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First up, nobody is spending money on a ride for the markets. This is a new ride for Dreamworld that will return a lot of kinetics to main street - something it has needed for a long time - and because of it's convenient placement, and family friendly appeal, it makes sense to offer it (as a first step) as part of the market offering at an additional charge. When moonlight first started up, I thought the lack of rides offered was a missed opportunity, but i've heard Greg speak about some of the ideas, and it makes sense to me: The markets were an idea to get people simply coming back to Dreamworld. They intially didn't offer any rides because they didn't want to 'give away the gate' so to speak and cheapen these multi-million dollar rides by offering them for $2 entry, or pay-to-play Now, all things considered, Taipan is offlimits. At least for now. The only other rides within reach of the Market area would be The Claw (which is both high thrill, and restricted seat sizing), or Sky Voyager. Now - I can see a world where Sky Voyager runs during the markets. Perhaps, if they can changeover the programming easily enough, they could run a sponsored program #advertising space that is only available during the market so you don't get what day-guests paying a higher price get, but I don't think Claw is the right sort of attraction offering for the demographic of the Markets. No, a Wave Swinger, right in the middle of the action, with an impressive light package for night ops and designed with night operation in mind - that is perfect. It caters to a broad range of guests, and is a simple fun family ride for all. It's a one-two punch, giving the park a good quality flat ride, great main street kinetics and an impressive weenie as you enter the park, as well as adding to the night market offering as Dreamworld slowly builds it into something bigger than they started with. I look forward to markets progressing to a point where the park legitimately operates at night - something we've all called for on the GC for ages, and this is just another step towards realising that.

Wouldn't that happen every maintenance period?

Not sure where I should post this but a completely useless few facts I learned today: of all the custom arrow loopers, gold coaster is listed as the only one in history to have been relocated according to RCDB. Gold coaster is also the tallest (in height not drop) “classic” arrow looping coaster in operation. Ofc viper and Tennessee Tornado are taller but viper is classified a mega looper and TT is very different from the “classic” Arrow custom loopers. So GC is pretty unique.

Susprisingly, yes. Here's a timeline for you: 02/07/2020 - Surfboard is still installed on Surfrider 01/08/2020 - Surfboard appears on the South Western side of that particular maintenance building 16/10/2020 - Surfboard disappears - not visible near any maintenance building nor on the grounds of WnW (as far as I can see) 10/07/2021 - Surfboard reappears on the South Western side of that particular maintenance building 13/11/2021 - Surfboard is moved to the North Eastern side of the same maintenance building

It is progressing through council approvals - a large amount of referral agency reports were requested (Energex, Public transport impacts etc) and these were all submitted last week. You can read them all on the GC PD Online platform. Council getting the sign off from the referral agencies that they are happy with the plans and amendments is the key next step.

Entry has always been free for passholders and anyone that is already in the park at 5pm, so the entry fee only applies to non-passholders coming in after park hours for the food trucks. And it's only $2, so not much more than a token fee anyway. Waiving the fee on buskers night is a good gesture as anyone who hasn't paid entry will feel more generous towards tipping the buskers, which is how they make their money. And its win win because I do find in it's current state that the markets don't offer enough entertainment to let people linger - literally just the movie screen for kids and the stage under the roof. Once the wave swinger is operating though, this is gonna kick the markets into gear. can't wait to see it run with a modern light package at night!

Looking at this particular spot, it looks to be right at the start of the launch. The yellow paint is also worn in that one spot which looks to me like the evac position in case of rollback. So in short, this track is on average the most used section of track as all rollbacks end here. It's also a high stress point as the train is accelerated from 0 to 100, so you've also got the highest friction point.

Surfriders "Surfboard" positioned out back of the park.

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??

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

The last time I went to the Billabong Restaurant 90% of the customers were Asian tourist groups. I would think the restaurant would reopen when the tourist groups come back. I also believe the sheep show closed because the tourist groups stopped.

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.