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Yes so what you see there is an LED chip (the rectangle part) and then a lens in front (the dome portion). The Joker head is a bit more simplistic than GL because they are higher powered, spaced apart chips, theoretically can be changed out, but tricky and specialized. GL is more like a traditional LED wall, made up individual cabinets, with smaller bare chips located within ‘shaders’ that keep the sun off and make them brighter in the daylight. - fun fact, the GL logo would be capable of displaying full video content (albeit only green) but at the time of it’s install it was not desired to implement that capability.

That Joker head is not made of ‘bulbs’, just the same as Green Lantern. It’s essentially a big custom shaped LED Screen (think concerts or stadiums) made of millions of tiny high powered LEDs which are prone to failure over time. You can’t just replace a few on something like this. FWIW I drove past last night and it looked totally fine at night which is it’s intention at the end of the day. Of all the low hanging fruit I’ll leave this one on the tree.

All projections were working on Monday They are pretty high end DLP laser projectors and most are in environmentally controlled housings FWIW

We all found Africa beyond underwhelming. The resolution is awful, the soundtrack lacks impact or ‘heart/feels’ and the jump scares are forced. Sorry but it was a meh for me

The restaurant is awesome. HELLO ALL PARKS have a good full service restaurant that offers proper food. The only problem with the restaurant is the sight lines to it are awful, you’d never even know it’s there.

The audio in that room is solid. My nit pick is the transitions between tracks are jarring… should flow better. But that could be playback system limitations, programming or audio composition (hey hire a good TD ) But otherwise audio is good

Don’t get me wrong, I stand by previous criticisms, they were deserved. But this addition is top notch. It’s never going to be 10/10, but it also didn’t cost 500 million dollars so a 9 is more than 👍 for me.

Ok well I was waiting to have a minute to post but I will chime in here. I finally got to visit Rivertown last week… To say I was impressed would be an understatement. Easily best thing, or certainly most complete thing any park has built in a very long time. The entire area is immersive and detailed and just so on point. The detail in the theming and hidden touches just top it all off. Retheme of Vintage cars - amazing! Jungle Rush Coaster - what a perfect choice for the family demographic, and genius use of a relatively small footprint. Fun and thrills for all ages. As for the comments above, so off the mark. Yes I definitely feel the money must have run out in the turntable chamber, and it’s what turns this possible 10 into a 9. But is 10 year old me gonna notice? No As for the interior queue, it’s almost Disney level, there is nothing that anyone visiting a regional park in Australia should be complaining about in here. …and this is from the most critical old bastard that has never been backward about criticizing Dreamworld. Oh and for bonus points, all the staff were smiling!

Its pretty common for specialist equipment (like that involved in attractions and theming) to have to be paid for 100% upfront. Suppliers don’t want to be left holding the bag when the builder you hired goes bust all of a sudden (and that is usually who is buying). For the ride itself you’re likely looking at a portion when ordered, a portion when it arrives onsite and the rest when handed over.

All looks pretty good, very lush! I like all the kinetic energy

Sadly I think you’re right and it’s one of the unfortunate limitations we face in terms of immersive theming in Queensland. There is so much government regulation and insurance company hoop jumping that you’ll even see generic handrails inside a themed railing just to satisfy these requirements. It’s a shame but one we just have to live with.

Nowhere in that video does it show anyone using a side door to skip anything. Nobody is skipping the theming and being spat out in the land after.

I was today years old when I learned the Superman shop is no longer a thing.

I feel like WWW doesn’t get the airtime is deserves. It’s a pretty damn solid little park.

They definitely did some form of refurb and Sally were involved… All of the projectors were replaced and the whole gaming system was upgraded. Not sure of the impact on day to day operations thought, I haven’t ridden it in quite some time and this is just forth hand knowledge.

I think that's the point though now isn't it. I just saw these photos on Facebook and thought to myself "oh well guess the lighting package for Flash is revealed...I'll go see what Parkz thinks" and sure enough exactly what I expected. Instead of a happy response to the fact it has lights, it's some post saying how 'oh it's Movie World clearly this is an awful idea and they are going to make it look terrible.' But no actually, it's for a special occasion and that's cool. You want to see terrible, go look at that bloody awful lighting on the Wave Swinger up the street, truely vomit inducing and that's the permanent scheme they've chosen! The last attraction Village Built was Leviathan and I might be biassed, however worldwide knowledgable people have said it's world class level (not just Village marketing dept). So why would their next thing suddenly assumed to be awful? Because everything is automatically bad because you don't like the CEO right? If Leviathan was lit up Rainbow for a special awareness thing I would think that was awesome. From what I understand the Park are doing all the lighting for Flash themselves in house and if this is the result (along with the sign) then how great! This whole Movie World is Evil and Dreamworld is the land of the gods just has to stop, each has good and bad points when you look at them objectively. Funnily enough the first lights for Wizard of Oz arrived in the country today, I look forward to coming back in a few months and finding out why they are awful too 😛

This is hardly the same as having a stage the people attending an event can't access... It's pretty simple really: Women have women only events to get away from having to deal with men behaving poorly. Men have men only events to get away with behaving poorly.

Yeah what moronic sales staff member ever thought booking this event was REMOTELY a good idea. Just wow

And to be fair that was really version 2.5 after Next Gen was terrible, there was a change in GM and some effort was made to make it a bit better.

Parkz will publish press releases that are sent to it… but they do have to be sent by the park for that to happen

Regardless of when it was installed and what it has on it, we can all probably agree its fairly ugly.

Both Gold Coast companies dial up their marketing spin to 11 when advertising new attractions so I think DW get a pass here when it comes to any claims of being their largest ever investment. And to be fair, this is exactly the kind of ride we have been asking them to build and the return to nicely presented lands (remember when we had lands instead of precincts? Weren’t those wonderful times??) we have all wanted. So its hard to criticize much of anything about this new coaster. I’ll call bullshit on any kind of ‘changing the face of family entertainment’ claim or anything like that but that’s only negative thing I could say.

This is definitely the same space and viewing window that is now in the Penguin Encounter exhibit. And nice souvenir video. That’s actually from my VHS tape!

I think it comes down to two things. Firstly, ToT was a bit if a one of a kind OMFG kind of ride. Where as DC Rivals is a solid coaster, but internationally it’s one of many. Its good, maybe even great, but is it “OMFG WHAT WAS THAT?” good? Still why I 100% rate Superman over Rivals any day. Secondly ToT in its hey day was a time when the general masses weren’t as exposed to international attractions both via social media and also through affordable travel. Side note on merch… needs more nice polos

Well it also used to take 25mins to get from Gold Coast airport to Surfers, but now it’s 50. The whole city is bursting with people, its record numbers of people and this flows into the parks. Everything is busier and takes longer on the Gold Coast than it used to. For me the LAST place I’d want to be at this time is the theme parks, but as you can clearly see, many do not feel the same. As pointed out though, having Scooby and Arkham (and Tunes River Ride for that matter) missing doesn’t help. Hopefully next year this makes things a bit better.