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Queue has officially gone vertical over the past few days, Already looks great, excited to see everything once it’s complete in the coming weeks. (credit: gc_themeparkgirl)

I saw that too! Here’s a picture

if they've used a rollercoaster emoji to tease a big brother announcement i'm going to riot.

New pictures from today! It’s coming along so fast too.

Another way Dreamworld is crushing the competition: Ride inclusivity Daughter has a brace from a wrist injury, Seaworld was a blanket no for everything, even gentle rides. I am assuming its the same at Movieworld. Dreamworld uses common sense and only restricts certain rides due to intensity and/or plausibility of riding. The nurse at Dreamworld provided my daughter with a ride access pass that allows her to ride everything except ST, Giant Drop and Dodgems. Village need to step it up.

The dreamworld that placed a giant silver skull in the middle of village green, employed a non-engineer to head up the engineering department, a car museum in the middle of ocean parade and a motorbike rollercoaster in Rivertown is gone. Big Brother doesn't belong at Dreamworld anymore. The current management has set about righting the wrongs of the past - there is still work to do (including the motorbike coaster in rivertown) but they're not walking backwards.... and BB would be backwards.

These photos from @Theme Park Girl show how it’s being installed and what it’s connecting too

Another great pic from @Theme Park Girl And for reference, here is a photo of The Claw from many years ago. You can see that the roof at the front right is still the same as gives an indication of how insanely big King Claw actually is!

Install has begun. Photos by @Theme Park Girl

I thought it was DW's social media people up there.

Jungle Rush has been cloned at in Vietnam, if anyone wants to see how it all looks exposed. Looks so strange without a plane and car ride in the middle. But it would be a good layout for parks wanting to put flat rides or other stuff in the middle too. https://rcdb.com/22957.htm Photo Credit: https://www.facebook.com/VHCoasters/posts/love-it-when-a-coaster-goes-almost-completely-under-the-radarand-yet-again-its-i/1155512776615332/

I could be way off here, not entirely sure how these things work. However I would have thought that this would have been part of the overall Rivertown project and funded into it. I assumed they would have had it booked in and organised with whatever suppliers, builders etc a long time ago. Again I could be way off, but I think the train actually does pull in crowds. It’s regularly commented on social media, as is the return of the paddle steamer etc. people love the nostalgia and the rides the whole family can enjoy. All the same I sure hope it returns this year. It will be so nice to have a ‘whole’ park again. (Without huge areas of construction or maintenance) We haven’t had that in many many years.

Each one of those "bulbs" are a 3 in 1 SMD. Both displays are custom Vuepix LED screens developed for ULA. The joker head is a custom GM series LED screen. It's still made up of a bunch of modules that connect together, but it was designed with greater LED pitch as it's purely signage, there's no infill panel it's completely open. Obviously more a bespoke design/shape, but they had a lot of problems with the GL panels over the years too, including water damage. Even if you don't lose a panel, you can lose a signal or power module that will take out an entire group and you're just left with a big portion of your sign missing. Wanted to get away from these sorts of issues. Not sure if cost comes into it a lot when you are building a custom 130sqm sign. Thats coverage about half the size of an average house. When you think of it that way, it starts to really drive home how large the sign is.

The slide towers platform has been reinstalled with the new openings for the slides to connect too. And there’s machinery on site constructing the new footings for the slides. Here’s a closer look at the slide pieces And the new supports for the attraction.

Maybe the general public are starting to act with their wallets now. I’ve definitely noticed Dreamworlds carpark much busier than MovieWorlds as of late.

This queue area is going to look fantastic and loving the steampunk aesthetic too. All the footings are in place for the rides supports And this gap in the walls is where the gondola will swing through and the entrance just in front of it.

Looks like the main street canopy supports are getting a lick of paint too: (Credit Dreamworld's Golden Years on FB). Looking good!

I visited the park for the first time in a while yesterday and the biggest improvement that really stood out to me was how much more immersive and complete Rivertown feels now that the old TOT building has been painted go away green. Having that big white shed sitting in the back of the land was always somewhat distracting and took away from the experience a little bit (despite how great everything else in the land was). Now that this has been rectified, it blends in so much better and really doesn’t catch your eye like it used to.

OMG right! Then they should build a Pirates of the Carribbean next to the new Space Mountain too!

What's this dude's issue? It's immersive AND subversive! "Pay no attention to the land behind the curtain!"

the “👀🎢” part at the end of the caption along with “hold on tight, something massive is dropping” makes me think it actually could be a new coaster or ride of some kind, but who knows. a vekoma replacing motorcoaster doesn’t sound bad at all.

This post from July 19, 2004, shows that supports were only being installed on The Claw in mid-July. The ride opened September 18, 2004. Dreamworld is definitely aiming for a September holiday opening.

I personally go to my lawyers for Theme park discussion.

Dreamworld are hosting a fundraising event on Saturday September 6, 6pm to 10pm. The event is for over 18s and is $199 per person and includes the below. https://facebook.com/events/s/give-for-the-wild-a-gatsby-jun/5023010051257727/

Truthfully except for the busiest days you can get USS done in a day. Especially if you spring for Express. I love USS, but Singapore has so much to offer - i'd really recommend trying to knock the park off in a day so you can do other things on the other days. There is no shortage of things to do! We've just booked our third trip since 2022 to Singapore, this time round we've allowed more time to explore Changi (we're still discovering new things at that bloody airport) and we're planning on a stay at the Banyan Tree lodge at Mandai. I'm not even sure if we will go to Universal this time around.

