Parkz News

Sea World, September 2010 Sea World has launched the wettest ride to hit the Gold Coast in a number of years. It's not September Weather: The Ride, it's Battle Sails, along with the rest of Castaway Bay. Click here to continue reading

Warner Bros. Movie World, September 2010 And Warner Bros. Movie World has unleashed their newest attraction, Journey To The Center Of The Earth 4D. Click here to continue reading

Village Roadshow expands into Sydney market The Sydney area looks set to receive its first new theme park by way of a Wet'n'Wild water park due to open in 2013. It will be the first major park in Sydney since Wonderland Sydney's closure in 2004. Click here to continue reading

Dreamworld's Tower Relaunch to Ignite All New Sense of Terror (Press Release) Click here to continue reading...

Wet'n'Wild Water World August 2010 Welcome to a quick Parkz Update, this time from Wet 'n' Wild Water World. There's quite a bit of work going on at Australia's largest water park, some of which will dramatically change the view from the motorway. Click here to continue reading

Sea World, August 2010 In the latest edition of the Parkz Update, construction of Sea Worlds latest attractions is full steam ahead. Click here to continue reading

Dreamworld, July 2010 In this shortened edition of The Parkz Update, we check out some of the winter holiday attractions that our parks have introduced. We hit Dreamworld during the school holidays to check out some of the special holiday promotions they have running. Click here to continue reading

Warner Bros. Movie World, July 2010 Warner Bros. Movie World has been running the Heroes & Villains show that celebrates the 75th anniversary of DC Comics, and also combines all the popular Warner Bros. Looney Tunes characters. Click here to continue reading

Warner Bros. Movie World, June 2010 Warner Bros. Movie World have recently debuted their new show for the holidays – a DC Comics 75th Anniversary parade that will play daily at the park. Click here to continue reading

Sea World, June 2010 Sea World's latest attractions are under construction right now for their expected September opening, and we have all the construction covered in this latest edition of The Parkz Update. Click here to continue reading

WhiteWater World, June 2010 This month we went inside WhiteWater World to brave the winter weather to check out The Wedgie. Click here to continue reading

Dreamworld, June 2010 Another month and we're back with the latest Parkz Update. Attractions are being built and undergoing all over the Gold Coast and we've got it all covered here. Click here to continue reading

Wet'n'Wild Water World, June 2010 The summer is shaping up to be a huge one at Wet'n'Wild Water World with the addition of Australia's first looping slides. If you didn't catch it, their competition to name the slides that we here at Parkz have been calling AquaLoop for many months closed and Wet'n'Wild announced the winning entry. Introducing (drumroll)... AquaLoop! Click here to continue reading

Theme park prices staying low Dreamworld and WhiteWater World have unveiled their ticket pricing for the next six months, getting the edge on Warner Village Theme Parks by announcing a six month annual pass at an unprecedented low price. Click here to continue reading

Dreamworld, May 2010 Welcome to the first in what we hope will become a reasonably regular segment, "The Parkz Update". Here we'll keep you informed with everything you need (or more honestly, want) to know about what's happening in the Gold Coast's theme parks. We begin today at Dreamworld: Click here to continue reading

Sea World, May 2010 In this first issue of The Parkz Update, we take you to Sea World to see its general state, as well as maintenance and construction updates from Australia's first theme park. Click here to continue reading

Warner Bros. Movie World, May 2010 Though nothing major is happening at Movie World, we stopped in for a look at a few of the small changes that have taken place recently. Click here to continue reading

Wet'n'Wild Water World, May 2010 Wet'n'Wild Water World has commenced construction on their four looping water slides that are due to open later this year. In addition to this major attraction there are a number of smaller things happening at Australia's most popular water park. Click here to continue reading

Australian Outback Spectacular Opens a New Chapter! (Press Release) Click here to continue reading...

Tower of Terror in reverse? Dreamworld is set to upgrade one of one of their "big six" rides this year, with reports suggesting a 180º switch of the Tower of Terror's 15-person car may just be the ticket. Click here to continue reading

WhiteWater World not out of the loop Evidently WhiteWater World aren't going to let Wet'n'Wild Water World take all the thunder of Australia's first looping water slide, with reports suggesting that they may indeed have their own plans for a competing attraction. Click here to continue reading

Wet'n'Wild goes upside down to find new attraction Parkz has received reports that Wet'n'Wild Water World will become home to Australia's first looping water slides. Click here to continue reading

Dreamworld introduces peak and off-peak pricing In addition to the now annual price hikes seen across Gold Coast theme parks, Ardent Leisure, owners of Dreamworld and WhiteWater World are set to introduced a new scheme that sees normal ticket prices vary based on the time of visit. Click here to continue reading

Sea World Corkscrew replaced by new attraction MyFun, the ticketing portal and online presence for Warner Village Theme Parks, have reported the iconic Corkscrew Rollercoaster will no longer be entertaining riders as it has for the past 27 years. In its place will be the exact same ride, with a colour change and a new train – arguably the most exciting new attraction to hit the Gold Coast this summer! Click here to continue reading

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