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Hi impatience. I'm AllegroCrab!

I haven't been to SW since Carinvale so I was very happy to find out that we were able to make a pit stop to SW this afternoon , I think the new Plaza looks great I love the new fountain and the new ride they built (the bridge), I will have some photos when I get home soon as they were taken on my camera. Not sure if anyone has addressed this in the Storm queue line, one of the TV monitors plays the pre-show of the old Bermuda Triangle, good to see part of it's legacy continues on ?

Now that I have some time... The last "Fright Night" I went to was their Family Halloween Night in 2006... Apart from not having much memory about a decade ago other than there was one scare precinct in the Chinatown alley area I have no previous experience at the current incarnation of Fright nights... Sort of a Fright Night virgin... And was extremely proud to lose that on the first night... As expected there were some teething issues being the first night but overall these did not detract too much from the overall experience... I will say here overall I was very impressed with the event but time to give my honest thoughts without giving away too much... After getting to the Terror Lounge and listening to the opening remarks headed over to the opening briefing for the scare actors... Was interesting to sit in on and find out a little more about the information and procedures for them... Also gave information I could use to help reassure and calm down my wife multiple times during the night... Timing was an issue here despite being told we were early at the beginning... I think this comes down to being the first night of 2016... Priority viewing area for the opening... Yeah... No... Let's shove you here in front of these people... Thought perhaps they were leading us up to the stage used for the dance during the day for a better point... After the opening I found my wife and friends who were attending but not on the UTT and we headed to the C2 maze... Managed to get there pretty quickly and chose not to use my UTT pass to skip the queue and enjoy this one with friends... Only waited about 15 minutes for this... Having watched the movie I was really impressed with the theming and accuracy towards the movie with several moments captured almost perfectly... Wont spoil anything for others but felt that the last few rooms really upped the ante... This is where I ditched my wife and friends for the first time of many and headed into the C2 Terror Room... Had a great chat with the tour guide there about the process they went through in design and production as well as getting the opportunity to scare some of the people currently walking the maze... From here headed to have dinner before doubling back to the F13 maze... Always been a fan of the earlier F13 movies so really enjoyed this maze... I do feel it could have done with more space as it was in some places hard to think you were supposed to be at the lake but I guess that is always the problem with a walkthrough experience... After exiting headed straight into the F13 Terror Room... This one was a lot of fun with the scarer in the room you could view interacting with the Terror Room occupants as well as the people walking through the maze... Spent the next half hour wandering the park enjoying the atmosphere and looking at the precincts... Of course I love this side of the parkz so just watching the scarers interacting with guests, the extra theming that had been put around and the overall atmosphere was something I was absolutely immersed in... Precincts: The Halloween precinct (despite being labelled as the fountain area) was really the grass area in front of Superman with generic scare actors hanging around the fountain... Day of the Dead precinct as many have mentioned had a Carnivale feel to it... This is something that had been mentioned during the welcome but that they had gone with a scarier feel... While this is true I don't feel they quite went far enough with it... Apparitions was sadly a bit of a let down... 2 people who looked homeless grumbling and lunging at people as they walk past... Not much more to say... Gothic Hall had some great music playing during the night but everytime I walked past there was no one there... May have just been bad timing on my part... At this point it was time for my Terror Tour... Didn't know what to expect here but it was a nice little novelty... Was easy to predict what was going to occur for the most part but the moment everything started to happen worked well... Quite a few people as we were walking out were asking is that all... Took this chance to head up the back to Wyrmwood... I was impressed with how they managed to pull off the feel of being outdoors while obviously inside... The scare actors really got into it and there were almost constant screams from the group of girls behind me... Considered FDTD but passed on it as I really have no knowledge of the source material... Took another quick wander through the park and then it was time for the Rise of the Dead... Great opportunity to get some snaps with some of the actors before a quick dance party and then wandering out for the night... From information of previous years we came prepared with an esky of drinks in the back of the car to wait out the mass exodus from the carpark... Finally left around 11:15pm TL:DR - Overview: Mazes 1 - Conjuring 2 2 - Friday 13th 3 - Wyrmwood N/A - Dusk til Dawn Precints: Rather underwhelming across the board... Terror Tour and Rooms: Tour was a great little novelty... Rooms were probably where I was most enjoying myself... Given when I was handed my info was told only C2 and F13 had Terror Rooms was a bit disappointing to read here that there was actually rooms for the other mazes as well... UTT: Great with the ability to head in and out all night for the drinks which were much needed as TPG said with dry mouth most likely to all the smoke... Meal was okay but this would partly being due to allergies I could only have roast potatoes, roast beef and ham. Selection for deserts was poor, again as TPG states too many sweets needed a bit more variety... Jumping the queues definitely made this worth it on its own despite only doing 3 mazes and no rides... Given one of the points they advertise when purchasing was "Behind the screams: Meet our maze designers, see how characters are brought to 'death' via our makeup team and meet some of our deadly cast for photo opportunities" this really did not happen (meet cast did but was rushed due to timing) and was actually the biggest thing I was looking forward to for the evening... Was it not the first night and knowing there were going to be teething issues I would have rated the night as a 6/10... However taking that into account and remembering I have not been in recent years so cannot compare it to anything so am judging this completely stand alone... I would give it an 8/10...

