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  1. Levi
    couldn’t agree more, the ops have seemed to have gotten even better. by the end of the night we rode 4 times in 12 minutes including looping back around. i did notice more theming has been added into the turntable room, unless i remember incorrectly. there is now two big crystals, green for the right, blue for the left that move up and down depending if you’re shifting to their side or not (again, maybe i just don’t remember those being there.) there also seemed to be a lot more themed panels in there then i remembered. the sliding door has been removed off of the loose items box which has made it a bit quicker as well.
  2. Levi
    i think a new coaster in the area is genuinely more realistic then a new stage show with the current state of VRTP. lets be real, the rides replacement most likely won’t be open until 2027/28, three to four years since WoO. i think it’s pretty clear the ride won’t be reopening, they might not be demolishing it right now but you can tell they’re prepping for it.
  3. Levi
    surely they wouldn’t start scrapping the ride and area if they didn’t have a plan on what’s coming next, so time for speculation to start. what i think is that they’ve closed the studio showcase because they’re going to knock down the whole building to make a much larger space for a new area replacement. they need more flat rides and a new inverting coaster, so why not knock both out at the same time. maybe a Mack Stryker (different enough from DC Rivals), with an S&S screamin swing, the area would be an expansion of the wild west section instead of a whole new theme.
  4. Levi
    i agree, another stand out coaster is what the park now needs, something like an Intamin Mega Coaster. after that it’s only little things here and there (Motorcoaster sticking out like a sore thumb for example), that they need to work out. as it is, the parks already much more bang for your buck compared to down the road.
  5. Levi
    i think they’re both great family rides, but overall they’re just okay. looking away from the theming, Kansas Twister is a fun little coaster, but i do wish it maybe ran a bit faster on the return trip and was a bit longer. FOTWW has a fun layout and the drop + first turn are decently intense for a family coaster, but it’s way too short and it’s a capacity nightmare. not being able to do up your own seatbelt, while the gates also don’t open until the station is completely empty, while it’s also only able to run one train makes every dispatch around 4 minutes, that’s only around 300 people an hour. so by the time you actually make it through the boiling hot queue line and experience the fun, but 30 second ride, you’re left with a sour taste in your mouth. for the hardware itself, FOTWW is my preferred option, but for how they are at the park, the experience of Kansas Twister is better imo, but they’re both just way too short. part of me thinks they should’ve gone for either a singular coaster like a big bear mountain / fire chaser express style of ride or a Vekoma STC & family boomerang combo.
  6. Levi
    @New display nameon my first visit i don’t remember there being a sliding door so they must’ve fixed that issue, its good to see them improving on an already near perfect product to speed operations up even more. i didn’t expect it to be such a people eater, it definitely has the best operations on the coast. i’m excited to see what else they do in the switchtrack room.
  7. Levi
    from what i’ve heard, the interior of the switchtrack room and indoor sections isn’t completed yet, but it was either open the ride on time or finish the last little bits of theming. the ride does seem to get pretty decent sized lines as well, but the opening crew are fantastic, most of the time the rides ready for dispatch before the second train is even hitting the break run.
  8. Levi
    i mean they’re okay but they’re all very short. Double Barrel is useless, Super Ripper is good for kids and Kaboom is pretty good but i find the valleys of the drops to be pretty rough and borderline painful. Tangerine Twist: boomerang slide Teal Twirler: bowl slide
  9. Levi
    thank you, i mustn't have actually copied the ray rush link🤣 it would be, but the names tend to make me think that’s what’s happening, i mean Aqua Blast in the Zoom Zone screams that. i’d say they’re all for different attractions though as they don’t really sound like “back up” names if the others don’t get approved.
  10. Levi
    more trademarks have been filed for wet n wild, including ‘Zoom Zone’ and ‘Teal Twirler.’ my guess is Zoom Zone will be a new area replacing Aqualoop, similar to action zone. by the sound of the names, i have a feeling one of the new slides will be a launched waterslide, something like Cheetah Chase or Ray Rush. let’s hope they’re better slides then the last tower they got.
  11. Levi
    my guess is they didn’t have any staff rostered on to work the night, i think the opening was a very last minute decision. the staff rostered to work for the last couple days were probably already rostered there for training, would explain why it wasn’t open.
  12. Levi
    from what i’ve heard, no staff previews were done before opening. so not only were execs riding on opening day, you could see normal staff from all departments riding as well.
  13. Levi
    i’m not sure if i’m remembering correctly, but wasn’t Wicked Witches station meant to have screens and show the Monkeys flying away as the train departed the station? i swear this was announced when the whole area was announced.
  14. Levi
    yeah i think Rivertown definitely has been executed a lot better then WoO. i think when you hype up a product so much like they have for 4 years, you need to deliver more then you promised, especially when you’re saving money using cookie cutter layouts. the fact they haven’t even covered the concrete tunnel on FOTWW with atleast some fog speaks volumes. however, i haven’t seen it in person, so i’ll reserve my final judgements until i see it for myself.
  15. Levi
    i’d assume the seatbelts are either just for children or so guests don’t hop out of the cars during the ride, which would make sense to have them there since there is a lot of water effects (with one section driving over the water.)
  16. Levi
    Jungle Rush opened for technical rehearsals and is now taking guests.
  17. Levi
    lmao my bad i actually thought they opened same year as ST but realised they got announced same year. but exactly, atleast they’ve refurbed and refreshed WWW, WNW was just left there to rot.
  18. Levi
    i mean he quite literally said they’ve been looking into WWW and the time will come soon. Dreamworld was in a much worse state then WWW was when Greg came in, but he still gave the park a full repaint and refresh in all areas of the park and it is still the superior of the two major water parks. it’s not going to be the end of the company because they haven’t added a new slide since 2021 (which is only 3 years), they’ve shown they know what they’re doing, so it really isn’t that big of a deal.
  19. Levi
    in terms of low crowds, June-August (excluding the school holidays) is the best time to visit. however, normally both Wild West and Dc Rivals are closed during this time. Feb still has some decent crowds but if you visit right as all states have gone back to school it will be really quiet but Superman, Flash and Batwing will most likely be closed.
  20. Levi
    i mean you might be (and i hope you are) right, but even aside from that, i was expecting more then just indoor queue theming and… concrete. lets just hold out hope it looks better when it opens soon.
  21. Levi
    yeah i know that but you can’t even see any smoke machines in the tunnel to create smoke… unless they add it last second?
  22. Levi
    yeah i’m a bit disappointed tbh. where’s the rock work and smoke coming out of the tunnel? why’s there pool fencing surrounding it? why is it just all concrete and commercial looking? the white sheds left over from arkham too… i hope this video is old and more landscaping and theming has been added. it feels like all the budget went towards the indoor queues and emerald city facades, i hope im proved wrong. at this point, i am more excited for Rivertown and Jungle rush overall.
  23. Levi
    i mean that’s true but businesses do tend to hire seasonals (especially for summer) around the time holidays do start, so it could explain it. either way, businesses are going to make financially smart decisions.
  24. Levi
    could the weekdays be used for staff training for new summer seasonal workers? i know a lot of Dreamworld ride ops do work the slides as well so they could be operating the park for the opened weekends currently.
  25. Levi
    one thing i’ll never understand is not being able to do up our own seat belts, especially with rides such as Superman and Rivals. people have been doing up their own seatbelts on Superman for 18 years, and Rivals for 3 years before covid, atleast Steel Taipan and Flash actually opened with those rules (even if SurfRider didn’t have that rule.) i wonder if we’ll be able to do the seatbelt on fotww ourselves or not.
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