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The dodgems attraction sign has been installed

That sign has been there for a couple years now

The park have updated the Future of Dreamworld page, which lists all the new rides that are now open and includes a new concept artwork for the Big Red Boat Coaster https://www.dreamworld.com.au/news/the-future-of-dreamworld/

In this photo form Dreamworld Golden Years you can see there are heaps of light bulbs around the vertical panel with the clouds on.

To @Slickrequest, here is a list for what would (subjectively) be considered as major rides. For this I included every thrill ride, major family rides and rides that had significant queue wait times during that specific year (hence why I included the original Vintage Cars, Big Red Car Ride and Paddle Wheeler). If a ride was replacing another, but the former ride wasn’t ’major’ I didn’t include it (eg. Tailspin is included, Reef Diver isn’t) 2023 2016 2006 Steel Taipan River Rapids River Rapids - - Mine Ride - BuzzSaw - Giant Drop Giant Drop Giant Drop The Claw The Claw The Claw Gold Coaster Hot Wheels Cyclone Serpent Slayer Pandamonium - Tail Spin Tail Spin - Motocoaster Motocoaster Vintage Cars Sky Voyager - - Kenny's Forest Flyer Escape Coaster Runaway Reptar - Wipeout Wipeout - Tower of Terror Tower of Terror - Log Ride Log Ride - Big Red Car Big Red Car - - Paddle Wheeler So based on this list, today there is 9 major rides, 2016 had 13 and 2006 had 12

That opens the debate of what’s considered a major attraction. I assume it would be all thrill rides and high capacity family rides? Does Forrest Flyer and Shockwave count?

Further to this, when you also look at the park map from early 2016, the amount of rides and attractions listed makes it seem like there is so much to do. The map does also include wildlife, shows, non-ride attractions and character meet-n-greets too. But it helps sell that there is even more too do. I think a water attraction would be a good addition, but they would need to be very selective about what this is. There is the argument that, well they close the water park for the winter, so why would they add a water ride that one when it too might be closed for that same period (WWF at MW is definitley a quieter ride during the winter, hence why its closed for 3 months for maintenance). However, if the ride is appealing enough and more than a water ride, they could have a version where you don't get as wet. Pirate of the Carribean at Disneyland had barriers for the final splashdown so you didn't get as wet during the winter. I personally would love to see a type of coaster not found in Australia. Either a dive or flying coaster would be my number one picks. With the ride layouts they can be awesome and very popular coasters.

I also originally thought the same about the white, but with the lighting package this attraction will have, at night it should look awesome.

*face palm* can't believe I missed that too. I do remember that, but it opened in 2008. I did the list to compare attraction counts (for my own curisoty, but sadly I missed a couple things), but you are right. I think by the end of next year, there will hopefully be some of that quality back with the additon of Rivertown. But even so, there is still those empty areas of the park (Rocky Hollow, former Troll's Village). I'm sure we will see new attractions in these areas (hopefully by the end of the decade), but having those areas can give the impression that there is less at the park, when in reality, the numbers aren't far off what they were in the peak (early) 2016.

Damm, if any admins are able to edit the post that would be appreciated I originally thought so too, but the parks website listed under shows, not rides.

In recent years there has been discussion about how Dreamworld's ride count significantly decreasing due to extensive attraction retirements. But with all the recent additions and refubishments, I thought I'd devise a full list of the parks rides to see how it has changed over the years. For the purpose of the list, I am only noting rides that are categoriesed as 'rides' as per the parks website. I have also selected the 2023 (present), early 2016 and late 2006. Where an attraction has replaced another, they are shown in the same row. When a ride has been demolished, but the land remains empty, the corosponding column is left blank. 2023 2016 2006 Steel Taipan River Rapids River Rapids - - Mine Ride - BuzzSaw - Giant Drop Giant Drop Giant Drop The Claw The Claw The Claw Gold Coaster Hot Wheels Cyclone Serpent Slayer Pandamonium Angry Beavers Tail Spin Tail Spin Reef Diver Motocoaster Motocoaster - Sky Voyager - - Vintage Cars Vintage Cars Motocoaster Dreamworld Express Dreamworld Express Dreamworld Express Kenny's Forest Flyer Escape Coaster Runaway Reptar Shockwave Shockwave - Deep Sea Dodgems Skadoosh Bumper Beach Humpty-Go-Round Gingy's Glider - Belinda's Tree House Jungle Jam Rainforest Rampage Seabed Splash - - Tea Cup's Tea Cup's Tea Cup's Big Red Boat Big Red Boat Big Red Boat Play School Wheel - - Banana's Carousel Shrek's Caousel Nick O-Round Banana's Fun Maze - - Big Red Planes Dronkey's Flyers Dora's Sea Planes - Wipeout Wipeout - Tower of Terror Tower of Terror - Log Ride Log Ride - Big Red Car Big Red Car - Hop & Hoot - - Sword Swing Swinger Zinger - - Vortex - - Paddle Wheeler - - Blues Skidoo So as of today, there are 22 rides. In 2016, there was 25 rides. And in 2006, there was 24 rides. By the end of 2024, with the additon of Big Red Boat Coaster, Dreamworld Flyer and Jungle Rush (but the closure of Tea Cups and Boat Ride) there will be 23 rides. (If the list doesn't display well on your phone, rotate it to landscape or view on a larger screen)

