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Dreamworld 1 Day Adult Pass - $79 2 Day Adult Pass - $99 Annual Pass (With blackouts) - $179 Annual Pass (365 Days) - $219 Village 1 Day Adult Pass - $79 (Less a bit for Wet 'n' Wild) 2 Day Adult Pass - $99 (Less a bit for Wet 'n' Wild) 4 Day Passport (1x day to each park plus a day of Paradise Country & AOS) - $199 4 Park Annual Pass (With blackouts & slight discount or perk for AOS) - $199 4 Park Annual Pass (365 Days + moderate AOS discount) - $269 4 Park Annual Pass (365 Days, plus cool shit, food, photos, solid AOS discounts, etc. etc.) - $329 Here's my take on it: This is relative to global market prices for the size of the parks they are, adding into a consideration that our HR costs are some of the highest in the world. Just like anything I buy these days, i'm generally adding 20% as a base on top of the global cost as an Australia tax. The day passes are not cheap, but they're also not expensive. For casual once a year guests or interstate travellers (who make up the bulk of visitors) they're right in the sweet spot of affordability while pushing ahead with a sense of newfound "premium" ideology, which is where the parks need to be going anyway to survive in the future. Annual passes are too damn cheap. I remember my first "Max Action Pass" at Dreamworld was $143.50. That was 2003. It's 2017, and most annual park passes are cheaper then that. If that's not an indicator of the state of pricing and how woefully out of touch the price is relative to the product, then I don't know what is. Annual passes are based off roughly 2.5 visits, at which point you break even. Prior to the price crash, the break even point used to be around 3-4 visits, so it's a nice middle ground. AOS AOS AOS - @Richard's article should've highlighted just how much of an underrated gem Australian Outback Spectacular is, and marketing should be finding every opportunity they can to cross-sell tickets. I'm not saying give them away, i'm saying do exactly what Dreamworld do with F&B for season pass holders - here's 10%, or $20 off this experience, or get this photo (that costs VRTP nothing) for half price. Part of getting this pricing to work is all about not making people feeling screwed elsewhere. For VRTP, that means no more charging $30 for a season pass replacement (especially when Dreamworld charges $5), likewise for tomato sauce (charging for tomato sauce is downright un-Australian anyway). Initiatives like the new Dirty Harry Bar is where it's at, parks need to be finding ways to jazz up F&B offerings with as little money spent as possible all the while justifying premium pricing. I think Movie World & Dreamworld are certainly clueing in to this, given their J&B and Jelly Belly stores, just give me more cool shit to eat and i'm there, baby. (PS: this is why people loved Carnivale, btw). Bloody grog, mate - I swear Dreamworld, if you ever take away my premium lagers & ales, i'm going to be one cranky guest. Grog should be everywhere and served appropriately. I don't care if you have to hire more cleaners to handle with the ensuing spillages, you'll be making so much money from alcohol sales it'll be a blip in the radar by comparison. TLDR, go to the Gold Coast every once in a while, take in some of the amazing bars and restaurants, and keep creating premium experiences for guests to splurge on. There's something about having a beer and watching Pat the tigers that's pretty damn awesome. Blackout periods will spark locals to choose the days they go more wisely, which means the throughput of the park will be a lot more consistent, which then means thinks like operations can be more consistent, which in turn means that bigger and higher capacity rides can be justifiable purchases down the line (no more Buzzsaws.) DO NOT DISCOUNT THE DAMN PRICES - If you want to market the tickets for a promotional period, only ever value add in-park products that cost little to nothing, and value add totally different things throughout the year. Why? Because Timmy will buy his VRTP pass with Fast Foto in January, and then Sally will by her VRTP pass with unlimited food in July. They'll go hang out, and both of them will see the other in-park upsells, and then two things will happen: 1) Their friends will organically market the products to each other during the course of the day and 2) if the products appeal to them, they'll be more inclined to watch out for deals, meaning they'll be a more proactive participant in your overall marketing & advertising strategy in the future. #nothingbeatsthefeeling

