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Introducing an all-new experience on Dreamworld's #1 attraction, Sky Voyager! For a limited time, you can take flight and see America's greatest sights aboard Sky Voyager Experience USA, with the new film available daily from 10:00AM – 3:30PM upon the park's 16 September re-opening. Aboard Sky Voyager Experience USA, you will experience iconic locations such as the islands of Hawaii, the city scape of New York and Niagara Falls, just to name a few. You can still journey around Australia from 3:30PM - 5:00PM daily with free passage across state borders for some of the country’s most incredible sights. I think this is a great addition and shows how easily they can change the attraction when they want. And it’s good to see they are still offering the Australia version, so really you get two attractions in one. Hopefully they advertise this in park as it will give people a reason to re-ride it

New colour scheme really looks right at home with the WhiteWater entrance building in the foreground. Love it.

Job Done.

Some extra height today

Great to see, looks cool. An idea below.

Happy to see this as a point of difference for regular visitors. I am assuming this is just a direct port of an offering at different site, but that’s no issue and keeps the costing down no doubt. Keeping the original for certain times each day is also a good move I believe so first time visitors get that experience

I’ve never been on a wooden coaster, so I’m excited to see what the fuss is all about

Yes, how rude of the Premier to look after the health and wellbeing of the state, and ultimately Australia. Very thoughtless of him. /s

Not to derail the conversation too much, however... ...If it's owned by News Corporation it's propaganda and not news.

That's a big woody. It ain't even schoolies yet!.

I think you need to go back to economics class kiddo. In theme parks, The local product isn't produced overseas for cheaper than we can produce ourselves. (there are other products overseas, that can be obtained for similar costs as I mentioned above, but its not the SAME product produced in both locations) The locally produced product relied on government industry subsidy in order to keep making the product with a more expensive labour base in order to prop employment. You can't offshore a local theme park, so it isn't going to happen the same way. I understand what you're trying to say, but your comparison to the automotive industry just doesn't work. The horse is dead.

Plenty of action happening at Dreamworld and WWW today. You can really see they are wanting to get the park looking it’s best for its opening next week. New signage at the entrance Garden beds are getting new mulch and there were Gardner’s at the entrance gates Slides at WWW are getting tested too

You're welcome. 😂

Bermuda Triangle Looney Tunes River Ride Batman The Ride Gremlins Ride

Think you've been watching too much Sunrise/Sky News

Health and safety means lots of things just cant happen anymore. Its also jacked up the price of alternatives, as a lot of things were probably done that way because this was all they had to spend, so you had to make it work by producing it all yourself. Just about everything these days seems to be about minimising risk, so i imagine that kills invention/adaptability. Nobody wants to be responsible for a product, they want to be able to point to a supplier or manufacturer in the event something goes wrong. That and the people signing the cheques seem to be even further out of touch with reality. We frequently quote for the spec given on the job, then get knocked down on price 3 or 4 times before its approved by the owners. Each time something is being sacrificed. Its usually material quality and finishing that suffers first. Seems the majority of people only care about something passing a casual glance test, not caring about longevity. Its like things are being built to the day, nobody cares after its built and what itll be like in 5 years time even when you warn them about it being a false economy. We've pulled out of a few tenders recently because the budget has been slashed so many times the quality of the work cant be delivered. The amount of return work is too risky to make the job worth while. Youll be back on site trying to keep the client happy even though you warned them about cutting costs. I can imagine something similar happens in theme parks. Only difference is it probably doesnt get done/approved at all. Why do a good job once when you can cheap out and spend 4 times the amount repairing and patching it up before cutting your losses and being forced to do it properly (or not at all) in the end.

Very clever move, we've ridden Sky Voyager 100s of times so to see a new perspective will be great. My kids will love it.

Yep, the guy who spreads the mulch called in sick this week.

Someone sent me these today

It's design by committee and career-men rather than passionate individuals. Most businesses do great early on when the guy with the money, wisdom and passion is running the show with a supporting cast - it's when the suits move in afterward that nothing much good happens.

I think once upon a time that all of our parks were filled with real, genuine Australian can-do spirit and put passion and pride into doing big ideas on shoe-string budgets (and showing up the big players in the process.) There's that story of Lassiter's Mine costing 3 million and Disney Imagineering folks saying it would've costed 20 million. There's another similar story about Gum Tree Gully at Dreamworld. And then I think about rides like Bermuda Triangle and how cool the Pepper's Ghost effect was even as an adult and how so much of that ride would still hold up today. Same goes for Police Academy. Genuinely funny, really good stunts, brass-ring winning show. Same goes for Steam Trains. Super unique and a part of Australian history. Same goes for the Batman Ride - beautiful themed set pieces, awesome embark/disembark procedure into the simulator pods, totally mind-blowing stuff for kids. Really unique ideas executed well that are over-achievers in their own right. What happened? I think OH&S plays a part in some ways for sure, but as @joz eloquently painted the picture above, somehow all of our parks got into this epic death of creativity through a thousand cuts and two decades on it shows. Every park has big, obvious SBNO crap somewhere. Facades that have no place in the "themed land" they exist in. Unkempt gardens. Lacklustre theming. Just yikes all round. Take me back to an era where creatives created, not execs.

SideWinder’s appearance has been updated on Dreamworld’s park map. The map shows that the entire track will be painted in that aqua blue colour. Do you think this will be the final outcome?

There's a classic rule of mine which I reckon applies here - "if you replace something, what replaces it should be better." For example - i've got some great nostalgic memories of the Gremlin's Ride, but Scooby kicks ass, weird projection screens withstanding (new lighting in the high zone more than makes up for it, IMO). I think it's predominantly why we're a generation who clings to nostalgia so much - so much of the stuff we had in our childhoods (Bermuda Triangle for example) was just better in every way than what's there today (Storm, lol.) So with that in mind, here's what stands out, based on that rule above. Dreamworld - Wipeout - saved the park, one of the best theming executions for a flat ride i've ever seen, period. The park is worse without it. - Steam Trains & Paddle-wheeler - landmark institutions that form the foundation of the brand. Movie World - Looney Tunes River Ride - what replaced it is 1/10th the attraction it was and the park is poorer without it (or a good kid's zone, for that matter) - Police Academy - everyone, and I mean everyone, will remember the plant in the hawaiian shirt for the rest of their lives, but no one will remember what car did sick burn-outs at Stunt Driver. Sea World - Skylink - Kinetic. Freaking. Energy. And what a vantage point to see the whole park. Another tentpole ride that the park is lesser without. - Bermuda Triangle - Doesn't need explaining. Wet 'n' Wild - Mach 5 Plunge Slides - as an adult, still mental they existed.

Yeah, you’re right. Dad keeps Sky News, Fox News, and almost every news network on all day, and most of the night. I have to learn that every Jew is an Ancestor of King David, and that we don’t need 5 meter Crocodile’s! I also have to learn that even if OAN is wrong, their right. And that Racism is officially over in America. These are all true statements. And since I’ve been pulled out of School because of COVID-19, this is my new curriculum! Never actually have had Economics Class at School! And it doesn’t seem like it’s changing anytime soon. They just don’t provide it where I’m at. But hopefully we can all agree, that the golden age of the theme park industry in the Gold Coast, is over. It’s been finishing for the past few years, but now it’s truly over.