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My brain hurts from reading this thread.

Mine checked out ages ago. Right about when someone said "I heard from a park employee"

Sorry but the only difference I can see is the sky and the construction site is what everyone expected it to be, dirt. It's annoying to come to these topics to see repeat photos with little difference. Don't get me wrong I love seeing all the new things happening but it's a bit annoying seeing the same thing that was posted a few days before

Thanks for the great shots TPN. It's good of you to go to the parks on such a regular basis and take all the photos. With regards to the focus, you could have left the first shot out or you could have adjusted your camera (simply by panning right slightly or adjusting the little focus box) in order to get that shot in focus whilst staying in automatic. But I understand shots are often taken on the fly and that sometimes you might not nessarily bring your DSLR to the park. I look forward to Alex's next update. ? The area looks great. I wonder how much interactivity it's going to have.

Beat the crowd up first thing this morning to get some empty snaps of the new Plaza precinct ?? More pics to come when I get home and upload from my Canon ??

Here, @reanimated35... from my instagram account:

If we're gonna go there I'd say pacific fair now has a similar feel to this new area. Both look nice IMO, but I understand what Joz is saying.

I'd describe it as greater than the sum of its parts, which is lucky as its parts aren't that impressive. The shops are the same, the facilities are the same, the midway games building still looks like crap. The new facades, while a welcome change are pretty bland, and lack the detail that an immersive themed area would include. It's also fairly generic, it could be any shopping centre built in the past decade. Its unambitious; the Sourthern end feels like it's missing a stage or big screen. The eastern side feels like it should have a proper row of shops (Bar?). For an all weather venue there is no Monorail drop off, so if it's raining it's a 300meter walk through the rain to get to your all weather function venue. So it's crap right? Well, no. It's a massive improvement. The real breakthrough is the approach from the South, and the way the paths have been done; it makes it feel like the plaza is the obvious way to go through the park, rather than the inconvenience it has been previous. The best feature is the roadway through the middle of the area. Not only does it guide you Through the area without you even realising it, but unlike Main Street there are no kerbs, it's 100% flat in the plaza making it totally wheelchair friendly. It feels like this is part of a master plan rather than trying to fix what was in truth rather unfortunate placement at the start. It's big it's airy and it's pleasant to be in, and that's a big plus for the park.

Was just looking through your photos again, and only just noticed Killer Croc and the really cool detail/affect they've done with the ground, as if he's smashing through it. And great to see the bent still frame work back again. Great job MW

Looks really nice. Sea World has really become a well presented park based on all these pics I am seeing.

It's like a cleaner at a pharmaceutical company giving out information about a new drug you don't take any notice

I didn't address the construction site, because nothing has changed? I don't want to bore people on here, I prefer to share photos when there's progress made.

Well, @djrappa is going to love this post.

If it was 8 mins it'd have to be 54 stories high right? #adventureworld

from today, (sorry that the first picture is out of focus)

Well given the likely inaccuracy of the new coaster information you received I'll take that with a grain of salt. However an early opening for DD is much more likely than an 8min ride time

8 minutes?! "I want to get off roller coaster 1"

Maybe they got confused and where thinking of AA load times

Maybe he was talking dispatch times. ?

I "think" the top 2 are the sheds being used for the hero mazes this fright nights, and obviously we know what SS9 is.

It's not just as simple as a roll back system test?

I don't think you'll find cold hydraulics has anything to do with it. More likely its friction. What you need to remember is that these rides are calibrated extremely closely. When first installed, coaster trains come with a mix of polyurethane and nylon wheels. During testing, the manufacturer may trim the train by swapping some of these wheels out in different places in order to get the best performance, and the right speed. As wheels and track wear, maintenance may do modifications and adjustments in order to keep the train properly trimmed. Superman has run the rails for quite some time with little or no paint on the tractor (running) surface. Now that the entire track has got a completely new coat of paint, several things may be impacting the ride's ability to get over the top hat: increased thickness of track (only microns) means less 'play' between running and upstop wheels, more 'grab' and therefore more friction the painted surface itself most likely causes more friction to the wheels than a bare steel rail, and therefore more friction The wheel combination currently installed may be 'slow' wheels to compensate for the faster speeds achieved by the missing paint. They may need to change some wheels to the faster wheel materials to compensate. The winch system - having undergone over a decade of minor adjustments to keep the launch speed aligned has potentially been programmed to throw less power into the cable because of the speed of bare steel rails, and now needs to be reprogrammed. Remember - the launch system weighs the train in order to calculate the force required to get it over. So the ride is now weighing the train as it did several months ago, but not putting as much effort into the launch, because it is still calibrated to the fast running of bare steel.

Or, buy the whole lot, build a bridge over the road, fence it in. then i have two words for you... Kickass Dark Ride.

and kool? argee?

Also found this image from DW's Lego Store webpage: Here is the other angle that you want: From what we can see of the plans, I took 2 guesses based on that little part of the plans that are visible. The 1st guess is if those little bit of the plans are of the eastern end of the construction site. The construction fencing is in red. I left the rest of the construction site blank for this guess as I thought there were too many possibilities based on that angle: The 2nd guess is if those little bit of plans are of the western end of the original Market Place site. This one I thought was easier to figure out using Market Place's original floor layout as a starting point. I coloured the building/shop fitout edges in both the above & below images to give an idea of possible colour schemes for the areas. I also made a guess of the design/colour scheme of the pathways external to the park/Market Place buildings. All other flooring is coloured based on the colours seen in the plans (apart from the 'Dreamworld Staff Only Area', which I just chose to symbolise inaccessibility): This is highly likely to be coincidental but the Lego Store location I guessed in the above image, according to Google Maps, is approximately 350 square metres in size just like DW has stated as the size of the store: Given they said it is going to be a "stand-alone precinct", that is why I added a 'Lego Plaza'. It would make it more appealing to non-park visitors (if any). I also imagined the eastern entrance of the Lego Store in my 2nd guess would only be accessible to DW visitors somehow by using their tickets (i.e. barcode scanning, ticket barriers etc. or something similar to the WWW/DW dual entrance) allowing them to enter the store that way or instead, they could just walk through the new Market Place/new separate main exit to access the Lego Store from the outside. Given that Market Place lost it's charm in it's later years (particularly due to the numerous stores now in DW), I think my 2nd guess design allows guests, on their exit of the park, to bypass Market Place via the new main exit if they desire while giving the whole Market Place building a reason to enter through the new attraction that is the Lego Store. What @Ashley said below also applies for Showbag Alley hence why I also included it in my 2nd guess above: These are just guesses remember based on a small part of plans DW has kind of revealed (unless DW are possibly doing red herrings too?). I'd be interested in hearing what other forum members think of my guesses (particularly my 2nd guess) though I think there is a good chance I'd be wrong as I'm guessing on so little information. I also don't remember well how big Main Street Emporium/Kodak Express/Surf Central is so if I'm wrong in my guesses, just let me know. In the end, these guesses are just a bit of fun as part of the speculation.

well to be fair they have painted the walls yellow when they were originally white and plus I had photos of the actual construction site which no one has posted yet which you didn't address in your post

I am so punny.

That was an AWful pun you just made. (I'm sorry)