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Website has now been updated. It is now opening "soon".

Less than 10 months till Boxing Day. Who's getting excited for SkyVoyager opening?

Hey mate, there are some concept plans happening but not sure when it might go ahead. We're the slide builder.

In the coming weeks.

Yeah that's the conundrum. It begs the question though- they are usually marketed as one ride but when it comes time to count slides in the park, they suddenly count as 4 or 6?? I am of the opinion that it should count as one attraction and one slide. True, waterslide installations are more prolific, but one or two slides at your local pool does not make a water park. The installations that are being invested into Funfields, Gumbaya World and Adventure Park go a little beyond these sort of one off slides, both in scope and cost. Also, they are mostly being added to existing slide structures to enhance their offering and to expand their footprint, to build a "true" water/theme park, far greater in scale to your local council pool offering. Yeah you are 100% right about how Gumbuya World is growing and needing to grow more. However, I was referring more to the Victorian parks as a collective being a more attractive proposition than one single entity. Gumbaya World in its present form is a little attraction lite and the new additions will certainly bring it closer to parity with the other 2 parks. This is the reason i never included Gumbuya World on my itinerary on our recent Victorian trip. However, once these additions are built ,( plus the newly added Rebel Yell) it certainly looks a much more attractive proposition and I will certainly be putting it on the to visit list once these are constructed. Both Funfields and Adventure Park are a little more mature in this aspect and have far more adult offerings to attract teens and above. You are absolutely right that none of these parks by themselves are anywhere a match for MovieWorld and its offerings, however, together they offer a far better proposition. Whilst even together, none can match the coaster offerings of Movieworld, the Victorian Parks offer enough thrills for the locals to enjoy at home and perhaps divert them from the GC to an overseas destination instead? Just a thought. Absolutely- great point. For mine its a great representation of where competition breeds activity and investment. We saw this in recent years when Dreamworld was on the ascent and added Whitewater World and other attractions and the various responses for the Village parks There are other examples- Wet N Wild Sydney opened and Jamberoo responded with installing The Funnel Web and the Perfect Storm. We already know that both Adventure Park and FunFields have plans for new slide installations and you can bet your bottom dollar that they will already be planning new attractions for after this. The Victorian parks have stepped up their investment because firstly of this competition and secondly, because of strong attendance. Gumbuya World had a huge summer attendance-wise and is the impetus for this new investment announcement. Both Funfields and Adventure Park have also seen very impressive attendance figures for this summer. This indicates strong, local support , which means that more and more Victorian's may not have visited the GC theme parks. The newfound strength of these parks as legitimate options must have some sort of effect on local numbers from Victoria ( not international tourists) heading north.

Thanks Jobe. Can honestly say I don't recall hearing anything about the ride, except construction updates on parkz, until the DA issues were raised, but as i'm 1000kms away, i'm happy to have your local knowledge to set the record straight. 😁 cheers.

Actually LPS initiated a teaser campaign on social media similar to the way Volare is now being marketed. I reckon both campaigns are following a similar course, and of course, with Volare being the first ride of the planned $20 million investment, I would not be surprised if we saw a TVC for it in the near future. Given that Hair Raiser was heavily promoted through all media streams as shown, this goes against the notion that they were quietly avoiding attention until the ride was completed. The media and teaser campaign started strongly and the TVC's appeared AFTER the ride was completed. The issues with the ride not being DA permitted did not happen until well after the ride had opened, well into the media campaign for it. LPS simply saw their interpretation of the planning document and ran with it, thinking that they were well within their rights.

More social media images.....

Let’s have a competition to see who can guess what date the Sky Voyager will be open to the public. Simply put your guess down below before March 4th and whoever is closest wins. My guess is. April 1st.

February 29th?

I've already said my guess (although I'm cheating really because I have been told the opening date by a Dreamworld employee. Nevertheless, I still believe it will open on Boxing Day (please bear in mind I don't know what year though)!

I like how they're all hyped about this ride.. They didn't do this much when the Hair Raiser was coming... But that TV ad was amazing.

In case anyone is wondering, as we do get a few people pretending to be players in the industry blow through from time to time, bigmuz does appear to be legit. Welcome!

On the back of zero evidence, I am 90% convinced this is the reason. Start with a bangin' tune and build a show around it!

Wow the poor head of marketing (and marketing team) must be having the biggest headache right now. It's opening, it's not opening. "We need footage for this Gold Coast tourism campaign" "Does that mean it's opening?" "Don't be ridiculous!" "But won't that confuse the wider audience who don't follow theme park updates as to the actual status of the ride?" "I find I sleep better at night if I don't think about it.. LIKE C'MON! But leaving TRR in the site map is just kinda poor form. Got to wonder if the marketing team were told to keep it there for whatever reason. If not, it's just shows the marketing team don't update their site frequently enough or they have no one spot checking it for things like this.

Sky Voyager is the new Orphan Rocker of the 21st century. 😎 ( @pushbuttonSky Voyager = 2 words, not one).

But the continual investment in the parks may get the GC parks to spend a little more to not lose those tourist dollars. WnWGC hasn't had a big investment in a long time, and the continually discussed SW lack of attractions come to mind and it appears Gumbuya is slowly replicating the best aspects of those two parks (although land animals, not sea).

Nope! they got it wrong! They're supposed to say "in the coming weeks" I love it as a teaser campaign though...

Sorry for the thread bump, the price was right We built this as our first major theme park installation and it has been extremely successful. Turned a really marginal business into something that works well and has a great future

Which is pretty ironic considering it's a flying attraction..

Great news, and will help keep Funfields and Adventure Park on their toes. What a great time for Victoria's 3 regional theme parks! Also found this image of the new slides from this article https://www.ausleisure.com.au/news/gumbuya-world-expands-to-include-new-gigantic-slides-and-family-wave-pool/:

The $3.50 flowers I buy the wifey from woolies seem to be ok without the sun. DW are still trying to work out how to get the ladder out.

Gumbaya World has updated their Facebook page and have revealed their new expansion plans. In summary, the park will add Victoria's most impressive Wave Pool 6 brand new slides including: 2 new "monster Twister slides Four lane racer slides. Gumbaya World has certainly arrived with this announcement. This is fantastic and exactly what the park needs. How good is the theme park industry in Victoria going with 3 excellent medium sized parks to choose from? Why cannot NSW replicate this sort of success and investment in this state?? Its mind boggling.......

Former VP of Park Operations for Hong Kong Disneyland, and current leader of Apex Parks and Entertainment Services, Noble Coker was good enough to give me an hour and half of his busy schedule to discuss all things customer experience on Friday. Noble spent 16 years with Disney, learning from Senior Managers who could still recall Walt Disney walking around the Parks. Noble had some fantastic insights to share that I shall be posting soon on my YouTube channel and from which some nuggets of Disney magic will be incorporated into my new book. Look out for Noble's response to my question, "tell us about your favourite Disney memory" I will post here next week. It was really quite a moving response. Thanks Noble, you are a true industry star and friend.

I think as soon as you sit down at TG people feel like the clock is ticking and people dont want to chill and buy food. An offer like '3rd hour free' would help to that end. I think a lot of people would take it up and if know upfront you'll be there for 3 hours you'd be more happy to order food.

News Flash! I have just been informed by the Park that they will double the size of the Water Park this winter ready for next Summer re-opening of the Water Park. Trading has been very strong this summer. GW is a work in progress, the guys know it but they are making great strides. At the rate they are going they will eclipse the others in time.

If you don't think Dreamworld is thriving, I'd suggest you can't have been lately. It's pumping. Much better atmosphere than any other theme park in Australia, that's for sure!