themagician

^No not really. As you can imagine, the layout has changed slightly due to the new location, but overall very much the same. I remembered a lot of the scenes from last year as I went through the mazes.

Hot Wheels Coaster would have been fine. But HWHL, no. A part from that, everything else sounds good.

I agree that the smoke is an essential part to the event, but is an issue. I do think that a fence down the middle of the alleyway would help, and if they put signs up saying keep left, then you'd hope people would do what the signs say. And fencing (I'm think construction site fencing) could also provide a good opportunity for scare actors, as they could lean up against the fence and jump out, bang against it, and reach through it to scare people passing by.

Based off the info on Wikipedia, it originally opened in 2002. And at the end of 2009 it remained as the spas. I do remember going on the original ride there, and it was almost just like going on the lazy river, but instead, t was just in a circle. Wasn't anything special, and would much prefer to go to Calypso Beach. I do think this space is wasted now. Another slide, retail and/or food outlet would be a much better use of the space.

Regarding the security, when I went on the 9th, I did see a few security surrounding some teenagers in the Zombieland area. And when I left there were a couple of police cars, with police speaking to a number of people.

I'm glad the 'Dreamworld' doesn't move. If the fountain was found and the globe provided good photo opportunities all the way round then yes, 'Dreamworld' should move with it. But because you can only have photos in front of it on the stage, I think it's good that it doesn't. I do agree with the fountain could be a bit more elaborate, and I do think that the current 'fencing' should be made more permanent, but I think they might have used that barrier as it isn't as obvious as fixed fence would be, and therefore provides better photo opportunities.

And unless you'd been on the skyline chairlift or know about them, it isn't obvious that they were rides/attractions. They both blend into the theming of the area and unless you look carefully you wouldn't know. It will be great if they reopen Eureka, but if it remains there for many more years then it isn't a major issue.

^If people have seen the vehicles being tested on track, I'd imagine that most of it would be alright, maybe a few sections might need fixing or replaced. I could be wrong, but I'd imagine that they'd need new vehicles anyways, to add padding and modern safety systems to them. They wouldn't need to close the whole Gold Rush area, but they would need to close the river rapids. And if they replaced the track and vehicles there shouldn't be any reason for it not to work.

Be sure to do all 4 mazes as I thought they were all good, but I thought Friday the 13th was great, so if anything be sure to do that one. I did have favourite scenes in each maze, but don't won't to spoil them in this post (I did mention them in my review of the night). My favourite precinct was Zombieland, but there weren't too many scare actors about.

I've had a couple of family friends that their young kids in the past, and didn't realise that it was so scary and/or wasn't aimed at kids. I didn't question them about it, but surely people would read that its recommended for people over 14yrs old. Still this year when I went I saw quite a few parents with kids and babies in the park and I still get surprised when I see that. And a couple of times in the past I have seen security escorting them out of the park, as the kids were so scared.