Having seen this event grow from nothing I think it's fair to say the first night is always a bit iffy and I'm sure any of the quibbles anyone has will be sorted by the next few nights for sure.

All the mazes have secret rooms. Some are just better than others (ie the ones that are in use at the moment). You're not missing much in the other two as they're mostly just squirt bottles again hence why they aren't using them as they didn't want to repeat themselves.

Having not been for 10 years I have nothing really to compare it to... For me there was really only two things I was disappointed about... More info when I get more than 10 minutes away from work... Being the first night there was going to be some teething issues but overall I really enjoyed the evening ????

Daaaaaaaaad!

Did the quick trip and this is what I have. 1. Roughly the line where the site office is and the temp fence finishes. 2. Nothing has happened in this area. (this includes no pegs sighted). 3. This is the hot zone of construction and all the footers are going in. 4. Pegs in this area but nothing else has happened. 5. Land has been screeded and some reo cages laying on their sides. Took some super doggy iphone photos from the car park. A. Metal formwork B. Footer poured with formwork still attached C. Cage with bolts attached waiting on the formwork D. Completed footer waiting for the poles to arrive on site. A1. Shows this footer is only 1 meter from the road. You can also see the tie-down rods which will attach the main structure of the coaster to the footer.

So corny, unprofessional and stupid. Can barely even watch that cringe fest. Really takes away from the whole eerie aesthetic that they should be going for. Clearly they are trying to impress the younger generation but common, who is coming up with this shit? How about less shows like that and more like this >

Please note, this is unedited footage, it's hand-held footage and no stabilising has been applied as it wouldn't work. There is a bit of shake to it sorry. Sadly the lens I used doesn't have OIS. This is straight from the camera and obviously looks best in 1080p.

I went to Fright Night last night and did 3 of the 4 mazes (I missed out on F13). Wyrmwood stood out as the best by far, so I would highly recommend it! I didn't see Wyrmwood last year though, so I don't know how it compares to last year.

Here's a question, if a 3rd of the train is paying $5 for VR, would a second train now pay for itself?

I wouldn't say the lighting was awful at all. For a fright night event, I thought it was good. My only issue with is was the photography aspect. Having too much of one colour, in this case purple/blue makes it hard to get decent photos, but on the flip side, it seems to work best for the ambience of the night.

