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Wet'n'Wild Water World: historical feats

Wet'n'Wild has established itself as Australia's premier water park for over 20 years. With Dreamworld's own water park set to open before 2006 is out, Roller-Coaster.com.au takes you on a walk through Wet'n'Wild's history, with a look at some of the park's many record breaking achievements.

Macquarie Leisure bowls into US market

The owners of Dreamworld have today announced a AUD$56 million agreement to purchase a Texas-based family entertainment centre business.

Weather Warning: A Tornadi Will Soon Be Hitting Wet'n'Wild!

Big Brother settles in for three more years

Macquarie Leisure Trust, the owners of the Dreamworld theme park announced today that their contract with Big Brother has been extended for another three years.

Chief Executive named for Village Roadshow's international expansion 

CEO of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006 named as head of International Theme Parks for the Australian entertainment company. Plans confirmed for parks in South-East Asia and Europe.

Construction moves forward on Whitewater World

Dreamworld's new water park is still nearly six months from opening day, but that doesn't mean things aren't moving forward at a steady pace.

Dreamworld's water park gets a name

Whitewater World will be the name of Dreamworld's all-new second gate water park, due to open in December of 2006.

Dreamworld gets a boost in value

In the face of major new complementing attractions to the Gold Coast theme park, Dreamworld has been given further confidence to owners Macquarie Leisure Trust Group as an independent valuation saw the park's value increase by nearly 30%.

Macquarie Leisure announces $51 million uplift in Dreamworld valuation

FlowRider makes a splash at Dreamworld

Dreamworld's latest interactive attraction, FlowRider, opened at the Gold Coast theme park over the weekend. What better way to launch a boardriding attraction than by inviting some of Australia's brightest young pro surfers, bodyboarders, wakeboarders, snowboarders and skaters to give this unique fusion of all five sports a go for themselves?