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Apparently the nets are only a temporary measure while they inspect a few potentially dodgy panels. It really doesn’t look that bad in person, especially from a distance. You can hardly even see them from MM.

I doubt Dreamworld will do anything, they consistently get big crowds these days. When I was there during the line dancing recently, a staff member said it was the busiest night they’d ever had for Night Markets.

I went on Saturday and while Winterfest was a definite downgrade from last year in my opinion, Christmas In July was fantastic! It’s probably the best event Dreamworld has done so far. I’d also recommend arriving early as the park was absolutely packed.

The rumor I’ve heard is that some of them have started falling off. Hopefully they can get it sorted out soon.

The missing statues have returned… to the entrance plaza! Some of the old theming from Arkham Asylum has also reappeared! All screenshots were taken from The Adventures Of Theme Park Girl’s latest video:

Yeah, the park is definitely improving which is really great to see. Hopefully this trend continues.

Village actually thrived for a number of years after TRR and their parks were still pretty well run for the most part right up until around 2021 and the BGH takeover. That was the turning point when things suddenly went downhill fast and a lot of the big issues with Village today (at least the public facing ones) first emerged and became very prominent. The parks just haven’t been the same since. How much of this was actually caused by BGH directly is up for debate, but the sharp decline definitely took place around the exact same time as the acquisition. The only reason the parks (especially Movie World) are starting to improve again now is because attendance has declined significantly and WOZ underperformed, while Dreamworld has improved and taken a lot of their guests. I’m very pleased that Village finally has someone new at the top, but they’ll need to continue to improve the overall guest experience and retire the many poor practices the company has adopted and been running with over the past few years if they really want to turn the ship around and win back the public’s trust.

The new lights have now been installed. It looks like they’ll shine on the river and island. Also, while in the park today, I was surprised to hear that the old Tiger Island preshow music from the original 1995 version of TI is now playing on a loop inside the Tiger Island toilets. I never thought I’d hear that music in-park again after all these years! Yet another cool way of Dreamworld honouring their past.

Looking at Theme Park Ogre’s latest video, it seems that more permanent lighting is being installed in Rivertown.

The speakers have now been reinstalled.

No, those were off too. Not a single thing in the area was working. The strange part is that the park recently did quite a lot of maintenance work in Villains Unleashed, including replacing the old faded billboards, repairing some of the statues and repainting a number of things around the area. But bizarrely, they’re doing all this while also pretending the precinct doesn’t exist and turning off all of the effects and music. It doesn’t make any sense to me.

Noticed today that the music and effects in the area have once again been turned off. It’s dead silent though there now.

There’s currently a guy dressed up as the grim reaper out the front of Movie World with a sign reading “They ignore safety, I will wait!” No idea if this is a disgruntled staff member or what.

It is a good thing. I was using the parking situation to demonstrate how much the park’s attendance has improved and how they’re now consistently pulling in large crowds.

A bunch of wooden planks have now been added to the Motocoaster entrance gate. I’m pretty sure these are new, as I’ve never noticed them before.

It hadn’t been a thing at Dreamworld for a long time though and it’s now happening quite often, sometimes even outside peak times (it was full the day Motocoaster closed for example). There’s been a few weekends recently where I struggled to find a park and they were outside peak holiday periods.

It definitely won’t be getting retracked yet, being such a new ride and all. However, considering its location being right on the water and all the extra wear and tear that would cause on the track, I imagine it could happen sooner rather than later.

I think Dreamworld is going to have to consider expanding the car park at this rate. It was once again completely full today, with not a single free space available. People were even resorting to parking in garden beds, over pedestrian crossings and on the nature strip near the highway to try and get in (I opted to park in a side street and walk back). Inside the park it was absolutely packed, I’ve never seen Main Street so busy (even during previous Easter holiday seasons)! It was literally a sea of people. Despite this however, the park still had a great atmosphere and it seemed like operations were (at least for the most part) keeping up fairly well.

They really should be using actual graphic designers, not just outsourcing it to a computer. That’s very true, but I noticed a few potential signs of AI generated art within the image that really stood out to me. The most noticeable for me is the odd lighting and the very smooth, overly shiny and glossy look to everything, which is quite typical for AI images (you can really see it on the dragon and the top of the Dreamworld tower). I could be completely wrong (and I hope I am), though I wouldn’t be surprised if the image has at least been run through some sort of AI filter.

Unfortunately, it’s not just their social media. Some of their new promotional images appear to be AI generated too.

It’s front page news in the GC Bulletin today.

Movie World is now cashless too.

The first official Bluey attraction in a Disney park has just launched with the “Bluey’s Best Day Ever” stage show and meet and greet at the Fantasyland Theatre in Disneyland. It looks to be a fun show for the kids and has apparently been extremely popular so far. Alton Towers in the UK are also about to open a Bluey themed roller coaster in their Cbeebies Land area. Theme Park Worldwide did a video on it recently: I’ve got to say, it’s pretty surreal to see a local Aussie show that’s produced and set in South East Queensland doing so well on the world stage.

I noticed that the old faded Superman billboard at the front of the land has surprisingly just been replaced with a brand new one. It looked like a few other pieces of theming had received some minor touch ups too. Is this a sign (no pun intended) that the park might be looking at keeping the area?

It was an email that Dreamworld sent to Jaggs Journeys that said the ride was “closing to get ready for its next chapter”, which I still think is weird wording and kind of implies a retheme. I highly doubt it will end up simply being Motocoaster 2.0 though. I think it’s possible that the new ride might use some of the bones of MC in places, but will have so many changes and modifications that it will essentially be a new attraction.