themagician

My guess would be by the end of the year and with install early next year. If the land is going to be as well themed as stated during the announcement, I suspect the coaster track will go up pretty early in the year to allow for all the theming to be constructed around it.

In the 7 News report last week they stated that ABC Kids World would be closing in October for demolition to allow for the construction of the new Rivertown. The Play School Wheel is scheduled for maintenance from October 9 to December 8. I suspect the land will be closing on October 9, the wheel will be removed and taken to BOH for its refurbishment before being installed in Dreamland. So the next school holidays will be the last time to walk through the land.

Great to see the park providing an additional entertainment offering during the September holiday period. What they’ve announced with the event is only offering something extra at one point in the day so I do hope the park has additional music/entertainment offerings throughout the day. Having busker style performers down Main Street, roaming performances and maybe some additional food/drink trucks would be good to see also.

Movie World have teased an all new event coming these school holidays called ‘Music on Main’. They’re teasing there will be a multi-award winning music act too

I think the park are definitely doing all they can to reduce the impact of all these works on the park too. It’s not ideal and definitely could impact the guests impression on the park (because they might see it as so much is closed), but when it’s all done the park should look the best it’s done in a very long time

The guest feedback they’ll be referring to is the fact the ride is never open. But the way they’ve worded definitely comes across as if they’re blaming guests for why the ride is like this

Following guest feedback, we have learnt this ride is awful, unreliable and should be replaced, but instead we have amended the operations of the Doomsday Destroyer ride to make it even more awful.

The first batch of attraction maintenance for 2024 has been posted on Movie World’s website

They’re looking for performers and the dates have been confirmed

Candy Flyer has had maintenance scheduled which I suspect will be for its retheme

When I was there they were doing works in the lagoon, so there weren’t any dolphins. Not sure if they have returned yet

Pathway has been rebuilt and a new shade structure has been installed. Since these photos were taken, the path has reopened

Very true. But that was a decision based on lower crowd levels at WNW during the cooler months. I’m sure if they wanted to, it could have operated 11 months of the year, with a one month closure for maintenance. But having a SBNO ride for over 3 years is bound to take a lot of effort to get it up and running reliably again. The last thing they need is another Doomsday.

The dodgems scheduled maintenance has been extended by a couple weeks. They have removed all of the pathway into the area, so they are using this downtime to redo all the paths and continue works on the facades of the area

All of the track has now been installed. So why will it another 9 months before the ride opens! Was the rides move such a last minute decision and the timeline for the sculptures/theming to be made that long that it’s just going to take that long. We could potentially have a finished and working ride just sat there for 7-8 months (once commissioning is done) while they wait for theming to arrive. Or are they waiting on parts for the actual ride, so they’ve installed the track now while they can and then we’ll see very little progress while they wait for whatever it is to arrive.

They’ve been there for a few months and they’re for the Dreamworld Flyer and the other works currently happening

Dreamworlds former fast track system, Q4U used to be a tiered system and you would pay to cut the wait time in half, 75% or 95%. But post 2016 I believe is when they scraped the system. Now days, they have a tiered system in the way of single ride, five rides or unlimited rides

They did used to have it. And had it for several years. I believe it was around $200 at Movie World. The issue they had was the normal queue times would increase greatly because the fast track queue was getting too long. They probably could’ve sold less and charged more, but they went for removing it entirely (which I don’t think is a bad thing)

@REGIE it certainly has, they’ve been there for 3 months Id day the platform will undergo works/repaint at a later date, or they’ll be hidden by the theming that was shown in the concept artwork

I’ve heard this too!

Does Vikings Revenge around Bermuda count at SW count? Does Freaky Frogs within the helix of Boomerang at LPS count? Does the entirety of LPM count? Did the original Vintage Cars around TOT/GD count at DW count? Did the Cyclone and Thunderbolt count? Does Gold Coaster and WWW slides count? I think some of these aren’t as strong of argument as others, but I’d argue that the Freaky Frogs/Boomerang situation is absolutely relevant. It’s just such a bold and unnecessary claim for them to make

I don’t think it was new track, but was removed and refurbished, reinstalled and now has been removed and refurbished again.

I like the colour scheme, the theming is more than I was expecting, but unfortunately will align with their other coasters and their theming (the statues are a nice touch). The opening date was very much a surprise, I was expecting an opening of this December at the very latest. Maybe there’s an issue with the second half of track we have’t yet seen. Based on this concept artwork, I’m also confused how you’ll enter the ride, because it seems like you’ll approach it from the left side of the Superman Escape signage (path would be the red line) Zooming in on the concept artwork, it looks like the ride will have the new restraint system And they also show this on the ride type image too

There is a countdown timer on their Instagram story, so the announcement will be made at midnight