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Okay, a bit late but never mind. We are a family of five (husband, wife, three boys - 8, 3 and 1). Gone to the GC for the fifth or sixth time, using our Village Roadshow year passes that were extended, as well as buying some for Dreamworld etc. Fly out from Tullamarine and get into the GC pretty late. Car hire company has left the car in long stay for us, with car seats already installed and also a portacot, which is great. We've booked a click and collect shop at Cole's at Pacific Fair, then staying at the Montana Palms resort which is great (and actually has decent amounts of space in the car park!). First day, Movie World, and it's... okay. We do spend most of the day in the kids area, including queueing with our middle one for the driving test for 45 minutes. The park doesn't seem too crowded though, but I want to go on Scooby (only been on once since the redo, and thought it's a definite step backwards) but I would miss my fastpass time in the driving test queue. Fortu ately some DC Rivals (great coaster) fastpasses become available, so we get one for my wife and eldest, and I can use the parent swap. Then Ben & Jerry's before we go. Thoughts - everything here has to try and be big. I've done MW a fair few times and enjoy the coasters (SE is alright, as is GL and AA when that was running. Roadrunner is a great coaster for kids, and DC is great. Scooby was great, now not sure). But it needs to do something to up its game more, and not in terms of rides - in terms of making it more pleasant for guests. We've still got time in the day, so head off to do a few hours at Dreamworld - which we loved. It's telling that we managed to do a fair few turns on Steel Taipan (and don't forget, that's taking it in turns with the parent swap) and let the kids on a few rides at ABC Kids land (middle child lost his mind and started singing his version of the Wiggles tune as we walked in). It was difficult to get him out of the Big Red Car (what happened to the ride?). More on Dreamworld later. The next day was Wet n Wild, which... it's a water park. I'm not a fan of them. It did have some great slides for middle child, and my wife and eldest went on plenty, but the kids area was too loud and overloading for the youngest. Next day was a washout so we did Coomera Westfield, and then Brisbane the day after (ferries not working due to the floods), Hard Rock and the tower. The day after was a full day at Dreamworld, which we really enjoyed! Got there for opening time. Sky Voyager was great (and easily our longest queue of the day at around 30 or 40ins - even Steel Taipan was 15 at most). Steel Taipan took a while to warm to for me, but I now think it's as good as DC Rivals but for different reasons. ST just goes nuts on the elements, whereas I like DC for speed and airtime. The range of rides is great, as well as the animals (especially the tiger area). Coasters aren't the best but there's stuff here for everyone. The street food was good (though took a while) - great selection, even for us veggies, and we purposely didn't take food with us so we could check it out. And definitely worth it, at least once, to do the Tailspin on Steel Taipan (we did backwards on DC back when it was $10). Next day we checked out Byron Bay, which was a bit of a flying visit, followed by more water parks on the day after (youngest preferred WnW to be honest), and then, to kill some time... Sea World. Okay, we got to Sea World mid-afternoon. Spent probably an hour and a half there, which consisted of going straight to the kids area and going on the bananas, then leaving. The crowds were horrendous, we couldn't move. We couldn't actually queue for anything, we didn't know where one queue ended and another began. One woman lost her baby (hopefully found again). Sea World is, again, a good park. And we were close to the Easter weekend now. I'd noticed passing MW that the car park was getting full earlier, and even before it opened cars were gradually parking on the grass. But yeah, not great. For the record, Storm and Jet Rescue are both okay. Second to last day, Dreamworld again (again, very little in the way of crowds or queues, kids loved it), and I honestly can't recall where we went on the last day before the flight back. Overall, Dreamworld really impressed us, and I'm glad we had the tickets for it as I think we'd have been really disappointed with the other parks alone, especially given how crowded they were. I get that it's not the ideal situation for Dreamworld, and the lack of people is more down to their lack of popularity than anything they may have done to help the situation, but it's a really good park and more people need to give them a chance (just not too many to fill it up).

"It appears the pool was only designed for one slide" "not true, you can easily make it bigger". In summation - the pool was only designed for one slide.

I don't think India would care how much wear the track had. Expo88 Boomerang is still operating in India. (with newish (painful looking)trains))😵.

I hope when considering that, they are future proofing also, for both parks.

It’s great to see rivals already getting a repaint after only 5 years. It definitely needed one, especially when it’s the parks statement attraction and first impression

Here's a few pics I took on Sunday. The difference stands out more in person and looks pretty good! Plus a new addition to the Arkham courtyard:

even in park the complaints are bad, overhearing park guests talk about how bad the park looks, the lines are moving and even overhead a family requesting for a refund due to “the day being a waste of money.” even i go with my GP friends, and they bring up how movie world use to be so much better.

Confirmed- AA to Gumbuya!! Gumbuya World is set to become the biggest buyer of ex GC coasters!! 🤣