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Superman’s current queue entrance & exit

Update on the FotWW castle & the entrance pathing from Superman’s plaza KT’s barn has an unthemed roof now, too, but I only viewed that from DCR

Some images from today: Motocoaster Jungle Rush Murrissipi Motors Judging by what I can see of Jungle Rush, both in person & through these photos, I think this is (roughly) what’s been constructed as of now: (green: track & supports, blue: notable ride hardware of some form) that means the track for the station, entrance into turntable, entrance into the station from final brake run, & maintenance bay are in, as well as the switch/transfer track between the 2 & the catwalk/main support structure for the turntable itself.

if someone’s careless enough to go to the site, buy VIP tickets ‘cause they like the word, then separately purchase extra ride expresses, that’s on them at that point. like seriously, did people just lose any critical thinking all of a sudden? or maybe just you?

it’s already weak to pull the ‘your opinion’ card, but especially so when this entire recent issue has been your opinion on the event time needing an extra click you couldn’t perform

tbh that confused me a little when i first saw it, thinking it was a paid, limited time replacement for winterfest ‘til i realised how nonsensical that’d be. it’s a winterfest add on w/ it’s activities & (some of) the effects, performers/entertainment, and mainly nighttime rides of white christmas, for $10-$50 bucks. and, if you can’t spend that, you still have access to the extra activities (toboganning, food, (upcharge) skating, etc) in day park entry. i think it’s more than worth them trying it out, even solely for more night ride opportunities.

Hopefully they trim the vines around Trident during this extended maintenance period, ‘cause they’re already getting a bit out of hand. Also, don’t know how common it is to see JR with scaffolding around it like this during a maintenance period (I guess every time it’s repainted), but this is the first time I remember seeing it & thought it was interesting.

Small update for the former VR area as a whole: The path up to the castle is once again open to guests… But the castle itself has both entrances boarded up the same way that VR’s entrance & exit cutouts are. Here’s hoping it’s not permanent, and the building/plot will actually have a use (especially considering they’ve just built a BoH shed in prime expansion area), and keeping this as a shell would be very disappointing. Anyway, quick pic of the new pathway after being grown in a bit more. And progress on the fence for what’s very likely to end up as another walkway (former station area). I guess it could be argued this is would open up a more wheelchair accessible way to get from Nickelodeon to Storm, but it still doesn’t sit great with me seeing all this space be seemingly used for nothing more than a path & lawn, especially for a landlocked park that, again, just plonked a shed in their best expansion plot.

They’re trying to make the point that it’s unknown if Dreamworld are making, or will make, similar quality posts about the ride as those that MW made for Flash, as the time hasn’t come for those to be posted yet (Like, for example, a construction timelapse, footage of trains arriving/testing, etc).

I agree, I’m talking solely about the website (having ‘Now Open’ & ‘Closed’ on the same page, for the same ride, at the same time).

Guess they haven’t learned everything from Levi

I feel like the chance of Universal making a ground-up park/experience here is leagues more likely than Disney doing it. Uni could make something as small as their Las Vegas horror experience, a mid-sized park like their family-oriented ones, or a larger-scale, all-encompassing ‘resort’ (if the tourism market is large enough). Also, with Movie World maybe going up for sale/undergoing ‘management changes’ relatively soon, Universal could swoop in like they did PortAventura, spruce the park up a bit & replace the DC IP with their own.

IMO, they definitely are addressing those concerns somewhat, but there’s still a way for them to go. Their semi-openness about what’s going on currently (Superman queue/hydraulic launch fault, Doomsday destroyed, the vids & images of Flash/WoO construction, etc) is good, but some of these were done in ways that could’ve been more ‘open’ & less ‘reactionary’. Like, how they’ve now confirmed that Doomsday is closed ‘cause they’re figuring out what to do with the ride, but it’s already been that way for a while, and it’s still only stated as ‘Currently under maintenance’ on the website. Or, how they had the relatively large amount of hype-building posts for the Flash, an inherently reactionary ride in of itself, just to count it as officially open to no fanfare on a random Friday afternoon. Like, the fact they’re doing what they’re doing is a step up from the recent past, but it’s just not quite there yet (again, IMO).

Kind of a shame that there wasn’t an actual opening ceremony, they’ve been fun to go to recently. Not that I think Flash warrants one, but theit constant hyping up of an ‘opening date being announced soon’ had me believing they thought it did.

They already had Intamin out for FSF a bit ago, and I don’t think it’s breaking either companies’ banks to send some engineers over again.

really hope those aren’t the finalised colours. if not, first ride-outside-a-ride opening july 2024!

Really don’t know why posts can’t be deleted by the author of them here tbh

Looks like they’ve started with the entrance to the turntable, photos hopefully come soon.

that’s what eltororyan seems to have heard is occurring from his sources. he didn’t say the part, but he doesn’t expect it to be open anytime soon as zamp engineers it again.

They definitely need better merch, but those shirts looks more like early 2000’s merch for a local laser tag place. The best reflection of what the parks need, IMO, are designs more akin to these (maybe not in exact style, but effort/level of design).

I was the only non-staff member on/near the cycle, and nobody was expecting to happen, so I doubt it was purposefully triggered.

Forgot to post this in the chaos that was yesterday (for me), but FotWW’s castle has begun construction, as viewable from Flash’s exit.

exactly, i’m just happy (weird thing to be happy about, i know) that i got to experience a full one cause i was so close on levi opening day lol

Update: Got on last ride of the night, and got evac’d lmao. Only other people on it were staff (great people running it rn btw, real enthusiastic & rather quick too), and they said that was the first stoppage of the ride they’ve had to deal with. My un/luckiness from Levi’s opening day (was also on last train, nearly got evac’d but it was able to advance to station) persists.

Didn’t realise what this meant til I rocked in for the last hour of opening, they’ve actually learned from Levi & opened it for guests pre-grand opening. Actual good job, VRTP!