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It says on the Fully 6 slides that you can “ride all 6”, so I am very keen to know if all of them have now been opened. I hope so. I love the transparency too for The Green Room. WWW still needs another slide addition but if they have got some extra slides open after being closed for several years that’s a good accomplishment.

Yes, closed on Friday and Saturday nights

I went to book Jane’s for Friday night for a family event, anyway it is now closed on the weekends, which seems like a bit of a miss, the trivia was short lived.

I’m a big fan of big brother coming to dreamworld but removing the events space which has held the Happy Halloween event bothers me

No it didn’t. It closed because the Gold Coast City Council is turning the track into a tip. They didn’t renew the lease.

When I drove past Dreamworld the other day it looked like they had put new fencing in where the Monster Truck Show was, on the border outside Coomera State School. I wonder if perhaps they will put the house in that spot, then utilise the Exhibition Centre for live crosses?

Is it on every Friday night?

We went to Movieworld yesterday and frankly it is embarrassing. Our passes due to expire next week so we thought we would take a look one last time before they expire. the park was frankly an embarrassment, operations are still dreadfully slow, staging out the wait times unnecessarily. Most rides are shut, running a dualling coaster with one train is an embarrassment and even rides like Road Runner now run on shortened times (12-4). With rubbish food at midday we left and went and ate at Jane’s, then did Jungle Rush, Taipan and Sky Voyager and the conparison between the two parks is as clear as it can be. It’s paying off for Dreamworld too, as the park was clearly busier than Movieworld.

All of the options sound great (pins!) and frankly it continues to show how Dreamworld continues to innovate. If they are offering something like 15% off an unlimited entry for Happy Halloween for the Ultimate pass it would be worth selling for about 200-220. EDIT: Side note, yes they should bring back physical passes but also bring back physical maps!!

With Superman now open can anyone confirm if there has been any change to the queue at all?

It looks great. I just wish that Dreamworld would print maps again. It was always so delightful to walk in, grab a map and feel the day is just getting started.

Attended the opening of Rivertown this morning and so I can directly compare Movieworld's and Dreamworlds. Dreamworld opened the doors to the park about 9:55am (and had a small contingent of VIPs and Theme Park enthusiasts in at 9:30am) and then had up to Rivertown gated off. At 10:05am we were then escorted down to outside the Jungle Rush coaster and there was about 15/20 mins of speeches and then the ride was ready to go. From the beginning the rides were open, stayed up for most of the day (Jungle Rush had a few periods of short down time) and the experience was really enjoyable. There were plenty of staff rostered on, the area looks amazing and well themed (and i am sure there is more to come, but it looks pretty much finished) and the radio was there giving out prizes. It felt like a true 'opening'. I really like that Greg acknowledges theme park enthusiasts in his speeches and is so connected to the community needs. It's a much more humble approach to theme park management. His offsider Michelle (I believe she is Ops manager) spent the morning in the control booth of JR then went and helped serve at the Rivertown Restaurant, it is not uncommon to see Greg helping in these back of house areas, it shows that even the exec team will jump on board and help out - it's a really good look. This is in direct contrast to Bikash who was quick to scoop into the VIP fast pass queue at 10:05am for the WoZ rides. Dreamworld was alive today and it's great to see the hard work they are putting in paying off.

The execution on this has been world class. They deserve all the credit they get. It’s amazing how much Dreamworld has evolved.

I think they do removed pizza from the buffet this year? Is that right?

I went down for the opening this morning so thought I would try and put some ideas down on what I think works well and what hasn’t delivered. Of course these are all my first impressions and just my opinions. At 10 we were let into the gates of movieworld at about half of the people there ran to Wizard of Oz. When you enter the world the access to both rides is through the Emerald Palace. There are test seats for both rides when you walk in and a large Wizard of Oz Chamber (which is very impressive). we decided to do Kansas Twister first and the theming for the queue line is really good, you go through Dorothy’s house and it looks really good. We were one of the first in line but had to wait for the executives to get their rides in (why they don’t do this before the park opens I do not know, but it’s never a good look a bunch of Village execs going through fast pass while others are waiting.) Kansas twister is a solid roller coaster with the capacity to take lots of people. We enjoyed it. As we exited Kansas Twister they have the bad witch out for a meet and greet which was cute and my kids loved that, we then did Flight of the Wicked Witch. The wait for this was long and it kept going down, the queue is brilliant and very well themed. The ride was smooth and quite thrilling. We then saw that Kansas twister had gone down. They were extremely slow to load Flight of the Wicked Witch. the land itself looks immersive and well themed. The only thing I find a bit jading with the queue for both coasters is that the last little bit before you load for each coaster you are essentially in an outside queue surrounded by black metal fencing, I wish they had thought of a way to keep the queue indoors right until you load up. i think the price statement around 100 million is rubbish, there are still areas that clear cuts have been made (the walls in the haunted forest are painted which gives it a low budget ghost train feel when looking directly at the walls) but it’s still far away the best theming Movieworld has done recently.