Sammus77

Is it still just a rumour that there will be waterfalls from the temple? Or is this confirmed? also bit random, but is it normal for a post to need to be ‘approved by a moderator’? More often than not by the time I write a response and it gets approved, the conversation has well and truly moved on. How long does this requirement last? I’ve posted here and there for years but still need to be approved by a moderator?

Wow… um, I’ve been a massive fan of dreamworlds recently efforts, but that doesn’t look good! At all! They should remove it, looks significantly better without it. I can’t even imagine this is one of those ‘looks better in person’ situations…. 🤢

There appears to be a lot of themed fencing waiting back stage, do we think we could see the black chain link around the two rides removed and replaced? Also wondering If they’ll redo the black metal fencing along the river. It doesn’t look bad but it’s also not within the theme. Speaking of fencing, does anyone know why they have such tall block out timber fencing near jungle rush entrance? (between the ride and the river) I found that strange as it blocks the view of the river for a large portion of the land. Can’t quite work out why they wanted to do that? Surely a continued view of the river throughout the land would make more sense and be more aesthetically pleasing.

Can we get some details on the water effects? Are we talking a large waterfall in the room? Or water spray/mist? Keen to hear more about what’s been added 😄

Oh sorry I understand what you’re saying. Good point. I guess I just find it strange given the massive waits in that sauna of a queue. Would make more sense to me if they just closed one of the queues and only ran one departing option, to run the slightly shorter cycle. All that aside it was disappointing to see such slow ops in the queue after the world class ops we’ve seen in the last month. They were beyond slow. Had they been making the same effort on dispatches that we’ve seen recently the queue would have been half the length. Even with just one train. The dispatch was taking as long as the ride itself. It really was ‘village slow’. I’m assuming it was an unavoidable reason the second train was out of action. I’d hate to think it was a decision that was made.

What do you mean sorry? They’ve been running both forwards and backwards simultaneously with both trains all month? Yesterday was the first day we had seen one train only. And a longer extended version of the ride.

Whilst I have been happy to sing dreamworlds praises lately, yesterday was a let down compared to recent visits. The park was busy, not packed like my last two January visits, but still quite busy. Jungle rush was running one train all day. And we never saw the advertised wait below “60+”. We held off riding until just after 4pm, still advertised at 60, but waited about 45. The cycle was also different, we entered the switchback room three times, have never ridden a longer cycle like that before. But man the staff had the go slows, the ops in the station felt like we were visiting another park down the road a bit. They were really really slow. I assume there was an issue with the second train? Not sure why else you’d only run one train on your new signature attraction on both a long weekend and school holidays. Also seemed bizarre to me that they chose to run a longer cycle with such long waits. Everyone in the queue line was miserable. Extremely hot, and extremely slow moving. elsewhere in the park Sky Voyager also had one of the slowest moving lines we’ve experienced, as did the icecream parlour. The line was well out the door and down the steps and they had two staff and only one till open. Remained like this for over an hour whilst we were in the area. perhaps they were short on staff across the park? Anyways I assume this was a once off as lately they’ve been killing it with efficiency and guest experience. But yea not great across the park yesterday.

