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With the night markets now closed due to Halloween nights until Nov 1 - my guess is this is just a big relaunch celebration

Photos courtesy of MW

It was in 1999. Whilst streaming technology existed, it was in its infancy and I highly doubt it was live streamed by wonderland a few news reports can be found online however, such as this https://www.facebook.com/thewinnerissydney/videos/1617105535084666/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

May as well demolish and start from scratch at that age

Admittedly i havent seen Jaggs photos, but my understanding is they are just static sets for a character photo. If i had not gone last year, then sure thats something that would add interest to attending the event, but for me personally, a couple of photos ops is not enough to warrant a repeat visit with no new mazes on board. I understand it is clearly a financial decision, but i think it was a poor one to not at least have ONE new maze. Make that the hero maze and have the other 4 as repeats, then you are spiking interest again.

People with memberships still got their free FN ticket through til 2022 when they essentially disbanded the concept if memberships were still a thing, I’d still have one and despite the lack of fresh mazes I’d still go this year and they’d get more than my ticket cost back in food and experience sales. However without that it included I’m not willing fork out that ticket price for a rehash of last year FWIW I did purchase tickets last year and despite it not being sold out was underwhelmed at the offering, and the crowd management which appeared worse than other years despite apparently less people

If by “this” you mean panic rooms, they have been a thing for at least 5 or so years now

There is no doubt for teens and young adults WnW is the pick, it’s the “cool” option… but I’m with dapto here in saying if I want a relaxing day with my son/family, it’s WWW. We still go to WnW a few times each season, but it’s always chaotic, even getting a park is a mission in summer. WWW you can mosey in, get a deckchair anytime, and don’t feel like your half a km away if you want to go back for a drink

Ridiculous elevator screens and off timed animations need a full overhaul

It’s say Rivertown and King Claw are very similar markets.

Wouldn’t think so. barrier fence at the end of the Main Street shops and another at kickback cove and there is a direct exit route straight to the carpark for heavy vehicles. Just means those on Main Street wanting to head to Gold Coaster and shockwave have to go via Dreamland

It covers that a lot more than any other park would. They just need to ensure they don’t have 2 other flats down consecutively at any other time during the year to not piss off locals At the end of the day It is all marketing strategy for the day trip and interstate market. There is enough buzz from Rivertown to drive attendances through 2025. King Claw is spaced out enough to pull back return trips for those who checkout Rivertown Xmas/easter

They would want to give Rivertown 12 months of clear air in terms of being the newest thing, then when the excitement of the new area wanes…. Bam… king claw opens. I’m sure they could get it built in a shorter timeline if they wanted to, but there is no benefit to do so

Sounds like you have a tafe project you need help with…. You’ll find answers to plenty of your questions by doing some keyword searches on the forums as a lot of it has been discussed. you can also get real world data and analytics from Coast Entertainments most recent FY reporting

“We are planning something new but I can’t give details” Super. She wouldn’t be doing her job if she wasn’t planning something new at some point…

That wasn’t my experience at all. Think the most express pass queuing we had was on Journey at about 10mins, actually maybe it was Minion mayhem at around 15, but standby queues at the time were both in excess of 90mins. Why is ensuring rider and guest safety overzealous? Clearly these were put in place out of necessity or they wouldn’t be there Would you not have preempted what your toddler could ride by checking restrictions prior to visiting? and to circle back to your first paragraph Monday was a public holiday in Japan. If you thought visiting the second highest attended theme park in the world on a public holiday was going to be calm and easy going adventure, you failed to plan

Whilst there is zero chance of BB returning to DW, the original iterations of the show filmed at DW were highly successful and had a positive impact for the park in terms of revenue, visitation and marketability. not sure why you are hooked on “pathetic stupid rubbish” as a descriptor, and while I agree for 2-3 recent pre-recorded series have been failures, the twisted comment makes no sense.

It’s these ridiculous comments that are nonsensical. DW has the biggest range of rides, and more importantly - operational rides - of any theme park on the GC. If they are a half day park; then the others are 1/4 days being dragged out to full days by intentionally poor operations.

I love the "we can say its due to guest feedback" not a very subtle dig at MW announcing Doomsday would stop full rotation....

Seems like a real missed opportunity to not open the biggest pool in the country….

Greg described Claw in the press conference as having reached end of life, so it won’t be going anywhere other than a scrap heap

Seems DW has already pumped some $$ into promo on GCB... however the landing page the link takes you to isn't active yet so its just an error message

Wouldn’t want a giant banana flying through the air… may hit a helicopter

Can almost guarantee with a level of certainty that there will be seatbelts as an extra layer of redundancy.

so... if they had gone with a 47m swing height, would that have then be classified as incredibly sized? And then moved from "average" to "good" ? You have to remember the Claw plot isn't exactly in clear pastures, the clearance margins are finite, and for all we know this is the total extent to which they could go without having to remove a neighbouring ride or greatly alter the footprint / site which would then have exceeded budget.