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It did operate going forward and backwards as it would have to reverse into the maintenance bay. The pram storage was behind the operators cabin

Rivals has roughly the same maintenance period every year

77m

The park has shared a video on their socials. Something is coming in 2024.

WnWs SkyCoaster is 50m (164ft). 300ft is 91m. DC Rivals is 62m (200ft)

Raging Waters Sydney has a SkyCoaster and Flowrider. Do they still have them/are they operating?

The problem with SkyCoaster and Flowrider is that the outsourced contractors who operated those attractions went bust during COVID. And they haven’t been able to find a suitable replacement in the country. Partly the reason why DW had to close their Flowrider too. And as for the Zip Line, that never really opened anyways. Operated for maybe a couple months and then was shut and has been left there for 10 years.

The Sea World Helicopters website has been taken down

Unfortunately that’s not how the public will see it

Such sad news, thoughts are with everyone involved.

That’s the area I saw them inspecting last week, so this might be the area of trouble causing the recent closures

Really? It’s still listed on the parks maintenance page and last time I was there the ride was completely dismantled

Same! I’m fairly certain it’s on the straight right before you arrive at the unload platform

For the Gold Coast parks, these are my hopes: Dreamworld - Bathroom refurbishments. The lockers and bathrooms to the left of the parks entry need some love. They haven’t been renovated in so many years, they feel old and dirty. Renovating and theming the ones next to Shockwave to suit Ocean Parade would be good too. - Replace the Shockwave sign. - Add gardens/theming around the Dreamworld Express track as leaving Main Street Station. While the refurb of the Giant Drop has been happening, I understand why they might not have done anything to this area, but once complete, I hope they make it a much nicer area. Movie World - I hope they finally remove the hideous hut at the entry of the kids area. - More of the Rivals track will be repainted. Sea World - I do hope Surfrider or another new flat ride is built on the flume station area. It’s perfect for a flat ride to fit under Storm and will ‘complete’ the attraction count for the park for the new few years. - I hope we see the return of the Monorail Wet ‘n’ Wild - I expect park wide refurbishments and slide repainting to continue. - Surfrider removed - Hopefully we see the return of the Flowrider and SkyCoaster - And we can dream that they remove the Zipline WhiteWater World - While I’m not expecting anything to happen in this park, I do hope for another new slide tower. It’s been four years since they’re last new attraction and while DW is about to have a lot of money invested into it, WWW should get some love. Even if it’s only one new attraction, build a new tower that’s large enough to allow for another new attractions in the future.

The shade sail over the carousel has been replaced and the columns have been repainted to match. The ride is closed for 1.5 weeks, so I’d say if all the replacement ‘horses’ are on site, this should be a pretty quick and easy change over to Bananas in PJs

Wait times at MW and SW aren’t too bad today. I’m surprised by the reasonably short time for Leviathan. Either the park is much quieter today or they’ve sorted out their loading procedures

With 2022 coming to close, I thought we could share our predictions for Australian theme parks in 2023. We obviously know Dreamworld is refurbing Dreamworks to Kenny & Belinda’s Dreamland, their expanding Ocean Parade and getting the Dreamworld Flyer. We also know Movie World is getting a new kids ride in the first half of the year. So what other new/refurb attractions will the theme parks get, but also, what minor works do we think will happen across the parks (eg. refurbished bathrooms, resurfacing)?

The Carousel has been removed from the maintenance listing. So after 8 months it’s finally reopened.

On the map, he’s where the grass and trees are You enter through this gate next to the Koala Photos

Large enough! There was about 10 different species in there

It’s not that MW has queues because it’s great the park is busy, but when it gets so busy that every ride has a minimum 2 hour queue, that’s not good for guests. Because they’re only getting to go on a couple rides and the rest of the day they’re trying to watch shows, get food, etc because all of those queues are long too. While DWs busyness is much more comfortable and while there are queue they’re much more ‘expected’ wait times and allows you to still do everything you want

While MWs queues were crazy, even DW had some impressive wait times. The park was the busiest I’ve seen in a while. Every ride had decent queues, with Steel Taipan having an hour wait (and using the extended queue) with both trains and fast operations. Sky Voyager was using the extended queue too. And all other rides had decent queues, was great to see.

Visited the park to experience the event today. It was a fun day and a really good event. Lots of variety in the shows, which were all good. Street entertainment was great and as always, fantastic to have Goldie back in the park. Highly recommend checking it out

I went through the twilight trail today and it’s the same, but better with new signage, lighting and glow in the dark stars (they don’t look tacky) as you walk in. The animals on show has obviously changed slightly since they were all removed several years ago. Great to have it back.

It’s the start of the very busy summer crowds