DaptoFunlandGuy

It's funny how some people have to find fault with literally everything and can't let a single positive thing be said without shitting on it.

Since we can't use MW as a comparator, don't forget all the power outlets that are in full view at Disney parks

Nobody except you is saying that it is. Because it's the 'nearest neighbour' comparison. Both parks exist in the same part of the world. We frequently chastise others who attempt to compare local parks with disney, or universal, or even south east asia - because there are different factors at play - regulation, minimum wage, transport and shipping costs are all different, etc. So MW is not the benchmark. it is just the closest comparison of apples with apples. Its 11 O'Clock and @New display name isn't well.

if they've used a rollercoaster emoji to tease a big brother announcement i'm going to riot.

If you're quite done putting words into everybody else's mouths - nobody said 'good DW' they just said 'better than MW' which is true. I literally said 'i hate this'. Also - judging by Magician's post - they're not finished. (and judging by previous discussions here, they'll read this and may even fix up some of your nitpicks).

For everyone else not interested in a scavenger hunt - https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16tzDxkMwe/ Staged fake scene driving down the road with person holding cardboard sign pointing at giant drop - video cuts to drone shot flying into giant drop with two people standing atop the tower. I agree it is intriguing. Interesting that GD is in focus... for whatever it is... considering it only recently completed a refurb. Let the speculation begin.

Right. Perhaps a link or a screenshot next time so people at least know which of the posts to look for. Probably should just create a thread for it

I would have thought that would be a missed opportunity, considering Vortex.

Honestly that makes a lot of sense. purposebuilt facilities for film-production, secure facility isolated from the public, most foreign shows are filmed on sound stages so it makes a lot of sense to do it there. it'll be curious whether village are 'in on it' and will capitalise with cross-marketing, in-park appearances and BTS opportunities post-production, or whether they are simply 'renting a space to a production company' and no more than that...

I understand the reason for it, but you can't close it down entirely for 12-18 months without a substitute which is why I said: Once you have that, you can have a pathway that hugs the boundary (either staying on stage, or routing backstage if you need to include the food outlet) like this: Let's face it, you're not removing RRRC or JDS - So you can utilise the former LTRR queue space, allowing you to continue operating RRRC, JDS and your new indoor attraction space, effectively enabling you to bulldoze the rest of the land at leisure without guests cracking it over your lack of kids attractions. (Bonus - you get to keep the arcade open too) Ideally you'd get the food outlet and toilets refurbed prior to hoarding this pathway - you can't have a kids land operating without toilets nearby (but I suppose you could fit a small bathroom in the showbuilding also - which might stop the JDS queue smelling like piss too)

the colour, yes. the style, no.

The dreamworld that placed a giant silver skull in the middle of village green, employed a non-engineer to head up the engineering department, a car museum in the middle of ocean parade and a motorbike rollercoaster in Rivertown is gone. Big Brother doesn't belong at Dreamworld anymore. The current management has set about righting the wrongs of the past - there is still work to do (including the motorbike coaster in rivertown) but they're not walking backwards.... and BB would be backwards.

See, that's just beautiful. The splashpad would cop sun all day, facing north, and the afternoon sun is brutal down near humpty \ serpent with zero shelter. It would have been lovely to have some trees but they do take a long time to grow in and roots play havoc with so many rides in close proximity so the shelters are a brilliant idea (shame they couldn't be blue to disappear into the background a little more but thats my only critique!) It's wonderful to see a park recognise a shade issue around a ride and implement a solution. on an unrelated note - how are the queues going for Oz? Yeah look - I hate this. They had a beautiful facade there, along main street, and they've destroyed it with modern glass sliding doors and now this. I understand the reason for it - the loss of the fountain to the flyer reduced their main street entertainment space and this is all-weather covered so it makes sense to put it here. I just wish they'd have resdesigned the entire facade to suit the new construction as it's jarring going from the double bay windows into flat blank hoarding. At least they got rid of that god awful colour scheme and returned it to something more classic I suppose...

The car has two 'seats' - a low one that is enclosed on the sides for kids to sit in, similar to a dodgem car. This seat is further forward so they can reach the wheel \ pedal. There is then a higher seat at the rear, set further back so adults can ride it \ reach the pedal \ wheel. While probably designed for parents to co-pilot children too small to drive by themselves, older kids \ adults frequently ride by themselves - sometimes while accompanying a self-driving child, and sometimes while not. (stolen from instagram - best image I could find) Some other examples of solo adults found on google:

