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With the new Rivertown comes an upgrade to the Billabong Restraurant. The current concept show an upgraded Restaurant, function room and a Taboo room.

MW only doing it because DW did it. DW 1 - MW 0

Imo, more excited to see Rivertown. My family are definitely enjoying dreamworld lately over Movieworld. More space, better atmosphere etc. Excited for both don’t get me wrong.

George & Jane know what happens in the Taboo room.

I agree Ash, I went to DW today and the park was vibing. Probably the best day, I've had at a GC park for years.

What happens here exactly? Maybe a cross promotion with Tinder?

Not specifically true. They are pushing to ensure that within public school catchment boundaries that there is at least one co-ed option available to parents, as currently there is a number of catchments where the only option is single-sex schools. I think thats a good thing. There will always be single-sex private schools, and a bunch of single-sex public schools too - its all about having choice for parents for what environment they think will best suit their child

Thank goodness they are doing something with the eyesore. I was fairly sure they would, but this looks great. I'd love to see something along the lines of the enchanted tiki room but either way this whole side of the park is going to look great and I think it will blend in really well with Tiger Island. Just wish they had a way to open up the area and almost combine it a bit more, but with the train line and the tower of terror building in the way it might be hard. Although, if planned well they could always expand Rivertown with a Phase 2 expansion and really link the area up as the theming of both lands really co-exists well.

The upgrade is currently up for tender @Vidgamer The current new name for the restaurant. Jungle Jane’s Rivertown Restaurant (but this could change)

Concept art looks good but as often with VRTP projects I'm getting the impression that they're spending money where it won't matter. Projection mapping was cool a decade ago but I question how well it will work in a park that's mostly open in the daytime. Buying a pair of family boomerangs instead of a higher capacity family coaster is an odd choice as well, especially since they'll probably end up only running a single side outside of school holidays. Perhaps they just haven't announced it yet, but it seems a missed opportunity to not have a dining outlet in the area as well, or some sort of performance space. I wonder if this area will be like WWF, nicely themed but largely empty except for the queues.

Aqualoops seems to have fallen out of fashion for waterparks in general. They're a fairly intense ride and can be a 'one and done' for a lot of people. Personally I prefer the old-fashioned speed slides for thrills, less chance of accidentally waterboarding yourself. The structure itself is iconic and highly visible from outside the park - if the park wanted to add another big raft slide or two it would be a great spot.

If they learned anything from Levi, the preshow would either be entirely separate room from the station, or take place at & during the walk into said station. Screens, audio, and other station effects can be utilised well enough when solely used for themed safety info before/during boarding, and a short sequence while dispatching. Anything else and it either messes with any sense of continuity & makes the effort put into it rather useless on most cycles (as they’d be being cut short), or slows operations. Leviathan has similar to what you’re describing as what you hope it has, is the thing. It’s got a short pre-boarding sequence where Levi says you don’t belong there before swimming away, then nothing happens ‘til you begin boarding. The issue with it (currently) is that they’re putting multiple groups in the station at a time, they’re making ride ops scream the spiel after last groups’ unload & before current group boards, and they’re only running the one train on most occasions, so it ends up being: “New group enters > [Short entrance sequence]> Wait behind 1st group ‘til train arrives > Unload > Safety spiel (ride op) > Previous group’s boarding begins/[Themed safety spiel] > Current group moves a step forward > [Boarding sequence]/restraint checks > Dispatch > Train engages with lift hill > Repeat” twice before you get to board yourself, each round taking at least 3 minutes (realistically, more like 5). If they were running 2 trains, the ride movie as-is would be rather bearable, as the pre-boarding movie takes about the same time that a boarding group takes between entering the station & being lined up in their respective rows for boarding to begin. The way to speed operations up would be to remove the ride op spiel (& have the themed one be both more substantial/disconnected from the station wait, like Sky Voyagers’ is), and having both trains on the circuit more often. Not advancing a group into the station early wouldn’t necessarily help dispatch times too much, but it would help with confusion of those in the 2nd row attempting to advance to the train when those if front do, as well as alleviate the repetitiveness of the ride movie that loops multiple times before boarding, which I’d imagine may lessen the experience of a first-time rider.

Pretty sure the resources allocated to this project are a little more than what was allocated to a path…

Just a second faster, lol. Pico Play is tagged in these posts, confirming their simultaneous involvement in both this and Rivertown. Kinda interesting how both DW & MW have ended up with new themed areas based on 1 family-thrill Vekoma that’s the same colour scheme as their last major thrill coaster (of which, both were Mack, both with gimmick seats) & 1 smaller-scale supporting ride, with Pico Play collaborating in design & manufacturing of thematic elements, both set to open around the same time during holidays this year.

Concrete is being laid for Rivertown (thanks to TSPN)

Motorcoaster needs to go. Maybe a jungle themed log ride could replace it.

Yeah what moronic sales staff member ever thought booking this event was REMOTELY a good idea. Just wow

The group have the right to have a boys/men only event, but Jamberoo did have the right to staff women that day, and the people in that group shouldn't be harassing them, just because you believe in Islam doesn't grant you that right to degrade women. This is Australia: we allow women to work; if you don't like women in the workforce then too bad.

nek minnit all the crew at Pico Play are headed to hammer barn for some sledge hammers to rough it up a bit more.