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It’s such a shame and missed opportunity that the GC water parks have never gone to this kind of effort with their slides

Jamberoo has recently posted some sad but exciting news Splash Out water slides will close from 22 February 2021 to allow for the construction of a new water ride development at Jamberoo Action Park. Until then, we welcome all guests to come in and Splash Out for the last time with the water ride that started it all! We apologise for any inconvenience and hope you follow us on Facebook for more news as it breaks. As many of us already know it will replaced by 'Grand Gorge Falls' which should hopefully be open by the 21-22 season, It's sad to see splash out go after all these years but its great to see that they still have major plans to keep expanding Jamberoo's range of attractions

Train shed has been completely demolished And because of this, look who’s made an appearance And here’s just some generally photo updates

Looks bloody great. Is Jamberoo the country's best looking water park?

They’ve been offering that the whole summer holidays on the app

@red dragin unfortunately not, I did have a look around couldn’t see it

Gold Coaster opens, Steel Taipan construction progresses at Dreamworld Works on Steel Taipan steadily move forwards while the third iteration of Dreamworlds double looping coaster opens with little fanfare. Click here to continue reading

this line is not in touch with reality. Its why a $10k fundraiser to buy a 30 year old animatronic only has $680 several weeks on. It's why a proposal to rebuild a now demolished theme park in Sydney hasn't gotten past the 'dreamer' phase. And it's why Fox Studios operates well as a studio, and not very well as a theme park. All of these concepts have by now far outlived their use-by date. All of these are now since long gone due to a number of factors, but nostalgia always views these long-since-closed places with fondness - when the reality is they all closed down mainly due to a lack of patronage and a lack of interest.

To be honest, there is not really a lot of options. The biggest land space they have to accommodate rides is of course Maloney's Corner behind Coney Island. This would be the most obvious choice to install a new coaster or attraction. Of course , this depends on the size of the coaster installed and where they could relocate the other rides that may be displaced by this coaster. The only real options that I could see are: Move the Tumblebug to the Flying Saucer site ( that's on the assumption that this space will be able to accommodate this large ride). This then would leave the space where the Tumblebug currently resides for another attraction- this space could be big enough to fit in a new compact coaster. This is currently vastly under utilised space by LPS and if they do not install another coaster here, could easily fit 2 medium sized flats. There is an area that is currently an open space environment that sits above the ticket office and the car park entrance. It is currently a green area but it could be converted to a kids ride area with access to the park below coming down near where the Light House stands. This then would free up more space in Maloney's Corner to develop into new attractions. The above pic, whilst not a great resolution, is from 2005. It shows the relative position of the offices behind the Flying Saucer site and the Tango Train. A coaster that runs parallel behind Coney Island is of course a possibility and depending on the size, would not displace the Moon Ranger or Spider. Here in this 1995 pic, it shows exactly how much real estate the Big Top actually takes up, starting from the end of the Tango and adjoining the Big Dipper entrance. For mine, a real positive step would be to re-install the ride facades that were present from the '95 incarnation. They gave the park an old world feel and gave the rides a unique and distinctive look. The possibility of LPS getting another large coaster, let alone ANY coaster, is fairly slim IMHO. There are plenty of compacts out there that of course could remain a distinct possibility and given some creative thinking, could feature in LPS's future. As always, I have my fingers crossed!