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The doors open and close on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwLtwrUL7PI

That is great news. Glad to hear that DW are going to bring back Eureka and finally fix up Cyclone. Happy days.

Someone posted on SWs FB asking about what rides and shows were coming to Nickelodeon Land and they replied: I've added all the shows and rides in the previous post. Sea World will announce an opening date once it is confirmed later this year. I tried to find the post, but I couldn't find it. Did anyone read it or can find it?

I've been the past few years and I'm always surprised when parents bring their kids. I've seen kids crying and security walking out of the park with them and their parents, to ensure none of the actors scare them. To answer your question OceanGirl, there are scare actors that walk/run around the park. A lot of the time they are hiding behind things or within the thick smoke. Some of the actors don't scare people and are just there to have photos taken with though. The mazes are the scariest part, for obvious reasons. The idea is to scare so the actors will almost do all they can to scare people, hiding within scenes, banging against the set walls, screaming, etc. I am someone who gets scared easily, and it's obviously up to you to judge whether your daughter will be scared or not. But just be warned that there may be a chance that she will want to leave. I have have seen a few younger people be there at the end of the night, but not many. I think a lot of parents expect it to be a fun Halloween themed event, like what the park used to do, but it isn't.

^That was my original thought, but for dodgems to be closed for that long surely it can't just be for maintenance. It only appeared on the website within the last week as well, because when I visited the park on Sunday I went on them.

They may use the show stage as well, which might mean we are getting 5 mazes this year.

I noticed on MWs maintenance page that the Dodgems are closed until 16th November, could this mean it's getting a makeover or a new location for one of the mazes this year. The area is a reasonable size, and that may mean that they no longer require the show stage in the western area. Thoughts?

^Oh, sorry about that error

http://metro.co.uk/2015/07/02/alton-towers-air-breaks-down-leaving-guests-stranded-upside-down-5275895/ Another coaster has broken down at Alton Towers. The Air stopped upside down for 2hrs, I'd probably say it was due to the heat.

They also posted photos showing that the track for the coaster has also arrived. Theme park social network did post with that photo above that it was for the coaster.

I got the Discovery Pass back in March purely because I wanted the pass for a year from purchase date and access to Fright Night and White Christmas. It was $140 and gives me most of the discounts that the Unlimited Membership gives. I do like the idea of the Unlimited Membership and hopefully with the increase of pricing we may begin to see some more attractions come into place. It does say $10 upgrade for a limited time, so it may increase to say $30 for example.

It was a plush toy

Well the Buy 3 Get 1 Free offer is still available on the site, despite it finishing yesterday. They may be having a couple of issues.

I think it can be said that it is no longer happening, or at least not any time soon. To our knowledge was originally proposed for the land that was being reclaimed, but since then the COTD has been installed and now NL will be taking some of that area. I would have said that it would have been animals in enclosures. But there could have been a chance that they were just going to be animatronic animals. I did think it was a good idea at first, but it wasn't very fitting to the park. It would have been a huge crowd puller, as it would have been the only park in south-east Queensland to have gorillas. Gorillas typically need a large enclosure, so they can have large open spaces to run and for climbing equipment to be installed. The attraction would need thick glass walls or a large gap between the enclosure and guests. I'd imagine that it would take up a large amount of area of the reclaimed land. I do feel like what they are using the land for now is good and fits well to the park.

Just come back from SW this morning. The attraction is very popular and the introduction of the discovery trail is also doing really good and it's seems like kids love it. I went and saw Affinity as well and they had a 'ranger' promoting the discovery trail and what it's all about (side note: first time I saw the new show and thought it was really good). I did notice that some of th water around he whales is already getting quite dirty: Maybe they should install some small fountains as they did around jet rescue to keep it cleaner.

This news was from a few months ago and I'm fairly sure we have another topic which has spoken about this. Thank you for your contribution to parkz, but just be sure to check that there isn't another forum about the topic. If you are unsure, maybe just post it in a related topic (for the buzzsaws seats and harnesses, I would post that in the 2015 at dreamworld)

^No they haven't

^Agree with all of that. Particularly the AA courtyard area. Walking through it yesterday, I forget how large of space that is, and how unused it is. The themeing was that space is good, it's a shame they haven't put a flat ride in the area where the original queue line was for Lethal Weapon. They could then reopen the alley way, theme it to the rest of the AA area and it would allow for much better flow through the park. I know it's currently used for staff access and the storage of some food carts, etc. but even if they reopened it for the public, I'm sure there would be room for storage. You can partially see where the park store those food carts. The image also gives you an idea of the size of the AA courtyard: Another idea is that, the sound stage in the western area that only gets used got FN now, if they did install a ride on that site, or inside the building, couldn't a maze be put in the AA courtyard, they would just have to remove the old queue line. The old china town alley way could be used as a good scare zone, in my opinion. They would have to be install some sort of sheltering, in case it rained. But I feel like it would be much better use of spaces, particularly if MW want more space for rides. Just an idea.

They are DWs FB page and Thrillz FB page. I posted some of these on the 2015 at Dreamworld thread.

^that is a good point. There would be requirements on how many emergency exit doors are required for a certain amount of people/area. I suppose if they did double the amount of queue line, they would probably need to have almost double the amount of exit doors.

MW could double the capacity of people inside the castle queue area. They could halve the width of each queue line tow (if that makes sense). That could stop the queue from going over the road.

Here are some photos (source: thrillz)

Went to MW this morning and as mentioned all affects are working on all rides. The only thing that was a little off was the timing on JL. And at some points the video would play to late so you didn't get a chance to shoot the screen. Some of the effects I didn't even know where there, such as the barking dog. The park was pretty busy today. These were the queue times at 12. SE: 1hr AA: 2hr BW: 1hr JL: 1.5hr SDSC: 1.5hr WWF: 15 min

I worked for Woolworths when they have had these promotions and I would say they definitely work. When they ran, most days were busy, especially weekends. And there was a noticeable difference between the amount of customers there were between when the promotion did and didn't run. You have no idea of what kids and parents would do to try and get more of these cards. I've had bribes to try and get more off me. And they make a lot of money through all of the extra stuff that can be bought to go with the promotion.

This photo was posted by DW on FB a while ago: