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Coming soon 'The Void' - looks like an empty shed, smells like an empty shed. Experience it this Summer at Dreamworld

For god’s sake Dreamworld, make it a dark ride! Make it a dark ride! They were talking recently about making a dark ride (but in the Gold Rush area)?. When I walked through it the other week I was horrified that the Brock cars could be considered a theme park attraction, but I do remember thinking that building would make a perfect dark ride. Make it a dark ride!

Here are some of the latest images (Most overall theme park images, but there are some focus points or updates from the above post). Gumbuya World (March 28) Sea World (May 10) Movie World (May 10) Topgolf (May 10)

For example. Last years TVC. The shots right up until you see Michael and the girl in the closet all had extras. This are the kind of shots that they will film those nights. All other shots with actual actors and characters (e.g Valak, Michael Myers) are all done at a different time with just those select cast members. The Conjuring TVC wasn't filmed in the maze at all. They set up a different set in the same shed as From Dusk Till Dawn which stayed there for the remainder of the event. The car stayed that year. That's when they had the Zombieland precinct. She car shot flames every now and then as if the car had caught fire or was blowing up.

That’s basically what I just said. All 4 (or 5 mazes) are clearly not ready to roll. they may have 1 complete in the shed, or a couple partially complete that they can get some basic shots in. They’ll set up some of the precincts and film those (like putting the car on the fountain like they did a year or two back, and then remove it again)

MW have now installed this print throughout Main Street, which I think is linked to this

TPSN just posted this. Looks like it won’t just be an events space forever

You know Jim too @AlexB

Formerly known as loyal long-term customers providing regular income when we needed it.

There's been a lot of backlash towards dreamworld over this move. I can understand people feel like they've been done a disservice, but they need to understand that not everything lasts forever, and at the end of the day, the park is a business, in it to make money. By the sounds of things, the membership price hadn't increased for a while, so the 2014-15 prices were a little outdated. I had a bit of a think on this the other day, and the whiners and whingers just don't make sense to me... Most of those complaining are saying they can't afford to pay for the passes in one hit - and several of them have said that they would have preferred a small increase in the price over canning them entirely... By my calculations: They’ve offered 50% off a season pass, so it’s around $69 adult and $59 child So $256 for a family of four. Afterpay makes it $64 a fortnight, which doesn’t need to be started until mid September when the current memberships will run out. A family of four would currently pay $48 a month or thereabouts. Afterpay would see you pay it off by mid November at $64 per fortnight. (Sept15-Nov15 Approx) Between August 1 and mid November, that same family would have paid $192 on memberships... So they’ve only gotta come up with an extra $64... which is one extra fortnight (which from now until mid November is probably something they could stretch, especially since they know about it an extra fortnight in advance) Given many are saying they’d have been ok with a slight increase - it’s only another $8 per fortnight from now to mid November - which works out to be only an extra $2 per person - which isn't much different to the 'small increase' What this relies on is for those families to have the self control and budgetary restraint to bank that money away now, to be used later. From mid-november until the expiry of the pass in June, there's 16 fortnights. If those families were able to put away their $56 (48+8) per month from December to June, they'd have $392 saved for next year's renewal. Ok - so that isn't quite enough to buy the next annual pass, so ok, they miss out on two months in 2019... BUT - but at $56 a month, they could have it by the end of August (if they don't just use their tax refunds) or they could use afterpay, to get their passes on July 1 - and by the end of August, they'd have it all paid off without missing any time in the park.... Assuming the park is still operating then - saving their $56 per month from September gives them $560 in 2020, enough for the family of four at current prices, but with an extra $60 wiggle room in case of price increases... at which point they end up with a surplus in the following years if they keep going down the same path as they will be able to save from July 1 for next year's passes - $672 in the following year means they can splurge! Bottom line - those self entitled brats who think the park owes them something because they've kept their membership for a few years, and now want to cry and say they can't afford to go to the park because they can't afford to pay the huge lump sum ticket prices - either suck it up and deal with it that not everything can be served to you on a silver platter - or sit down with a calculator (take off your shoes and socks if you need to) and do the math to realise that the park has given you a fucking good deal that is almost on par with what you had, albeit not spread out across the year, its barely costing you any extra. And if they don't have the control to bank that money away, or if they find themselves having to spend it on bills and urgent repairs (or concert tickets, flights, hotel rooms and cocktails), then they only have themselves to blame when their pass expires and they can't visit their favourite park anymore. It isn't the parks fault... it's theirs.

