themagician

Rapids, waterfalls and tunnels! I know they used to have a small tunnel and a waterfall, but they don’t anymore

Agreed! Just look at the 3 lazy rivers in Victoria as an example for this. - Adventure Park Geelong's is pretty simple, but it has a rapids section and is planted out nicely. - Gumbuya World has rapids, tunnels and landscaping. At times it is concrete trough that doesn't feel well integrated, but overall nicely done. - Funfields have just own theirs and from photos it is also landscaped nicely, has bridges, a small tunnel and a rapids machine. I honestly think that if WWW did one similarly to WnW in terms of scale, making it feel like an oasis/destination that some people will spend all day at and then adding a section of rapids, waterfalls and tunnels, that would be enough of a difference and offer that 'Dreamworld Difference'. We've just seen what the park (with PicoPlay and the other consultants) can do with Rivertown, imagine taking that and making it into an entire new precinct for the water park that has a lazy river connecting it all together.

I definitely agree and while I think the overall quality of slides at WWW in comparison to WnW is better, its a hard sell to the general public when they could visit WnW for just $20 and on paper you get a whole lot more.

Shockwave would be closing too, Tailspin isn’t really near The Claw

The first batch of attraction maintenance schedules for 2025 have been published on Dreamworld's website.

Not sure how long this has been the case, but the single day tickets for both parks have all had a price increase. It does all say at the top of the page that you can save up to $15 online compared to gate pricing. Not sure if that’s for day tickets or annual passes, but it used to just be $10.

I have a feeling that the land still indeed cost $40 million (coasters and theming), but maybe this magic $100 million is including the removal of AA and the actual license of the Wizard of Oz IP. We know IP isn’t cheap and if they’ve got this contract for 10-15 years, I could see that costing a lot of money. And of course, Village see as saying they spent $100 million a lot better than the $40 million.

So why spend $100 million on a partly underwhelming ‘world-class’ land?

And they want to spend over $300 million on a fancy hotel and events centre, but the theme park isn't even operating to the standard it should be. They don't really seem to have their priorities right or maybe we don't have our priorities right?!

I don’t think so, I think it was just an error on the website, which has since been fixed. Once they know a reopening date, I’m sure the park will tease it on their socials.

The park has updated the maintenance schedule and as suspected Scooby doesn’t reopen on June 2. It’s listed as closed as far as the calendar goes.

And unfortunately the yellow brick road and fake plants in the water fountains in the plaza are already showing signs of wear and tear

The park map has been updated again to now feature Rivertown and labels the attractions

They definitely used to be some movement, but I think it’s one of those effects that rarely worked and has been retired for a long time. Here’s a POV from 2009 that shows what I believe to be every effect working. What I miss most in comparison to today is the amount of water in the ride, todays roughness for me is the worst part and makes it very unpleasant.

I heard that too, but the owners have confirmed they will return, but just not this year because of major refurbishments and maintenance required to ensure the place is safe

For anyone who’s curious, the slides are still in Canberra!

@Leviagreed, I think their original plan was to open Boxing Day and when DW started soft opening Rivertown there was a ‘oh shit we need to get this done now’ moment and that’s what lead to there only being 15 hours notice for its opening

I don’t think it’s the gaps, I think it’s from the openings where the coaster track goes outside that daylight comes in

I’ve heard on good authority that there is certainly more to come but they’ve had delays with some shipments. We’ll see this land and attractions continue to improve over the next few months.

You should go check out Rivertown

The only two I can think of is the Play School Wheel and Humpty-Go-Round, but in comparison the only ones with entirely covered queue at MW are Justice League, Driving School, Superman, Scooby and WWF. But it certainly is baffling that they didn’t even try to design shading into the queue, particularly when so much of it is outside and they operate with one train. Apparently someone passed out in the queue today because of the heat.

Without question, they absolutely would. Universal have done a pop up store for Wicked and it was very well done.

And to put this into perspective, The New Atlantis at Sea World cost $50 million. Wizard of Oz cost double what New Atlantis did. Crazy.

Here’s a Flight of the Wicked Witch POV https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19YvSvs7M2/?

Considering they’ve said it’s officially opened, I doubt it