So I went to FN tonight and overall I was very impressed. Here is my review of the night, details on mazes (there may be some spoilers), scare zones, etc. So I go there just after 5 and there were 10 people in my group. We headed to the front of Main Street as we wanted to go on SDSC. We were expecting the rides to open at 5:30, as the website states, but they don't open until 6. After that we did our first maze, Wolf Creek 2 (I'll do my review and queue times on them separately). We then went on SE and thankfully they had 2 trains going, so the wait was only about 20 minutes. We then went and did the Wormwood maze. After that we got a bight to eat and did the Friday the 13th maze. Then finally we did the Evil Within Maze. Precincts: Zombieland: I thought the scare actors and references to the film were really good. This was the most effective scare zone and you could hear people screaming. Freaks: A part from the creepy clowns that chased people, this precinct I found was more of a fun one, which offered good opportunities for photos Demon's Lair: There was no extra theming to the space for this one. It was just scare actors that had been seen before and some fire dancers. They did give scare some people pretty good though. Gothic Hall: This was more a space for entertainment from some musicians. Not really a scare precinct. Mazes (May contain spoilers): Wolf Creek 2: After experiencing this maze last year it was interesting to see how much of it was the same. I can say it was very similar, despite the layout changing for the space. I remember last year this maze giving me some good scares and it did yet again. Scenes such as the crashed car, bushland and truck were memorable ones and gave good scares. As I am someone who gets scared quite easily, I did jump a lot of the way through and was one of the scarier mazes of the night. There were a couple of scenes which did seem a bit blank, and just included a couple of trees. The scares actors were as good as always in the maze and at times managed to keep very still and you would question if they were actors or not, until they turned and scared you. The queue for the maze was also pretty good. It was only about a 20 minute wait (RED SHOWS WHERE I WAS, WHITE SHOWS WHERE THE QUEUE GOES) Overall I was pleased with the maze and am actually glad it did make return. 9/10 Wyrmwood: Having not seen the film I didn't really know what to expect with this maze. It was well detailed and did overall provide some good scares, with some that weren't expected at all. The maze used sound effects well, with a lot of gun fires and banging noises being made. The forrest scenes are always ones that I don't look forward to as there is usually someone dressed in tree camouflage and will jump out behind the trees. In one of the scenes were the was some furniture, but you couldn't see any actors. Then a bench top suddenly lifted off and a scare actor jumped out. There scared everyone in my group and then while distracted by him, Ned Kelly came out behind a wall and pumped a gun at us and a loud gun firing sound effect would play. The following scene was an empty hallway with a couple of bangs, so that allowed for us all to recover. There were a few scenes were it felt like a scare actor was needed, but instead would be a wheelchair or a tree. Despite the big scare, this maze was the one which I overall got scared the least in. It just felt a few scare actors short. Maybe it was the time that I went through. The detailing was pretty good for the maze and despite that I hadn't seen the movie I felt like I got a reasonably good idea of what the maze was about, I felt like it could have gone a little deeper into it (Unless the movie doesn't have much of a story line, then it was pretty accurate). The queue line was about 20 minutes as well for this maze. I think this maze will be better next year within a smaller space so some scenes don't feel like they get repeated or there aren't as many hall ways. I'm giving this maze a 7/10 Friday the 13th: I haven't seen this movie either, but this was the maze I was very anxious of and had good expectations for. And this maze, in my opinion, smashed by expectations. The opening scene was very nerve racking and at many moments was expecting someone to jump out. You start by walking into a forrest over a wooden bridge (which had a good effect as you walked over it, as some of the planks moved a little) and it also had a pretty cool running water effect. There was a lightening effect and plenty of thunder and banging. Then the scare actors began to jump out. As you walk through, the scare actors got very in your face and were quite threatening as at times they charged at you or ran past you into the darkness. At one point there was a scare actor (or it might have been people on the terror tour, not sure) spraying water at you. The maze had plenty of flashing lighting effects and made it very nerve-racking to walk through as you felt like someone was going to suddenly be there. When walking down a couple of the corridors there was also some banging and flashing lightings. As you made your way into the cave scene we were all expecting someone to jump out from somewhere, but instead Jason suddenly started running from a distance at you and it almost wasn't until he was right in your face you would notice him and that was quite frightening. The maze had the longest queue of about 30 minutes, but as a lot of us know, is no where near some of the queue lines in the past. In my opinion this was probably one of the best mazes I've been in at FN, despite there being a couple of empty corridors, I thought it was great. It was also one of the scariest mazes I've been in before. 10/10 The Evil Within: I really enjoyed this maze last year and thought the detailing of it last year was very good. The detailing was very much the same this year, with all the memorable scenes returning. The chainsaw scene was one that was unexpected (unless you look at the monitors before entering where you can see him scaring people), the spider lady and box headed guys were the stand out scenes in the maze. Most of the maze did have actors in, and all provided good scares. There were a couple of scenes without anyone in, but overall was good. As this was the last maze we did and we entered the queue at about 10, we only had a 5 minute wait. Was almost as good as last years, with most of the detailing still there. 8/10 OVERALL: This years FN was very good and for me provided some of the best scares. It was a shame that there weren't any scare actors down the alley towards the sound stages. Maybe next year a precinct should be here, instead of the one next the re-used mazes. In a way I'm kind of glad they reused two of the mazes from last year, as it meant that all of the mazes should be of good detail and scares, and they were. It was great that the queues were much shorter than I ever remember FN being, and that may be because there was more entertainment this year. As always they do a great job and was very pleased with this years event. I'm giving it a 8.5/10

Just went to FN and when I got there, there were 4 guys in the station with trains with test dummies in them. And then 10 minutes later I saw them testing the ride doing a full circuit of the track a couple of times.

