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That's probably more than likely the case, I'm sure they could pull it off for the September holidays, but are choosing not to and are instead spreading out their "new" attractions. The baby polar bear was an unexpected draw card that they will choose to capitalise on heavily, they will market the cub for the September school Holidays and leave the storm coaster as the big new summer attraction.

Channel 7 showed some of the construction of the new polar bear exhibit in the news this afternoon, it was part of the story if the bear cubs first steps. They said the cub will go on public display in September in the new exhibit. This along with the storm coaster will be a huge draw card for the September holidays at sea world

How do you know this? It is likely that the Laser Skirmish equipment was on a long term lease to Dreamworld and that they didn't physically own the equipment. Their lease is probably now up and have decided not to renew it and go for a new concept completely. If you look at the park map on their website the AVPX building now says "Coming Soon" over it.

The previous scare mazes at Dreamworld which where held at Blue Lagoon (The Mummy Live and the Freezer) where set up in the "Dream Room" tent, which has since been removed, and the Lara Croft Tomb Raider Maze was held in the building which now houses the Big Red Car Ride in Wiggles World, So the now vacant AVPX building is the logical location for the attraction.

This wouldn't be for a new show, it would be actors for the new "scare maze" taking over the old AVPX attraction.

It was from the 18th of June

Latest Nearmap image of the new Polar Bear Shores extension for the new cub

Paradise country is far to small to convert into a zoo, it isn't marketed towards locals that's why we don't often here about, it is marketed mainly toward the Asian tourist market, which makes up for most of its visitor count.

I personally think green lantern is a suitable theme, it fits into the surround "super hero hub", although the execution of the theme could have been much better. I think the location of the ride made for an awkward queue area that looks tacky and is hard to theme well. The other indoor queues look great i.e scooby, Arkham and justice league. Supermans queue I feel is also a bit underwhelming, the video/Audio loop is the only thing that ties that queue to the ride.

1mile = 1.6km, therefore 100 miles an hour is equal to 160km an hour. If that makes it easier to understand

It would have been great to see Australia Zoo with a major expansion like this, although they did just recently open the Africa Exhibit which looks great.

I agree that it will just be a standard walk-through area, but it can be done, having a vehicle seemingly pass through the animals exhibit.

Werribee zoo in Melbourne drives the safari bus right through the lake with hippos in it, there are barriers dividing the hippos from the bus, but they are hard to see while your in the vehicle.

From what I've been told it is going to be a major expansion. Basically sea world as a registered zoo is obligated in some ways to take in animals left "homeless" by the closure of other zoos. With the cairns wildlife safari reserve closing down again in April this year, they secured the two hippos from them, which were supposed to be sent to sea world years ago before the reserve was bought out privately and run as the shambala animal kingdom. The gorillas and crocs were acquired through similar avenues. So it is going to be a very large and permanent addition to the park.

Sea world admitted they weren't sure whether the polar was pregnant, until it actually gave birth (because its very difficult to test a polar bear, and polar bear babies are born tiny, so weight gain was minimal). They has strong suspicions though. On looking back through the previous map images, the site in question basically always looked like that, but I can't see anywhere else for them to build it? Sea world will milk the baby polar bear for all it's worth, so they will want it on display as much as possible when it is able to be out. So it makes sense to want a separate exhibit (like the tiger cub display at dreamworld).

Nearmap image of "Wild" land reclamation

Here is the latest nearmap image of the storm construction zone (17 May)

here is the latest nearmap image of Sea worlds polar bears shores - with construction happening in the red circle - of a rumoured extension to the exhibit for the new cub and mother to go on display without interfering with the 2 other boys (as they cannot go on display together for the cubs safety.)

I also highly doubt there going to extend it when they just redone the trough in concrete, I assume they are just closing it to allow complete access to the area for the storm construction, as well as some maintenance while they have access.

Haha no, lets just say he's more of a wetsuit kind of guy.

I got some inside information from a mate at uni that works there and he said, the attraction is not called Wild, just that Sea world is going wild, and that the name in the works at the moment is Congo Island, and the opening date has been revised back to 2015. The date has been pushed back because, the land that has been reclaimed from the lake can't be built on for about 12months after reclamation has been completed. I can say that they are in fact getting gorillas, 2 hippos, and crocodiles.

Well it is fairly common knowledge that Sea World planned to house Hippo's a few years back (but was cancelled and Ray Reef opened instead), so perhaps these plans are finally coming to fruition. Though I really don't think Sea World will be housing live Gorillas, I just don't see how they could come up with enough room to do so, and surely there would have been some media hype around it if a QLD attraction had secured gorillas.

I have access, however the Gold Coast maps haven't been updated since August 2012, but I will post pics as soon as they are updated.

Here's the latest Nearmap image of Wet 'n' Wild Sydney construction for those who don't have access.

I think some people are getting confused over the term soundstage. A sound stage is basically a large sound proof shed for filming movies and television scenes. The "ride sheds" at movie world are not soundstages at all they are only themed to soundstages to fit the "movie theme" of the park with the soundstage numbers listed on the sides. The what's up rock show was in a large theatre style shed with the name soundstage ## on the side for theming, not a real soundstage at all. Yes you could technically stick a ride in there, a carousel or similar small flat ride would easily fit with the stage removed, but where is the point in that. I also agree that the LTRR building should be used to its fullest potential. I'd say the mini cars rode will enter at the old marvin ride and use a tiny percentage of the LTTR building. While a larger family dark ride can be built in the remaing area with the entry in the same place as the old river ride was. The space in there is massive, including those pre-ride show rooms you could fit the justice league ride in there a few times over.