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There is fencing in the car park of Dreamworld now, perhaps we'll see the coaster arrive soon?

Finally, it has run for years...

No tasting trail this year either

Glad to see it is back

Normally in April Dreamworld runs the Street Food Festival, which I find is a fun event that adds to a pretty good day. I've noticed that they have removed the 'Street Food Festival' from there 'What's on?' page and the website link is dead. It does seem Dreamworld is doubling down on Spring County Fair and Winterfest - maybe the food festival is dead?

Wow this looks great, where did you see these concepts? I wonder if it will be a sit down restaurant, that would be nice.

There isn’t a lot of reference to end of 2024 which worries me and it seems like the progress on the area hasn’t been all that speedy…. It looks great but I’m not confident this will make the end of 2024 opening date.

haha I did indeed!

Maybe it is Hyperbole..? https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2024/01/22/origin-zeroes-in-on-australias-largest-theme-park-pv-system/

Dreamworld Golden Years has just posted a very cryptic teaser on his Facebook page. "Today is a historic day in the future of Dreamworld. Stay tuned, we will have some exciting updates to share later today." He generally isn't into too much hyperbole... so any speculations? Park has been sold?

I think we are assuming it got through on load, but what if it blew off a guest in the queue?

WhiteWater world is reopening at 11 today.

I'm very surprised they have called it already... There is another storm on the way.

I love this - also once the Dreamworld mascots arrive it will be even better.

I thought I would throw this out there as an interesting observation. Every summer since TRRR Dreamworld has held a summer event, a Circus, Monster Trucks (geez these weren't the best...), the jet pack people etc.. This was clearly a way to get people in and it does seem to work. This summer it seems like Dreamworld isn't doing anything 'special' for January. I think this is Dreamworld believing the lineup is strong enough now to bring people in (and Dreamland is opening with new attractions) but I do find this interesting because it means Dreamworld now has school holiday events every break except January. I think it's a premature move personally especially at MW has Hooray for Hollywood but keen on what others think.

I went along to the Grand Opening this morning and it was a well run show (as always, Dreamworld events are always well planned). Park opened at 10 but outside it had a sign saying the Flyer would open at 11. 11 rolled around and there were balloons hanging from the fence and Greg Yong came out to make the announcement. Greg strongly insinuated Big Red Boat will be open next week. We got on the first cycle which ran about 11:30 once the festivities were over. At the end the kids got some Lego and a Dreamworld prize (a couple of can coolers). Kids loved the ride, it's great fun, adds a lot of energy to the park and the soundtrack is great, it's a clear winner. I think we should acknowledge that this was a bold decision, to remove the iconic pond and replace it with a ride that may seem similar to Gingy's Swings but it's going to be a huge success. The finishes are beautiful.

We got 4 free passes from friends and so had to purchase 1 extra child ticket (they had them available at the gate despite the 'sold out' banner. It was really similar to last years event, definitely less lighting (the area from Scooby to Wild West basically only had some lights in the tree). There didn't appear to be any 'snow' falling in main street either.

Even the offering for participating in filming has dropped. It's now a single day pass, used to be an annual pass.

They were recently doing some work on the corroboree theatre so they may have some plans for there. Honestly I do agree that once Rivertown is done they could tidy up Sky Voyager and Motocoaster and then work from there. I think the next large spend is probably likely to be 2026 (Rocky Hollow?) so 2025 is a good time to do general tidying up. I still think Dreamworld's next work should be on other experiences beyond rides, things like Seabed Splash, the theatre, the ball pit are all great 'fillers', a Giant 'Ocean Parade' Playground in the old Trolls village would be a great 'people soak' near food.

I think Death Row. I think if you went for Death Row after Conjuring you could squeeze Hellship in before close. Circurse is quite a small maze.

Throughout the night Batwing was consistently quite low wait time and Rivals was very high wait time. Superman hovered around 30 minutes, if that helps in anyway. Maze wise DCeased and Conjuring were the busiest, we got a second go at the Conjuring by lining up at 10:00, at that time they were pumping people through the maze, Hellship stays pretty quiet.

My family are I are in a similar boat, America is just too expensive. Can i ask how you are transporting around the country from USJ to Disney? I am always surprised by the scope of the distance from Disneyland to USJ.

Just looked at tickets for next weekend and the Underground Club has gone down to $35, includes 2 drinks which is actually really good value.

It says on the big banana website that bumper cars are coming in that spot early 2024

We went to Fright Nights on Saturday and I thought I would offer some thoughts, we also went in 2022. We paid for Fast Track Maze and Rides and I purchased my tickets as soon as I possibly could on the day they launched. I am very aware of Village's cost cutting measures and was a little worried about this leading into the event considering for 2 people it is $600. Firstly some positives; I feel the entry process is incredibly smooth, even with the security checks (which I think are a necessary inclusion considering I saw security with masks, fake knives and swords) and my fast track worked incredibly well. I was hesitant in using the app because we've used it before for VQ and it tends to play up, but it was seamless. The atmosphere is fantastic, the lighting brilliant and I feel the sound was louder this time, and better. Alcohol choices were great, I loved the themed drinks, the food was almost a duplicate from last year (Graveyard Frappe, Gore beef burgers) The improvement in the Conjuring Maze is impressive. Last year I found it to be a little lacking but I genuinely feel they made it much better this year, easily the best maze by far. Death Row a close second, some signage was added to theme it better, loved it a second time around. Some negatives The rides shut at about 9:45pm and stopped operating, our Fast track was placed on hold, i knew rides were shutting earlier than 11 but they were shut directly at 9:45pm, this seemed very odd. DCeased is a trash maze, it's essentially a glorified walkthrough, given the maze is actually so small my wife was 'punched' by Robin at one point because they stick their hands out and there isn't many places to go. It's really poor. Circurse and Hellship were 'okay', Hellship seemed very short and Circurse didn't do a lot for me, I feel the 'characters' in Hellship were good though. There were clearly less actors in the precincts and no character interaction at the main point of the mazes. Last year it was okay waiting for mazes and seeing people getting scared, this was not the case this year. The operations at Village continue to be average. We had an influencer push in front of us (physically push in front of us) for a ride on Hypercoaster, which then stalled and had no comms from staff. DCeased shut for 30 minutes at one point as well with no communication from staff. Some 'interestings' You cannot see the queue time for your maze unless you have used your fast track entitlement, a little annoying because I like to monitor the mazes and then go to the speediest one before using VQ. The entertainment is the same as last year, no change there. They didn't start accepting people in the mazes until 6:15pm. Fast Track is clearly oversold, we still waited 20/30 minutes at times, the staff really didn't want people to do the bonus rooms (DCeased bonus room was rubbish, the Circurse and Hellship ones were better) The "wrap up" music was playing in the street at 9:45pm, it's really an event that finishes at 9:45pm/10:00pm, not 11:00pm. I really like the atmosphere for Fright Nights and the event itself but even though Saturday wasn't a sold out night the operations for even the mazes were incredibly slow, staff were still getting in the groove and there just felt like 'less' than last year, it certainly wasn't 'bigger or better'. If DCeased comes back next year they need to expand it to the full show building and redo it considerably, I have faith they can do it because they improved The Conjuring so much, but it does feel like the event has been 'cheapened' a little more than previously. It feels like cost cutting.