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I’m assuming since there’s 2 giant drops they would just alternate maintenance by having one in operation.

The ride is designed to fall so if it breaks from lack of maintenance it still operates as intended.

There was zero social distancing in the queue on ground level, no markers, painting, signs or communication from staff to social distance. QLD is in its best space Covid-wise with 4 months since community transfer, there would be no mandate surely to change queuing structure or capacity on towers, there wasn’t even markers on the tower anywhere once you were released to get up there. It’s just crazy and poor execution

First school holiday visit to DW today. crane in the car park lifting some ST pieces around. I’m usually quite defensive of DW, but they get a solid F for operational planning. Some of the decision making is just amateur hour at best. the monster trucks whist an unique attraction in theory just hasn’t been executed well at all. To have zero shading available for the show whatsoever, and expect people to go in 30mins prior to sit in direct sun on metal benches that were easily 80+ degrees - we were lucky we had towels in our bag. I’d say at least 30-40 people left prior to it even starting. the show itself only goes for 12-15mins, and is in one word - boring. then we get to WWW, where for some god awful reason they’ve decided to have the queue lines for green room and Hydrocoaster on ground level rather than utilising all the tower stairs, only letting roughly 10-12 people on the tower for each queue at a time. The outcome being instead of queuing in the generally shade of the tower, you are now queuing in direct sun, no shade, burning hot floors. A 1.5hr wait for Hydrocoaster and only 10mins of that wait was on the tower stairs itself. No communication, at one point HC broke down, line didn’t move for 15mins, but no one came along to tell people there was issues, only way we found out was people coming down the tower who told us as they tried to push through to get out. no idea what is going on, but they really need to rethink what they are doing.

Yeah, I think thats my thinking, I'll hold onto annual leave till about August and wait for the end of the northern summer. If we do get to go overseas by then I will. If still no travel by then, I'll find some local holiday to go on. But realistically, I think waiting till 2022 is probably a better choice in terms of parks running normally anyway. Would be a pain to go back to Disney or some new parks in Europe and miss heaps of stuff because of capacity limits etc.

Has anyone who has seen both the Showtime FMX show at WnW and moster trucks at DW have any thoughts comparing them?

So awesome that they spent the time and money to get that effect back up. The water dumb was always one of the best effects on the ride.

I agree that the monster truck show is just horrible in every way. The seating, the heat, the horrible preshow entertainment. The show itself was boring and they only used the main dirt jump once at the end of the show. What a waste of money... Could've been put towards anything else and it would have been better spent.

They should’ve definitely installed some temporary shading. Why they didn’t surprises me. And for WWW, was it because of social distancing reasons. Maybe they’ve been told they need to manage the queues spacing and that was the solution because people aren’t capable of doing it on the stairs. But they should be setting one some gazebos of some sort to help with shading

That may be the case but it’s still got to be checked. And what about everything else’s? Harnesses, safety systems, etc.

Wow it’s a miracle. I can’t even remember the last time they had the water effect running

I'd consider myself more 'general public' than enthusiast these days. We (myself, husband, 12yo, 9 yo) went from about 2pm til closing yesterday. We had not previously been to any superheroes and super villains events. - Kids liked the Dew fountain ^^ - 9 year old doesn't like thrill rides or dark rides (has some sensory issues), so won't do anything other than Road Runner Coaster - very little to do for that 'older child' age. She thought the parade was underwhelming and wanted to see the heroes fighting the villains. - 12 year old did WWF, Green Lantern (at dusk), and DC Rivals (I think on last ride of the night) - she had done it before in daylight). WWF was a walk on (amazing!), but 75 minute queue for Scooby, so she missed that one. Ran out of time to do Superman Escape. She actually enjoyed the parade and floats, she had some of the 'villains' cast come and interact with her. - Saw stunt driver (lame, but liked the comedic warm up guy and glad they'd changed the 'flag girl' audience role to 'reigning champion), and 4D Yogi (meh, but hadn't seen it before and appreciated the air con for a bit), and costume'/props walk through area interesting enough (12 year old had seen most of the movies). - Liked the amount of characters dressed up around the park - Ate at the shop with jacket potatoes, kind of on the corner of main street, I'm not sure if I remember seeing it before. Wildly overpriced, but edible. - Considering there was no upcharge, all in all impressed, even if just for doing rides at night.

Absolutely not. People have been made redundant, attraction pipelines have been delayed for three of the country's biggest parks and there's still been massive revenue issues given the lack of international & interstate tourism. To say anything else is just trying to make a causation from correlation, which is the equivalent of suggesting that vaccines cause autism.

Checked out the coaster this morning. It is nice refresh and fits really nicely within Ocean Parade. Removing the walls of the queue tower was a great idea. It is so much cooler walking up there now and gives you views of DW and WWW. While the theming is minimal, I don't think the coaster needs it. If this was a brand new coaster and this is all we got, it would be disappointing. But for a refurbishment on a 25+ year old coaster, it has a nice fresh feel. When you get to the 'inside' queue area, there are no fans or aircon, so it gets very hot in there. Thankfully the loading/unloading efficiency was very good (considering the train has social distancing), so we weren't stood in there for too long. The train itself is bright and fresh. As we expected still the same trains and restraints. Still not much leg room for taller people, but it is reasonably comfy. I was in the back row, which is known for being very comfortable on this coaster, but for me, it wasn't too bad. Speakers are still in the trains. It would be good if they had some music playing to suit the rides theme, but nothing too major.

Maybe it is, and the coaster is the "wild ride" you have in the room. Also accurate you leave 2 minutes later.

as soon as I can. maybe end of 2021 (although that is incredibly unlikely since we wont be seeing a vaccine until March in AU) so sometime early 2022 is a more realistic aim

Florida was booked for June, but refunds and credits applied for that. i think 2022 is probably the earliest I’d venture back to the US, just to give the new administration time to roll out the vaccine, and educate the populace enough for that to be effective (and potentially similarly here). If borders were open now I’d head over to Japan and/or Singapore without hesitation.

I have booked a mega trip to rainbows end in new zealwnd in 6 months

the water on superman isn’t in action today