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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.

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.

First school holiday visit to DW today. crane in the car park lifting some ST pieces around. I’m usually quite defensive of DW, but they get a solid F for operational planning. Some of the decision making is just amateur hour at best. the monster trucks whist an unique attraction in theory just hasn’t been executed well at all. To have zero shading available for the show whatsoever, and expect people to go in 30mins prior to sit in direct sun on metal benches that were easily 80+ degrees - we were lucky we had towels in our bag. I’d say at least 30-40 people left prior to it even starting. the show itself only goes for 12-15mins, and is in one word - boring. then we get to WWW, where for some god awful reason they’ve decided to have the queue lines for green room and Hydrocoaster on ground level rather than utilising all the tower stairs, only letting roughly 10-12 people on the tower for each queue at a time. The outcome being instead of queuing in the generally shade of the tower, you are now queuing in direct sun, no shade, burning hot floors. A 1.5hr wait for Hydrocoaster and only 10mins of that wait was on the tower stairs itself. No communication, at one point HC broke down, line didn’t move for 15mins, but no one came along to tell people there was issues, only way we found out was people coming down the tower who told us as they tried to push through to get out. no idea what is going on, but they really need to rethink what they are doing.

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.

Alpine Coaster 1 looks too intense for me! Greg B.

That's.... one way of looking at it

I’m surprised to see that BuzzSaw isn’t closed all year for construction.

As Gazza said, Perth is an exception to this. Given we've been relatively un-effected, and because it's not like we actually (AW and OS) relied on interstate or international tourism that heavily pre-covid anyways. People have also got more disposable income over here courtesy of the stimulus package, being able to continue working and the inability to blow all this in a bender up in Bali or On the Gold Coast (shit examples but you get my jist). We were also lucky enough that our lockdown occurred in the park off seasons, so loss of income due to closure was close to nil. For the most part though, both domestically and internationally, Covid has and is metaphorically speaking shat and shitting all over the industry and i don't think there's really much questioning that.

I have to disagree. It has been a nightmare for some See NSW, VIC and QLD. But it's the best thing to have happened for some other smaller parks. In Perth both parks have just been insane. Adventure World has never had to stop selling season passes every in their history, and they hit this a month into their season this year. They have had their best season ever. Same goes with Outback Splash reaching capacity the other day (not covid capacity but physical licensing capacity) So I agree where this coming from.

Here's an overlay of the expansion onto the current park. The long term water park is looking much bigger, but will have that dry racing slide in the old ski slope right in the way in the middle. The dual raft slide looks a bit meh though. They already have a raft slide, and this appears to have a very similar layout / usual Polin thing of too many helices....I would have preferred something like outback splash at least with a Boomerango type thing (or others) to add more variety. On the masterplan at Dot (3), you can spot they've just traced the River Rapids and the old Terror Canyons at WnW and mirrored them. The Alpine coaster appears to have two lifts, which is probably a necessity given how ridiculously short the current toboggan is.

What even is google maps:

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".

As @joz mentioned it was a footbridge that started just before Hollywood House, went over the railway, turned right, and went down into Rocky Hollow. It was superseded when Giant Drop opened because it wasn’t wheelchair friendly and The Sanderson Group thought they could do a better job. 😂 I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count the amount of times I’ve heard someone say they’ll eventually fix spaghetti junction. 🤷🏼‍♂️