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I spoke with the CEO, Greg a couple weeks ago about this. He indicated that the train will still be returning to a full loop circuit. There have been delays in rebuilding the track as fabricators/installer are harder to come by than you might think for train tracks. When this might happen, I don’t know, but Greg has expressed to be in the past how important the train is for the park and I get the impressed getting rid of it entirely isn’t an option.

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@rappa I’m not expert in this area, but looking at this close up photo from @Theme Park Girl to me they look like individual bulbs (but if I’m wrong, good to know they are actually LEDs).

@New display name someone had shared some close up photos of the framing having rusting, so I’m thinking they removed it purely to do some repairs on the structure. But yes, why they didn’t go and get new bulbs to replace the few hundred that aren’t working baffles me. There’s a Bunnings within a 5 minute drive from the park, it can’t be that hard (I know the bulbs might not be standard, etc etc)!

The slide towers platform has been reinstalled with the new openings for the slides to connect too. And there’s machinery on site constructing the new footings for the slides. Here’s a closer look at the slide pieces And the new supports for the attraction.

Here is where they have repainted DC Rivals up too I believe they have painted the lift hill too And if you zoom in on this image you can see all of the dead bulbs Maybe they were never intending to replace the bulbs or finish repainting the track this year, but it is a shame too see when it’s closed for so long and they went to all that effort to remove the joker head.

This queue area is going to look fantastic and loving the steampunk aesthetic too. All the footings are in place for the rides supports And this gap in the walls is where the gondola will swing through and the entrance just in front of it.

There have been some more general improvements this week. Umbrellas have been added throughout Rivertown and they match the aesthetic of the land The Main Street Emporium refurb is complete, with new display windows The Surf Shop is how the Main Street Emporium Surf Shop They are repainting the roofs structure to be a cleaner white Directional signage has been added across the park The sign on the Main Street stage is still missing The front outdoor seating area for Kenny’s Fried Chicken is now finished, and they’ve begun works on the courtyard area to the left. This has been fenced off for years now, but they’ve ripped up the decking, so hopefully it means it will reopen soon. Goldie the Eagle has a new enclosure, but remains fenced off to guests while she adapts to the new home Some of the timber buildings out the front of the former sheep shearing building have been removed (presumably they were damaged during the cyclone) For this years Winterfest, they have moved the ice slide to be on the former Flowrider land (Winterfest is a lot more congregated within Ocean Parade this year and it made this area of the park feel so much better because it was actually being used). And not an improvement, but I noticed this last remaining sign for the former vintage cars located under the ramps of the Giant Drop. This is a minor thing to note, but behind these ramps (which I imagine isn’t used by many guests often), but it’s pretty messy. There’s construction fencing, left over Happy Halloween stuff, a scissor lift and hoarding just laying on the ground. This is a nice little throwback to Rocky Hollow though! Yesterday was the first day of the school holidays, but the park was pumping. The park was probably the busiest I’ve seen it in several years now and everyone seemed to be having a good time. Wait times for rides varied, but the maximum I saw was 45 minutes for Murrisspi Motors and Jungle Rush. Multiple trains on the coasters. Jane’s was busy, people were spread across the park and there was a really nice vibe about it all. For comparison, Movie World’s car park was looking pretty empty compared to normal and the longest wait time was 40 minutes (DC Rivals with one train operations).

The Flash was meant to reopen tomorrow; but it’s been pushed back by a week. So school holidays starting and Superman, Flash, WWF and Scooby are closed.

@dbo121 my thinking is because that original ‘launch’ stunt was done by the tv show ‘Rove’ and the current Dreamworld is trying to target families. (Sadly) im sure there are plenty of people who would complain online on how this is disrespectful, immature or whatever else people want to think. Im not against them doing it if they wanted to, but I just can’t imagine they will.

Pretty much, but it has poor screen quality and it made me feel a little nauseous after (usually simulators don’t)

Modern day Dreamworld ain’t doing anything like that!

I’d opt for not doing Minion Mayhem at all. I had never ridden a version of it before, so did this year during my trip to USJ and it was not worth it, even with Express. Save your time and do anything else. The Minion land as a whole is worth walking through and the food/shops in the land is good. I second this. People start queuing for up to an hour before show times, but just join the queue 5 minutes before the show begins and sit near the top row. The thousands of people leaving that show at once creates a massive bottleneck, so if you sit at the top you can get out first and run to your next ride! You can’t miss this ride, and is infinitely better than Minion Mayhem. And a little cheat code, once your items in the locker, you join another queue that’s generally 20-30 minutes to board the ride. After you’ve been on the ride you can funnelled into the locker area again, which means if you want you can go on the ride again because there is no one to monitor it!

It’s basically busy every day of the years, so there’s pretty much nothing you can do about it. I’ve been to the park twice (during a lower and higher tier) and it was insanely busy both times.

I find it very interesting 100%, but we do know they can make changes to the schedule because Storm Coaster used to close in Feb/March, but they changed it to be mid year because closing it in Winter is smarter.

That reopening schedule has been like the for about the last month. It was originally only supposed to close for a couple weeks, but I believe they are wait in on spare parts to arrive

Which makes me think why do they close it immediately after the Easter holidays. Why not wait another month to close it will it’s still warm enough, and then have it closed for the majority of winter. The park has a major issue with closing too many rides at the same time for maintenance, and this would be a simple solution.

Because Big Brother is going to be airing in November and that’s usually when the wiggles perform at the park!

That cable would be at least 100m long and would be through park guests areas. I get your logic you’re trying to use for this idea, but it’s not that simple or viable. It would need to be a whole new building somewhere else.

It’s used for walk through attractions during Winterfest and Happy Halloween. But I think your under estimating how much room a network needs to operate a show like big brother, and that building is nowhere near big enough

The past few years it has reopened in time for the winter school holidays (closes between Easter and winter holidays)

I second this. I’ve been to USS twice (Singapore three times in total), during first visit I got everything done in a day and on the second visit the park was so quiet we were done by mid-afternoon. There is so much to do in Singapore, so I’ve you’ve never been before just spend one day at USS and give that second day you were planning to something else. The zoos are amazing (there are now 5 within the one area of the country), so I would suggest allowing two days for that instead.

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In @Ogre latest video they show that they are now testing the second train and it’s under ‘technical rehearsal’. No one was riding the second train at the time of their visit, but it was operating as a duelling coaster.