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But the point wasn't about getting onto the M1 quicker. The point was to clear the DW car park quicker. Filtering even 50-60% of the south-bound traffic onto Foxwell road would help clear the round about for north-bound traffic and overall there would be an improvement in traffic flow over the current situation - including on the M1 outside DW. There is no situation where improving signage and funneling south-bound traffic onto that exit would make the current traffic worse as Dapto described it.

It needs to be more prominent, and signed as Exit to M1 south or 'Exit to Gold Coast'. Currently all the exit signage directs people toward the round about. Look at the arrows on the ground. The majority of the car park directs people to the right, away from that exit.

This could be remediated with a one-way exit from the car park on the WWW side, with a slip lane heading south onto Foxwell road. People could then take DW Parkway to Hope Island Road and enter the M1 southbound there. The current DW car park is a cul-de-sac which is never good for traffic.

More info - Slides designed and manufactured by Weigand (Germany). https://www.wiegandwaterrides.de/en/projects/cruise-ships/icon-of-the-seas-royal-caribbean/

Can anyone give a detailed explanation for why it is not reliable, and how it became that way?

This post from July 19, 2004, shows that supports were only being installed on The Claw in mid-July. The ride opened September 18, 2004. Dreamworld is definitely aiming for a September holiday opening.

I get that there are probably few fabricators, but this isn't really a niche theme-park thing. Queensland has nineteen 2ft gauge sugar cane railways covering over 3000kms (a longer distance than Melbourne to Cairns). There is absolutely infrastructure in QLD to build/maintain/service them.

MW also had a Shreck 3D movie at Roxy - which at the time was Dreamworks (now owned by Universal), so there's clearly not an agreement with WB to use exclusively WB properties. Everything is available for licensing for the right amount of money.

Seems plausible. Gives a new, highly marketable ride experience for minimal spend. Or, if we're just speculating on fun ideas, it could be a conversion to a Gyro Drop with a 10m height extension to the tower to make it the world's tallest - increasing capacity, giving 360 degree views, new control panels and ride machinery, 50% tilting seats.

Just to clear something up because it seems to be repeated a lot here: Village do not have purpose built television facilities. The do not have technical control rooms, green rooms, catering facilities, audience holding areas, motorised lighting trusses, epoxy floors, or any of the other things that are required for television broadcast - particularly live TV. They are film production facilities - sound stages. Essentially large sheds with plywood floors, black walls and large doors. They could be used for television production - game shows, or other studio-based shows - but everything from lighting trusses to green rooms, make up trucks and Outside Broadcast trucks would need to be hired and brought in - like they are for films which typically have higher budgets. If you're bringing in all of that, you could film in any old shed. Big Brother is usually a windowless house (which is possible in a sound stage) with a back yard. It would not be possible to do this at VRS in the Sound Stages. The lot is too busy with too many other productions happening at the same time. You would see the sound stages from any exterior shot, and you would hear the coasters (and top golf), trucks and forklifts and construction crews building sets. To shoot Big Brother on Village property, you'd need to construct a purpose-built house somewhere back near Paradise Country, at which point you're in the same position as doing the same thing at Dreamworld. Purpose built TV studios and film studios are not the same thing. The current VRS lot is more like warehouses built on a car park. They could be used for studio-based TV - something like Dancing with the Stars or The Voice, but they really are not setup for a show like Big Brother. Sorry for the long essay, but I think it's good for people to understand the difference.

If WoO had more than just rollercoasters, then yes. Kids that age need to fill a whole day too. Right now, their options are all coasters (including Scooby) and maybe WWF if it's operating. Rides with small footprints like a Nebluaz, Condor, or ABC Interactive tower, would all have been solid additions to WoO and could easily have been themed to suit. It will be hard to add them later because so much space is wasted on the emerald city queue lines.

Is the fence actually different? Is this just the old fence with taller posts?

While I appreciate nostalgia, (and would love to see the old Cinema Facade restored, personally (and probably controversially) I would tear down the old thunderbolt building in any redevelopment. It was placed there specifically for Thunderbolt and if you're expanding the water park and possibly building a new GC replacement, I'm not sure that the existing building is in a great spot, or the best size/layout for a food outlet. Design the entire area as though nothing is there, and build it from the ground up to have a proper connection between the parks with appropriate, well-themed attractions that fit into the space. The possibilities of what you could build to last the next 30 years shouldn't be hindered by trying to save an old building that was built for a mediocre coaster that was demolished 21 years ago. There are better ways to honour the legacy of the park's former attractions.

If we're being realistic, that whole end of the park needs a massive Rivertown level upgrade. Gold Coaster is now 30 years old. It's rough and unreliable, and it's approaching the end of its life. That station area could be used for another slide tower. The Thuderbolt plot has been sitting empty for 20 years and is perfect for a WWW expansion - including a lazy river. You could even put a new coaster in that area and have it interact with the water park like GC currently does. Effectively everything from the Wipeout plot through to Kevil Hill needs redevelopment. Something like Barrels Smokehouse being moved to bridge the parks would be good - especially if they were to build a proper (themed) bar on the DW side so there's a place for adults to just chill and have a drink.

Additional trains aren't necessary and single train operations outside of peak are also fine. The problem is the operations/maintenance. When I last visited in March, the fastest dispatch we experienced was 5 minutes and 28 seconds. The slowest was 12 minutes. When we were on the ride, the restraints got stuck in the closed position on our ride and we had to wait for maintenance to come and release us - which was about a 5-6 minute wait. We queued for about 1 hour and only 1 cycle had backward riders. When I've been in busy times with 2 train ops, the rotating bins don't seem to be functional, and they're not great for bags or the sipper cups. So they could probably clear the platform quicker by improving the loose item storage system, and having better screen/recorded announcements so staff don't have to shout. Small changes that could reduce wait times by 1-2 mins per cycle.