DaptoFunlandGuy

Nope, it's a pretty long standing Parkz in-joke. It was for SkyVoyager originally, wasn't it?

Wonderland had paid parking in it's early life. They abandoned it later on - but probably due to the labour cost than anything else. I can't see paid parking washing with our parks these days. Unless someone builds a covered multideck carpark and they want to recover the construction cost - in which case i'd be happy to pay for a spot that is covered, cooler out of the sun, and $20 a day or so is probably reasonable, IMO.

There's a guy building a massive shed down the road from me. the frame went up in about a day. roof was on 3 days later and it was at lockup with rollerdoors and walls by the end of the week. Village Roadshow got the entirety of Soundstage 9 clad\panelled in 7 days (and that was soundproofed), so the building of JR's showbuilding isn't that complicated. I will be keen to see what they put inside the building - whether it be an extension of the jungle theme with props and animatronics or whether its just a dark shed.

It's definitely a nice view at night - had a few goes on the relaunch night and it was spectacular - although they didn't operate East that night, and I was keen to get that view... You can get the experience on night events like happy halloween though - so no need to pay extra as a passholder...

Man that certainly looks VERY different to how it looked back during Spring Break - queue spilled out to the external overflow switchbacks and this room was PACKED. Flash pass was the only saving grace - and perhaps the themeing works well when they're packed in like cattle!

You lazy bitch. Wristband system seems relatively easy. If they're going to sit with a pay to play model at night, I wonder if it would be easier to have a code scanner at the entrance - you could purchase online or via a ticket vending machine, and then just scan your code to enter? They had this sort of thing at Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier and it worked pretty well. I didn't expect that they'd open dodgems as well, but I guess its another step towards night operations, and offering more than just food trucks. keen to see how this pans out.

Now that it's open, probably worth starting a new thread on the flyer - since there's no more 'construction' to update...

Probably moreso just a long time since it operated at night...

I mean the WB department store is basically an LT store, as is the store outside WB Kids. Do we really need another LT store? (Unless the plan is to re-do one of the existing ones into something else once the photo centre is done?) Probably a good move for the photo centre though. Back in the day a wet lab would have needed more space, dark room etc. These days with digital its far less space and the last time i stepped inside the photo centre it was a giant empty space with photos on the walls.

For anyone planning a trip, just note that Gumbuya is an hours drive EAST of Melbourne. What did you think of the carpark?

I'm hearing that by around 12pm, the Ride Express queue was DRENCHED. Magician is correct - wind is a constant thing on the coast. It might not be the same direction or strength, but it is always a factor - something parks should be accounting for. It's not sufficient to design an attraction around absolute calm weather as that almost never happens. Discussion on Parkz is going to ebb and flow (much like the wind) and where there is relevant comparison, other parks are going to get drawn into the discussion for doing similar, comparable things. Trident is very relevant to a discussion about wind not being taken into account. Feel free to scroll on by if you don't want to discuss it. There's one small flaw in your math there. 3 years botched recovery from a bizarre and clueless recovery plan + 3 years covid + 3 years of actually competent and planned recovery = 9 years. It's only the last 3 years of that that makes a difference - and we're only at the end of the first year of that. Let's see where the park is at in 2026. *To be clear, the botched recovery is also their fault, and they should wear it. I'm not saying we should excuse the first three years where they tried to build ampitheatres and shaded seating, lazy rivers and reopening the mine ride, but if we're going to ask where the guests are, where the recovery is - it's happening now... just three years later than it should have (or six, since, if they'd been competent they'd have approached recovery prior to the start of covid).

That reads as $10 for unlimited rides all night - am I reading that right? I think $10 for all night rides is pretty reasonable, TBH.

it'd be fair for park operators to keep in mind that wind on the coast is fairly consistent, and should probably be factored in at the design stage *cough trident cough*

Not sure i'd want guests hovering over the dolphin pools. especially in a condition likely to make them chuck. Showcase was supposed to close a while back wasn't it? then got extended? I'd heard whisper that something different was coming to the showstage (ie not a prop show) but not sure whats happened with it.

