Baconjack

You are probably on your way to the park already but I would recommend getting on steel dragon first as it closes at 2 (I believe) each day I reckon you’ll have enough time to do a lap on the big 3 coasters, the park does get packed during the summer time. Make sure you have cash with you if you want to get a fast pass (they are pretty cheap) there’s an atm in the 7/11 next to the park

Must have changed it recently. I can remember the key when I first went on flying dinosaur 6 years ago. They had the piece of paper when I went again December last year. Keys better - no possibility for issues with the scanners not being able to scan your QR code when you come back. The piece of paper won’t fall out of your pocket when it’s being held in by the lap bar It does get very hot and humid over there in summer. Roller coasters tend to run quicker and rougher in the heat, rivals can get a rattle in summer too. Lots of rides in Asia (and here for that matter) have this problem unfortunately

Ride (which looks like a Huss pirate just like the original) not far away from commissioning (from Perth theme parks on FB)

Superman had a few too many tins and meat pies

The screens are not terrible but it would be nice to upgrade the graphics from PS2 quality to something like the leviathan station

Kinda weird that Sea World’s wild expansion ended up at a different park 10 years after it was meant to open!

How many air launch coasters are currently open? Most of them have been pulled down for very good reason they are well known for reliability issues If this was true Village wouldn’t be ordering new parts custom made from Intamin I would say they are committing to running superman as is for a while

I don’t live on the coast but I can tell you right now that people living in Coomera are nowhere near the same level of entitled NIMBY as people in lavender bay so the Luna park comparison is silly. Who is living in a multimillion dollar apartment in an inland suburb on the Gold Coast?

Both lsm retrofits so far (zamperla) by all accounts have had a lot of bugs since opening. Intamin can do these retrofits themselves as well not just zamperla so there’s a few options. Superman launch track is quite short and for a conversion to be on the table it needs to fit within the existing track layout (ie not require a swing launch), I’ll leave that up to Intamin or zamperla to figure that out. Of course with new vehicles that means new clearances so a lot more work would have to be done to adjust the envelope inside the building and when the ride goes in and out of the building during the course so that needs to be considered as well. Superman is the only ride at the park that in my view is worth retrofitting (along with scooby which has been done already). Everyone loves it even 20 years later, it always gets a massive line whenever it is open. Village would be fools not to look at it as an option and see if a conversion is possible, otherwise work out a replacement straight away and get the ground running because movie world cannot depend on rivals & green lantern as its only major thrill coasters for 3-4 years. Like a few other comments a new Intamin launch coaster would be perfect, but I’m aware space is a bit limited on that site so I wouldn’t mind a tilt coaster or a dive coaster. I could probably see superman running for another 3 years at least before any of this happens. The new parts should keep it running for a bit longer

Well I mean as recently as six years ago Dreamworld was a dump, losing shitloads of money and could have easily been sold off and pulled down for housing. Needless to say they’ve come a long way since 2016 we all knew it would take a long time for Dreamworld to win back the trust of the public, even nine years later it’s still not fully there. Take the little wins i am happy there are still 4 parks on the coast.

Thanks for this. On a quick google search this company comes from an area of china (henan province) well known for making rides that are cheap, extremely low quality and straight up unsafe by design. So unsafe that most of them are illegal in western countries. These companies don't provide after sale service that folks like intamin do. Lots of rides coming out of here cause injuries all the time, there's a fair few videos of the arms snapping in half on gyro swings that are going around the internet and nearly all of these installs have come from this area (video attached for more info) King Claw or any intamin ride for that matter are well built and supported by their manufacturer, have properly designed systems with multiple fail safes, are made of A+ grade steel thats welded properly and are expensive on purpose because of these things and more. It is a waste of time to compare it to the ride in saudi arabia because they are nothing alike apart from the basic design and ride experience. One ride is designed at the lowest cost possible at the expense of safety and the other is designed to be safe from the beginning.

Id expect it to be online start-middle December as schools end for the year, Boxing Day at the very latest. The testing and commissioning process will take a while given the extent of the alterations but they’ve had three years to plan for this. Running at full capacity from Boxing Day is a non negotiable

They're the intamin over the shoulder lap bars, the exact same ones you find on Big Dipper and Goliath if you've been on either of those rides

Of course not. Wizard of Oz is an MGM film after all. But there’s only so much you can license given Disney and Universal between them have almost everything covered so our parks have to make do with what they have. Dreamworks was never ever going to get renewed at dreamworld because universal would rather chew on glass than licence its own IP to a competitor no matter how far away said competitor is. Dreamworld could have had a bluey attraction in ABC kids world if they wanted to. Presumably the IP was too expensive and Disney gobbled up the rights for top dollar instead.

Id personally trim your expectations. Yes park opens at 9 but standby queues for Space Fantasy, Hollywood Dream, minion mayhem and even jaws can take a fair while (though tbf single rider for jaws is a cheat code, managed to get on it 3 times with a 5 minute wait each go). It’ll take you till lunchtime just to wait in line for those 4, no time to do other stuff. Universal is always busy. Went in December last year where it was freezing cold outside and it was a full house. I was lucky I went alone and could abuse the single rider line. Recommend rope dropping Minion Mayhem first purely because that ride attracts guests like a moth to a lamp, so do it first or don’t bother going on it at all. Don’t forget Waterworld (best ever stunt show at a park) or the sing show that are both really good.