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Sky Voyager Store’s inside lighting.

Unless I’m mistaken, I believe several of MW’s hand driers are some of the last opening day attractions left.

We already have great Intamin & Mack coasters on the Gold Coast. I want DW to stand out from the crowed with an real alternative like a RMC Ibox track or a B&M wing coaster. Something you can put at the front of the park and be DW's trophy attraction. The ride needs to say "Take that Skeeta, DW is here to stay" anything else IS a waste of time. @Glubbo

Sky Voyager Ride Express line now up - also PSA engineering are working on it. Locker Hire got a repaint and the tiles in the toilets were cleaned. Cosentino stand in the Dreamworld Emporium. Gates installed at the entrance of the park. The train is being worked on to the left of Buzzsaw. Crowds were good at Dreamworld today with even the rides being occupied. Sometimes people aren’t riding but are just there for Cosentino, but that wasn’t the case. The ride lines were good. Everything was running and I think they’ve really mastered peak and off peak periods. When the park is dead, a lot of things around Dreamworld are turned off. Today with good crowds, most rides were running, all the fountains were working and I couldn’t identify any cost cutting measurements. Only complaint is Buzzsaw is still unreliable and was shut for the day (while I was at the park). Other than that minor inconvenience and of course the train which comes out of maintenance next month, the park is running well.

i'd be happy with an off-the-shelf product, provided it is of the type we don't already have here (such as the aforementioned wing coaster). The ride type would speak for itself, minimising customisation costs, and still delivering on wow factor. Vekoma are great manufacturers - even Disney uses them extensively - but they use them because they can customise things EXACTLY how they want - and that comes at a cost. Plus, their ancestors are well known on the east coast (both Arrow and Vekoma coasters have long called Australia home) As stated - Intamin and Mack are likewise long term residents on the coast - and its time for something different. Personally, I think an amazing new woody would impress the market, and give one hell of a WOW on the highway (especially if it were to overtake most of the old goldrush, blue lagoon and BB ampitheatre area) - but they better get in quick before someone else steals the idea...

@AlexB first photo on the left.... is that a polo shirt I see?

Tony is a great man. A hard taskmaster but he taught me a lot. He has told amazing stories over the years I was privileged to work with him. He was operating the carousel in Darling Harbour for a while (before this article was originally published) but it is great to know he returned to LPS.

Ok shop looks like a shop. But how was the ride was it fun?

Looks great - and very much ready to open! Thanks for the pics😊

aaand they've already driven off a bridge

Forgot to mention there is seating outside of sv and near the front fountains now.

in your opinion. Personally, If given the choice between a t-shirt and a polo shirt I will choose the polo. It says, this isn't formal, but you have enough respect for the occasion to wear a collar. But... that is my opinion.

Yeah I dont think that would be the major cause of concern , to be honest. The steel Big Dipper only ever had noise complaints leveled against it , not obstruction issues. A new coaster would have to be extremely high to attract that sort of complaint and I think the management of LPS are smart enough to not do that. The previous Big Dipper was 131 feet high and I could be wrong, but I dont think we will see another coaster be installed at this height or exceed it. Also LPS now has a working height limit envelope to work to - if attractions do not exceed this height limit then they do not attract a complying DA process to go through. Theoretically , they still could build a ride with the height of the previous Big Dipper but i think that the will of LPS to do so is not overly strong.

I don't mind attraction specific shirts for some of the big rides in a park, but what i do want to see more of is POLO SHIRTS. Nice, good quality. by all means go dye sublimation and have a really nice full colour thing like dreamworld, but don't use the same montage of ride photos that means the shirt is dated simply by referencing which rides are still running. My preference (and things I wear almost weekly) is a nice wick-away (not heavy cotton or synthetic) polo, in a single, or two\three-toned colour scheme, with the park logo on, or in the position of, the breast pocket. MW and SW have these (although some are identical shirts designs in the same colours, just with a different logo, which is a bit of a cheap out.) Polos in the 90's and 00's were widely available at parks all over - but in the 2010s, the collar seems to have disappeared to be replaced by simple crew neck t-shirts, which is disappointing.

Average at best compared to other parks. The park with the mouse knows how to do merchandise properly. Notable mentions to Cedar Fair parks for their range of park/ride specific merchandise and even going as far to have t-shirts celebrating former attractions.