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Probably one that was shown to the staff, but I wouldn’t necessarily trust it. I saw an original artist impression for the wet n Wild expansion/new tower and what we ended up with looked nothing like the original imagery that weren’t ever published online.

I don’t think the pizza is currently available because they sell the schnitzel range instead

I can’t see them reusing the station/queue building and I don’t think they should. It’s a very old building now and has unused space from when it changed the LW to AA and they removed the pre show and external queue. It feels old. They might stick with the AA theme and each coaster will be based on a villain (But if it’s family coasters, they might not want a prison theme). They did however refurbish the courtyard not too long before the ride closed and it still looks alright, it’s just a large underused space.

What about Scooby Doo as the area is adjacent to the spooky coaster. But I think as we are all expecting, it will be DC themed and either different villains or different heroes. And it wouldn’t surprise me if the duelling are Batman and joker again.

I’ve had the schnitzel meal and a loaded hot dog recently from DW and both were very good.

Why does it need to be charged? It spins freely.

When they reduce to one train operation, they use the spinning seat. They’ve been operating both trains for the morning (at minimum) and when the queue settles down they put the spare train in the maintenance building

It’s not being covidsafe, it’s the fact that there are a heap of staff in isolation waiting on results or having Covid

It’s the hours too

They’ve cancelled the rest of them. Not as popular this year due to the weather conditions? EDIT: Apparently it’s due to staffing because a lot of them are in isolation due to Covid, so they don’t have enough staff to operate for that long.

If this rumour is true, this might mean we will finally see the courtyard space be used properly; as in they will remove it and use it for these attractions. The issue will be that this area is used as the evacuation for Superman and Scooby and is used to access the fright nights mazes. But another suspended coaster and another kid/family coaster will be great additions. I don’t think we’ll see an announcement until later in the year once New Atlantis has opened. We might see the kids coaster open this year, but the larger coaster next year?

My mistake. I made the assumption because the current CEO and COO talked it up so much it was them that were in charge of this ‘upgrade’

You’re right, when you break it down they have achieved quite a lot in under 5 years. When Clark first came on he made some changes that weren’t massive, but definitely necessary. He made ride lockers free, removed the turnstiles at the MW entrance, updated the EFTPOS systems throughout and many more small changes. They have also: - Opened WB Studio Showcase - DC Superheroes vs Supervillains - Hooray for Hollywood - Scooby, WWF, SE and RoadRunner refurb - Added the Aquacolour show to Carnivale - Sea Jellies - New seal show - New Atlantis - The Reef at Castaway Bay - Spooky Nights - New slide tower and splash zone at WNW. - Brought back Dive n Movies - New animal exhibits at Paradise Country - Shaun the Sheep at Paradise Country

Considering it is no longer required to get over the train track and is more complicated than it needs to be, I really hope so. If they fix that area up that’ll make a huge difference to the appearance of that area.

And WB Studio Showcase. And any ride refurbishments (Superman, WWF, RoadRunner). Unfortunately they have the Scooby refurb to their name too.

I believe he was referring to the ‘Giant Drop’ text that’s been installed on the overhead mesh on the gondolas

I believe that was Tim Fisher. Clark came on in May 2017. I know Greg (who I believe was GM at the time) also had a major role in the attraction

Every major ride addition since 2005 has had a DC IP. I can’t wait for the day when we get a new major attraction that isn’t DC.

Maintenance listing for 2022 has been published online. For the most part, pretty standard, but these 3 have some lengthy downtime

Wow that’s a length maintenance period

With the current winds, I don’t think they’ll be installing anything right now. And it’s still holidays for most of the construction industry. We won’t see trident installation begin from the end of the month at the earliest

That may be true, but you can’t deny the park has improved greatly in recent years. It’s still far from being at its prime, it’s still merely a shadow of its once great former self. But my understanding is the current management for the park understand this, recognise what is iconic about the park and are trying to bring as much of that back as possible. Just look at all the school holiday offerings they had last year; they’ve never done that in the past and it was overall all successful. They’ve produce a great new attraction which has had some of the best marketing we’ve seen from a GC theme park in a long time. There is still plenty more to do, but based off 2021, they are on the right track.

And it was the best thing that could have happened for DW. When Greg moved, followed by other staff/management members of VRTP, DW has changed dramatically and has become a much better park. Still a lot of work to be done, but I think it’s on the right track. Unfortunately VRTP seems to have taken a bit because of that (their ride operations being one of them)

I’d say mid February we will see testing begin. And vertical construction of trident hasn’t begun, but I’d expect it too by the end of the month

That’s great to see they have finally fixed the maintenance situation for storm. That was needed since the ride opened 9 years ago, but at least they’ve finally done it.