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The 2024 IAAPA Expo Europe has an Intamin press conference scheduled, with its description confirming the announcement of an attraction for Dreamworld. (From IAAPA Expo’s Website) Could be Motocoaster related, could be that water ride Dreamworld needs, but so long as it isn’t a Twin Hammer, a new Intamin is pretty exciting!

Thanks for the diagram Gazza on the other post. Does anyone have any concept of this "Inclined Turntable" from online? or is it something brand new? still trying to understand how it works to visualise it. Also do you think the whole area where wiggles car ride is will be knocked down for this new Coaster?

We visited on the weekend and sat down the back of Jane's for lunch, and I noticed that the old Rivertown train platform had been paved over \ levelled. Now I know asphalt isn't super difficult to remove, but the works just made it feel like it was much more permanent - they've not only pulled out the tracks, but also paved it to make it level with the station platform...? Main St station is still fenced off with temp fencing, so they at least haven't made that permanent I suppose - it just shocked me that the whole thing was paved over. I really hope they don't just keep the shuttle between main street and wildlife. I'd love to see Jungle Rush from the vantage point of the train!

Gavin from Pico Play was on the latest Dane’s Theme Park Life Pod and shared there are quite a number of easter eggs scattered across Rivertown that nobody has noticed yet… Have you spotted them or any others not mentioned? On my list to see next time I’m back… The cards on the desk and the turbine joke somewhere

We have reached the final two awards. Thank you to everybody who participated in the nominations and final poll. All polls will end Monday 10/02/2025 @ 12pm. You can still vote on Best Food, Best Guest Experience & Best Park Operations. 👇 👇 You can still vote on Best Coaster, Best Family Coaster & Best Flat ride. 👇 👇 You can still vote on Best Themed area, Best Show & Best Kid's Area 👇 👇

Next 3 awards up for grabs. Yo can still vote on Best Food, Best Guest Experience & Best Park Operations. 👇 👇 Yo can still vote on Best Coaster, Best Family Coaster & Best Flat ride. 👇 👇 All polls will end Monday 10/02/2025 @ 12pm

Ok, we have run into an issue 🤦‍♂️. We can only ask 3 questions per poll. So I don't fill the forum board with 4 polls at once, every day I will post 3 categories.

Next 3 awards up for grabs. Yo can still vote on Best Food, Best Guest Experience & Best Park Operations. 👇 👇 All polls will end Monday 10/02/2025 @ 12pm

Theme park giant Dreamworld has announced a restaurant as the final addition to its new precinct Rivertown, in a feast for your stomach and senses. Jane Rivertown’s Restaurant is set to open in late 2024 and will offer immersive and interactive dining experiences including lifelike animatronic animals including a python, talking parrot, snapping crocodile, orangutang, and family of monkeys in the rafters. Decorated with a suspended canoe, cargo nets and jungle wildlife, the restaurant also showcases items collected by the fictional adventurer Jane, including a beautiful grandfather clock, oversized masks, and rare antiques from across the globe. Dreamworld commercial and facilities director Dwayne Clark said there were some exciting surprises awaiting guests at the bar. “We’ve planned some special touches around the bar that will truly add to the experience. “Jane’s Rivertown Restaurant is the final piece of Rivertown, and it is set to be one of the most dynamic and immersive dining experiences on the Gold Coast. “We’ve designed this space to entertain, surprise, and delight our guests at every turn, it’s an experience unlike any other,” he said. The restaurant will be able to seat up to 280 people and will include an events and conference space with capacity for up to 120 people. The restaurant will also hold a 12.5 metre long themed boat bar, which will serve as the central hub of the dining area. https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/entertainment/whats-on/interactive-dining-experience-coming-to-theme-park-giant-dreamworld/news-story/5e93d83d88add795ac304904121b8990

DW really keep kicking goals with guest service and satisfaction. No one would have expected them to put on another night for free just because the weather was lousy. Kudos to Greg and the team there, absolutely setting the standard

Not sure when this happened, but it appears the three tiers of Dreamworld annual passes have increased in price. With the Saver Pass $129, Value Pass $139 and the Locals Pass $149. https://www.dreamworld.com.au/tickets

The first batch of attraction maintenance schedules for 2025 have been published on Dreamworld's website.

