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I beg to differ. I've been going to the park for 'decades' and It's never been as bad as what it has been now and in the past couple of years.

Let me get this straight - major rides are having rides built right next door, or within them, every winter? No. I'm sorry, but when your headlining (only) attractions are Roxy, Green Lantern and Justice League - you probably shouldn't be open.

Wrong. 100% wrong. At the most they would only ever want to have 2 majors at a time closed unless something ever went wrong. The general schedule was: Lethal Weapon / Arkham (After Aust day till early March) > Superman / Batwing (Early march till Easter holidays) > Scooby and RoadRunner after easter holidays > Wild West Falls from June till around August in prep for holidays. Then it would be Tunes / Batride between September and November. After November they would try to have all rides open and getting ready for the xmas holidays. Obviously with more rides sometimes a weekend (or maybe a single week with 3 rides closed) did happen but it was really avoided as much as possible. Only in the last 4-5 years have we really seen this many closures happening on a regular and it's 100% not acceptable. I really think at this stage, the park would be better running weekends and holidays only until they can catch up on things as it's absolutely pathetic the way the place is being ran.

Check out the full application details here I've skimmed some of the documents really quickly this morning and a couple takeaways: The main DA Form 1 references them as Ardent leisure, not Coast (though documents are from last year so depending on when the change occurred, that's probably in line with the submissions) Looking at the plans, there are 3 current lots - in a nutshell, it looks like they just want to re-draw the boundaries of each lot. They have land available on the north side of Oakey Creek which isn't entirely practical for them to expand the theme park on. The new boundaries would create 3 new lots, basically defining the carpark (and the former BB studios) as Lot 1, the theme parks as lot 2 (including the Oakey Creek easement all the way to foxwell road), and turning the land that is on the north side of Oakey creek, adjacent to the old Big Brother site into Lot 3. The application includes a MCU (material change of use). I haven't read through it all but I am assuming the MCU relates to the town centre transition precinct as it wouldn't be theme park \ tourism use, whereas I believe the current lots are. It also enables the road connectivity planned out for the Coomera Activity Centre to flow seamlessly into the connector roads.

I’ve spoken to a few staff members and people in the management team and they’ve agreed that they want to replace the SV facade and reinstate something that’s more fitting with Main Street, but it isn’t high up on the list in comparison to other things throughout the park. Because as you say, it doesn’t make financial sense right now.

New construction wall art has been put up (currently behind the Flash construction wall) The rainbow arches seen in the concept art are now off site (Paradise Country road, bad photo and look better in person) Jaggs also posted a couple of aerial shots in his latest update

Every major ride except GL and JL is now down. What an embarrassment.

That was very obviously (at least to me, and confirmed by the artist) meant to be no more than a vague idea of the area’s vibe, though, like with the earlier New Atlantis concepts.

The original concept art for Jungle Rush with the mountain wasn't

Dreamworld’s released concept arts have been pretty accurate recently, to be fair. Out of all the things they’ve had concepts for in the past few years, the only thing I can think of that’s been misrepresented was the treetop piece on KFF’s main support.

We've played concept art vs reality before. See also Leviathan, Trident. So its a fine assumption, but hope is all we have right now...

@STRAWSor you can read the original topic from last year.

I think it’s rather likely that the building isn’t consistently going to be at this height, and instead that the current section being built is it’s tallest (where the turntable’ll be), with the rest gradually levelling out to a more manageable height. This seems to be shown in the concept art, as well as the expected & somewhat intricately sculpted, ‘planted’, painted, etc. temple exterior, so I’d assume (or, yeah, hope) that at least this section in particular will have similar effort put into the exterior from all viewable angles. Especially considering that it backs directly onto Tiger Island, which already has a jungle/temple theme of its own, & having the train passing directly in between them both, not doing so would be a rather major missed opportunity.

DCR's boxes don't rotate when they're only running one train. And they almost never run 2. Exiting people to the wrong side just to collect loose items delays the advancement of the train into the load station. it would only serve to cripple cycle times even further. Trains can't launch until the unload station is clear and this would massively inflate the amount of time the train would spend in Unload. SE is coming up on its 20 year anniversary, and they have changed the TVs in the queue recently. I feel as though they haven't forgotten about the ride, and given its proximity to Oz, the queue systems of 2005 are a little antiquated. SE was built in a time when most people didn't live on their phones - Smart phones were virtually non existent or stupidly expensive. It wouldn't be until 2007 that the first iphone was released... The park has been sprucing up a lot of things of late (no doubt BGH wants to go to market once Oz is at the top of the Hype lift hill), maybe SE does have something in the wings to improve and modernise this?

The expression goes - any publicity is good publicity - but not unfortunately in the enthusiast world. (I would just point out to the Village fanboys out there - look! people are talking poorly about something Dreamworld did, take note for the next time you all claim its a village pile-on!)

"why are they doing these silly posts, so unprofessional" Meanwhile what's been the main point of discussion around here for the last few days 🤷🏻‍♂️