themagician

Within the park you do only find the characters within Dreamland (and now as a photo op for MM). It’s not like you find them at every corner of the park. If K&B appeared anymore than this then I’d agree, but I think this as a photo op is fine.

I don’t think we’ll see a full on-ride POV for a while, if ever from the park. I think they want to keep it as a surprise and since they can operate the ride in different modes the POV would only show one version of the rides offering. And as a lot of the ride is in the dark the POV probably wouldn’t do it justice.

Absolutely. Because of the turntable, they can essentially change how long the ride experience is. During peak times they’ll operate with two trains and a shorter ride time, but in quieter they can run the ride on a longer program or some where in the middle. If they really wanted to, they could load one train and have it going around the track all day without coming into the station.

From what I’ve seen so far, nope. And it didn’t appear MM was open either, but this could also open any day as part of the soft opening. But keep in mind as it is a soft opening there’s a chance Jungle Rush might not operate every day, or only briefly.

My understanding is because it’s soft opening, not everything has been turned on yet and there might be more to come during the ride experience once it’s officially open.

At least they are open until 5 now, unlike your last visit!

Can we pull anchor now?

Rivertown has soft opened. Not sure if the rides are yet available to guests, but you can walk under the archway and the store is open

Yes, but it’s the same fence. It was black and now it’s white (which is a lot more suitable for the white aesthetic for the ride)

Sea World Carnivale returns again for 2025 and is on every Saturday been February 1 and March 1 from 5:30-8:30pm. The event appears to be the same as the last few years, with the returning precincts, shows, entertainment and uncharges. Tickets are $49 for kids, $69 for adults, free for One Pass holders and they’re offering a 50% discount if you have the One Lite Pass. https://seaworldcarnivale.com.au

Side note, massive shout out to the entire construction and Dreamworld team who are working around the clock in all conditions to get Rivertown complete before the end of the year. What you are creating looks to be setting a new Australian theme park standard for immersion and story telling.

Yes, but they did theme the posts instead of just having a black standard pole. If that is the only minor thing on the scale of this project, then that just shows how good of a job they done. Yes a fully themed fence would’ve been great, does it really matter… no!

Price rise has happened and the Locals One Pass has increased by $10 to $229 Not sure how long this has been the case but it is also now the same price to enter all 3 parks (I’m sure WnW used to be cheaper). $99 Child, $109 Adult.

I wouldn’t take that is fact yet because it’s likely they just forgot to extend the closure to match what the calendar goes to. I don’t think it’s offical reopening date will be confirmed until a few weeks before it will actually reopen.

I’d say it’ll just keep getting pushed back until Rivertown opens

I’ve heard the inside fit out is almost complete and the exterior was being repainted last week. I think the park are really pushing to have all four areas (store, motors, jungle rush and restaurant) to all be complete upon the offical opening. There might be some little details here and there to finish off later, but I’d say the land will be at least 95% complete when opening.

For those who didn’t even think the land would be open until Easter, the park has announced a After Dark event on January 18 that will have the land open for. Based on the rapid progress so far this month, I think they’ll be ready for Boxing Day.

Interesting (but good) it’s a passholder exclusive, but when it’s only $10 entry it’s great to see if they’re giving passholders exclusive access to ride the claw at night for one last time and the opportunity to check out Rivertown at night for the first time.

I know you know this, but for anyone who may not. When the Vintage Cars first opened (in their original Rivertown location) they didn’t have a roof. I believe in the late 90s (around the time TOT opened) roofs were added to the cars. When the attraction relocated to the back of the park, they still had the roofs, but were removed (in 2019 I believe) when it became ‘Vintage Cars Adventure’ when koalas exhibits were added to the ride.

But they have a kids splash pad 🙂

Tower of Terror used to be listed as Main Street attraction and you had pass through ABC Kids/Dreamworks and Tiger Island to ride it. But being serious, there are future plans for the ride (whether it’s a retheme or replacement), but it’s not a priority so for now we’ll just have to accept that yes, you have to walk through the first 10 metres of Rivertown to go on a Main Street attraction.

It already looks like a lot better job than the roof over the log ride boats. And I doubt the current management will make any of the mistakes the previous management made when it comes to retrofitting on site. I’d suspect the necessary consultants would’ve been engaged before just heading to Bunnings and buying some metal to join together.

Jaggs shared this photo showing the vintage cars are being fitted to feature the roof and potential theming that we’ve seen in the concept artworks

Jaggs shared these photos. So far I’m really impressed with the level of theming we’re seeing.

Just make sure you do a better job than DW