themagician

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

Great photos @Noll_57 For the most part Kansas Twister looks to have been executed really well (minus the lighting that’s just got exposed cables around the track). And while the indoor queue and station of Wicked Witch looks really good, that transition area in the queue is so poor. The lack of effort to hide anything BOH and the bland walls is pretty sad to see considering their claim it’s world class. They definitely can’t have spent $100 million. But I know the coasters themselves are good, will be a hit with everyone and suit the park well.

The restaurant is now open daily from 11:30 to 3pm

Apparently the Wicked Witch wait time is already over an hour and Kansas Twister is having some technical issues and it’s opening is delayed as of 10:30

I’ve been on TNT at Gumbuya World (same ride as Flight of the Wicked Witch) and it is a surprisingly very enjoyable and re-ridable experience. It’s much quicker than you expect, has some great little pops of airtime, good forces and is super smooth. From what we’ve seen I think Rivertown is a better and more immersive land, but Jungle Rush might not necessarily be the best coaster of the 3 (I haven’t been on it so I can’t compare accurately).

I can’t imagine they’ll be adding many more physical elements to the ride, but there might be effects that haven’t been turned on just yet.

The headline for the article says "From two ground-breaking roller coasters to high-tech holograms, no expense has been spared in this $100m new theme park attraction recreating the world of the Wizard of Oz." Since when were the park spending $100 million on the Wizard of Oz? That's three times the cost of Rivertown. That's the roughly the same price Universal spent to build VelociCoaster. The bar has now been set very high if they really spent that much.

I saw this and the first thing I thought was they’ve rushed to open the land so they can beat the competition. I’d imagine they probably did plan to soft open the land today (like a few people heard) and then officially open on Boxing Day. Interesting that they’ve only said that for one of the attractions too.

If anyone’s got tickets to the event over the next 3 nights, you might get to check out Wizard of Oz at night! Tickets are still available for Sunday if anyone hasn’t already got them and wants night rides.