren’t going to go to Oz or west or scooby. People with young kids spend a lot of time in that land on its own.

Never really been a fan of that driving school, they should at least rebrand it to something Looney Tunes related

Cartoon Network Cartoon Beach, Sesame Street Beach, Beach Break Bay and now Nickelodeon Land. It’s crazy it’s gone through that many in the same time that Kids WB has existed and hasn’t really changed. They did add the carousel and pounce n bounce (which didn’t last long). But I 100% agree that this land needs some love. The lineup of attraction isn’t bad (a part from having double driving attractions), but the whole area just feels tired and could certainly benefit from a full refurb and addition of new rides. Just take a look at Warner Bros. World in Abu Dhabi and their Cartoon Junction land. You could certainly take inspiration from this and transform the entire show building to be to this level. Also look at their ride lineup and the way they are themed for inspiration. https://www.wbworldabudhabi.com/en/explore-the-lands/cartoon-junction

Honestly for a children's area, there's nothing wrong with that, as long as there is some thought put into the models and how they would be themed. There's a real opportunity to spruce up WB Kids. The land itself has remained virtually untouched for around 20 years. Sure Marvin got plonked on an old seating area, and JDS rejigged the traffic a little from how it was with LTRR, but overall the bones of the land haven't been messed with in a long time - in that time Sea World has been through at least two generations of their kids land, and Dreamworld has been through FOUR.

This is what happens when you install a consumer grade solution in a commercial grade environment. Well gee, it must cost them so much money to pay for all those safety managers they've got nothing left to develop a creative solution that preserves the illusion and theme. Let's just wrap every ride in westfield grade blank white hoarding. It seems to me like they realised when demolishing the hut that they needed to run power elsewhere, installed something temporary across Speedy because it was the closest structure to the tree, but then once the arcade was finished, nobody bothered to put it back in what was obviously a less noticeable spot.

Fair enough, I never noticed it back then. It’s definitely much more of an eyesore where it is now.

They used to run from that old delapidated hut that was recently demolished for the arcade construction, evidently there's more running to it now though

You mean Pico Play?

Don’t get me wrong, I still think it’s pretty awful overall and definitely gets in the way. I would much prefer that it wasn’t there. I’m just saying it seems slightly better compared to how it looked in earlier images. Yeah, the cable running to Speedy Taxis has been there for a while now. The tree has had a bunch of electrical equipment in it for years, but has never had any noticeable wires running to it. I’m thinking something’s gone wrong with the underground cabling and the park has done this as a quick/cheap solution.

Some rides had their class rating changed/updated with the new industry guidelines that came through, so things like ride exclusion areas changed. Takes a bit of time to filter through with updates to ride registration as everyone given a hard deadline well (see, years) in advance to make sure they comply with new regulations. Virtually nothing is preventative, only reactionary. So either a forced change like above, a change to the Australian standard or it was picked up during an Audit (either Government or 3rd party) and required change of design. Lots of things may seem like a pointless proposition, but it's entirely based on either a recommendation following an Audit or when requiring replacement (this fencing was terrible for kids standing on the bottom rail, hanging on to the poles and snapping the welds) the safety team found out what the current standards are and the replacement complied. In terms of fencing and railing, they literally control not only height, but spacing between rails, gaps between infill, if anyone can get a foot hold, building types, what it's connected to, obstructions/inclusions in different zones, which side of the fence these exclusion zones are. There are far more regulations around specific distances and openings than you might think. You can literally be audited and given a notice because the spacing between railings is 12cm and the new standard is now 10cm because the old maximum opening distance was deemed not restrictive enough to prevent a person (mainly a child) climbing through and you have to go around and change everything to comply because your existing stuff isn't good enough anymore. It's a lot of work for parks to keep on top of, even with teams of safety managers. It's the primary reason for yearly auditing so you can stay on top of relevant standards and be given a chance to respond with modifications before the government starts handing out fines or (hopefully) before someone is injured or killed and your shortcomings are made public. Sometimes the answer to the question of why? is literally because nobody noticed it before.

The reality is it would likely be an open a Zamperla, Preston and Barbieri or possibly Fabbri catalogue and pick 3 or 4 replacements kind of deal.

Could try contract the same people that did Bluey's World a little while back 🤔

Mermaid Lagoon idea is awesome such an immersive experience for the kids to enjoy, I think all points mentioned are very valid