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Doctor who did it first

My god this year feels like it will be cheaper than ever. Hoepfully i’m wrong…

Seeing the photo of just the light post reminds me, those light post are the cream of the crop in what a theme park should aim for with light post.

Noticed a couple things at the park today. First of all, the roof looks so much better now that the painting is complete. I also happened to notice that the park have finally replaced a lot of the old standard rubbish bins with these new proper theme park style ones, similar in design to what you see in many big parks around the world. They look great and are even colour matched to fit the theming in certain areas too. Some of the bins have been placed in front of the Remota Boats and the pool has been drained. I hope this is just a temporary thing during maintenance and they’re not retiring them. They’ve also changed the background music in Kenny and Belinda’s Dreamland. Instead of playing generic pop music, they’re now playing whimsical/old timey music which is a really big improvement and fits the atmosphere a lot better IMHO.

There have been some more general improvements this week. Umbrellas have been added throughout Rivertown and they match the aesthetic of the land The Main Street Emporium refurb is complete, with new display windows The Surf Shop is how the Main Street Emporium Surf Shop They are repainting the roofs structure to be a cleaner white Directional signage has been added across the park The sign on the Main Street stage is still missing The front outdoor seating area for Kenny’s Fried Chicken is now finished, and they’ve begun works on the courtyard area to the left. This has been fenced off for years now, but they’ve ripped up the decking, so hopefully it means it will reopen soon. Goldie the Eagle has a new enclosure, but remains fenced off to guests while she adapts to the new home Some of the timber buildings out the front of the former sheep shearing building have been removed (presumably they were damaged during the cyclone) For this years Winterfest, they have moved the ice slide to be on the former Flowrider land (Winterfest is a lot more congregated within Ocean Parade this year and it made this area of the park feel so much better because it was actually being used). And not an improvement, but I noticed this last remaining sign for the former vintage cars located under the ramps of the Giant Drop. This is a minor thing to note, but behind these ramps (which I imagine isn’t used by many guests often), but it’s pretty messy. There’s construction fencing, left over Happy Halloween stuff, a scissor lift and hoarding just laying on the ground. This is a nice little throwback to Rocky Hollow though! Yesterday was the first day of the school holidays, but the park was pumping. The park was probably the busiest I’ve seen it in several years now and everyone seemed to be having a good time. Wait times for rides varied, but the maximum I saw was 45 minutes for Murrisspi Motors and Jungle Rush. Multiple trains on the coasters. Jane’s was busy, people were spread across the park and there was a really nice vibe about it all. For comparison, Movie World’s car park was looking pretty empty compared to normal and the longest wait time was 40 minutes (DC Rivals with one train operations).