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‘Memorial’ appears to be finished

They’ve replaced the sign 🙌🏻

West side is testing And there is a new lift system installed (you can see the difference compared to the old one)

With the pathway open, it’s great how close to the coaster you can get

DW are already implementing new procedures to help with the parking issue. They have opened up the access road to Blue Lagoon park as extra parking. They are reducing the entry road to one lane. They have traffic control directing traffic down the first row so cars have to use the back half of the carpark. This is to allow day guests to exit easily and then Halloween guests fill the front car parks first. They have also removed the fencing that was used to store ST track.

Next years schedule was published back in May. There is already a topic discussing this.

Looking at this again, it appears that the roof/queue shelter slopes down in the centre, which could be creating a central waterfall, which would be awesome. Like this on a much smaller scale. I think the key to the theming will be waterfalls, rockwork, statues and landscaping. If they can get as much as that as possible throughout the rest of the area, it should be a nicely themed area. The way the ‘story’ could be interrupted is Vortex is at the shoreline (which is why there is a sand look floor as you enter the area) and then as you venture further into the area, you get deeper into the New Atlantis and Leviathan is the monster at the bottom of the ocean.

Does that mean when the ride is down for maintenance, it will be closed for longer periods compared to a steel coaster

There are some incredible photos in there and great to get an insight into it all. @Slick you would be correct, those are the first photos of the train, which looks amazing. Love the harness choice

That would work to an extent, but because the parking lanes are one way, that red arrow misses quite a lot of parking. Everything I’ve highlighted in blue can only be accessed when you take the outer road

I wasn’t suggesting DW do something to fix the surrounding roads, because as you say it’s out of their control. I was more getting at the council/government need to do something again.

9,000 tickets Round up to 2,100 car park spaces 9000/2100 = 4.29 people per car. So their carpark only really works if there were 4-5 people per car. That ain’t going to happen. They probably needed 2,500 car spaces to make it work. But that still doesn’t fix all the issues with the surrounding roads. It doesn’t help that you have to pass the park entry to enter the car park rows, so that’s a lot of people crossing the road where people are wanting to turn to get to the carpark spaces. MW and SW don’t have that problem as their car parks direct traffic away from the park entry. Hopefully DW have got a better plan and it works better for them this weekend.

Motocoaster is still a thing?

By all the gates he means the annual pass and guest service entries in the middle and then all the ticket booths either side of these entries. I can’t remember exactly but I believe there is around 20 entry booths into Dreamworld.

One thing to note is for years we’ve said on here that DW is lacking in appearance, it was round down and doesn’t feel fresh or inviting. Recently they’ve been working on areas to refresh it and I think this new area definitely is fresh, inviting and steps far away as possible from what the theme of this area was, which I felt was needed.

Something to point out though is they did a somewhat well themed experience with the queue of the BuzzSaw when it first opened, but they didn’t take into account guest comfort and ended up ripping it all out anyways. I think combining that and ST there is a middle ground that would create a nicely presented and comfortable space, with decent theming too. In saying that, what we got does the job, should be comfortable for guests all year round and will have good energy when the trains are full of guests. If they were to go down the more themed queue/area experience, what would people have wanted? The queue area to be rockwork/caves that you wind through and there are openings within that create opportunities to view the coaster launch past?

I didn’t get photos on the day, but you can see in the below image how the canopy opens up more towards the top of the queue, which does give you views of the coaster

Letting people in early would be a great idea and definitely help with the issue. While the park might be gaining its reputation back in some ways, making errors like this (which is the very first impression for the event) does not help their reputation and will turn people off from visiting the park during the day.

From what I’ve heard from others, a part from the entry and parking issues, the event is really good

That’s insane, I can’t remember a time when DW was so busy. We’re they thinking because the opened more of the park for the event they could sell even more tickets. Reading through peoples comments on Facebook, a lot of people are unhappy. They definitely should’ve only sold enough tickets for the amount of car spaces there were (allowing for 2-3 people per car) Whats also surprising is there all still tickets available on the website. The next couple nights have sold out, so they better sort out the issues otherwise it’s going to become an unsuccessful event

Bloody hell, that sounds like a massive mess. If people are still waiting they’ll get less than two hours for the event. Is the car park issue because they don’t have traffic control to stop people constantly crossing? And have they not got enough staff on to scan tickets?

Jaggs has also been invited to the park to check it all out and his video provides even more of an overview of the area

The websites park map has been updated and they really are using the whole park this year. Interestingly, they are using the old scare maze/laser tag for Kenny Mystery Mansion