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The only footage i could find

How do I award this?

I do have $7500 spare. A part of me is tempted just for the lols

..and a smaller shoe

Heck, that's cheaper than a koala. Doesn't look like its on a trailer though. You better tack on $20,000 for transport and refurbishment costs.

There is also a billboard on the highway advertising it saying opening soon.. except its been there for ages.

Each year we keep getting a bigger shoehorn

Damn just beat me to it haha, I was just about to share the video i made earlier but i may as well still share it

For those wondering if the steam train is still at the park or not... yes it is (to the left of the blue maintenance vehicle) And, why don’t DW open up these stairs to access the Giant Drop? Because of the construction you can access the usual stairs at the entrance to the ride. So you need to head up the spaghetti ramps, but why not keep these stairs open for access too?

i forgot to get a more up close photo of this but they have replaced those cheap Kmart storage bins with a more permanent solution

So yeah kind of annoying I thought this might have been something new but it’s from the previous attraction creatures of the deep, I think this might mean they have plans to reuse it?

Yeah it's been a while since i've been to the RES, but I still prefer it to Ekka. I had the opportunity to visit Ekka before they developed the old showbag hall into event space and erected the permanent temporary monstrosity - so i've seen both of its two most recent incarnations. As for my opinion on how the grounds stand today, they are a shell of what they once were. The entire precinct is choked by the railway bifurcation, funnelling everyone through two relatively narrow thoroughfares. Between this and the land sell-offs, areas are fragmented - splitting similar areas of interest off from each other and moving them to other places to accommodate them. It becomes even harder to navigate closer to the evening when EkkaNites starts as the vomatorium for the arena feeds into one of two major routes to get around the grounds, choking that passage, with little alternative. The grounds on a whole are hilly, and to get around to see everything you're essentially hill climbing all day long. The 'public transport' accessibility to the Ekka relies primarily on the Exhibition loop line, meaning that although it is capable of moving large amounts of people out of the precinct, it dumps them at a metropolitan station that is busy enough without exhibition traffic, requiring an interchange - so that just makes it worse. Unfortunately the earliest images for the RNA grounds on Nearmap are October 2009, and although some development had already occurred, you can see the land selloff continued throughout the past decade: October 2009 (oldest image) August 2012 (during Ekka) August 2018 (during Ekka) March 2021 (most recent)