Imagine building to that, and then absolutely cooking your audio levels but releasing it anyway.

It's kind of funny that as human beings we're on this Earth for such a short period of time and people are devoting literal ~hours~ of their day and getting genuinely worked up over a fucking power outlet on a fake wall in a theme park in Australia. Not hating either way, I mean you do you but I can't help but just think it's kind of funny... KIND OF FUNNY!

It's funny how some people have to find fault with literally everything and can't let a single positive thing be said without shitting on it.

Just to clear something up because it seems to be repeated a lot here: Village do not have purpose built television facilities. The do not have technical control rooms, green rooms, catering facilities, audience holding areas, motorised lighting trusses, epoxy floors, or any of the other things that are required for television broadcast - particularly live TV. They are film production facilities - sound stages. Essentially large sheds with plywood floors, black walls and large doors. They could be used for television production - game shows, or other studio-based shows - but everything from lighting trusses to green rooms, make up trucks and Outside Broadcast trucks would need to be hired and brought in - like they are for films which typically have higher budgets. If you're bringing in all of that, you could film in any old shed. Big Brother is usually a windowless house (which is possible in a sound stage) with a back yard. It would not be possible to do this at VRS in the Sound Stages. The lot is too busy with too many other productions happening at the same time. You would see the sound stages from any exterior shot, and you would hear the coasters (and top golf), trucks and forklifts and construction crews building sets. To shoot Big Brother on Village property, you'd need to construct a purpose-built house somewhere back near Paradise Country, at which point you're in the same position as doing the same thing at Dreamworld. Purpose built TV studios and film studios are not the same thing. The current VRS lot is more like warehouses built on a car park. They could be used for studio-based TV - something like Dancing with the Stars or The Voice, but they really are not setup for a show like Big Brother. Sorry for the long essay, but I think it's good for people to understand the difference.

They really don't seem to care anymore (photo taken yesterday).

Now you're just talking about all the timber fencing already installed throughout RT @DaptoFunlandGuy. Pendulum going up. Can't be much longer to the motor is lifted up.

Claw came together similarly fast. When you think about it - it's four supports, the motor assembly and the swing arm\gondola. It kinda has to go up quick because each side of the supports relies on the other side to hold each other (which is why there are so many cranes holding everything as it goes up) Once it's up though you can expect to see visible progress slow a bit as the finer details are taken care of. Honestly though - if we keep getting good weather, we could see testing by September... fingers crossed for an earlier than boxing day open!

The other half of the structure was installed this afternoon. Just the motor and pendulum arm to go!

The Flash was meant to reopen tomorrow; but it’s been pushed back by a week. So school holidays starting and Superman, Flash, WWF and Scooby are closed.

Modern day Dreamworld ain’t doing anything like that!

I get you - the point I was trying to make is that they already moved west to be more 'winter' and while it makes sense to have it in a cooler weather slot, where it is now is where it landed, so my conclusion is that it was too difficult to get it later in the year than they did, otherwise they'd have done it the first time they moved it...

Isn't there already a Big Brother thread?

‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’

To me this little tease in the comment section screams new attraction

Just like the hype DW is trying to generate about a massive expansion.

Just like the intamin hype that turned into King Claw...

It's funny how some people believe Disney never get anything wrong.

@Levi the photo isn't taken from behind the wall. The photo is taken from where guest stand and you can clearly see it. The switch should have been moved to the right out of guest view.

Jaggs just posted on instagram a few hours ago about a GCB article about an expansion.

Please do post a trip report. You will visit before me. I’m also curious about Legoland.

I can highly recommend Gästehaus Nikita for your accomodation - within walking distance to the park and the owners are lovely. I'm a bit of a musical theatre nut so I loved the phantom VR experience - its worth doing regardless because I'm pretty sure its the only VR coaster that starts before you're on the train. Eftling has an app for queue skipping with is very much worth its time. Europa has a lot of single rider lines if your misses isn't keen.

This has finally changed! On the park map change they’ve now added WWWs park map as a seperate link within the park map page: https://www.dreamworld.com.au/park-information/park-map/

I am doing Europa and Phantasialand next month while I'm in Germany (Also hitting up Legoland in Denmark). So if you're not going before than I can let you know how things go when I'm back. Luckily I have time to be able to spend 2 days in each. Thanks to @mba2012 for the advice for Europa above

It's great DW have opened up the restaurant but this micro management of operational hours that DW has fallen in love with, is a great way to piss off guest. We’re here kids, oh wait, the park doesn’t open for another 30mins. S^&t the park is already open, I thought is didn’t open to 10:30. Let’s do a few rides after school Jonny and grab ice cream. Oh wait, it’s Tuesday, we can only do that on Fridays. F^&k another hot summer day, let’s go the water park to cool down. Don’t be stupid, WWW isn’t open Wednesday. What do you mean I can’t eat at the restaurant tonight, I was here at the Night Markets, last Saturday night and it was open. Oh it’s Friday. But I don’t like German sausages. I’ve just driven from Brisbane for the Night Markets and you’re telling me it’s not on because of a special event.