Dreamworld General Improvments 2025

[Levi]

4 hours ago, New display name said:

You're blowing this up bigger than it is @Levi  I have no issues with you thinking it's fine and I'm not trying to convince you or anyone otherwise.

you’re here complaining about a power outlet behind a wall and I’m replying to you, that’s how it works here I fear… you love replying to anyone and saying whatever you like so I think it’s fine if everyone does the same x

[New display name]

Next time I order at a restaurant, I'll send you the menu so you can tell me what I like @Levi

[Cactus_Matt]

It's kind of funny that as human beings we're on this Earth for such a short period of time and people are devoting literal ~hours~ of their day and getting genuinely worked up over a fucking power outlet on a fake wall in a theme park in Australia. Not hating either way, I mean you do you but I can't help but just think it's kind of funny...

KIND OF FUNNY!

[Noll_57]

I visited the park for the first time in a while yesterday and the biggest improvement that really stood out to me was how much more immersive and complete Rivertown feels now that the old TOT building has been painted go away green. Having that big white shed sitting in the back of the land was always somewhat distracting and took away from the experience a little bit (despite how great everything else in the land was). Now that this has been rectified, it blends in so much better and really doesn’t catch your eye like it used to. 

[franky]

Looks like the main street canopy supports are getting a lick of paint too:

(Credit Dreamworld's Golden Years on FB).

Looking good!

[dbo121]

3 hours ago, franky said:

Looks like the main street canopy supports are getting a lick of paint too:

(Credit Dreamworld's Golden Years on FB).

Looking good!

Why this has taken so long ?

 

red was terrible 

[New display name]

@dbo121 because the to-do-list is long.  DW are doing a great job in restoring the park but it’s going to take time.

[dbo121]

2 minutes ago, New display name said:

@dbo121 because the to-do-list is long.  DW are doing a great job in restoring the park but it’s going to take time.

Some of The priorities on the list to date  I’m just not so sure about . 
 

 

[MickeyD]

9 hours ago, dbo121 said:

Some of The priorities on the list to date  I’m just not so sure about . 
 

 

Which ones?

[themagician]

There have been some more general improvements this week.

Umbrellas have been added throughout Rivertown and they match the aesthetic of the land

The Main Street Emporium refurb is complete, with new display windows

The Surf Shop is how the Main Street Emporium Surf Shop

They are repainting the roofs structure to be a cleaner white

Directional signage has been added across the park

The sign on the Main Street stage is still missing

The front outdoor seating area for Kenny’s Fried Chicken is now finished, and they’ve begun works on the courtyard area to the left. This has been fenced off for years now, but they’ve ripped up the decking, so hopefully it means it will reopen soon.

Goldie the Eagle has a new enclosure, but remains fenced off to guests while she adapts to the new home

Some of the timber buildings out the front of the former sheep shearing building have been removed (presumably they were damaged during the cyclone)

For this years Winterfest, they have moved the ice slide to be on the former Flowrider land (Winterfest is a lot more congregated within Ocean Parade this year and it made this area of the park feel so much better because it was actually being used). 

And not an improvement, but I noticed this last remaining sign for the former vintage cars located under the ramps of the Giant Drop.

This is a minor thing to note, but behind these ramps (which I imagine isn’t used by many guests often), but it’s pretty messy. There’s construction fencing, left over Happy Halloween stuff, a scissor lift and hoarding just laying on the ground. This is a nice little throwback to Rocky Hollow though!

 

Yesterday was the first day of the school holidays, but the park was pumping. The park was probably the busiest I’ve seen it in several years now and everyone seemed to be having a good time. Wait times for rides varied, but the maximum I saw was 45 minutes for Murrisspi Motors and Jungle Rush. Multiple trains on the coasters. Jane’s was busy, people were spread across the park and there was a really nice vibe about it all.

For comparison, Movie World’s car park was looking pretty empty compared to normal and the longest wait time was 40 minutes (DC Rivals with one train operations).

[Ash]

Maybe the general public are starting to act with their wallets now. I’ve definitely noticed Dreamworlds carpark much busier than MovieWorlds as of late. 

