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That won’t help the situation though. My understanding is when the kid stood up his head went inside the hole where the beams are. I’d say that we might not see the ceiling return if they/government find it’s an issue.

I doubt it, I’d expect just some modifications to its design. It wouldn’t surprise me if it needs up with seat belts/straps

What’s annoying about that water going everywhere is it flows into the entrance and queue of Doomsday, so when the ride eventually reopens you have to step through the water to ride.

I think a lot of people have forgotten about the GL incident too. Because it wasn’t necessarily the parks fault and no one was injured, upon the rides reopening people didn’t seem too worried. But when it happened and for months after it was a major topic.

And then you go to SW and realise they’ve only got 3 adult rides and only one of them is worthwhile. And then you go to WnW and realise half of the attractions there are closed or are so faded they look like they are closed.

The thing with that price difference, with the VRTP you get 4 parks all year round (despite one being a glorified farm), plus entry into 3 of their night events. While DWs pass you only get entry to 1.5 parks (as WWW is closed half the year) and an observation lookout. They do offer entry to one of their night events, and discounts/bonuses throughout the year. So despite their major overall price difference, if you break it down, is the overall value the same?

Rivals maintenance got pushed back a week

Vortex is closed tomorrow (and at this stage is only for that one day). I did notice a large crane on site this morning. Could this be the begging of trident being lifted into place. Potentially they are lifting the base of the tower into place today? And considering vortex is closed tomorrow does that mean it will either all be installed or partially installed.

Interested to know if anything for the attraction has changed in the park with the update to the rides name on the website. On my last visit I didn’t notice any signage changes

When you compare photos of the train there are a few differences visible. Look at the front of the train for example where the wheels are. Colour order of the bikes are completely different too. The harness system is different and more restrictive now. And when I asked a head ride operator for the park about if the ride had got faster (when that info was circulating online) they confirmed it had because the trains were lighter now.

They got new trains late last year

They definitely could use the TOT station area, but the issue is the train. The train track divides the area and causes the level change. They could level it out however and have a crossing to access Tiger Island, so you don’t have that dark confines tunnel.

I really hope it’s for the abc kids area and they bring us a great family dark ride based around LEGO. Maybe a shooter ride like they have in Legoland. That entire area is so tired and old and needs to be completely demolished and started fresh. If needed they could potentially take the billabong restaurant as well and utilise that space. Dreamworks is still a great area and I don’t think it really needs any work done to it (unless the contract has come to an end)

And I can’t seem to find their comments anymore that we’re responding to the business either You can still post directly on the parks page, but unless my memory is failing me, it seems a few have been deleted that were complaints. This is the only one I could see.

But the parks not open today?

Does anyone know what this timber structure once was?

That reo seen in the images above was for a new pathway built alongside the current pathway under the GD. I’m assuming they old one will be closed off to allow for the refurbishment of the tower. I really do hope they use this time to fix the mess that this area of the park has become. With the shade sail over the MDMC now gone, it allows for a great vantage point for photos of the launch track from the GD exit. Unfortunately MDMC it’s scheduled to reopen next week when GD closes so anyone who wants to try get some good shots from this angle will have to wait until September.

Driving past MW this morning the carpark appeared to be much quieter than last weekend. DWs carpark wasn’t too full (WWW appeared to be very quiet) so most the crowd was in DW and it felt reasonably busy.

Hopefully these temporary closures don’t last too long as Rivals and WWF are closed from Tuesday

Not sure if this is in response to the chaos that there has been at the VRTP Easter school holidays, but they have published their parks operating hours for the rest of the year. And it is great to see they are extending the trading hours for the September and Summer holidays. Wet n Wild slightly reduces their hours for the winter, but it’s great to see they are already stating they will be open until 8 next Summer. Movie World is slightly extending the hours for September and a reasonable amount of time for Summer (wouldn’t expect anymore because of the houses nearby) And SW will extend their too

My concern with that queue (which hopefully they have thought of and will have a solution for) is people will just throw and leave rubbish in between all the timber structure of the coaster. I do hope there is some (nice) screening around the perimeter of the queue to stop this. Id image they would have some form of fence to stop people wandering through the ride structure anyways.

@Rivals in saying that, I remember pre Covid I saw a Chinese tour group at MW sat at tables seating sandwiches they brought in and security walked over and told them they couldn’t eat them in the park. Which I thought was really weird and is it actually necessary to enforce like that (I get the park want you to buy their food, but still). I did notice DW have a sign out the front of the park currently, which I presume is there while the food festival is on

It has indeed been a thing for as long as I can remember. The water parks I believe are the only exceptions to that rule. Another option is you pack lunch, leave it in an eski in your car and go have a lovely lunch in the carpark and then re-enter the park.

That fences has been like that for quite a while now, but I’m thinking they will indeed be fixing this area up. There is a bunch of reo underneath that sheeting you can see in the photo. I really hope it is indeed an end to spaghetti junction. This would require closing to corner of the park off, but considering you can access the wildlife through kids world, it wouldn’t be too much of an issue.

Queue times are insane again today (photo taken from someone’s comment on MWs FB post)