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Absolutely not. People have been made redundant, attraction pipelines have been delayed for three of the country's biggest parks and there's still been massive revenue issues given the lack of international & interstate tourism. To say anything else is just trying to make a causation from correlation, which is the equivalent of suggesting that vaccines cause autism.

What even is google maps:

I'd consider myself more 'general public' than enthusiast these days. We (myself, husband, 12yo, 9 yo) went from about 2pm til closing yesterday. We had not previously been to any superheroes and super villains events. - Kids liked the Dew fountain ^^ - 9 year old doesn't like thrill rides or dark rides (has some sensory issues), so won't do anything other than Road Runner Coaster - very little to do for that 'older child' age. She thought the parade was underwhelming and wanted to see the heroes fighting the villains. - 12 year old did WWF, Green Lantern (at dusk), and DC Rivals (I think on last ride of the night) - she had done it before in daylight). WWF was a walk on (amazing!), but 75 minute queue for Scooby, so she missed that one. Ran out of time to do Superman Escape. She actually enjoyed the parade and floats, she had some of the 'villains' cast come and interact with her. - Saw stunt driver (lame, but liked the comedic warm up guy and glad they'd changed the 'flag girl' audience role to 'reigning champion), and 4D Yogi (meh, but hadn't seen it before and appreciated the air con for a bit), and costume'/props walk through area interesting enough (12 year old had seen most of the movies). - Liked the amount of characters dressed up around the park - Ate at the shop with jacket potatoes, kind of on the corner of main street, I'm not sure if I remember seeing it before. Wildly overpriced, but edible. - Considering there was no upcharge, all in all impressed, even if just for doing rides at night.

Is it bad that I kinda hope they make even more of a mess of it... Just to see if it's actually possible!

Yeah but you didn't use quotes so it looked like a single statement by you.

Those would have been in the works prior to Covid, and probably would have been announced sooner if it weren't for Covid. It empathically hasn't helped.

I won’t disagree about feeling tucked away, not to mention dead end, but as Spotty did point out who worked on the ride, the GP still flocked to it as one of the parks busiest rides. It would be nice with the new ride to begin to open this part of the park up, creating a loop and connecting it with DC arrivals, Doomsday and West. But from a business standpoint doesn’t make sense because then the public miss going past all the stores. It only works if you’re creating a new land out the back and opening park land with new food and merch stores there.

@AlexB I haven’t got access to Nearmap anymore, would you mind doing an area calculation for the entire AA footprint please. Including Courtyard, coaster, queue building. They are also commenting on posts confirming to those who ask

The fun part will be seeing what remains of it after Taipan opens. Since they've had to remove some of it for construction. We could see the jankiest iteration of spaghetti junction.

Scooby is a wild mouse though

Buggy area is untouched still

There's no doubt in my mind that theme parks all over the world have been hit hard by COVID - 19. However, if you take a step back and look at Australian theme parks, some major announcements have been made for our parks. Big Dipper, Actventure and the Big Banana expansion have all been announced.

The terrorists posted a video where the young blue heeler, evidently under duress, said she is doing well, and demanded $10,000,000 for the organisation "Beavers Against God".

Just say it’s a mouse wild and say that it’s a new ride and the gp won’t bat an eye