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The fencing around the globe is down and is available for guests to take photos with again

These maps in park have been updated and just show the lands area as a hatched construction zone

Hooray for Hollywood returns for the Summer holidays this year and as already mentioned, Bettlejuice will be added to the characters in park. So far, everything else seems to be similar to last years event

Movie World have shared a video confirming Bettlejuice and they said stay tuned for a star studded announcement coming soon

The park map has been updated promoting the new ride coming soon

Roaming character and/or street show is the likely/usual thing that happens when characters are returning. I believe Hooray for Hollywood is returning after Christmas, so Beetlejuice could be a part of that event

Movie World just shared a video on their socials that an iconic character is returning to the park soon. And at the end of the video, there is this clip (basically confirming Beetlejuice is returning)

I know it's only a concept artwork and we can't use that to confirm anything, but the concept artwork for Jungle Rush showed the train that was very similar to the one of Big Bear Mountain. So I suspect it will be very similar, if not the same. Leviathan also has a 122cm minimum requirement and the park was originally marketing it as a family coaster. But I'm not seeing kids riding that with their grandparents.

It was never going to look like this, even if the park wanted it too because where’s the ride operator booth? Where are all the ride motors going to be stored? There was always going to be some buildings, and just having one would’ve looked out of place, so in that case there was always going to be two because they’d be stupid to not have the queue under shelter

DW have shared a video on their socials and ride testing has begun

But remember this is a family coaster that's target market is from young kids to grandparents. A spike and quick track isn't usually an element that would suit this type of coaster.

You'll have to ride it when it opens and find out

This is great to see. I’ve always thought they should offer a cheaper version that doesn’t include all the perks (like DW currently does), so kudos to VRTP for adding this option. Definitely makes the Locals One Pass look even more value for money (which is probably what they’re going for) because for an extra $40 you get almost $230 worth tickets to their events.

Tickets have gone up $10, with child entry $69 and adults entry $89.

Tickets are on sale and these are the dates We’re starting with 11 nights this year, but I’m sure more will be added because last year they had 15 total nights.

I’m implying that I skipped straight to page 2, saw your post was at the top of the page and thought you made the topic. When in fact @Rivals is the culprit

@DaptoFunlandGuy Weren't they selling them at Fright Nights?

@kujotess was very organised and already made an event for this years White Christmas last year! Jaggs Jounreys shared that as soon as FN decorations were taken down, White Christmas has been put up Tickets aren’t yet available and no changes have been made on the website for this years event, but I’d say we will see it go online before the end of the week

The ride is turning 5 later next year, it would be great if the park invested in upgrading the screen and projector to a higher resolution (unless the footage itself is already at its max res). With everything the park has been doing the last few years and with Rivertown next year, the park will have changed in so many ways and they should have every park of it looking it’s best to impress every single guest that comes through the park. I know they have been working hard to improve so many aspects of the park (even behind the scenes on things guests don’t even notice or know about) and they should keep up this momentum

That makes sense. For some reason I was thinking that the coaster entrance was going to face the Play School Wheel/Humpty, but it does actually make more sense to have the entrance face the carousel leaving the coaster open and can be viewed from the main walkway through the land

That block wall seems to be pretty high and creates quite the barrier and disrupts the sight lines. Interesting to see what it’s for

It's definitley looks to be lacking, but for the most part it has been looking like this for a few years. But obviously with ABC removed from the map, of course it's going to be look even more lacking. But as I've mentioned before, there are things missing off the map that are in the park that aren't on the map. Theres some things in the wildlife area that are missing. And depsite it not being open (unless it's being demolished), I would be including the Billabong Restaurant on the map to not only fill out that part of the map, but also to have a point of reference for wayfinding. The area to the right of the Tailspin looks empty (which in reality it is), but they show there are toilets there, so why not have the actual building on the map. My guess would be either developing the land where the log ride was, or the empty space in Ocean Parade (and beyond). If they have been adding/expanding to Ocean Parade already this year, maybe thats the next area of focus because it's a very noticable when in the park.

I did notice they had changed the post referring to the dodgems as being in Ocean Parade

And while I agree that showing more water would be better, I feel like it would just leave you thinking (not you specifically, just in general) why isn’t there even more. And to have this, I’m sure from a certification perspective you’d need a fence and I feel that would just look more out of place and potentially worse. Yes there’s already a perimeter fence, but that’s following the radius that’s already being created. For all we know, when the ride is in load/unload mode, they may still have some fountains bubbling and depending on how powerful they are, they may hide this floor pretty well and give the illusion there’s a lot more water

It does look like there is something over the floor because there’s a green tone too it. Considering it’s still an active construction site, it will look better than we’ve seen once it’s open.