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Might not be but some suspicious object has been spotting in the superman maintenance bay. Looks a hell lot like one of the Surfrider seat assembly’s??

At least they got to walk the track https://www.instagram.com/p/CotwvKNuUIB/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Wizard of Oz is timeless. if you have not seen it, your parents failed you by not introducing you to it. If despite that failure you still haven’t sought it out yourself, then you can’t be helped

The night markets have always had live entertainment - they are just using the weekend to allow buskers to show their skills. it’s also not last minute as it’s been being promoted for a couple of weeks now. the vendors pay to operate at the market, so that’s where the profit comes from

ground word appears to have now started on the relocation of SurfRider. This will most likely be the only look we’ll get of the area until SE opens back up from maintenance sadly source: sarahfromcs

The building against the motorway would appear to be the coomera motor inn.

WWF surprisingly did end up opening today which is great from them.

WWF is now listen as under unscheduled maintenance so i doubt it’ll be open for them today sadly. looks like they’ll be doing Rivals and GL all day (until GL breaks down.)

Just shy of two weeks. Sounds like the 1000km first service for them to make sure everything is wearing as it should. Given the difficulties they've had in opening on the regular, I do wonder whether there might be any changes planned to the control system that might improve capacity or operational tempo?

Maintenance schedule has been updated to include Leviathan going down for two weeks in March.

From my perspective Taipan edges out Superman purely through ride comfort and re-ride ability. After a couple of laps my shoulders/neck (and my wife's ears) are sore (bleeding) from Superman. It's rough and the OTSR's aren't soft. I love the pre-show/launch on SE, but it's just not comfortable enough to enjoy multiple times a day. If they splashed the cash to get the newer trains/restraints (like Velocicoaster for example, which are much more like DCR/Taipan) I'm sure I'd have voted for SE.

After a lot of looking here’s what I have found so far . here we have the earliest above photo of dreamworld I could find. 1st January 1978. It shows the ground work of a pre open dreamworld. You can make out the overall shape of DW there looks to be train track in place in some spots but it’s really hard to tell. next we have a black & white photo of dreamworld from 1982. That’s the next year they took a above picture of the park. The photo is bad quality but you can make out thunderbolt and the steamer ship in the lake. Then theres a bunch of photos of a thriving DW from 1990-1998 you can see a very vibrant blue lagoon. I like how on some of the photos you can see the shadow of thunderbolts loops on the group. You can see little puff track. Gold rush country looks cool too. Somehow I never put together that eureka was right behind the IMAX. If anyone notices some other cool things let us know what’s this building? It’s still there In this photo you can see cyclone getting built next to thunder bolt. And in the next one you can see them both operating side by side.

Pulls pin. Dreamworld didn't open with IPs, it doesn't need IPs. Drops nade.

I reckon at that end it could have been a "Wild Asia" section that connected with Tiger Island. Chessington has something similar: I don't know about anyone else but I love the theming that was done for the revamped Tiger Island so would happily see more of that. So perhaps Serpent Slayer would have been done in a more stony colour, dodgems do a bit on them to make the Chinese buildings look older. And then the remainder of kids area can be ABC / Kenny / Belinda, that's fine.

I thought Sky Voyager was a simulator, not a dark ride. Dark ride is where you follow a course through a few scenes, eg Justice League, Big Red Car, Ghost Train etc.

Hey, been a long time reader of the forums but wanted to drop in and say I've also noticed the lack of music at Movie World and it's bugged me for a long time (especially outside Superman escape). I'm hoping they'll do something about it during the ride's downtime as that would be a perfect opportunity to sort it out.