Oh God this subject makes my brain hurt. . Two cents here. Let's not focus so much on the Gate price being the REAL issue here. I think it's important to keep things relative and when it comes to that, in-Park F&B is off the charts, both in Quality and most importantly, Value for money.. No matter where you go in the Consumer world today, the Customer wants value for their investment. A sandwich at the Bakery or a Burger and Chips for nearly 20 bucks per person is bullshit expensive - and given that doesn't even include a drink, sorry it's simply out of touch from reality. Especially when reality is a short drive across the road. I have been a loyal Passholder for years and visit the Parks often - I'm also happily prepared to spend between 30-50 dollars on any given visit. Typically I am down a measely $2 coin for a spin on Superman.. Why? Because I (like most regular visitor's) do not see value in the Products available! Solution? Listen to your Audience!!! People will spend money on the things they see VALUE in.

From the little that we've seen so far I think we'll be getting a rather different ride experience to Flash - possibly towards the intenser end of the spectrum of Mack rides. Take the turnarounds for instance: Photo taken from rcdb Photo: @ThemeTendo Aside from the obvious difference in direction, Flash's turnaround has a very smooth, gradual twist out of the turn. In contrast, the track placed so far at Movieworld performs a quick airtime pop into a very sudden twist. Flash's turnaround also leads into a floaty zero-g roll whereas the supports indicate this turnaround will lead into some high-pace twists and turns at its base. I think at this stage comparisons to Flash can only give a very basic idea of what to expect - they may be similar lengths and height but they're looking like substantially different coasters in execution. Suffice to say, the more I see of this coaster the more excited I get

Sexy ASF 😍😍😍😍 - from TPSN Also, so far this coaster resembles no similarities to the Flash Coaster in China I feel. The picture I posted above for example, that element does not exist on Flash and neither does that Stegnel dive? Happy to be proven wrong.

Past April is traditionally when winter hours start, and attendance on a good day might be a couple hundred. As much as I don't like to see cutting happening I can't really blame them for cutting an hour off the start of the day, particularly since (unlike WnW) WWW isn't a stand alone park anymore but a massive land at Dreamworld, so it's not like guests are getting a particularly raw deal.

I think our version is going to be much more exciting!

It's a pretty sad thought that we have become so price affected that we have lost respect for what we Value. I think it's more about how businesses respond to a change of demand in Society. Consider this scenario; A Customer chooses to go shopping for some new Clothes at a local Westfield. Before they even walk in the door, they first have to get themselves ready, drive to the Centre, find a Parking space and spend a sizeable amount of time searching stores before finding what they want. By the time the Customer has made their purchase they have committed a good amount of effort in obtaining the Product. The question is how much Value did the Customer receive in return for the Effort put in? Given they could have stayed at home and bought it all on line, probably for less, the entire Shopping experience would have to be of greater Value than the alternative, to be viable. In the case of our Parks, additional Purchases can represent Value and not just by price either!!! Quality, Quantity, Variety, Uniqueness and of course Service among other factors. The amount of focus put on each of these should vary depending on the target demographic except for Service which should always be consistent and ideally exceptional.

Well if you'd like to grab some lunch in the middle of a construction site, go for it. Because this definitely looks open doesn't it:

^Problem with those prices is only the ultra fans will buy a year ticket. No one is going to think 'oh you only have to go 16 times to get your money's worth!' and having a ticket encourages visits more than a cheap gate price. Adult tickets $70 one day $120 14 days 3 parks $130 12 months 3 parks with block out dates $160 12 months no blackout dates plus 10% off f&b Lockers cost around $10, which is $2.50 each for a group of 4, get over it, except ride lockers which are free because don't be a douche Village.

Loving the new turfed area at DW Perfect for picnics

It's 'just' a peppers ghost effect. Definitely one of the best executed examples of peppers ghost I've seen!

It's a custom layout, there are going to be some unique elements instead of just copying/pasting bits from flash.

Yeah, something about a multi million dollar company, filled with dozens of talented marketing, advertising, PR & digital folks handing over an announcement to an Instagram account less than a month old on a whim.... See, when you use logic, you get a logical conclusion.