Because members are very eager for new developments on this new rollercoaster, I've just quickly made a 'timetable' based on how construction occurred with SE. SE was constructed over 330 days (from date of Movie Magic Special Effects Show's closure) while this new rollercoaster is over a 550 day period approximately (assuming 26/12/2017 opening & taken from 01/07/2016) . Here is how SE was constructed: 20 December 2004 - 'Superman themed' rollercoaster announced 30 January 2005 to late March 2005 (approx.) - Movie Magic Special Effects Show Closure/Demolition Early April 2005 (approx.) to late July 2005 (45%) - Site preparation/footings placed Early August 2005 to early October 2005 (26%) - Track installation Early October 2005 to 26 December 2005 (32%) - Theming/Landscaping 26 December 2005 - Opening Note: Percentages are taken from 01/04/2005 to 26/12/2005 and overlap. This is my guess timetable for the new rollercoaster. This is assuming the rollercoaster opens on Boxing Day 2017: Early July 2016 to early March 2017 (45%) - Site preparation/footing placement Mid-November 2016 - Currently most likely time period for rollercoaster announcement Early March to late July 2017 (26%) - Track installation Late July 2017 to 26 December 2017 (32%) - Theming/landscaping 26 December 2017 - Opening Note: Percentages are taken from 01/07/2016 to 26/12/2017 and overlap. Note: Unlike in the SE timetable, ride/attraction closure/demolition isn't included in the 2017 rollercoaster timetable as no rides/attractions were closed to make way for this new rollercoaster. Every project is different so please remember, this is just an indicative guide and all time periods are approximate. So if this is a Boxing Day opening, this is a massive coaster and the footings placement will take a very long time (if this timetable eventually proves to be roughly accurate). Just did a quick guess calculation on the length of the new rollercoaster using the time periods for track installation in the timetables above plus the length of SE. The guess results in an approximately 1.9km long rollercoaster.

Im going to Movieworld tomorrow so ill try and get some photos for you all

No way the lighting scheme should have any overlap between Christmas, Carnivale and Fright Nights. All completely different looks and atmosphere that should be being created. Perhaps like some other things it was just an off night still needing some fine tuning. I always found with fright nights that less is more.

Couldn't agree more They really nailed that right. Seems weird that some of those photos have all the Christmas lights on in Main Street.

I took a few POV's and offride footage whilst at the Melbourne Show this year. So expect to see more over the next few weeks/months. Here's a 60fps POV of the classic Breakdance (owned by Frank Laurie, manufactured by Sobema). Enjoy!

I have some better ones I'll do later, but for now, enjoy this. It was a little windy and pushed the fog off to the side though which sucked a bit, but still.

Good review Max but have no clue why, when holding a front a line pass you would skip a hero maze due to a "lack of knowledge of the source material"... Worse case scenario you waste 5min of your life being confused...

This review made me much more happy about what is going on. I tend to enjoy Fright Nights for what it is, my only disappointment with this year so far (although) I haven't gone yet is the Day of the Dead precinct, I hated how well-lit main street was last year, and it seems to be even brighter this year, I loved main street back in 2013 and 2014 when it was dimly lit with strobes and fast/dubstep type music, really gave off an adrenaline fueled feeling. I have been following your Facebook page a lot this year and seeing how amazed you are with what MW is doing recently brings great pleasure to me because I appreciate it just as much. I'm gonna go to Fright Nights with this review on mind and I can guarantee I will enjoy every bit of it.