[jjuttup]

2 hours ago, Coasterjoe said:

Deepest apologies, just arrived at Seaworld and the info that guest services gave me online was incorrect. The team here were also great and assessed the injury clearing her for everything. 

I'm not surprised you got 2 different answers

 

5 hours ago, themagician said:

These 2 are the ones i don't really like, as they block any chance of getting a great photo of the entrance.

[Noll_57]

Noticed a couple things at the park today. First of all, the roof looks so much better now that the painting is complete. 


I also happened to notice that the park have finally replaced a lot of the old standard rubbish bins with these new proper theme park style ones, similar in design to what you see in many big parks around the world. They look great and are even colour matched to fit the theming in certain areas too. 

Some of the bins have been placed in front of the Remota Boats and the pool has been drained. I hope this is just a temporary thing during maintenance and they’re not retiring them. 
 

They’ve also changed the background music in Kenny and Belinda’s Dreamland. Instead of playing generic pop music, they’re now playing whimsical/old timey music which is a really big improvement and fits the atmosphere a lot better IMHO. 

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 08:48 AM by Noll_57

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

I've visited a couple times in the past few weeks - I have a few thoughts..

• The staff are absolutely the park's best asset. everyone we encountered had a really great attitude and were all trying to go the extra mile wherever they could.
• Giant Drop is screaming for something else in that area to draw people down. it's a long slog to visit one singular ride. I'd like to see a pathway from Taipan to GD - either through the envelope, or around the back way where the train line used to be. I'm sure this will come when they develop Rocky Hollow, but that can't come soon enough.
• I did notice those bins on our most recent visit and they are a great improvement to the older style with the added recycling benefits.
• I wonder if the park could partner with a local charity or fundraising effort to donate containers for change? Maybe even do something like grill'd where they have 2 or 3 local groups looking to fundraise and you can 'vote' where you want your portion to go to?
• The park is such a hodge podge and patchwork of areas - looking tired in a spot they haven't gotten to yet, but everywhere they have gotten to looks amazing. It's clear they're continuing with this park-wide spruce up and I can't wait until they're finished
• I know it is the off season - so the expected maintenance was understandable on two of the park's four 'adult' coasters - however the breakdowns on attractions that were open were disappointing. In a half day visit, we experienced breakdowns \ faults \ ride stoppages on 4 of the 5 rides we lined up for.
• While it was almost certainly just bad luck or bad timing, it wasn't something we've had happen on previous visits and it gave the impression that maintenance wasn't up to standards. While the staff were great - the communication during break downs needed to be improved.
• Additionally to the breakdowns, reduced capacity was an issue too - with multiple attractions closed for maintenance, one would think some ops crew would be available to bulk up other attractions. GD only running one side made that queue far longer than it needed to be given the crowds in the park. On one of our visits, Sky Voyager had multiple seats locked out - and the need to balance the gondola meant the same number of seats on the opposite side also had to be taken out of service. 
• The new exit shop\photo centre is great. looks clean and fresh and is a great way for folk to finish their day. It was a little disappointing that the range of 'generic' product with absolutely no ties to Dreamworld took up the bulk of the space. I'd love to see the park invest in some more 'something I can only get here'. In particular, (and this is me sounding like a broken record) - a nice quality polo in a dri-fit style fabric.
• King Claw progress looking good - I saw the test seat still out in the carpark ready for install. With the focus shifting back to Ocean Parade I do hope they have plans to freshen that area - especially the old trolls village \ kevil hill. While they do use it for activations from time to time, seeing it sit in prime space the rest of the year is just sad.
• The carpark construction fencing is a major problem. Blocking that bottom end forces the upper areas of each of those lanes to merge into a single laneway prior to reaching the bottom exit row. I realise there is a need to have heavy equipment and machinery close by the construction zone, but perhaps (and especially since WWW is closed) they could have put it near HydroCoaster, minimising the dry park disruption while still being close to the construction zone.
• Further to that - getting out of the park at the end of the day is a shambles. The roundabout frequently backs up with people trying to enter the M1 southbound and people queue across the roundabout preventing people who are trying to get northbound from exiting the parkway. given the road feeds the M1 i'm assuming the roundabout is probably not a local issue but a state\federal one but it's a really sour ending to a fun day and I hope Dreamworld are talking to relevant authorities about options to rectify this.

