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For those following the story at home. The campaign/fundraiser has now been closed. They ended up raising $1000 total, which will be returned to those who donated. Strangely they thanked Dreamworld for their contribution to the efforts - yet i never saw any contribution.

They’ve been offering that the whole summer holidays on the app

I believe USH is getting the DK ride, but not Yoshi from what I had read. Could be wrong though

well to start with, Wet N Wild Sydney doesn't exist - and that fact speaks to it being a failure. Village Theme Parks sold it almost 2 years ago now to Parques Reunidos, hence the name change to Raging Waters Sydney. The Sydney market just wont sustain theme parks. It has some strong local support, but that's not enough to keep it financially viable, which is why VTP sold it. It's too far from the centre of Sydney and other tourist attractions to be of real attraction to overseas or interstate travelers. That may change with the opening of Badgerys Creek airport, and thats probably why it was a somewhat attractive prospect for the new owners.

What I get gigantic load of BS. True. Enthusiasm doesn’t trump logic and reasoning however (well not in business) I do, most here do. That doesn’t remove the ability to be critical of certain decisions. That’s certainly not me. If anything I’m a defender of the park. Again, that doesn’t make it or management immune from criticism. I don’t know if anyone is bagging the efforts - but it was apparent from day 1 trying to crowdfund $10k for one koala that may or may not be functional or repairable was a decision made on emotion and not logic. If anyone was to get involved in retrieving these “assets” it needs to be DW themselves, or a private enterprise that can display them in a public way that may drive some natural interest and attention (Ie Ripleys Believe It or Not). We’ve just come through one of the most financially challenging periods for many in their lifetime (and still not through it for many) so to think the everyday joe public is going to delve into their pockets for a singular animatronic they’ll probably never physically see is misguided. A proposal with a proper business case could be put together and pitched to many businesses that may want the goodwill associated with it, but without the majority of the collection, which they have priced at over $100k, it will never be an attractive prospect

Head to the Dreamworld - Remembering the Golden Years FB page. They are trying to raise $10k to acquire ONE of the animatronic animals from the Koala Country Jamboree. It's a perfect exercise in folly. But hey, if you donate more than $40 you get sent a video of the show. As Alex says, its sat at $680 for about 3 weeks now.

I don’t expect MW or SW to move to an off-peak model with mid week closures or reduced hours. My understanding is both of those parks have a far greater PT/FT employment mix than WnW, and a reduction of hours potentially will see them paying large amounts of wages/salaries to staff when the parks are closed. the current hours listed to end March makes sense as the 1st of April is the first day of the Easter holidays for most (2nd April is Good Friday), so I wouldn’t read into the short date range pointing to an hours reduction. With the GC council and state tourism board pushing hard for interstate travellers, killing dates just harms their business and wouldn’t be supported or encouraged. It would also severely limit their ability to fell multi day passes as well when they have closures. just don’t see it happening

What hidden gems are there, small details etc in local parks that you know about that the GP may not pick up on? I’m sure ex-ride ops or park employees may know a few. I noticed today on WWF that about 3/4 of the way up the lift hill on the right hand side there is sign that says (paraphrasing) “Management accept no responsibility for injuries or deaths on this site”. And whilst that fits the theme with the various random signs on the lift hill, the hidden gem is that the sign has a sign off on the bottom from the pseudo-site manager “G. Yong.” obviously referring to previous park manager Greg Yong who is now at DW. 99% of people wouldn’t know the linkage, clearly a little “in joke” at the park. Anyone seen or know of any other gems like this?

100% Leviathan I haven't been on a wooden coaster since Bush Beast left us. miss the unique ride experience a woodie brings and the location itself elevates it. also excited for Steel Taipan however and DW having a classy full circuit coaster after all these years

Old Faithful is working, it’s the first spout on the left that the air jet works but there is no water so you just hear the jet - it’s been that way since it re-opened in spring. Scooby hasn’t had lasers for well over 12 months, the lighting is cycling as per normal in the disco room, though the ghost train section is substantially darker than usual at the moment

Storm coaster generally does run at night, it’s just down for maintenance from Feb 1

Thanks for the review. I was underwhelmed last year too, only benefit was it was a wet night so we just did countless laps on Storm as we were drenched anyway. Looking forward to going in a few weeks (actually we’ve booked the final date of the season )

Wedgie was closed due operational/logistics issues with queue separation with Covid when they implemented the queuing one ground level. Simply not enough room to have 3 separate queues down there and manage people queue jumping from Green Room to Wedgie once on the tower

I doubt we’ll see any substantial spend at MW this year, that includes removal of AA. The focus is all on Leviathan, are revenue wise they are still a long way from normal expectations. whilst we may get an announcement of the AA replacement towards the end of the year, I wouldn’t expect we’ll be riding whatever it is until late 2022

Good to see some semblance of intelligent decision making...

I’m pretty sure everyone now days just considers GL as SBNO and if you happen to find it open when you visit, well it’s just a nice surprise (until you get in the queue and it closes again before you get to the front).

Fully 6 is now Fully 3, with slide 1 added to the closed slides along with 2 & 3 (speed slides). the remaining 3 slides have their water pressure significantly reduced on previous visits, with the slides flowing more like a lazy river than a water slide... RIP has also been closed this afternoon

Yep it’s absolutely ridiculous. there are still 30+ degree days in April. should at least be open until the end of the Easter holidays

Annual passes are loaded on the app so they’d always be able to see

Probably worth a mention that WWW moves into "'seasonal" mode next week. After Australia Day (Tuesday) the park then moves to only Fri-Sun operation. Fri 11-4 Sat/Sun 10-5

At first I thought they’d changed the actual ride vehicle, then realised they just haven’t attached any of the theming to it

Fair call. i was a bit fired up. Guess I get my back up a little when it appears someone just joins the forum to bag the parks. Everyone has a right to be critical, but I think the general gist of this place is it’s a collective of enthusiasts that love theme parks, so some balance or perspective is generally given when pointing out failures or inadequacies

No one put a gun to your head and told you to buy an annual pass to what you call “low quality” attractions. There is literally zero point whinging that our ride count or quality isn’t at the same level as that of some US/European parks. We have only a small % of their population, and an even smaller % of their tourism dollars. if you have an issue with the app - sweet - no one is gonna debate that it could be much better - but to throw your toys out of the cot bagging every element of the park operation and quality is just juvenile. I love when people make this type of comment. Do you want a clap?? A “good on ya”? “You really stuck it to them man!” I’m sure that Bikash and Clark are crying in their coffees that you didn’t take up 1.5m of social distanced space in a queue today.

Scooby was similar on Thurs night when I was there last too - most effects not working. The bright lights on the turntable haven’t been working for a couple of weeks either.

Nice rant. unlimited fast track isnt available in peak season, which it is right now, for very obvious reasons. One front of line per ride is more than fair. The high cost of daily entry is to push people onto annual passes - which is better for both the consumer and Village. If you think $150 for unlimited access to 4 parks for a year is a rip off you have no ability to reason or calculate cost vs value. virtual queue times are often longer than the physical wait times. It’s about spacing out people, and whilst 5 hours is a crazy period and probably reflects an error, it is the busiest time of the year at present, summer holidays, weekend, open to all after lockdown last weekend, was the final day of DC superhero’s and late trade, and a beautiful 30 degree day - all adding up to a likely top 3 busiest day of the season. no one tried to scam you, in the slightest.