Dreamworld new Bilby Discovery Centre

[Vidgamer]

Not sure if this could go anywhere else but today I was at Dreamworld and they have started fitting out the old store at the Wildlife Station.

it looks like it will be a Bilby Discovery Centre. It looks like a much larger space for the Bilby. It does seem like Dreamworld is investing a little in wildlife lately, twilight trail has recently opened and now the Bilby area.

 

I do wonder if this means the area near the Bilby will be shut (kind of opposite the wombat enclosure), as Vintage Cars will be relocating. 

[aussienetman]

Looks great! A good use of that space

[themagician]

They are also building smaller enclosures in the store too

[Gazza]

3 hours ago, Vidgamer said:

Not sure if this could go anywhere

Where else would it go?

Its a new attraction 😊

[themagician]

The new centre opens this week as part of the Easter Bilby celebrations 

[themagician]

[jjuttp]

One of the largest is probably pushing it a bit. Wild Life Sydney's is big and Billabong Zoo's is huge.

[Ogre]

Popped in today! Really good exhibit, and pretty big indeed. Had a couple of viewing areas you can crawl through, similar to Tiger Island (notice the dome). Had an interactive touch screen panel aimed at kids that played some cute animations if you got the answers right

Some other animals in there too, such as Snakes and Mice. Couple of empty enclosures, which will apparently be getting Frogs and another type of Snake. It's basically another nocturnal house.

The old Bilby enclosure now holds Hopping Mice.

[REGIE]

It’s the little things like this that really help add value without costing the park much

[jjuttp]

Big question to ask though is "Does this feel temporary?". Because it looks thrown together.

[Ogre]

37 minutes ago, jjuttp said:

Big question to ask though is "Does this feel temporary?". Because it looks thrown together.

It actually feels the opposite. You can tell a lot of thought went into it.

[themagician]

49 minutes ago, jjuttp said:

Big question to ask though is "Does this feel temporary?". Because it looks thrown together.

Not at all. It’s been very well put together. Constructed really well and a great new addition for the wildlife area. The old Bilby house felt more temporary. They now have spinifex jumping mice in there.

There were a couple of empty exhibitions that had ‘coming soon’ signage on them (and not just a laminated piece of paper). It is very dark in there, so if it gets busy in there, expect to walk into others. But the Bilby enclosure is double the size of what they had and has been done very well

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

On 07/04/2023 at 8:48 PM, jjuttp said:

One of the largest is probably pushing it a bit. Wild Life Sydney's is big and Billabong Zoo's is huge.

So... along with those two, this one would be 'one of' the largest?

[themagician]

Al Mucci returned to DW! He’s now the director for Save the Bilby and made an appearance in a post by DWF

 

[Slick]

1 hour ago, themagician said:

Al Mucci returned to DW! He’s now the director for Save the Bilby and made an appearance in a post by DWF

 

Where is this sourced from?

[themagician]

31 minutes ago, Slick said:

Where is this sourced from?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrkomZSJm0r/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=