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Not taking into account the likely reason for the closure. Wow. Just wow.

Might be Comm Games & QLD school holidays but the coast has never been more quiet.. I’d be very surprised if visitors numbers at the parks are not well done on same period last year

@themeparkaddict yes that photo is of the studios yes it was a bit of a hike. the big brother house is basically abandoned. I doubt anyone is checked on it regularly. Blue lagoon seems to be used as a staff smoking area so there are people there regularly. Concreting in a unused pool is commonplace. Dirt settles with rain and compacts requiring refilling, periods of dry weather make it extremely dusty. It’s easier & safer to concrete over. The old slide would likely be in the trash or graveyard somewhere no idea about the excavators, may just be kept there for storage

I believe the all the pools were filled in about 10 years ago but it appears to be a run off area. Yes that is the train maintenance/storage bay. That house is the big brother house The red-roofed building is either an old f&b outlet of an amenities block from memory, they did use it when Big brother was being filmed for the studio audience. The sheds your circled are maintenance/storage/grounds keeper maintenance

Was 500 free tickets given away, and then tickets were upwards of $60-120 to purchase. I know the 500 free were snapped up, but given they are free a think a lot of people didn’t end up going (2 of our group couldn’t make it). 300 May have been an understatement but would not have been much more if there was.. we got there at 6:40 (gates opened at 6:30), waited in line for a few mins to get in, walked down towards Dreamworks as had my 5 year old with me, didn’t walk past a single person, and we were the first and only person to ride Madagascar, then were the only people on Dronkey Flyers, Sword swing & Gingys Gliders. Then went back to Madagascar where there we 6 people on the cycle before us, we were again the only 2 riding on our turn. In Dreamworks I didn’t see a ride run a cycle at capacity all night. From what I saw of the thrill rides in passing it was no more than a 1 cycle wait for any ride (didn’t venture down to the TOT2 queue line but would have imagined capacity meant that would have been longer). Final show and fireworks at 9:50pm after rides had closer wouldn’t have been more than 150-200 people watching - far less than say the nightly Music/fire show was on last January.

Ardent are not going to invest significantly all at once. It does seem they have a plan in place to revitalise the area but it’s a probably a 5+ year plan. They are not going to drop $100m in one year to build a whole new themed land... I’d be happy if they consistently add a new attraction each year for a few years to bring some life to that side of the park

Corroboree was closed so I unfortunately couldn’t head down there to ask the animals after the fact. I did see a tiger and he said he thought they were GRRRReat!

Pretty cool night event at DW tonight and only about 250-300 or so in attendance which made the queues amazingly short/walk on. Plus had the PotBelleez, a foam dance party and fireworks (first time i’d seen the top of tower used for an extensive launch pad for fireworks)

@Redboost it won’t include drinks as meals at movieworld don’t include drinks. There is a whole FAQ about it on the website. Unfortunately the link to the actual food you can access doesn’t work, but the FAQ mentioned burgers & seafood, as well as scoop ice cream, fruit salad and churros https://themeparks.com.au/box-office/theme-park-extras/select-tickets.aspx

It’s absolutely unforgivable if they have re-opened after such an extended closure with any, let alone half, of the effects not working.

Yep... all the stingrays in the earths oceans hibernate through winter... everyone knows that... right?

Random whale that happens to swim past Australia once a year has no idea how friggin famous he is... just going about his whale business and gets a whole segment in the ceremony...

What day did you ride on WWF?

The point of difference isn’t the games venue itself - my suggestion was offering extended hours to those in the precinct to utilise the parks.

Was referring to DW actually with the Coomera Sports Centre next door hosting netball and gymnastics

My guess will be that the arena will be used as a live site for those in the park who want to watch the games whilst there or a specific event

*deleted* as was a double up on WWF re-opening push back

Why not change up your offer to provide a point of difference? Why not embrace the fact that there are more people on the vicinity (games venue literally next door to the park) and it’s QLD school holidays, weather still good, and extend opening hours to 7pm each night? Do something to be a point of difference...

Good on DW for coming up an unprecedented and original idea....

Go back through the Ardent shareholder updates/results presentations and you should find some details around DW

No one insulted you Push. Stop taking everything so personally and looking for a reason to be offended... I get that sometimes your opinions open you up to retorts and some ribbing, but it’s done in jest mate. I’m sure anyone on this forum would happily grab a beer with you on a monorail if the opportunity came about or would happily have a chat if they ran into you in a dark (walkthrough) alleyway.

Have we had confirmation that the DC Superheroes/Villains Event is taking taking place again? I hadn’t seen anything confirming this as yet

For those interested, Top Golf has released pricing ahead of their opening. Prices are per hour, per bay, with up to 6 people allowed to play per bay, so the more playing a bay the cheaper cost per head. $5 membership fee must be paid once per person to register your shots Mon-Thurs open til 5pm - $55 per bay 5pm til close - $65 per bay Fri - Sun open til 2pm - $70 per bay 2pm til close - $80 per bay

There has been a severe lack of turbines in everything DW has done of late. Disappointing. #bringbacktheturbines

I don’t think you can be ejected for clearing the nets. There’s someone in every group that gives it a go. As for cameras, each booth may have one but that would purely be for review purposes in the case of an issue, no one is going to be sitting there watching the cameras for people trying to do Happy Gilmore swings