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As many have said I really doubt Intamin is dedicating a slot at a major international industry event to say “hey we’re replacing a gyro swing with another gyro swing at a park in Australia”. could we possibly be getting a 2 for 1 announcement. King Claw as per the trademark is clearly happening in the short-medium term, but maybe that’s just the appetiser to the main course….

They are probably ripping out The Claw to build a new arcade building filled with these:

I will be extremely upset if DW are replacing the Claw. I wanted the Claw footprint, to be turned into more shaded seating.

There is a few possibilities that are in my head, a new log flume, a first of it's kind flat ride, and a thrill coaster. I doubt it will be a thrill coaster. Steel Taipan, investments wise, was not that long ago, and they are yet to complete their new for 2024 family coaster. A flat ride is possible. Less desirable for me personally, as I do not really like flat rides. But Dreamworld need their ride count to go up. A new water based ride would my bet, as others have pointed out. It just makes sense for Dreamworld to be keen to replace what is a gap in their line up, now that they no longer have either a rapids or a flume. I have doubts over a Intamin water coaster, but you never know. Intamin is dedicating space in their booth, which is designed to advertise to other theme park operators. Which is what makes me really excited for this announcement. I just have doubts Intamin would want make the announcement at their booth if it wasn't something semi-big.

Because they say ‘new ride’, I don’t think it will be just that, I have a feeling (or maybe it’s just hope) that it’s something a lot more.

Fingers crossed it’s some sort of water coaster to replace Motorcoaster, that would directly tie in with the Jungle theme

The fact that this ride announcement has its own dedicated press conference at IAPPA, this is going to be good! I can’t imagine it’ll be something related to Motocoaster or any existing attractions because is that worthy of an announcement at a global event. Can’t wait to see what this is!

Top Thrill Motocoaster 2 : Intamin's Revenge - with a top hat soaring over the Giant Drop, even Mick Doohan wouldn't be brave enough. In all seriousness, this is a big surprise. The words seem carefully chosen "new ride" - that will fuel intense speculation until IAAPA. I wonder if they're getting a new Intamin prototype disasterpiece. It might even be something really good.

I somewhat doubt it will be a water coaster. Although it would be cool, I feel like if it is anything water related, DW doesn't need another coaster, with them already having 3 major ones, one kiddie coaster, and a brand new coaster being built, which will soon total to 5. Besides, we already have Storm at SeaWorld. I could see some sort of log flume however being built.

The 2024 IAAPA Expo Europe has an Intamin press conference scheduled, with its description confirming the announcement of an attraction for Dreamworld. (From IAAPA Expo’s Website) Could be Motocoaster related, could be that water ride Dreamworld needs, but so long as it isn’t a Twin Hammer, a new Intamin is pretty exciting!

I suspect @Trevor isn't Australian. but lets be honest. Him and @WalleyWorld are both right. ToT3 - Next Generation. its going to include scooby animatronics too. And Claw becomes The Claw and is Toy Story themed just to really round that one out.

With intamin having so many projects, I would like to doubt that they are devoting a 25min press conference for a standard gyro swing

A new addition to the park of an existing established ride model does not warrant a 30 minute press conference at IAAPA

It's gotta be big right? Announcing a new ride for an Australian park at the European expo doesn't make much sense otherwise

It's been 8 years. The park has been through a pandemic, finalised the inquest, built a memorial, built two new rollercoasters and is in desperate need of a wet ride with the loss of both thunder river and also log ride - the closure of which was not directly related to the incident. And bear in mind an announcement of a new ride now means a build is probably 12-18 months off. How long should they wait before it's not 'too soon' in your mind? The release says 'new ride' so all of the existing models you've referenced are unlikely to play a factor. I don't think there's any chance its an upgrade to motocoaster or claw. It is possible a new ride will replace one of these, but the net ride count remaining the same isn't desirable. Claw is at the 20 year mark, so anything is possible. The line markings near claw are interesting, but may be unrelated. It would be disappointing for them to cram even more shit into ocean parade when they have the entirely vacant log ride land to utilise, to provide more balance to the park. I'd like to see them put something new over that side.

Maybe it will be an entirely new ride concept all together, I find 25min to announce one ride quite a long time surely it can't just be a flat ride.

New water ride - still too soon? The dust still hasn’t settled on that incident so perhaps yes, too soon. Whilst I’d love to see Australia’s first Giga Coaster with massive camel backs and airtime galore, Greg told me that new flat rides were coming soon after Jungle Rush. A look at Intamin’s ride offerings outside of coasters and water rides doesn’t give much room to speculate. For other rides they already have a gyro swing, drop tower, flying theatre, and Jungle Rush will fill the immersive dark ride void whilst a suspended twin hammer will remain solely MW’s curse. A pirate ship would be unlikely and the Tourbillon is both mechanically problematic and not particularly popular in the few installations out there. My money is on an eccentric Ferris wheel which Intamin calls a coaster wheel. That fills a huge gap in all the GC theme parks lineup - an observation ride - plus provides two vastly different ride experiences in one installation. With few installations of that ride type around the world, it can easily provide Dreamworld with gloating rights by building the world’s tallest eccentric wheel, a record which is unlikely to be bested anytime soon.

I can have a detailed look a look for you whenever I head to the park next! I've been meaning to film the queue, so it would work out well

Do you see any non-Rivertown facing backstage areas of the temple here? And that image also has the basic NL2 background trees to make the image seem more full (behind that is just an expansive flat map), are you also disappointed that they didn't demolish those parts of Dreamworld to add the same background trees?

What have they been doing whilst the park was closed? Surely if you're running the park seasonally, you'd have time to do every bit of annual maintenance in the downtime? What's the excuse here?