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The concept “art” doesn’t reflect that being what they plan to do..

…you kinda still want riders entering the shop though, right?

Yikes. 😢 My thoughts are with all affected. Distraught witnesses described the horrific incident to a local station, saying they saw a man fall from the amusement park's Goliath roller coaster and hit the ride several times, and that the fall was captured on their souvenir pictures. ABC News1 dead, several injured in roller coaster incident at Six...A Six Flags spokesperson said "we are cooperating fully with local authorities as they complete their investigation."

Ignore the dodgy Photoshopping.

Dark ride please! Plenty of room over Blue Lagoon way, unless it's been reserved for something else? An arm ride or trackless cars ride would be amazing, but any dark ride would do. Plenty of room as well at Rocky Hollow and if they re-jigged GD's queue to get rid of the elevated areas. Rainforest would be my pick if it had to be a nature theme. As @wikiverse said, pulling out Gold Coaster and everything from Kickback Cove through to the edge of Tailspin (I threw arcade in because it needs to go), would lend itself to a lot of land to play with. I'd regret seeing the demise of Thunderbolt's station, but that may be inevitable. I've not highlighted that station in this image: Reef would be interesting, and fits the Ocean Parade area. I've been in places that have glass bottomed water features above you, and having an area you can walk that's "under water" would be unique - especially if they did it before Seaworld. Like this but themed to a reef around you, with larger water windows above. Creates cool effects on the ground/"ocean floor". IMG_6739 - Copy.MOV

Going to look a lot different in a year's time. Again I reckon the raised area leading into Giant Drop ("spaghetti junction") be completely removed, including the Rocky Hollow train line overpass. Just wrap the GD queue around the building's exterior and then there will be lots of room for the MC replacement theming and whatever they put into Rocky Hollow.

Log Ride footprint has plenty of room right next door.

Anyone done Niagara Falls yet? https://www.dreamworld.com.au/rides-and-attractions/sky-voyager/

The Christmas in July props were being assembled in the old Buzzsaw site during the week. The guys putting in the lighting in Rivertown had cordoned off the lower deck and were using a small tinny to access the areas where the lighting install was over water.

Mods, feel free to split this off to a new thread. Just wondering what people would do here if given a clean slate. I have removed the paths, surrounds/ramps of Giant Drop, and the train line. If you're graphically-savvy enough, you're welcome to start from scratch and not use the image here.

The possibility of the ride's removal with no immediate replacement cannot be ruled out, Wipeout coming to mind. If the path to GD/Wildlife was kept closer to the Murrisippi, it would free up room where the current path to GD is. Any new larger attraction would have to negotiate the train track (unless that would get another change of route). I agree that a dark ride wouldn't work in the current footprint, but that's what I'd like to see them build next. I have echoed other people's comments over the years that the current elevated surrounds for GD are no longer needed, the elevated areas that used to be over the train track can be removed in favour of an entry/queue much closer to the tower. Rivertown could run from Jane's all the way to Giant Drop. I wonder if Motocoaster is heading to Victoria? :p

Nothing in that email Ash to say it is being removed. I'm not sure which Dreamworld Deity I need to pray to, but please don't reskin the ride. I'm still very, very keen for them to put in a dark ride. Preferably a trackless car ride, but a coaster, dynamic motion stage, even an omnimover would do.

Please do post a trip report. You will visit before me. I’m also curious about Legoland.

Okay, managed to pin down 2 parks on our EU trip this year - Europa and Efteling look to be the parks closest to our travel route. I'd also considered Phantasialand and Walibi NL, but they will be too far away. So, they will be single-day summer visits. If you have been to either Europa or Efteling since 2022, let me know any tips or must-do's. I would ride almost anything once, but would probably prefer to not do high-G rides back to back. My other half cannot do anything more intense than Jungle Rush. Also, what websites/video channels are good for EU Park visit guides? Of course I'll post pics/report when I can.

Bah - my first time riding the Africa version and it e-stops 10 seconds in. Oh well, over to Jungle Rush for my first ever ride. Which has a queue-emptying issue before I get on. At least my pork burger was nice I guess.. Ill try to ride them again later in the day.

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Too family-focused a theme to be flipped into a scary mode.

Drat. My first time at DW in a few years and JR was closed for this. All good though, have an annual pass now so will catch it soon.

...and further back, Thunderbolt was there.

I mean, the land is right next to SDSC, so a Scooby version of this would be perfect. Could even be a Western theme to tie the Scooby/WWF areas together. (With a shady queue, of course..)

LOL at the Pelican in the passenger seat.

From the movie's Wikipedia article: If anything MW would have been a bit late had the SAG-AFTRA strike not have happened.

The inside of the temple from this angle looks un-temple like.

I’ll add that I’m happy to see the handler is okay and I hope that there’s no calls for the Tiger’s euthanisation.

Wow, a news article about the incident that DOESN’T (as yet) refer to the 2016 incident: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-02/tiger-attack-dreamworld-queensland-woman/104299036