Wow, I'm a bit sad to see all the negativity so far! Personally I had an absolute blast last night, more so than I did last year when I attended with the wrong crowd and missed most of the goings on. I acknowledge that there were some teething issues, especially in a couple of the secret maze rooms where camera and props weren't working, but honestly I felt the rest of the night made up for it. At least it did for me, anyway ?? Absolutely loved the Conjuring 2 maze, so much that we went back and did it a second time. I loved the sets in there, and the fact it had progressing storyline, other than just random events happening. I thought it was a massive improvement over the Wolf Creek 2 maze that was in there last year, which tbh I didn't think much of. The Wyrmwood maze was awesome again this year as well, that was my fave out of the two I did last year. Still get seriously creeped out by the dude in the yellow contamination suit. Thank God there were no attacking bushes this year ?? I thought the Friday the 13th maze was a bit short, however I think they got the most scares out of me with that one (Jason Vorhees running past the queue with a machete got me every time, haha). The Dusk Till Dawn maze was probably my least favourite out of the four as it seemed a bit tamer than all the others, but I did love that they went with a vampire theme for one of them this year ? The Pendleside Occult Museum VIP Tour was creepy (as others here would know, I was on edge the entire time throughout, knowing something bad was gonna happen, but not sure what) ? Not gonna spoil it, but it had some great unexpected special effects - one big obvious one in particular which they clearly went to a bit of effort to add. Nice little touch having that as an addition to the tour ? It was my first time doing the Ultimate Terror Tour, and I thought it was worth every cent alone just to have fast track for nearly everything. This is one thing where I went wrong last year, as I attended as general admission on Halloween (the final night) and spent half the night queued up for mazes and didn't get to do any rides. My only complaint is that the fast track didn't include Arkham Asylum, my fave Coaster, as I really wanted to experience it at night. Wasn't worth the lengthy 1hr queue wait, though, especially when there was quality time to be had elsewhere with what the fast track did work on. Had one ride on SE, GL & SDSC. Went back to do SE a second time just after 8.30pm, but it had closed. The buffet food was awesome, mainly the hot food. Yummy roast, veges, pasta, salad etc. Found there were a little too many lolly offerings for my liking for the dessert table, as someone who doesn't really like lollies and prefers stuff like trifles, cakes, mousses etc, as per what they have on offer at Rick's. The choc fountain was great ? Loved being able to go back to the VIP Lounge whenever I wanted to chill, have a bite and a much needed cold drink - especially after the mazes, which always gave me an incredibly dry mouth for some reason (maybe the fog machines?) ? We got special collector 'I Survived the Ultimate Terror Tour' badges to keep, which were handed out with our lanyards. Looks great next to my MW 25th anniversary Star Tour one ?? All in all I had a fantastic evening, despite some of the little teething issues which I am sure will be ironed out on subsequent nights. I look forward to doing it all again this season, at least one more time, if not more! I'd attend every night that Fright Nights was on, if it were an option to me ?? Wasn't that the point of them building the two new sheds? So that they don't have to rely on using the sound stages for Fright Nights mazes? I was under the impression that they probably wouldn't utilise them again in future, now that they have made their own substitutes which are available 24/7.

Managed to do the VR today. Wow. That's pretty much all that needs to be said. Wow. You wouldn't even know you were on a coaster. Also had no issues with the headset coming loose.

True! If i lived up on the Gold Coast i wouldnt be asking as i would most likely drive past or catch a bus most days to check out the progross. But unfortunately im from Melbourne so i cant, which is why im asking. Sorry if im impatience guys, im just really excited!!!

Be patient Ryande - people will post pics as they take them. Us asking won't suddenly remind them to post them.

I finally got the chance to check out TI today, it's looks fantastic, the view from the new upwards sitting pit is awesome Oh it's not a update without a picture of the Cannonball Express passing by!

I think this was a pretty good confirmation it is a Mack coaster:

I don't usually feed trolls, but Leto portrays a very different joker than previous incarnations of the character. Ledgers' performance will be recalled for decades and rightly so, but Leto's performance, in limited screen time was admirable and much more to my liking than Nicholson's comic take on the role.

Also why is that not Mack track? It looks more like Premier or the newer Vekoma-style track to me. Just saying, if you want people to stop being 'rude' to you, this has basically eliminated all chances of that.

Guess that's just how my quirky mind works... ?

Hi guys and girls newbie here. I have been looking for information about this development recently and came across this article which is pretty detailed. Sanad Capital to partner with WhiteWater in developing Sunshine Coast waterpark - See more at: http://www.ausleisure.com.au/news/sanad-capital-to-partner-with-whitewater-in-developing-sunshine-coast-water/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Thursday%2029th%20September&utm_content=Thursday%2029th%20September%20CID_6100b765009eb3dc1d8aad949f818953&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Sanad%20Capital%20to%20partner%20with%20WhiteWater%20in%20developing%20Sunshine%20Coast%20waterpark#sthash.Uk2sLnzq.dpuf

Nope i was being legit!

on another note arkham could do with a repaint

Anyone got update pics?