What a pretty ride this is! I'm loving the white and sky blue colour scheme. And that photo makes it shine! The buildings with the roof shingles are looking good too and nice to see they're trying to match the traditional building architecture of Main Street (makes me wish even more so now that they never demolished the original theatre architecture). Those buildings do however close off the view of the ride from the entrance more than I was thinking it would and the globe is still to be lifted back into place. I'll save my final opinion to when it's all complete, but right now I'm on the fence.

I do wish they kept going with the corrugated sheeting, rather than sticking a print of block work onto the wall.

I don’t mind it because it matches all the other white sheds in the park, at least they’ve slapped a stage number on it

A major issue DW have had since 2016 is a lot of rides were removed and the rides that were removed where what put the park on the map. And when so many closed so quickly, they get the reputation that there was nothing to do. And now with so much work going on throughout the park this year, to some it will still feels like that because there are so many construction walls. And this will be even more evident during the school term four period because ABC Kids about to close, the DF is still under constrcution and parts of Dreamland are fenced off. At least by the peak summer holidays all of this will be done and construction walls will be in the one (large area) that is ABC Kids World.

I think it comes down to memories that people have. MW is known for having the best thrill rides in the country. They have the reputation of creating awesome rides like Scooby, WWF, Superman and DC Rivals, so if you ask (most people), which park they would prefer to go to if they had a choice, they would most likely pick MW. They’ve built this massive reputation and people will again (almost) pay whatever VRTP charge because people want to experience those rides again. And I think it’s the same with Fright Nights. It was/is the event to go to at Halloween, and the event built this massive reputation that started probably around 10 years ago, so now people will pay (almost) whatever to go to the event again.

The name is corny; and the animatronic isn't 'world class'. But I think it's great to see something like this at our parks. We rarley see animatronics (it's been over ten years since the last one was installed), but for the target audience it's awesome and it in an impressive animatronic, considering it's in a splash pad. I've always admired Disney/Universal for having interactive characteres (prime example is Donkey at Universal) and wished our parks would follow the same route and they finally have. I know DW have a more anologue approach when it comes to attractions (they generally prefer to have attractions/elements that are simpler in their engineering to ensure reliability, rather than having reliance on screens, animatronics, etc). So this octopus came as a surpirse to me, but a good one, and I hope it is reliable because it already seems very popular with kids. I can imagine the interactive version of the octopus might only be on weekends and holiday periods, but I'm glad it also has an auto option so it's not in a 'sleep' mode. Overall, I think the splash pad will serve it's purpose very well and it's proving very popular, so it will be ticking all the boxes for the park. It's not the prettist splash pad, but it has a lot going for it and fills a gap in the parks lineup. The interactive screen was a good concept, well presented with the rockwork wrapping around it, but with its location due to sun glare has become a poor choice. The rockwork needed to be deeper so it was more something you stand within/under to help reduce the glare; or in a different spot entirly (ie, on the inside walls of the dodgems). I think this area is an overall good expansion for Ocean Parade and adds a lot more value for families. Let's hope the rest of a OP gets an overhaul, with more attractions to fill the large void in the area.

Maybe it's just because it's not the sort of thing I would attend, but I am surpised the Underground Club sold out that fast. Maybe because Fast Track is included, but for the price their charging, I didn't think it would be a popular ticketing option. Cudos to the park. They are proving that they can (almost) charge and offer what they want at Fright Nights and people will pay.

It's great to see for possibly the first time this year (excluding Scooby) there are no attractions under maintence. I'm sure that won't last with Doomsday's reliability, but nevertheless, it's still good to see.

It's a shame to see the Blue Lagoon/Big Brother stage area isn't included in precinct one. There is still quite a bit of land within precinct one that still needs to be developed that hasn't got announced plans for, ie. Rocky Hollow, Ocean Parade, behind WWW and potentially the current vintage car location. Which is a lot of area and definitly a higher priortity. However, I would have thought for the long term future of the park, they would have classified the blue lagoon area. Maybe I'm dreaming because that land hasn't been touched for nearly 20 years and there are high priority areas at the park to develop before even considering that corner.

Superman is the only ride that requires a locker, and they are now free (for an hour I believe) when riding

They might have roaming performer’s throughout the park, but nothing is advertised. At first I did think they weren’t going all out for this event because of Fright Nights, but I just realised there isn’t actually an overlap for the events. Music on Main ends on Oct 2 and FN starts Oct 6.

$89-$109

Are there any others for it to compete with?

Seabed Splash is opening this weekend