https://parkz.com.au/forums/rss/1-theme-park-discussion.xml/Most recently active theme park related topics.enI also wonder if those BOH facilities to the left of the Exhibition Centre could also be moved away from that space to where Dreamworld's non theme park developments will be built leaving DW the ability to use that plot of land along with kickback cove and some of Gold Coasters plot for a new ride or two.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:36:58 +0000Not sure if it's been mentioned in another thread but since it isn't mentioned here, Mark Petrie has a nice little track people might be familiar with called Where We Are.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:02:35 +0000Studio Proof is Mark Watson, he has done a lot of work for the Australian industry.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:49:18 +0000From that angle I don't think MC2 is going to look that different.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:10:35 +0000Nope. +1 for ditching the arcade. it died the day the prawn disappeared.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:54:36 +0000Ignore the dodgy Photoshopping.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:38:27 +0000There is also the entire Thunderbolt plot at the bottom of that screenshot that could be included without destroying the arcade. There is so much room a that end of the park once they commit to removing GC. That whole area desperately needs redevelopment - including a better internal connection to WWW. I also don't think nature theming is the way to go. There are so many better themes that lend to better stories than 'rainforest' or 'reef'.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:30:24 +0000Dark 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.MOVSun, 06 Sep 2026 10:06:10 +0000Going 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.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:06:05 +0000@MickeyD not everything is AI. This is just a drone shot that was taken with a wide angle lens pre-AI. If you know the history of the park, then you’d know that that the larger white building in the park hasn’t looked like that since COVIDSat, 05 Sep 2026 21:17:19 +0000Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:37:23 +0000Comes from this guy, he has done a lot of work with village tooSat, 05 Sep 2026 10:54:54 +0000It’s one of my favorite theme park tracks ever. I was so disappointed when they replaced it, but couldn’t believe my ears when I suddenly heard it playing in the toilets a few months ago! It seems that Rivertown’s theme tune has been publicly released too. Thanks to Theme Park Ogre for sharing!Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:53:21 +0000Never heard the 95 preshow tracks until now. Probably one of the best tracks I have heard from an Australian park, gives me Legend of Zelda vibes.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:19:33 +0000I’ve just discovered that all of Dreamworld’s old Tiger Island music has been officially released by composer Wesley Taylor on his two “Theme Park Soundscapes” albums! Here’s the original 1995 pre-show track: And the updated 2017 version: This is the intro music that was played at the start of the presentations: This was heard during the speech about declining wild tiger populations: And this ambience track was played in the toilets: The music around Tiger Island was updated a few years ago, so these songs hadn’t actually been used in-park for a while. However, Dreamworld recently reintroduced all of this music (apart from the “Decline of the Tigers” track) as part of a new soundtrack that plays on a loop in the Tiger Island toilets (including the original 1995 pre-show track which hadn’t been heard in the park for many years). As a side note, it seems that Wesley Taylor also composed music for Gumbuya World too!Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:04:58 +0000It’ll feel like Christmas for everyone if WWW finally gets some love and the new future land turns out to be for WWW.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:03:27 +0000Didn't they recently spend a bunch of money refurbishing the Koala photo area?Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:21:04 +0000It definitely sounds promising. The extended hours over the Christmas holidays were very successful last time from what I’ve heard. So I’d say it’s likely the park will want to bring them back.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:29:35 +0000The Woolshed has reopened as a new Koala photo area.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:22:17 +0000I rode X2 just under a year ago, front row, inside seat, and I really thought I might get injured. And I'm physically fit so heaven help someone with issues or infirmities. I'm a fan of the coaster and I've had many mind blowing (in a good way) rides, but it's gotten really bad, it was shocking. I wish they could fix it, but six flags has been blowing up rides with much less issues.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:30:31 +0000I've been on this ride quite a few times over the years, with my last ride being around 2016. It may have gotten a bit rougher or more intense since then, but I also think some people might have underlying or undiagnosed health issues and don't realise just how intense these rides can be. Personally, I don't think I'd be hopping on it these days now that I'm a bit older! 😅Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:51:34 +0000Rides of this age are typically being closed down, or retracked, am I correct? (Yes there will be outliers).Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:21:39 +0000Free-spin 4D coasters need to burn in the pits of hell. Hard pass. The ride has operated for 24 years, with millions of riders. There's been a few recent incidents but i'd like to hear the outcome of investigations before I treat any incident as justification to close the ride. By all means don't operate it until the outcomes are known, of course.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:33:24 +0000People’s awareness of whether they have a pre-existing medical condition is often unknown. There have been several documented cases of people dying on roller coasters after experiencing a medical event associated with an underlying condition. It seems like that in most cases, the individual may not have been aware of the condition before riding, with the physical demands of the ride triggering their conditions. This is what I was more so gearing my response to but it doesn't fully come through as that. Sometime in the past 24 hours there was an incident that resulted in the injury of a rider on Batman Gotham City Escape at Parque Warner Madrid. I don't know too much about what happened but something happened (apparently more so park operations fault, but time will tell)Sun, 30 Aug 2026 04:01:38 +0000Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:24:20 +0000