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Not caring about the guest experience means crowd levels have reduced, which means they have less profit. I don’t know how to run a business, but surely that’s pretty obvious right?

On Gumbuya World’s social media channels they posted that the park wouldn’t be open Monday/Tuesday this week, which I thought was odd because to my understanding they open everyday, but only the wildlife section is open on weekdays (outside of school holidays). After further investigation, it appears there has been some significant changes to their operating hours over the next few months, which I suspect is the parks way of reducing costs. Over the next two months they aren’t even operating their only operating junior rides on weekends, which means they’re main two attractions (TNT & Project Zero) aren’t operating. They’re also not even operating rides every day during the Victorian school holidays. To my knowledge the park hasn’t operated like this in previous years, even during the cold Victorian months. If we thought things weren’t well at Village, maybe they aren’t good at Gumbuya World either!

The fact that 40% of the parks rides are closed for maintenance and now their running rides at either reduced capacity of reduced operating hours is further proof that all is not well at Village. Makes me think that maybe Bikash’s departure wasn’t completely his choice…

@Coasterjoe I believe the second train is out of action for maintenance at the moment

Movie World really need to sort their shit out… Having half of the park closed for maintenance isn’t acceptable. I understand some of the above closed rides aren’t scheduled to be closed and might be having some teething issues, but having 6 rides closed and having just permanently removed one shouldn’t be acceptable. They seriously need to rethink their maintenance schedule so there’s not this mass downtime, especially when they charging day guests $109 (for perspective I paid that to visit DisneySea).

No, but Disney's CEO said they'll be designing the park over the next 18-24 months. I think the fact Disney have formally announced it, that's pretty certain that this will happen because if it's cancelled it will look bad on Disney. I know Universal had announced a park for Dubai and it never happened, but I think it's different for Disney.

Zoom Zone now has it's own page on the parks website https://wetnwild.com.au/attractions/zoom-zone As the name suggests, these slides have been designed around speed and potentially could be some of the fastest attractions in the park. Very interested to see which ones are fastest and what kind of forces they pull

Haha oh for sure, I don’t doubt that there is probably stuff happening behind closed doors

My wife and I have. There are a lot of areas of the Middle East that I wouldn’t say are safe, but we travelled to Dubai and Abu Dhabi a couple years ago for half a week to explore the cities and attractions and at no point did either of us feel unsafe. The customs process was basically no different to Australia and once your in the country, just obey the local laws and you’re fine (we didn’t change anything we would normally do when travelling). I also know several other people that have visited these cities (men and women) and they had no issues either. I’m hearing a lot more stories of people travelling to America being obtained in comparison to Dubai/Abu Dhabi. From basic research, the parent company Miral that’s building this park has never had any allegations of slavery or mistreatment. Yes, but every Disney park around the world offers different attractions (even if there are some replicas). And this is a brand new modern day park so I’d say a lot of it will be brand new attraction (like at Shanghai for example)

New attraction complex will be called ‘Zoom Zone’, with each specific slide having its own name. Each body slide will offer a different level of thrills to cater to more guests. They’re on track to have it open this December.

That’s about to change because they’re building the Harry Potter world and two major rides in the DC land. Not to open up a full conversation about it, but there is an argument that America is heading in the direction of having very poor human rights. I don’t know all the facts, but I’m pretty sure some states are worse than the UAE.

Yes and no. All the parks within Abu Dhabi are indoors (except for Ferrari Worlds coasters), while most of the parks in Dubai are outdoors but have indoors sections or a lot of shading. If there’s a typical Main Street, I suspect it could be like Tokyo Disneylands, with a roof partially over it) and then a lot of shading, indoors rides/queues.