Given they're opening tomorrow I can't see them doing too much to tweak the fountains. My quick-fix thought is a sheet of perspex over the gates should deflect most of it - but that does spoil the view. Hopefully they only need it half height?

Yeah I think $10 would get a bunch of once-offs but to operate it sustainably i think a slightly lower option (or a multi-pack of tickets for a bulk price) might be more palatable to locals who only visit the night markets. I think they'd do well to have an annual pass upgrade booth right beside the flyer ticket booth too - if you visit the market regularly, at $12 a week ($2 entry) it'd take less than 10 visits a year to make your $99 annual pass pay for itself (not to mention markets honour the passholder discount on drinks (and food bought from dreamworld outlets)... a great way to convert market visitors to passholders...

I saw something this morning that showed the water fountains are also splashing the queue line quite considerably. Gonna have to tweak that - folks aren't going to be keen on queueing in a rain shower... though they are still testing so we still don't know if this will be the final product.

Raging Waters is. Jamberoo is a bit more of a wildcard given the toboggans, though they are leaning more waterpark with each new attraction, and obviously I missed out on WNW and WWW, though their times would be pretty much the same as DW and MW.

Agree - that's exactly what it is. As you can see from the nearmap I posted above though, the whole area has been tidied up and cleared out. There's a lot of long, plastic wrapped objects stacked neatly outside that area. My first thought was that it was more Levi timber because that's how it looked when it first arrived in the carpark, but it hasn't been there that long - In October last year, there were no stacked piles, and indeed the construction site support buildings (and poured concrete paths) were on the site - this has all been ripped up. Looking at that site, and then the next shot, it looks like there is a sewer pit under one of those buildings: There is a recent (August) approval for the park to build a new bathroom\amenities block, though this could be the animal adventures block over by the sea lion stadium... There aren't any other recent approvals for ride-related construction - other than one for the 'trident gondola platform' lodged on 13/9/23 - which doesn't make a lot of sense to me since Trident was lodged back in November 2021...

If we're talking about fair... You've lined up an entire state against just the two capital cities. It isn't really fair to use Brisbane since all the parks are in the GC, but just to put things in perspective "distance" wise - Melbourne: Luna Park (within the city - 20 minutes drive from flinders st station) Gumbuya (approx 1hr away) Funfields (approx 1 hr away) Adventure Park (approx 2 hours away) Sydney: Luna Park (within the city - 13 minutes drive from Sydney Central station) Raging Waters (approx 36 minutes away) Jamberoo (approx 1 hr 41 minutes away) Brisbane No park within the city - will use Roma Street as central point Dreamworld (approx 45 minutes away) Movie World (approx 52 minutes away) Sea World (approx 1 hr 13 minutes away) (all times based on current traffic on google this morning) Just for comparison's sake.

Judging by the QLD globe site, that image is from July. Nearmap have done a more recent flyover on 17th September - there still doesn't appear to be a slab as of September. We have almost nothing to go on here - if it weren't for the slab being circular, you could say it was just back of house like the slab they poured behind the wave pool at WnW, but if this is for an attraction (and the shape suggests it is), i'd say it's likely to be part of atlantis given how they finished the themed concrete path next to the leviathan shed. It's a big space if it's just a spinner - here's hoping they've got something special cooked up (and here's hoping they hide or theme the Levi shed a bit better from that angle) I will say though, it's unusual that they'd be pouring a slab and we've heard nothing... like it's very typical village to not announce a ride until after it's built, but we've still usually heard SOMETHING...

I lol'd. touché, sir. touché.

oh gosh that's deliciously hilarious if so!

I get a north pole thing. it's christmas. but nothing screams 'movie world' like Rome.

we've still got no info from the park. Jaggs could be smoking something, or getting his info from the dippin' dots guy. At this stage its unconfirmed... so until we get something more specific on site, or a statement from the park themselves, i'm going to view it with that in mind...