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Always thought it was weird that they just covered RHLR over in many places. Any future attraction there will need excavation & demo before construction.

Just a metric conversion here, the spike @Slick you mention is 500ft, 152m, which is just over 30m higher than the Dreamworld Tower. TTD is only 128m / 420 ft - are they raising the height of the hump? 😲

My spitballing post below is going on the assumption of the ride beginning facing forwards or backwards. As for enclosed switchback, if the ride starts at the height of Billabong / Big Red Car, the enclosed turntable could be inside the ToT station building after completing some of the ride already. For the story - if you're driving in an Aussie jungle, what's going to make you want to put the jeep into reverse? Cassowary? Crocodile? Rolling boulder? If the story is an "escape from", you could do the story at either the station if starting reversed (Leviathan), or the turntable if starting forwards.

Lucky they didn't leave the top "D" until last... (I'll show myself out.)

Going with that being intentional, to help show guests that the area is a thoroughfare.

+ Dreamworld Flyer and the splash pad. I don’t really think it is necessarily a bad thing though. They really are transforming the park while fixing past managements poor decisions. Sure it’s a lesser ride count but atleast it will now be quality over quantity, and they’ve already stated they have more plans for the next 5 years or so. It’s really nice seeing our parks get so much care and investment as of lately. + an all-new Vintage Cars.

Pulls pin. Dreamworld didn't open with IPs, it doesn't need IPs. Drops nade.

There's two movies from the Wizard of Oz 'universe' coming out over the next few years: "Wicked" parts 1 & 2, also a very popular stage musical. MW are getting back into making attractions based off current (non-DC) IPs, and WoO has got the bonus of a rich history to bookend it.

Ahh, thanks Skeet. Suspected it was the lot to the west of that.

Wasn't the land to the north sold off (where the BB house was)? Or, was the land between the BB house and the Koala Eucalypt/Vintage Cars the area sold off? Back on topic, if there's something that they're sitting on that would give them a major hit in the industry they're competing in, why should they be transparent? Not having a go at people's comments in the thread, just asking.

Great to hear that you mostly had an awesome time there. Some questions: - How did you go with the other guests in the various parks you visited? Sometimes they can add to the magic, sometimes detract. (My DL Paris visit on Halloween was enhanced by so many dressing up, for example.) - Did you eat in the parks at non-booked / non table service places as well? How much better was the booked restaurant (if they were better)? - Did you have time to do Smuggler's Run as well as RotR? How was it? - As Galaxy's edge has been around for for a little wile now, are the cast members still going with it ("bright suns!" etc)? - In RotR when you were put in your cells, did you try the Andor "I'm a tourist!" line? - What surprised you most about LA (outside of the parks)?

I'd go for a Restaurant, but one not too high that it affects the skyline from the carpark. This said, the front of the park is a significant watercourse, and we've seen that area and the carpark underwater before. Link Link I'd be all for a Citywalk styled area out front that extends to the hotel, but the flood risk is too high (unless the precinct is built higher...but that'd ruin the skyline).

Hey mods, can we get some warnings edited into posts that link to images of the crash scene? Cheers. I don't know the broadwater islands that well, will this accident scene have water over it when the tide rises? Will make the CASA investigation much harder if so.

You can do DLS & DLP in a day when it's quiet, but you're losing the wandering around marveling at everything, which is a must-do at any Disney Park.. Again, I went on one of the busiest days of the year. This said, two days there would be much better. If we were able to do two days, I'd certainly have ridden the Avengers Coaster again, and added Crush's Coaster. DLS is still not a full day, not until Erendell opens at least. Our trip was not able to accommodate another day at the parks. I liked how they were able to blend both the 30 years and Halloween theming. It was seamless.

I would be an 80s kid again if Rivertown was extended all the way to Giant Drop with something replacing Motocoaster.

The archway next to Motocoaster as you enter ABC Kids had Tsehay on Sunday Dec 12th. Same day she was also on the ABC Kids sign next to the pathway towards Tiger Island.

The concept art on the temporary fencing surrounding the ride matches the images on page 2 of this thread. I believe it'll face west / carpark / M1.

Thanks Alex.

Cheers @Ogre - this puts the skull where the lockers are now, maybe even further left.

Visited the garden today, the plants put in are now well established. There’s very light ambient music playing from speakers back nearer the main path, and this helps to drown out a lot of park noise. As the garden drops away from the path, even Motocoaster’s noise isn’t too loud. I can’t say I’ve been here though when the east side of Giant Drop was operating, but that ride’s frequency shouldn’t be too distracting. The train is coming downhill here so isn’t loud either, despite passing by just on the other side of the path. Whatever goes in where RHLR was, I’m sure they’ll maintain a buffer, likely a natural one. The names on the seats are still there. No signs of people using it for smoking. I don’t expect to be coming back to DW until River Town fully opens, so it was nice to be able to spend some time to pay my respects. Not that I knew any of them, but it could have been anyone.

Moving on, pics from today. Will they continue the rock garden decor over to the Drop? What will be done around the building’s base? just feels like a lot of wasted space if they don’t do anything, as they relocated train line frees up lots of room. This would have been the perfect chance to remove spaghetti junction as well and make an easier queue closer to the building. Something people here have suggested for years (myself included).

Yeah, noticed that today EFM sorely needs a repaint. Here’s more posterity pics from today, plus more of the work that @Ogre already posted yesterday. the Po in the (former) splash zone / jumping water is where the Tower Of Terror’s skull originally stood right? Or was that near the lockers left of there?

Pics today of the front of the park for posterity..

Can someone translate that into English for me?

It will certainly improve the sky line when finished. From today.