So I did some looking online and it seems that FF has registered for a building permit to build a Wave Pool and associated building. Its great to see the park investing in another attraction of 2 million a year after building 2 new rides.

Just got my One Pass and took advantage of the current bonuses included. A couple of pointers/thoughts/ideas Great to see that the passes are actually a plastic card once again, and it’s great you can now upload your own photo. But they don’t include the expiry date. The passes now go for 12 months from activation date, so really it would be smart to include the expiry date on it. Currently they are offering a bonus free Hunger Buster meal, $50 animal voucher and a couple other things. I must say that if you were to purchase a Hunger Buster, it is actually good value for the options and cost. But.... service today was awful. We’ve mentioned it countless times already, and it isn’t every staff member because there are some great ones, but today... yeah nah not good VRTP Got a burger from Gotham (Which I haven’t done for a few years) and the size and taste of the meal has definitly dropped big time. It wasn’t bad, but from what it used to be, ain’t that good. But the lady who served me didn’t even have the basic service skills. No greeting, just stood and staired at me waiting for me to speak. Ordered, then showed her my voucher and then said “you are actually supposed to show this to me before you order because now I have to cancel it and redo it” Sorry, I didn’t know this, but that kind of service in a theme park isn’t needed. Then went to the Deli, got a muffin, and the cooked parts were nice, but the parts not cooked not so much. And quite a lot of it wasn’t. Finally, the voucher says Hunger Buster Deal with Sipper and Refills. I assumed this meant I got it free, but I wasn’t wrong. Not complaining here because on the website it does explain it, but I feel the voucher you get should state discounted. With the voucher you get it for $8 instead of $12, and free refills for the day. In summary, I feel communication for certain aspects of deals and the park need to be improved, and quite a few of the staff I saw and dealt with today (some I haven’t explained above) need to gain basic customer service skills. I work in retail, I get the environment, circumstances and challenges, but am always capable of providing the basics. Come on VRTP step it up a little.

The prices being offered to members ($69 adults $59 kids) is the cheapest promo rate they’ve offered in the last 12 months. I get it might be annoying, and I’d probably be a bit pissed if VTP follows suit one day, but we keep harping on about how we are not happy with how the park is run, well then we can complain when they clearly try to implement different strategies to change things. Cant complain about the changes when you were complaining about the status quo. Well you can, but that just makes you a whinging tool....

They need to take some ideas from the VRTP model. While they do have some things that are bang for your buck, id say VR have it down pat. -Their VIP tour isn't going to pull anyone in when it's $1200, minimum 2 people, and rather ambiguous. -They need to make WWW look like somewhere you want to go instead of just being the public pool for annual pass holders. Install Slideboarding, and a Masterblaster, theme the fuck out of it, and then advertise the thing like it's 1999. -Sort your shit out with Gold Rush. Will it still be Gold Rush? Will it not? get your shit together and just lay everything on the table Jamberoo style and let everyone know. -Stop removing things that don't matter, while leaving the things that do. IE, the train tunnel vs Blue Lagoon. -Find a way to get your own magic band like system, then litter the park with things to do. Disney have a POTC quest in one park, and Phineas and Ferb in another. -Work out what land you have available, where on that you can build, and then muster the cash and install something to (DC) rival DC Rivals. -Find something really cool for your "im too cool for that" crowd to do. Even if it is a VR escape room set inside the park or something. Dome screens are your friend.

*warning* Here comes an “out there” suggestion.... VTP clearly want as many people in the TG precinct of an evening as possible.. what about making DCR open from 5:30-9 on fri/sat nights? A bridge direct links TG to MW basically via what could be an entry to DCR. So main park entry is not open. They make it a Pay-per-ride of say $10 ($15 backwards) and obviously pass holders get free access. Could be packaged up to create a ‘combo’ with TG as well. Cost to the park would be 3 operators, a maintenance/tech and security”. They’d probably need to sell say 50-60 pay per rides as a break even, which they’d do in spades currently as TG has been having 2+ hour waits for a bay of an evening. “Ride DCR while you wait for you tee off” *told you it was out there, but I think it Could work...*

Here is a wide range of updates for all those who keep asking (Just focusing on new elements of parks) AW - Goliath (Augst 13) Funfields (October 15) Gumbuya World (October 10) DW - Havent focused on anything specifically because no visible changes (September 16) MW - DC Rivals (August 28) Top Golf (August 28) SW - Castaway Reef (August 28)

Looks like the collection is to be auctioned off individually. 😥