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I’m not surprised at all by this delay, once again. The fact they were still building the station this month meant they were no where near ready for testing (which takes months). And despite the construction of trident going to be a fairly quick process, with the current weather situation it was always going to be a struggle to get it up in time. But if this delay means they end up with a good product that they could spend the time on getting right, then it’s a much better outcome.

I don’t think cute is the right word, maybe terrifying?

In regards to AA, it doesn’t help they haven’t removed all the signage either. There is still the sign on the wall next to Scooby to say access to the ride is left (despite the gate being closed)

There hasn’t been any work on the other two stations yet. I wonder if they will reopen the wildlife store because that was how you used to exit the station, through the store.

They also used to have this one

No it’s pink ribbons on the track

I noticed pieces of ribbon on certain areas of track/columns for MDMC, anyone know what that could be for?

Station repaint is coming along nicely and I’ve loving the new colour scheme so far, much more traditional

New element added since the last update

Yeahhhhh that’s not looking anywhere near done. Looks like the Easter date ain’t happening. I was looking at this photo in particular again and while it isn’t entirely clear, it does appear that the track does go into what we thought was the maintenance building and it kind of looks like it does in that Insta story. Am I overthinking this? Is it a seperate unload station for the train? Is this a shown scene at the end of the ride? Or is it just the maintenance shed?

I’d agree there shouldn’t be more than 1 ride from each category under maintenance at any one time. But for the most part, there shouldn’t be more than 2 rides closed. Last year when DW had a lot of rides out of action, they were handing out show bags as people left and food vouchers to people who were complaining.

To add to that confusion, the ramp that takes you from the plaza down towards Storm was closed off as well. So you had to either walk through Nickelodeon Land or walk down to Penguin Point and around the castle

The old helicopter access/viewing area is now fenced off. And I didn’t get a photo but there’s a very bright led screen above the helicopter booth installed

I don’t think the original concept artwork is anything to go by anymore, vortex proved the concept art is not what their building

Potentially, I was thinking it might be a viewing boardwalk for the lagoon. Similar to what was originally proposed around vortex in the concept art

It appears that this year they finally fixed the spacing issue

I noticed on my visit today that they’ve added a couple signs around the path towards JR, to make it easier to find. Does anyone else feel like this is there attempt at marketing the ride again now that Steel Taipan is open? Maybe they should just remove the bridge that serves no purpose to make accessing JR easier and more obvious. And then they can widen the pathway too so it doesn’t feel like you’re walking down a back alley to get to a major attraction.

Unfortunately those white sheds certainly stand out everywhere. Hopefully some tall tense trees will be planted to hide them a bit, especially from the view in the Nickelodeon area They also built a temporary wall around the stairs up to the Tavern, so you can’t get a good up close view of the construction anymore

A couple of footings have appeared along the lagoon edge. Anyone know what these could be for? And it looks like they are pretty close to the trident slab being poured

Appears to be a lot of overgrown bushes, especially next to WWF. And it sucks to see the rubbish issue sort of returning in the queue too

Oh really? I hadn’t noticed anything, but will have a look next time I ride

Kaboom is currently closed until further notice And the other 3 attractions still remain closed after nearly 2 years. But also, WnWs got some weird maintenance scheduling going on

Having ridden it a couple times now since it reopened, while some of the changes are good, a part from the terribly slow laid/unload the most disappointing part is how uneventful the town is. That use to add some much life to the ride, but when it’s just some of the audio and none of the effects work it’s so disappointing. At a minimum the ride should still be like this:

It’s great to see they are giving the attraction some attention. Hopefully they give the queue a refresh so the ‘theming’ doesn’t look so tired and old.

Golden years has shared an update and my prayers have finally been answered after years of posting on here about it. The vine/weed that has wrapped around the fire of the station has finally been removed. Also, they have repainted the columns in the station to a much more traditional DW colour. Hopefully they continue this colour palette across the outside of the station too to bring it close back to its former glory days https://dwgoldenyears.wixsite.com/dwgoldenyears/post/paint-tracks-fire-dreamworld-update-10-2-2022