You can check out a POV of the slide here: https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/29764039/test-riding-the-kraken/

I definitely think they should at be open 9-7 during December. And 9-9 in January (as they did at the beginning of the year). In regards opening 12-7, in my opinion I doubt they'd do that. It is a good idea to open for an extra couple of hours after school during November/early December, but I still think they should open at 10. Even if they stayed open for an extra hour (10-6). That would give a decent amount of time after school finishes.

Someone complained to DW on FB about this, meaning that this is correct. Apparently DW's reasoning for this is because the park closes an hour later. You'd like to think as we get closer to Summer that the rides would be open at 10 when the park opens, and I'd be very surprised if they kept it this way during Summer as well. Between November and February they should open WWW at 9:30 and rides open at 10.

I agree liz.wis. When I checked it out last week I was surprised there was little shading of the queue lines. They are saying that its open for a sneak peek, so maybe it will close for a couple of days, so they can do finishing touches, and maybe install shading of the queue lines.

It will probably closed then for construction of the v8 supercars attraction. It was originally scheduled for 12/10/15 - 15/11/15 (If I recall correctly), so I would say that is still planned, but it may be extended, depending on how much work they are doing to the ride.

^The thing is, if there has been some disappointments with the 2 new mazes this year, then would we want an extra maze. We won't the park to put as much detail and scares into the mazes possible and with the extra new additions this year, I think it is because of this, they haven't been able to put as much detail and scare actors as they can. With the scare precincts they are needing scare actors to be active in those spaces as much as possible, which it seems has an affect on the zombie alleyway that has always got good scares. It seems like (based off what people have said) MW have hired about the same amount of scare actors as they have in previous years, but they've added panic rooms. Maybe we will see some more scare actors at FN later in the month when tickets cost more.

To the people who have been, do the rides close at 9pm, except for SDSC which closes at 10:30pm?

So tonight queue were a lot longer, but last night was a sell out. Can anyone who went tonight comment on this?

A lot of people are posting on MWs FB praising the first night of FN saying it was the best one so far and the queue lengths were so much shorter than the first night last year. Really looking forward to it.

^Ah ok, thanks for clearing that up.

On MWs snap chat they have behind the scenes footage of a maze, where you see cameras watching people going through the mazes and telling the scare actors when to jump out. That's something that I've never thought about, but now I've seen that's how it works, it seemed kind of obvious that's how they would do it.

Just been to a private event with a few thousand people at Dreamworld with many of the rides opens. And since I haven't been to the park in about year, here's my little review and update on things I noticed. The new range of food options was really good, and the styling they've gone for is pretty cool. I got one slice of pizza from Dough's Bros. and despite it being $9.90 it was really filling and that's all I had to eat all night (and I'm usually someone who eats a lot). I was happy to see that they've removed the cramped themed queue line space in Buzz Saw, all they need to do is add more railings in, but it definetly makes the temperature in the space a lot more comfortable. The upgrade to the fencing along side river rapids is a lot better as well. Some of the paint work in the queue space of wipeout has worn off a bit and you can start to see the older colour underneath. The broken plane on Tail Spin was still off. The cyclone was as rough as ever, and can't wait for them to upgrade the train and lift hill. The new V8 Supercars area has all of its groundwork done. Now the fencing was down around the old eureka enter mace I had a quick look at the space, and really it just appears that they've just stripped it back. The DW globe was impressive and bigger than I was expecting, a lot of people were getting their photo taken in front of it, including myself. I'm surprised they haven't included a properly railing yet for safety reasons. And finally, the new tvs included playing music videos for the songs playing, and advertising some things in the park I didn't think was too bad; not something major, but could work well for marketing specials, events, etc.

^In previous years you have been allowed to wear costumes and light makeover, as long as if nothing covers of hides any facial features. I always thought how people thought getting scared was fun, and I hate getting scared and don't watch horror movies, but after I went a couple of years ago, I love it. I think it's the adrenaline I get from it. It's difficult to say why I love it when I hate horror, but there is something about FN.