Prequel

Comparing a relocation from the park next door to a world class hypercoaster is insane. Would a ride like Hyperion even work at Movie World, there is a ride on the other side of the park that is offering a similar ride experience. Wouldn't you prefer a more diverse coaster line-up? I'd like to see Movie World get another world-class thrill ride as much as the next guy, but it's not that simple. Movie World is landlocked, with a working movie studio behind it, residential very close to the side, and then swamp land and top golf on the other side. This is a park that will have to be very clever with future large scale investments, being forced to use the limited amount of land left very wisely. Future attractions may need to come with some major sacrifices. I also just want to express how good I think this relocation is, and how much it will do for that area of the park. It really opens it up, and makes it more attractive of a place to be in. Outside of Arkham and Superman, it always just felt dead and depressing, it wasn't really that nice compared to other areas of the park.

Isn't that where the planned hotel is suppose to be? Also, that's ridiculously close to a residential area.

Yes. The ride has been down at Wet and Wild for a long time, I'm not really sure what's stopped them from moving the ride during that downtime, if it was so easy to just dismantle the ride. What could they even do to dress this ride up? It's not a lot of space, it's located on a huge concrete slab, and they probably want the ride to be operating as soon as possible.

Will the ride get a new colour scheme, what would you even theme this to.

Can I have their Minotaur statue then? If they aren't going to be needing it anymore.

Maybe Hanna-Barbera just isn't that appealing to kids anymore, sure they are recognisable entities to us. But how many kids these days are actually sitting down and watching the Flintstones, Yogi Bear and The Jetsons? I was born in 2003, and it was already out of fashion when I was growing up. Besides some 4D attractions of released movies, I doubt you will see Movie World really go out of their way to license characters that I'm not convinced kids even like that much these days.

You theme it to the scene where Henry is driving around with the helicopter chasing him. You have the trains be like cars, and then do the ol Superman Escape trick and have a helicopter on the back. The park could charge extra if you wanted to be in the helicopter seat.

What about a Space Mountain-esque Goodfellas themed coaster, with on board music playing Joe Pesci's Wiseguy.

A launched indoor coaster themed to Children of Men.

I'm still hanging on to that Aussie World B&M Giga! A rewards program is cool for the Aussie World frequents, I guess. Did the park really need to have some sort of build up for it? They probably could have just dropped it and it would have had the same reaction. But to play devils advocate in my own post, how meta of me, the build up under the hope of something big is really why any of us are talking about it here. Also, to the over-speculating point. Aren't the point of these forums is to discuss? Speculation seems to be a significant part of theme park discussion. The park knew what they were doing by trying to generate some hype, it's not people's fault for hoping for something more special.

There was a time when the park map looked impressive.

I just miss the Tower of Terror's (I & II) roar across the park, just seeing it fly up as you past the park on the M1. The ride had a dominating presence over the park, and Dreamworld feels emptier without it. The same goes with Wipeout, the noise it made is so ingrained in my mind, and it always felt like there was just as big of a crowd watching the ride as there was queueing for the ride.

I'd imagine it'd be quite devastating for VRTP to have to cut ties with Warner Brother. Imagine having to retheme majority of your rides and areas, they'd have to make so much costumes out of nowhere, all in such a relatively short period of time. Removing the big Joker face on top of DC Rivals, that big lantern logo on Green Lantern, having to order all these new trains (especially for Superman Escape). In my opinion, it will never happen. If it was to happen, it would be a very long process, and will be a very expensive one. And I highly doubt VRTP would theme the entire park around Marvel, or another brand or studio. Since last time they did, it cost them a lot of money.

That's not what I meant. Rivals is in a maintenance period, which where dummies is something I'd expect to happen. I'm talking about every day cycles of the trains before the park opens.

I don't think I've ever seen Movie World use water dummies for their morning tests on any ride. Thinking about it, I don't think I've seen any theme park on the Gold Coast use water dummies for their morning cycles. Constantly filling up trains with water dummies every morning just seems like a massive waste of time. You are speaking like you knew this was gonna happen, when this has never happened in the 5 years the ride has operated at the park. You're not an expert, nobody is expecting you to be an expert, stop pretending to be an expert.

I'd assume majority of the voter base, or whoever gives out the awards, are primarily Americans. Because Escape from Madagascar is one of the greatest roller-coasters of all time!

I'd cry if I saw this happened, I really wouldn't want to see the park be converted to Legoland. I think there is a lot of attachment to the name and identity of Dreamworld, even if it was damaged by the accident in 2016. i don't know about year by year, but I'd get another roller-coaster (thrill ride) in the next 5-10 years. I do not think Steel Taipan is enough for the lack of roller-coasters the park has now. Obviously, the family side needs something. I don't know what, where and when.

I know, but the whole reason the brand name was used is because a successful children's book has been adapted into two successful films. So wouldn't it make sense for a company to continue to take advantage of the Wonka name, especially when there is a new film right around the corner? I know Nestle discontinued the brand overseas in 2018, but I wouldn't be surprise if it made a comeback if the new movie is successful.

There's a new movie coming out called Wonka, so I sincerely doubt that.

I don't think the problem is that it's a family coaster, the problem is that a family coaster is replacing a major thrill coaster in the park. DC Rivals opened in 2017, it's been a bit since their last major investment into an attraction. Whilst I'd agree that the park needs another family attraction, replacing a thrill ride with a family boomerang is a huge let-down.

That's gonna be a very intimate riding experience for the people sitting on the second last row.

Coming in 2026 - Steel Leviathan II It's Steel Leviathan, but backwards!

I'm no legal expert, and I don't know how many of you know your laws. But does he have a case? I wouldn't say seeing disfigured dead bodies is the expectation for someone in law enforcement, but surely it's unreasonable to think that you would never see a horrific scene as a part of this career. I feel bad for him, obviously. I couldn't imagine seeing what he say, and it's clearly left a horrible impact on his life. But I don't personally think Dreamworld are at fault for a first responder doing their job. If the officer wins this case, than shouldn't that give the right for doctors to sue their patients for the trauma they experienced via their patient's injuries?

Even if he were to be included, he should only have a minor role. Ultimately, it's a film about Walt Disney. The Social Network wasn't really about the creation of Facebook, much like how Raging Bull isn't really about boxing. The best biopics use historical events to tell personal stories. This isn't the CV Wood film, or is it about his relationship to Walt Disney. Maybe he should have a part in the movie, but it shouldn't spend a huge portion of the runtime on a character that isn't massively important.

I'd agree if the park was being built around Brisbane and the Gold Coast. But I think 1 coaster, a few flats and other non-ride attractions would be sustainable for a short period of time. The target audience wouldn't be people who have easy access to the parks on the coast. The people who the park attracts at first would be people who's only real experience in a park would be their Queensland holiday they took five years ago. I'm always wrong though, so I'm interested to hear others thoughts. It's hard for me to judge specifics about what location in NSW would suit a theme park, or what coasters would be in a park's price-range. I don't get out of Brisbane much, and my coaster knowledge isn't that developed. I was about to say a ride like Steel Curtain would fit the park in my first message, but then I realised it was around 20 million dollars. So maybe a smaller scale Steel Curtain, one that isn't 200ft, would be a good fit.