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Sea World's dormant beast: up close with the Leviathan wooden roller coaster Sea World's Leviathan is looking more and more like a fully realised roller coaster as it inches closer and closer to its delayed 2022 opening date. Click here to continue reading

There are some incredible photos in there and great to get an insight into it all. @Slick you would be correct, those are the first photos of the train, which looks amazing. Love the harness choice

Wow incredible pictures! I cannot wait for the whole experience. The queue line looks to be one of the best located queues I’ve seen. The ride itself looks to be sharp & seems to have a ton of airtime moments. The most noticeable thing about this article is that they are keeping the theming under wraps, which to me sounds like it’s going to be awesome. I have high hopes that this will be a whole experience, from entering the queue line until exiting the ride.

I think DW has a pretty well designed car park, big fan of angled parking. Where this breaks down is as always, the user, the human factor. It would be like if they just opened the gates at Brisbane Entertainment centre and said "have at it peeps." As has been suggested, simple solution is to have attendants (only needs a small number) directing cars in, and filling each row, one at at a time all the way. When you leave it up to people they will naturally try to go to the next row to get a closer spot to the gate. Don't let them do that. Yes they will grumble and be pissed for a whole 5 mins when then are forced to go all the way up the back of the first row. But they'll soon forget this after a good experience follows and save a lot of the frustrations that seem to have been felt on the previous night.

I think it's being overthought now. The carpark works great 99% of the time. It's clear there's some bottlenecking that occurs during sold-out night events that could most likely be addressed by having a team of staff direct traffic flow of cars into parks. Two staff are out on the road signalling traffic into a row. When the row is full, it's roped off. Use of the two-way roads are restricted to minimise flow obstructions. Signage is placed in the entry roadway to pre-empt people on where they need to go to prevent un-necessary lane changes that would further obstruct flow. Add additional signage and barriers to ensure as many people as possible wait and cross on the crossings. I think you'd get 90% of the way there by doing the above instead of spending millions on infrastructure changes.

Construction flies ahead on Wet'n'Wild's newest water slides Wet'n'Wild are moving forward with construction of their latest collection of water slides ahead of their expected opening in December. Click here to continue reading

This might help...

Dreamworld has: 2,087 MARKED parking spaces. 5 trailer parking spaces. 12 bus bays.

Because pedantic is the favourite theme around here I will correct myself to say "**I** NEVER SAID USE UNTRAINED PEOPLE".

Bloody brilliant update there @Richard I think it's the first time the trains have been seen, no? Really digging the custom paint job - if there's one thing we do well in Australia, it's sexy roller-coaster trains.

Those timberliners look amazing! 🤩 Bit sad it's opening now in Easter 2022, mainly cause I need to renew my pass now...

My brain seriously hurts dude. Read the post from daptofunland guy and im hungry about redesigning the Carpark for traffic flow issues. Then see I'm quoting slick who is responding to them. If you don't get it from here I'm not sure what else I can do to help you understand. Sure they should have overflow parking. No one is arguing with you on that point.

Yeah, people are talking about wholesale redesigning the car park for ease of entry. I'm saying that's a waste of time. At no point did anyone say that they shouldn't have an overflow parking area because it's not needed. Some mention of how they normally deal with the parking issue came up, but that doesn't read to me like anyone is saying 'There's plenty of parking for everyone!' I get what you're saying and I broadly agree, but read the other comments that I'm/Slick is responding too

That's shifting the goal posts. The discussion is about the feedback and ultimately the issue at hand which was that getting in was an issue, not that there was enough parks. If you want to talk about that, Dreamworld's easiest solution would be to move staff parking to the Coomera Indoor Sports Centre, which happens frequently during peak season anyway.

I did actually mean to say something about that because specific mention was made of tidying up the old mess of paths and there's every indication it'll all be open and one seamless area. Black Hole's refurbishment last year for instance included some new pathways to facilitate this.

I agree. That sounds horrendous and really poor form. Can't argue that. A simple email saying 'Heads up!' would avoid a lot of problems.

Yeah true. Here's hoping Dreamworld takes onboard the feedback they got and puts a few more folks in to better direct traffic flow e.g. having someone direct cars into car park lanes, having another wanding them down into the car park itself etc. etc. Might also be a good idea to add in larger on-demand signage from the roundabout onwards (car-park right lane, drop-off left lane kinda stuff) and to even limit use of the two-way access road that parallels the entry road such that the few cars that try to use it to cut in don't impede flow completely.

Someone give this guy a medal!

Nice update. One thing that always irritated me is how haphazard the space between Mach5 and Black Hole was. https://www.parkz.com.au/cache/photo/individual_photo/construction/2021/10/2a59d23319a7a67ba83151bda66d88db.jpg I do hope that once finished, the new install isn't 'finished off' without regard to what sits outside the boundary - I hope that perhaps some slight re-working is done to better connect the two areas and make them naturally group together instead of the isolation each tower had previously

Very much so. It feels disconnected from the park in my eyes. It's like... tucked away on the other side of the Dreamworld Express line in its own little space besides ABC Kids World.

Me dropping into this thread every day having never ridden a standup coaster.

I hear there's a new family coaster opening up at Dreamworld soon!