RobMac

He's deceased mate.....it'd be a statue in his memory!

it's a suggestion of a statue....not a defining moment in world history! You blokes would ban Santa in December! 👎

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Come on DW.....time now for a statue of John at the entry please 👍

Disney do NOT change Brand Names.....they certainly DO Modernise and Enhance Experiences, but their Brand NEVER changes! Interesting comments from Tony Lonhgurst in the recent GC Bulletin article.....DW was great.....and now, it ain't!

It's now a shadow of what it was! Happy B'day DW...but let's try to get something of that "feeling" back - yep, you can have all the mod rides etc, but recapture the real spirit!

Why would DW "move on" from it's OWN Highly Successful "Rocky Hollow Log Ride" theme? Would Disney suddenly bin Mickey Mouse to simply..."move on", what does "moving on" even actually mean? Enough theme park clueless silly speak and embrace the Hard FACTS of DW's Own creative skill sets!

A New Rocky Hollow Log Ride!

Low point for 40yrs sadly! 😪

Next big DW ride project in my opinion...New Log Ride! Incredibly popular and a quality water based ride is really lacking at the moment. [Same for Seaworld....particularly SEAWorld!] I rekcon, they should pull the pin on the motorcoaster thing DW have had for years and build an Aussie "Splash Mountain" type attraction there! Gold Mine theming would be a nice return too.

True, but Disney went on and built major new and better attractions. In real terms, DW has gone seriously backward....obviously, the TRR tragedy put all the negatives into horrific overdrive. The new coaster, whilst poorly located, is a significant investment, but the park needs to offer more....ie a major new water ride.

😪 tears for how they still keep butchering DW! One ^&%* up after the next! Not so much WHAT they do is all wrong, it's just how/where they do it!

Dreamworld for ants these days. 🤪 I'll give em til the middle of the decade and maybe make my first visit back since 2010...an ordinary day that was! Hoping DW can pull through and rediscover its quality THEME Park potential....new water [log] ride please.....I have a dream!!! 👍

DW [and most every other tourism driven biz] is a total wipe-out for 2020, 2021 and much of 2022. It will take a good two years for things to head back toward normal, assuming Covid vaccines/treatments get to market over the next say 3-6 months. Looking mid to long term at DW, it needs to get back a Longhurst type vision of quality themed attractions, quality over carnival type quantity. It's a decade long journey and it will be tough. Start with a serious rebuild of Rocky Hollow with new Log Ride, something for a wide age bracket. Go for 2 coasters and a 3rd dark ride, but again quality is key. Post 2025 look to building a hotel on the property - I think a couple of developers sniff-around with that idea from time-to-time, so finding an experienced developer partner and hotel/resort operator would be doable - DW may wish to do it on their own and develop the skill-set in-house. The hotel would bring an entire new dynamic to both DW and the Coomera area. GC Council/State Govt [with a Fed contribution] could look at extending the "G" light-rail up to Coomera in the second half of this decade. Tourism movement potential and help serving the booming area behind the GC. Food for thought, just ideas, some may come to fruition and some not. But let's all be honest, DW is as boring as a house brick these days.

How about Oz's own once promising theme park sector, commit to over the next decade plus, lifting the quality of our own parks!

Been painful to watch DW decline over the last 20yrs...corporate bankers generally don't make good theme park operators.

If "holding on to a sense of the past is so unimportant, perhaps we can see Disney any day binning Mickey Mouse, Thunder Mountain and Cinderella's Castle....what are the chances?

Thunderbolt II Thunderbolt Returns Thunderbolt Revenge Thunderbolt's Revenge [didn't they keep a few pieces of steel from the old Thunderbolt? a nice piece of themeing] or...just "Thunderbolt" Bridging a state of the art attraction...to the glory of DW...the days that made it great! That's what I'd be aiming for...a thoughtful name, not some shallow hyper-blahhhh name!

No comparison to be honest. MW takes itself seriously as a quality product...both DW and SW are frankly, a bit lost these days. SW got lazy and DW shot themselves in both feet and then said, WOW that hurt like hell, I'll do it again..... 😏

I just hope DW deliver a log flume of Splash Mountain standards and gets on with it....ie, in 3yrs time the site isn't sitting there empty. Rocky Hollow Log Ride....to float down the wilds rapids again??? Fingers Crossed....

Aren't we talking about "Storm"? I'm just saying, in relation to "Storm" they didn't appear to really get a lot of bang, for a lot of bucks! Storm???

I'd remove the whole thing.....build something decent 😎

> Return Main Street to quality Standard - including fountain > Return Steam Train, Paddle Wheeler and Vintage Cars - very necessary, as they compliment the theming, one of the other! > Begin planning for major new log ride "Rocky Hollow" Mark II - probably to begin work around middle of 2020's > Not anti another coaster....BUT, must be careful not to get trapped in the "coaster cycle".....quality over quantity..... New stuff is great and very necessary...but quality theming must be the focus going forward. I fly blind here, as have not visited DW in some years...because of simply the lack of quality. DW should return to quality enduring attractions...not simply new stuff for the sake of new stuff and avoid the dreaded and incredibly expensive "coaster cycle".

Stood outside SW about a year ago...a few weeks before they announced the coming new attractions and to be honest, the entrance was looking very sad.....GC Parks need serious global partners for $$$ and skill sets they just don't have....exception being Movieworld, overall it still scrubs-up pretty well and hasn't butchered itself.....yet! SW, I think [hope] can and probably will find its way back...as for DW......touch-n-go......let's hope so, a much improved reopen Log Ride would be a start....we'll soon know.

That Sky Voyager theming...blends so well with the rest of the DW township NOT....theming DW....theming! 😭