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You want to drive past the entry to the M1 and go to the shop/movies because you don't want to sit in traffic after you already achieved your goal of reaching the M1 entry.

Some of the bins have containers for change branding stating they donate proceeds to the DWF from memory

Kudos to the designer of those particular items for sure!

Honestly - there's plenty of good reasons to expediate exit from the DW carpark. if you can get past that roundabout you have options before trying to get onto the M1 - dine locally at one of the many dining precincts in and around Coomera, go shopping on certain days, see a movie if you're really keen on avoiding the peak hour traffic - it doesn't all have to be about getting on the M1 - it just has to get you past the roadblock.

Whats the point of leaving the car park earlier if you are sitting on the side streets the same amount of time you are sitting in the car park? The Government has a future plan for a M1 overpass at Beattie Road.

But the point wasn't about getting onto the M1 quicker. The point was to clear the DW car park quicker. Filtering even 50-60% of the south-bound traffic onto Foxwell road would help clear the round about for north-bound traffic and overall there would be an improvement in traffic flow over the current situation - including on the M1 outside DW. There is no situation where improving signage and funneling south-bound traffic onto that exit would make the current traffic worse as Dapto described it.

It will be no quicker trying to enter the M1 at spaghetti junction.

It needs to be more prominent, and signed as Exit to M1 south or 'Exit to Gold Coast'. Currently all the exit signage directs people toward the round about. Look at the arrows on the ground. The majority of the car park directs people to the right, away from that exit.

@DaptoFunlandGuyCoomera traffic around the M1 is a shit-show that nobody has come up with a solution. Maybe the Coomera connector will fix it when it opens but I doubt it. @wikiversethere is already an exit at the bottom of the car but you rarely see cars using it.

This could be remediated with a one-way exit from the car park on the WWW side, with a slip lane heading south onto Foxwell road. People could then take DW Parkway to Hope Island Road and enter the M1 southbound there. The current DW car park is a cul-de-sac which is never good for traffic.

They are the original gardens. The garden near Shockwave has always been within the hoarding.

Seeing the photo of just the light post reminds me, those light post are the cream of the crop in what a theme park should aim for with light post.

As of Tuesday, those are still there. So are the lights at the tiger island side of the tunnel.

In the right side of that photo, are they already planting out garden beds around the ride, or are they the existing garden beds around Shockwave?

To be fair, this closed a month early because of the valleying Also closed for maintenance

just tell me when and where - Happy to assist!

to be fair, GL is planned maintenance and the off season is when you'd expect it. Superman and Flash are unplanned, and unfortunately due to the placement of flash, problems with superman can potentially shut down flash too. You've only posted three attractions, so I'm assuming DCR, JL, Batwing, Roxy, KT, WW & West were all operating?

What about the ones in the tunnel that have "been there for months" ?

I've visited a couple times in the past few weeks - I have a few thoughts.. The staff are absolutely the park's best asset. everyone we encountered had a really great attitude and were all trying to go the extra mile wherever they could. Giant Drop is screaming for something else in that area to draw people down. it's a long slog to visit one singular ride. I'd like to see a pathway from Taipan to GD - either through the envelope, or around the back way where the train line used to be. I'm sure this will come when they develop Rocky Hollow, but that can't come soon enough. I did notice those bins on our most recent visit and they are a great improvement to the older style with the added recycling benefits. I wonder if the park could partner with a local charity or fundraising effort to donate containers for change? Maybe even do something like grill'd where they have 2 or 3 local groups looking to fundraise and you can 'vote' where you want your portion to go to? The park is such a hodge podge and patchwork of areas - looking tired in a spot they haven't gotten to yet, but everywhere they have gotten to looks amazing. It's clear they're continuing with this park-wide spruce up and I can't wait until they're finished I know it is the off season - so the expected maintenance was understandable on two of the park's four 'adult' coasters - however the breakdowns on attractions that were open were disappointing. In a half day visit, we experienced breakdowns \ faults \ ride stoppages on 4 of the 5 rides we lined up for. While it was almost certainly just bad luck or bad timing, it wasn't something we've had happen on previous visits and it gave the impression that maintenance wasn't up to standards. While the staff were great - the communication during break downs needed to be improved. Additionally to the breakdowns, reduced capacity was an issue too - with multiple attractions closed for maintenance, one would think some ops crew would be available to bulk up other attractions. GD only running one side made that queue far longer than it needed to be given the crowds in the park. On one of our visits, Sky Voyager had multiple seats locked out - and the need to balance the gondola meant the same number of seats on the opposite side also had to be taken out of service. The new exit shop\photo centre is great. looks clean and fresh and is a great way for folk to finish their day. It was a little disappointing that the range of 'generic' product with absolutely no ties to Dreamworld took up the bulk of the space. I'd love to see the park invest in some more 'something I can only get here'. In particular, (and this is me sounding like a broken record) - a nice quality polo in a dri-fit style fabric. King Claw progress looking good - I saw the test seat still out in the carpark ready for install. With the focus shifting back to Ocean Parade I do hope they have plans to freshen that area - especially the old trolls village \ kevil hill. While they do use it for activations from time to time, seeing it sit in prime space the rest of the year is just sad. The carpark construction fencing is a major problem. Blocking that bottom end forces the upper areas of each of those lanes to merge into a single laneway prior to reaching the bottom exit row. I realise there is a need to have heavy equipment and machinery close by the construction zone, but perhaps (and especially since WWW is closed) they could have put it near HydroCoaster, minimising the dry park disruption while still being close to the construction zone. Further to that - getting out of the park at the end of the day is a shambles. The roundabout frequently backs up with people trying to enter the M1 southbound and people queue across the roundabout preventing people who are trying to get northbound from exiting the parkway. given the road feeds the M1 i'm assuming the roundabout is probably not a local issue but a state\federal one but it's a really sour ending to a fun day and I hope Dreamworld are talking to relevant authorities about options to rectify this.

A couple of photos from today (I didn’t get too close, as there were a lot of workers on site).

Thats the plan!

They’re making a lot of progress on the track, there were a bunch of people working on it today. If they can keep up this pace, I think they could potentially be on track (no pun intended) to open it for the September school holidays. I noticed they’ve resurfaced the crossing near Main Street station too.

Noticed a couple things at the park today. First of all, the roof looks so much better now that the painting is complete. I also happened to notice that the park have finally replaced a lot of the old standard rubbish bins with these new proper theme park style ones, similar in design to what you see in many big parks around the world. They look great and are even colour matched to fit the theming in certain areas too. Some of the bins have been placed in front of the Remota Boats and the pool has been drained. I hope this is just a temporary thing during maintenance and they’re not retiring them. They’ve also changed the background music in Kenny and Belinda’s Dreamland. Instead of playing generic pop music, they’re now playing whimsical/old timey music which is a really big improvement and fits the atmosphere a lot better IMHO.

The lights are gone now.

It's only bad if you go.