Visited Rivertown today. (Dreamworld was heaving) we went to Jane’s restaurant for lunch and were really impressed with the theming and effort. The food was great. Took about 15mins, Good value, fresh, tasty. A table of 7 and everyone enjoyed their food and the atmosphere. Was awesome to see Michelle the operations director cleaning tables and helping the staff clean up and run meals. There is a reason the culture amongst the staff at dreamworld is so noticeably different to the other parks, and its stuff like this! After lunch we went straight to Jungle rush. Advertised 45min wait (we didn’t see it any longer all day despite the park being so busy) we waited 18mins and were on the train. Efficiencies in the station were the best I have seen on any coaster in Australia, ever. The second the lap bars came up for one load to exit the ride, the gates were open and the next lot were moving in, lap bars checked and dispatched unbelievably fast. After about 2pm we never saw the advertised wait more than 15mins, and we didn’t wait in line more than 7mins each time. It’s already been said but the queue is impressive. Hot, but impressive. not sure if this has been said but if you look down to the ground while your in the switch track room, there is an absolutely massive snake with its head aimed towards the track. It’s in the darkest section of the coaster, you can’t really see it when you go past as there is no light on it. I assume this is a work in progress? When it’s lit up I’m guessing it will be like their version of the yeti flypast on expedition Everest. It appears to be positioned right as you make a quick turn inside the temple, should make an awesome effect when light up. I think dreamworld knocked it out of the park with this ride, just as advertised there were little kids and grandparents on this one and everyone seemed to finish the coaster with a big smile on their face. It’s just a really fun ride. MMotors was advertised as 60mins most of the day so we left it till last, joined the queue at 4pm when advertised at 45mins, but waited only 20. Still slow moving compared to other rides but they have at least improved operations since the last version of this ride. Theming is epic, similar to jungle rush, everyone seemed to love it. we were talking to one of the ride ops while waiting for our turn and asked why dreamworld kept the ramp down to the waters edge rather than clear it during construction, it’s got new handrails, new floorboards. Our response was a smile and a ‘watch this space’ … I won’t read into it as it could be nothing, but if that means a future river/boat/raft ride, this would make a lot of people pretty happy! also some new merch in the Rivertown shop that didn’t seem to be available on opening. the park was alive today, atmosphere amazing, wait times really good considering the crowds, and staff were awesome! I gotta say it, movie worlds addition doesn’t come close in either execution, or operation. Lastly, the park is still feeling a little incomplete with the half train track, and long empty walks in both directions to the animals. The train will apparently be complete again in the coming few months. Can’t wait to see Rivertown with even more kinetic energy once the train is back in action.

Can anyone provide insight into the wait times for jungle rush and M Motors over the last few days? We’re considering taking the kids tomorrow however they’re young and if it’s overwhelmingly busy we might hold off. Are we talking 40min waits for jungle rush, or 2hr waits like the other park down the road. also how is the rest of the park coping? Lines becoming unbearable, or is the park managing the capacity well?

Interesting to see they have incorporated a ramp and platform/dock alongside the river. Surely this is forward planning for a potential riverboat return? Or perhaps another sort of raft/boat ride? I can’t imagine why else they went to the expense of adding it. It’s not noticeable from anywhere so I highly doubt it was done just for theming. Thoughts?

I have to say personally I am disappointed. We didn’t spend long there so I won’t review the rides as we couldnt get on. From a ‘non rider’ perspective the land is incredibly small, boxed in and feels kinda flat/cheap. It almost feels like an old area of a park that use to be alive but lost its energy and pizazz over the years. It desperate for some kinetic energy and life in my opinion. We had a Quick Look in the ride queues, there’s a small element of impressive theming then lots of blank walls and concrete and backstage views with literally 0 effort or thought put in. The wait times for wicked witch are also going to be horrendous. I can’t imagine most families/kids being happy to wait 2hours+ for a short ride. Seems a bizarre choice for a park that is screaming out for capacity and people eaters and who seem to have no interest in efficiencies or operations, but I digress. I’ll admit this is a step up from a lot of recent village installations and there are some really beautiful scenes here and there, but overall disappointed. It’s not an Immersive land at all, it’s a painted courtyard with some theming and a queue for two small coasters. The claim of $100mill also baffles me. Between Woz and Rivertown, I’m hoping it pays off for dreamworld, they’ve put far more effort in this time round and you can see their passion in its endless details and uniqueness.

Wandering Oakes sliding sleighs This is one of the concept art pictures on dreamworlds website it shows the timber slats on the track, (I know it’s only concept art) their animated pov also shows this on the track. Im assuming it’s not happening but I was just curious 😊

Was just curious as some of the concept art had the slats on the track, and some other recent vekoma family coaster installs that are not ‘trains’ still had the timber in the tracks.

Do we know if they will install timber slats on the coaster track? I am assuming not and would have expected it would be installed pre delivery? Shame if not, would have looked incredible!

Surely they will retheme the motor coaster to blend a little better and not take away from the Rivertown entrance? Rivertown Racers, Dirt Bike Derby, Murrisippi Motorcross? There are plenty of easy to blend in themes they could go with, even if all they did was retheme that horribly tacky green building/entrance sign. do we have any word about the possibility of this? Thinking of the dingo racers at Aussie world, pretty cheap but fairly effective. They don’t need to spend a fortune, you don’t want it to take away from the Rivertown entrance, but just something to blend in nicely could be fairly affordable/easy to do… we keep saying ‘get rid of it’ but they won’t, not for a long time. It’s still fairly popular with kids/families.