[wikiverse]

2 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

The roundabout frequently backs up with people trying to enter the M1 southbound and people queue across the roundabout preventing people who are trying to get northbound from exiting the parkway

This could be remediated with a one-way exit from the car park on the WWW side, with a slip lane heading south onto Foxwell road.  People could then take DW Parkway to Hope Island Road and enter the M1 southbound there.  The current DW car park is a cul-de-sac which is never good for traffic. 

 

[New display name]

@DaptoFunlandGuyCoomera traffic around the M1 is a shit-show that nobody has come up with a solution.  Maybe the Coomera connector will fix it when it opens but I doubt it.

 

@wikiversethere is already an exit at the bottom of the car but you rarely see cars using it.

[wikiverse]

It needs to be more prominent, and signed as Exit to M1 south or 'Exit to Gold Coast'.  Currently all the exit signage directs people toward the round about.  Look at the arrows on the ground.  The majority of the car park directs people to the right, away from that exit.

[New display name]

It will be no quicker trying to enter the M1 at spaghetti junction.

[wikiverse]

But the point wasn't about getting onto the M1 quicker.  The point was to clear the DW car park quicker.  Filtering even 50-60% of the south-bound traffic onto Foxwell road would help clear the round about for north-bound traffic and overall there would be an improvement in traffic flow over the current situation - including on the M1 outside DW.

There is no situation where improving signage and funneling south-bound traffic onto that exit would make the current traffic worse as Dapto described it.

[New display name]

Whats the point of leaving the car park earlier if you are sitting on the side streets the same amount of time you are sitting in the car park?  The Government has a future plan for a M1 overpass at Beattie Road.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

9 minutes ago, New display name said:

Whats the point of leaving the car park earlier if you are sitting on the side streets the same amount of time you are sitting in the car park?  The Government has a future plan for a M1 overpass at Beattie Road.

Honestly - there's plenty of good reasons to expediate exit from the DW carpark. if you can get past that roundabout you have options before trying to get onto the M1 - dine locally at one of the many dining precincts in and around Coomera, go shopping on certain days, see a movie if you're really keen on avoiding the peak hour traffic - it doesn't all have to be about getting on the M1 - it just has to get you past the roadblock.

[Narra]

7 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

I wonder if the park could partner with a local charity or fundraising effort to donate containers for change? Maybe even do something like grill'd where they have 2 or 3 local groups looking to fundraise and you can 'vote' where you want your portion to go to?

Some of the bins have containers for change branding stating they donate proceeds to the DWF from memory

[New display name]

16 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

Honestly - there's plenty of good reasons to expediate exit from the DW carpark. if you can get past that roundabout you have options before trying to get onto the M1 - dine locally at one of the many dining precincts in and around Coomera, go shopping on certain days, see a movie if you're really keen on avoiding the peak hour traffic - it doesn't all have to be about getting on the M1 - it just has to get you past the roadblock.

You want to drive past the entry to the M1 and go to the shop/movies because you don't want to sit in traffic after you already achieved your goal of reaching the M1 entry.   

Edited yesterday at 06:12 AM by New display name

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

15 hours ago, New display name said:

You want to drive past the entry to the M1 and go to the shop/movies because you don't want to sit in traffic after you already achieved your goal of reaching the M1 entry.   

 

23 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

The roundabout frequently backs up with people trying to enter the M1 southbound and people queue across the roundabout preventing people who are trying to get northbound from exiting the parkway.

Frequently at park close time, the highway is just as bad as the connector roads surrounding it. If you could at least get out of the carpark you could choose to spend time waiting for the congestion to ease on the highway by visiting other nearby establishments.

[New display name]

Then you issue is with the side roads and the is out of DW's hands.