To summarise this announcement: - Like Tokyo Disneyland Resort, this part in Abu Dhabi will be entirely funded and operated by a local company (in this case Miral, who already operate the theme parks on Yas Island). However the Disney IP will be leased to the park and they will have to operate to Disney’s standard. - It’s not yet clear what IPs will be in this park as they will be developing the parks design over the next two year and then it’ll take around 5 years to construct (approx 2032/33 opening)

I find it very interesting that we could potentially see the car park slightly redeveloped to introduce commercial spaces that could be used for shopping or dining. And the introduction of what I assume to be a large DW sign on the western side of the car park

I’m in agreeable with @DaptoFunlandGuy there’s no need for a water park to have an arcade. Also it’s not like DWs arcade is directly backing onto WWW, there’s Tailspin, Gold Coaster and the former Trolls area in between. @New display name why do you think they need one or should have access to DWs?

I don’t think we’ll see anything for the next season, but I have my hopes for the 26/27 season. What I do hope for next season is they get ride of the Wedgie; it’s been officially closed for a couple seasons now and is becoming an unnecessary eye sore. I think we will see the Triple Vortex and the Fully 6 speed slides return, but that all comes down to how long the legal hearings take. But honestly, I wouldn’t mind if they removed Triple Vortex because it’s got nothing special going for it and takes up space. Having now ridden the Tsunami at Adventure Park Geelong, WWW picked a poor slide model.

We’ve known this for a month, but MW shared this

A few years ago the addition of an interactive button was added to Dreamworld’s Main Street Fire Station. Just recently the rest of the building has been given some love, with a complete repaint and the return of the fire truck. There has been a temporary white picket fence around the fire truck, but now a more permanent fence has been installed And the white fence around the Baldwin has also been replaced by the same style of permanent fence Photos by DW’s Golden Years

Block walls are being built to create the ‘pit’ for the ride floor to drop down into. This means that there will likely be a ramp/stairs in the queue to get you up to the ride. Also, the form work for the ride structures footings are in ready for the concrete pour Photos by Theme Park Ogre

@Theme Park Enthusiast I think it’s similar, but not that exact model. @Tim Dasco good find and great to see AW are finally adding another ride. I think their possibilities are (almost) endless because they don’t really have any competition on that side of the country.

I haven’t been to the OG Disneyland, so I can’t definitively compare the two, but from the outside DisneySea’s version felt very grown in. The entire Lost River Delta area felt very immersive and like it has been there for hundreds of years because of how well the area is themed. Correct me if I’m wrong, to my understanding this is the first impression of Disneyland’s version? In comparison to this being the first impression for DisneySea’s version

I definitely agree being able to access WWW from DW would be a smart decision, particularly when they offering deals like they currently have where it’s $99 for a one day ticket to access DW, WWW and SkyPoint. Being able to set yourself up in WWW for the day, then pop in and out of DW as you wish would be perfect. It could even just be during school holidays if there isn’t as much of demand in general weekends. That store was a great way around having to staff someone at the gate to the right of the former Flowrider. I believe that store was utilised by the temporary Trolls attraction and is now just used as storage. As we all know, the back of Ocean Parade is a bit of a mess and needs a lot of love to bring it back to life. When that time comes, I definitely think they need to look at a way to open the access between the parks once again, while being able to also close it off during WWWs off season.

Photo by @gc_themeparkboy

It didn’t for the same reasons I didn’t ride Indy. And to be honest, riding it wasn’t a priority It wasn’t closed all together, it was just the single rider line that was closed and the wait was too long.

For your reference, even though the express has a timed entry for the Wizarding World, it isn’t actually required and you can enter and explore the land whenever and as much as you like. Hollywood Dream has very long lines, so I would priorities doing that first. Having done it on my first visit to the park, I did find it to be a pretty mediocre B&M and wouldn’t suggest waiting anymore than an hour for it. Then go for Space Fantasy because it isn’t too far away, then Minions Mayhem (again don’t wait more than an hour for this) and then Jaws. Jaws had about a 90 minute wait majority of the day, but it’s single rider line was about 10 minutes all day (so I would suggest doing that if you’re party doesn’t mind with possibly splitting up). I didn’t get to ride it because we didn’t go to the park, but from what I’ve heard the Beauty & the Beast ride is the best in the park. I would honestly make that the major priority (or pay for the Priority Pass if you can get one).