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Had a good giggle at that intro

If you go to this area of the park and look up close to this facade, some of the paint has chipped away and you can see the original timber and colour of the building. In fact, walk through the entire ABC Kids area and compare how the buildings look to original photos of the area and most of it is somewhat still there, it’s just been ruined with paint and plastic.

I don't know @Naazonthat well, but i'm pretty sure thats a big WHOOSH.

Billabong was there back in the jamboree days, and here are two shots from the video showing the building: This is the best image I can find online to show the distance between them and as you can see, it isn't much: What it does show though are building elements that wouldn't have been included in a 2005 show building for a kids dark ride (such as the exposed beams, and the 'homestead style' patio railings and other touches) which does show the original building was reused, at least in part.

Thats neither R G or B

While the Wiggles video has had a lot of help from locals and was put together well, Defunctland's decidedly clickbaity approach to videos leads to false narratives (like his Wonderland video claiming that the native wildlife were simply abandoned and left to starve) that are never redressed. It has left me to apply a healthy dose of skepticism to any video he publishes - though many of his deep dives - like disney fastpass - are really well put together, the track record always leaves me doubting everything said. They're good for entertainment purposes, but don't expect everything you see to be factual. This video mentions BRC was the first dark ride in 'nearly 20 years'. If we ignore boat rides like Bermuda (11 years) and LTRR (14 years) we're still left with the likes of Gremlins (also 14 years) which is hardly 'nearly 20'. It does of course depend on where you draw the line, but every line I could think of fell well short of 20.

The issue to me is that many of these recent ride renovations and "upgrades" have either been done in a really half arsed manner or have ended up detracting from or breaking some other part of the ride experience. For example, the Wild West Falls upgrade saw effects being renovated/reactivated, control systems upgraded and new boats added. But capacity is now significantly lower, many of the audio effects are out of sync and/or play on top of each other, the queue line videos have been completely removed and the area music loop surrounding the ride no longer plays (plus many of the practical effects they only just refurbished are already broken again). It's a similar story for most of the other recently upgraded attractions. Plus other general park issues that have already been mentioned on here many times before (the lack of background music in many areas, overgrown gardens, poor operations, dirty and tired areas) continue to be a problem and are holding back the park from being truly "world class" IMHO.

How can you get the top right and not the tower. 🤦‍♀️ Clearly @Slickis right and everybody else is wrong. Once you see it, you can never unsee it.