You thought someone who makes posts like that and piggybacks off a similar name to two other sites/pages was really going to be a credible source of information?

HAHA! That's hilarious. Look at his private account and you will see that he is clearly not a manager, maybe this source isn't as reliable as I was hoping

The photos coming through of Pandora at Animal Kingdom look amazing as well

Yeah, that Pirates looks absolutely breathtaking. Still can't work out how they do the effect at 2:36 of the video you posted, if anyone knows please enlighten me .

The element currently being built will be very similar to Flash's turnaround (pretty much identical - just probably in reverse). It also does contain a stengnel dive.

They reduce the hours to 11-4 since its winter and that's off season for our parks, instead of closing every park they have the water parks opened for not as long.

Rides will also remain open until 8:30pm

@pushbutton It isn't quite to the same standard as SWs, but it still exists. And it does feature some of the key elements of what made SWs one great, and great to see that despite there not being any fire, they didn't put in stupid and pointless LED strip lighting instead

Best part about this park is they have the Bermuda Triangle - Alien Encounter

I think here's what needs to be fixed for our parks to be charging premium prices. Movie World has quality, but not the quantity needed to be charging premium prices. Add a few new rides and they can start charging higher prices (and they're well on-track for that). Dreamworld has quantity, but not quality in parts. They need to add new rides that will give them that quality. Something that'll rival MW's hypercoaster. Do that and they can start safely charging much higher prices for tickets since (with WWW included) they have a lot more than its competitors - just not the same quality at the moment. Sea World has quality for what they do have, but close to no quantity in terms of rides. Needs urgent fixing. WnW is pretty good for a water park, but you can only charge so much for a water park.

"Winter"? Doesn't really happen here in the Gold Coast. It's tourist season all year!

It has been open on Fright Nights and during busy periods in January. Sounds like you should get a season pass so you can go more often.

Is there anything you don't? --------------- To play along (assuming no other ticketing options available: SINGLE ENTRY PRICES: Sea World: Adult $75, Conc $60, Child $30 Movie World: Adult $75, Conc $60, Child $30 Wet & Wild: Adult $75, Conc $60, Child $30 Paradise Country: Adult $60, Conc $45, Child $20 Dreamworld: Adult $80, Conc $65, Child $35 Whitewater World: Part of Dreamworld now 7 DAY PASSES All Village Parks: Adult $150, Conc $130, Child $100 DW, WWW & Skypoint: Adult $130, Conc $110, Child $90 ANNUAL PASSES All Village Parks: Adult $280, Conc $250, Child $220* DW, WWW & Skypoint: Adult $280, Conc $250, Child $220* With in-park discounts.

Alright folks, here's your photo update from around 4:45pm today. As per the (NL2) model, the turn under the Stengel Dive has received a few supports. I believe they were doing the turn-around supports today, as most of them are unfinished. and finally a panorama of the turnaround area The next piece to go up is Piece #66

Here is what my updated simulation looks like. The first two screenshots show the recent status of construction. The last three screenshots show how the track will match the supports already in place.

Thanks for the pics I feel like we might be getting the flash turn around, but in the opposite direction? Eg. Going up then diving down banking to the left rather than going up.. Here's a terribly drawn turn around I did

They've had a busy afternoon, and really looking forward to this airtime hill turn (whatever it is)

You can also see if as you are coming along the M1 from about oxenford exit. And once the lift hill is constructed, you'll see it from even further away

Just for those who don't live locally can get even more of an idea how huge this thing is IRL, this is the new view of MW from the other side of the M1 lol... Oh, I could also see that they were lifting another track part up with the crane as we were driving into on the M1. So should be even more track progress to share for whomever gets the next lot of photos ☺️

Took some pics of the Wipeout today. Hard to tell if much has changed since the last lot were shared of it, despite being nearly 3 weeks later 😕 ...although I did spot maintenance up there having a look at it on April 11th:

An IQ test before getting on the ride.