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EzBxe13UL/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Please take a breath and try paragraphs lifetime family passes are a huge prize and probably more than they'd ever likely wish to do. free day passes or annual passes would be about the limit of their generosity surveying guests on what they want is fine, you can be guided by that, but it isn't going to be a case of simply 'build whatever people say is the most popular... why? because: licensing costs money. Unlike parks that have an IP-owning media company in their shareholdings, (disney, universal, for example) MW has to pay a license fee for every IP they bring in. Some licences cost more than others, and it has to be financially viable. There's no sense building the most popular IP if it's exorbitantly more expensive than the next cheapest option - you'll profit more on a cheaper IP that is still popular longevity - just because the latest craze might happen to be Labubu or something that doesn't mean it has the timeless qualities that will immortalise itself in a theme park attraction that will stand for a decade or more. But you can bet those surveyed will be influenced by popular culture 'right now' only to lose interest in that product next week when the new thing comes along. Having the public design a ride... just... no. Ride design is a skill and not everyone can do it. I know a few people who are involved in this line of work and it isn't a cakewalk - those people are pretty amazing and special for what they can do. Sure - get the public to submit some ideas. maybe one or two of them won't actually suck (or at least will be practical, realistic and not defy the laws of physics) but it's no way to run a theme park. Chances are, the park already has the ride, the name, and the theme picked out beforehand - with their order in several years prior - because that's how long some of the waitlists are. The public campaigns where guests contribute to the ride design, theme or name is almost always pure marketing, nothing more.

Probably would have been easier to do that before they built the bloody coaster. I wonder what they're going to mount their floodlights and CCTV cameras on now.

I think because they were working on the assumption that most people would understand fence = don't enter... Unfortunately it doesn't matter how many fences or signs you put up - some people think they don't apply to them if they just need to retrieve their hat.

JDS and RRRC are both attractions kids and parents can enjoy. Honestly - I get why some enthusiasts would want to remove it but the attraction is one of the best children's attractions on the gold coast. It's a capacity monster for little kids. Adults (even those without children) can ride it, and it's a fun 'mini movie world' (albeit outdated) that is really cool to walk through. I hate that it replaced LTRR and wish LTRR still existed, but at this point i'm not going to advocate removing it. Meant to? Yes. Achieved? No. Honestly there's still plenty of teenagers that are fearful of 'big coasters' and WOZ does nothing to dispel that fear. There is still a gap in the lineup and coasters should never have been the solution to plug that gap. Once Speedy got the minimum height (which on behalf of all ride operators I 100% agree was required) it should have been taken out - it no longer serves any purpose that JDS cannot fulfill. The park cannot close it's kiddie land for 18 months. They'd have to bring in temporary flats which would look like garbage and crowd out the rest of the park. You don't need to shut the area - you need to take back the maintenance shed\LTRR showbuilding, fit it out internally as an all weather attraction space, THEN you can close off the other half of the land and develop it. So, basically everything I said at the beginning - looks like this plan has some support! Out of all the attractions in WB Kids - and you want to axe the most popular? makes no sense.

Honestly for a children's area, there's nothing wrong with that, as long as there is some thought put into the models and how they would be themed. There's a real opportunity to spruce up WB Kids. The land itself has remained virtually untouched for around 20 years. Sure Marvin got plonked on an old seating area, and JDS rejigged the traffic a little from how it was with LTRR, but overall the bones of the land haven't been messed with in a long time - in that time Sea World has been through at least two generations of their kids land, and Dreamworld has been through FOUR.

This is what happens when you install a consumer grade solution in a commercial grade environment. Well gee, it must cost them so much money to pay for all those safety managers they've got nothing left to develop a creative solution that preserves the illusion and theme. Let's just wrap every ride in westfield grade blank white hoarding. It seems to me like they realised when demolishing the hut that they needed to run power elsewhere, installed something temporary across Speedy because it was the closest structure to the tree, but then once the arcade was finished, nobody bothered to put it back in what was obviously a less noticeable spot.

The bonus to the public not really noticing the finer details is that they also don't really understand how long it takes to do this. The entire ride is in a box and progress from the outside is invisible. Unlike a ride SBNO out in full view for 3 years - they don't know what is happening inside. GP perception will see the ride open and their nostalgia will either: lead them to acclaim the upgrade as a massive success, or; lead them to decry that 'they should have left it how it was' - You could reopen the exact same ride and still get those two polar opposite responses. I'm sure most will just be happy it is open again and hopefully they have brushed up the interior theming enough that it looks sparkly* and new and everyone will quickly forget just how long it has been closed. *And by sparkly, if they don't get that skull-head-mirror-ball back i'm going to riot.

Just so this doesn't go by unchallenged, there would be no requirement for it to be black. black is just the cheapest available option. Now do a photo standing at the fenceline like you would if you were mum waiting for the family to come down the drop... I was going to say this was pointed out ages ago, but that was just the cable running to speedy taxis, not all the way to the tree stage. That does look horrible, but for an area of the park that hasn't been greatly touched since opening (only edits around the periphery) there hasn't been an opportunity to run power to the centre for things not previously planned. What WB Kids needs is to be gutted and refreshed. New discussion thread here.