It's empirically not true. IAAPA has a ton of resources about how IP can drive a 20% bump in revenue if done well. There's also dozens of research articles you can find on Google Scholar that cover marginal affinity and what defines great IP synergy/execution and how it impacts long term bottom line revenue. I think that's where you might be getting your wires crossed - just because your favourite theme park CEO retires an IP doesn't suddenly make all IP's bad. If that were the case Disney wouldn't be the world's most valuable IP-house. That's not to say the particular Dreamworks IP's they had were tired, but to replace it with really no nationally recognisable IP is ultimately a measure in austerity not growth. Sky Voyager. Lol, you absolutely can't attribute Sky Voyager to the current CEO. That was three CEO's in the making and it didn't include the current CEO. Furthermore, and I can't state this enough, Ardent have had the same key board members for the last four CEOs ranging back to 2017, and whilst I can't understate how tough a CEO's job is, they report to the board and its strategic directives/interests, which have included ride procurement and theming in the case of the current activist shareholders. Therefore, this whole new/old management thing is a misnomer at best. Call it for what it is - you just like this CEO. And that's okay, too. CEOs aren't an island, and the ones that do often fail pretty quickly. People really like this one and I can totally understand why, but revising history and ignoring facts (like saying Buzzsaw was a maintenance nightmare but miraculously runs perfect at Gumbuya World) to suit this second coming of Jesus narrative is a bit cringe. The current strategy has largely purposefully avoided replacing the mix of attractions what was previously closed because current sentiment is that a smaller Dreamworld was the smarter move. And maybe that was justified back when the park was on death's door during the pandemic, but it's clear to see in the current demand across all parks that people don't want the Dreamworld that's being offered. Remember, a quiet park and short queues is a feature for enthusiasts, but it's a bug for profit and a successful long term organisation.

I feel like drinking that much Kool Aid isn't good for you

I think what you've missed there is that even most regional theme parks have a pipeline of attractions five or ten years in advance so that when something closes, something is ready to take its place. Dreamworld being caught with its pants down in the form of the incident really showed that the business not only had no long-term succession plan but failed to maintain what it had in place of a long-term plan.

😮😮😮 Someone refund their plane tickets!!

That's a mischaracterisation and a half. But if we're all aboard the speculative train, how is your argument any different? Colour scheme would be one mitigating factor, but not the only one. How about having a cattle farm queue line in the middle of SE? You think that's enhancive to aesthetics? The difference is that AA had an enclosed queue building and higher throughput per hour. Do you really think plonking it out in the middle of SE is giving it a cohesive theme? See, two can play that game. Probably neither, but I don't profess to be an engineering expert. Why is it infeasible to knock out the wall between the cafe and the toilet block and extend the path? Then you've got an area cordoned off just for the ride. I'm sure you agree the "carpark coaster" meme is trite and lazy; DC Rivals technically has the problem, but if it's a good ride, who even cares? At least you've got space on that strip of land to theme a queue properly, and you're moving traffic away from SE. See above. Called out on whose behalf? Yours? We don't have to agree, but I never claimed I had the authority to judge a clear-cut better choice, nor do I have to. On a tight footprint, any spot would be a compromise. Honestly, if the ride was fated to the scrapyard, would that be so upsetting? It's more than fifteen years old. But if they're going to exhume every last bit of life out of it, at least do it in a way that makes sense.

I find it curious that this was what you took the most umbrage with. If you don't like being called an elitist, don't act like one. Your standing as a moderator is a moot point; isn't it telling that you're the one who brought it up, not me? There's always ambiguity in what constitutes a "filler" ride i.e. is Sledgehammer the "filler" for Big Dipper at LPS? Anyway, the point was that if you're relocating a ride to a park with a small footprint, there's better options where you can give the ride its own space with a cohesive theme. Why not out the front, on the other side of GL, like I suggested? It gives the ride great visibility from the entrance, but is still sectioned off for it to have its own themed queue and station. Placed as it will be, Surfrider would be disruptive. It apexes around the 90-ft mark, and if it's given a paint job that doesn't match SE's scheme, it will look cluttered. It would be better situated further back, where the smoking area currently is. There was some back-and-forth earlier about that, but really it's not hard to siphon off another corner nearby, plant a couple of ashtrays and call it a day. It's not a zero-sum game. As I said before, shoehorning a small flat ride into the middle of a coaster is clunky. It may help in some capacity to ease the pressure on Superman's queue, but it's still not a big people-eater. You're adding more foot traffic to the area, and until the Oz precinct opens, that could be an issue. Given there's multiple options for where it could go, I just don't see at all how this is the best one.