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Photo from Theme Park Ogre’s latest video

We can, you just have to drive 6km up the road.

Looks like their increasing the height of the fence surrounding WWF, which likely means you won’t be able to stand near the store/exit and clearly see the boats come down the final splashdown

The YouTube channel ‘Coaster Studios’ have announced they have made a new documentary about the challenge with building roller coasters in Australia, with a particular focus on Leviathan. The documentary comes out this weekend. “Surprise! We made a new documentary For our next project, we wanted to cover something we'd never really seen discussed before. Most people know building a roller coaster is no small feat- but did you know some countries make it more difficult than others? Australia is known for having some of the strictest regulations in the world, which can add stress to what might be an already difficult project. We sat down with @thegravitygroupllc and Martin & Vleminckx Rides to find out what it took to develop Australia's only modern wooden roller coaster. Leviathan is unlike anything the country had ever seen before- which meant an uphill battle to bring it to life. On Friday, we will share that story with you through interviews, custom music, and never before seen pictures!” https://www.instagram.com/p/DKLCQWAJzO6/?igsh=N3R6NTN4cWc2MnIz

@Brad2912 how did the trivia night go? Keen to hear if it was a good turnout

The first slide pieces have been installed https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16VUKUn3ht/?mibextid=wwXIfr And here’s an artwork of what’s being built

A year later, Sea World have updated their website to have the new style https://seaworld.com.au

Should’ve commented about it sooner!

@Naazon not sure if that entirely counts since it’s run by an outside business and they just rent the park out. You could also argue WWW opens in the winter because the Fun Run goes through the park… but again, I wouldn’t say the park is ‘open’.

Let’s hope so 🤞🏻

They’ve done this for as long as I remember and is generally happens between the April and September holidays, along with the lazy river closing. I believe a few years ago (maybe covid played a part), but they did close a couple days a week during these reduced hour months.

I get the feeling they’re heavily relying on AI for their marketing now

Not caring about the guest experience means crowd levels have reduced, which means they have less profit. I don’t know how to run a business, but surely that’s pretty obvious right?

On Gumbuya World’s social media channels they posted that the park wouldn’t be open Monday/Tuesday this week, which I thought was odd because to my understanding they open everyday, but only the wildlife section is open on weekdays (outside of school holidays). After further investigation, it appears there has been some significant changes to their operating hours over the next few months, which I suspect is the parks way of reducing costs. Over the next two months they aren’t even operating their only operating junior rides on weekends, which means they’re main two attractions (TNT & Project Zero) aren’t operating. They’re also not even operating rides every day during the Victorian school holidays. To my knowledge the park hasn’t operated like this in previous years, even during the cold Victorian months. If we thought things weren’t well at Village, maybe they aren’t good at Gumbuya World either!

The fact that 40% of the parks rides are closed for maintenance and now their running rides at either reduced capacity of reduced operating hours is further proof that all is not well at Village. Makes me think that maybe Bikash’s departure wasn’t completely his choice…

@Coasterjoe I believe the second train is out of action for maintenance at the moment

Movie World really need to sort their shit out… Having half of the park closed for maintenance isn’t acceptable. I understand some of the above closed rides aren’t scheduled to be closed and might be having some teething issues, but having 6 rides closed and having just permanently removed one shouldn’t be acceptable. They seriously need to rethink their maintenance schedule so there’s not this mass downtime, especially when they charging day guests $109 (for perspective I paid that to visit DisneySea).

No, but Disney's CEO said they'll be designing the park over the next 18-24 months. I think the fact Disney have formally announced it, that's pretty certain that this will happen because if it's cancelled it will look bad on Disney. I know Universal had announced a park for Dubai and it never happened, but I think it's different for Disney.

Zoom Zone now has it's own page on the parks website https://wetnwild.com.au/attractions/zoom-zone As the name suggests, these slides have been designed around speed and potentially could be some of the fastest attractions in the park. Very interested to see which ones are fastest and what kind of forces they pull

Haha oh for sure, I don’t doubt that there is probably stuff happening behind closed doors

My wife and I have. There are a lot of areas of the Middle East that I wouldn’t say are safe, but we travelled to Dubai and Abu Dhabi a couple years ago for half a week to explore the cities and attractions and at no point did either of us feel unsafe. The customs process was basically no different to Australia and once your in the country, just obey the local laws and you’re fine (we didn’t change anything we would normally do when travelling). I also know several other people that have visited these cities (men and women) and they had no issues either. I’m hearing a lot more stories of people travelling to America being obtained in comparison to Dubai/Abu Dhabi. From basic research, the parent company Miral that’s building this park has never had any allegations of slavery or mistreatment. Yes, but every Disney park around the world offers different attractions (even if there are some replicas). And this is a brand new modern day park so I’d say a lot of it will be brand new attraction (like at Shanghai for example)

New attraction complex will be called ‘Zoom Zone’, with each specific slide having its own name. Each body slide will offer a different level of thrills to cater to more guests. They’re on track to have it open this December.

That’s about to change because they’re building the Harry Potter world and two major rides in the DC land. Not to open up a full conversation about it, but there is an argument that America is heading in the direction of having very poor human rights. I don’t know all the facts, but I’m pretty sure some states are worse than the UAE.

Yes and no. All the parks within Abu Dhabi are indoors (except for Ferrari Worlds coasters), while most of the parks in Dubai are outdoors but have indoors sections or a lot of shading. If there’s a typical Main Street, I suspect it could be like Tokyo Disneylands, with a roof partially over it) and then a lot of shading, indoors rides/queues.

To summarise this announcement: - Like Tokyo Disneyland Resort, this part in Abu Dhabi will be entirely funded and operated by a local company (in this case Miral, who already operate the theme parks on Yas Island). However the Disney IP will be leased to the park and they will have to operate to Disney’s standard. - It’s not yet clear what IPs will be in this park as they will be developing the parks design over the next two year and then it’ll take around 5 years to construct (approx 2032/33 opening)