With Flash/Dreamland open WOZ and Rivertown to open in the next few months, we soon will have all the lands announced for the parks. The question is, what is next for our parks in the next few years? For 2025 I can unfortunately see it be the first year in some time without any new rides for our parks. Village and Coast both just spent $50m+ each on WOZ/Rivertown/Flash/Dreamland, and they will need to recoup the cost before spending on anything new. Overall the only significant thing will be the Scooby refurb. Based on a 2-3 year gap between new areas for each park, I can see Dreamworld possibly investing in something for 2026, but I have a feeling they wont go for a whole new land this time, either an individual flat ride or coaster. I can see Village go to Sea World for investments this time, they seem to alternate where one park gets the main investment for new rides while advertising the previous investments at the other park. It was MW's turn from 2016-2018 (Doomsday, DCR) Sea World's turn from 2019-2022 (New Atlantis) and now it is MW's turn again with Flash/WoO, so based on that Sea World will probably be next for capex.

Dreamworld have updated the printable park map on their website. Adding the grids and adding the list of attraction with height requirements and small description is good to see and should be very helpful for guests.

G’day folks - long time no see! As some of you may know I’m the deputy editor of First Drop, the print magazine of the European Coaster Club. Our upcoming issue (going to print in the next week or two) will have a feature on Jungle Rush in it. We’re looking for more action photos to include - basically those showing moving trains full of happy people. They need to be at print resolution (so off a camera ideally, though a recent smartphone also works if you can download the high resolution originals). If we use your picture(s) we’ll happy give you a membership of our club. The most useful bit of this for those living down under is six issues of our magazine by post, though you’ll also get access to our ECC Live series where we chat with people in the industry on Zoom. Recent participants include Neil Dwyer from Six Flags Qiddiya, and Eric Bertch from Lost Island. Shout if you can help, either here or by email to richard@coaster.club. Many thanks!

With With the vintage cars moving, they are also updating the attraction with new vehicles.

What is the go with Whitewater world? Zero effort is being put into the park. It's bloody summer next week and the park will not open Mon-Thurs! Slides not ready for seasonal opening! No dedicated web site! Coast Entertainment has 100% lost the plot with Whitewater World. How the f^&k do they think they can increase attendance, when they are closed more than they are open. People won't buy tickets if you're not open! Coast Entertainment get my tool of the week trophy.

Dreamworld has tendered out the first stage of the tiger island redevelopment. I'm not going to post every image as much of the work is back of house all minor upgrades like added roofs.

I havent seen mention of it here, but have on FB, that Tiger Island will also be getting a refurb/remodelling as the park moves away from keeper interaction with the tigers - i.e no longer doing presentations etc. If that is the case, and its basically set to be become a zoo exhibit, then for mine they may as well get rid of it. Tiger Island since day one was about the interaction between tigers and handlers visible to the public, about understanding their natural instincts and behaviours in the wild (as much as possible in a controlled setting). If what we are getting is just a couple of tigers sitting in a smaller location than what is current, i'd be done with it and use the land for better purpose - and thats coming from someone who LOVES tigers.

The listed trading hours I've found for this year, so far. Movie World: 26 Dec - 19 Jan 9:30am-6.00pm (could do better) 20 Jan - 28 Jan 9:30am-5:30pm Sea World: 26 Dec - 28 Jan 9:30am-5:00pm (shit) Wet'N'Wild 26 Dec 9:30am-6:00pm 27 Dec - 19 Jan 9:30am-7:30pm (now we're talking) 20 Jan - 28 Jan 9:30am-5:30pm Dreamworld: 26 Dec - 28 Jan 10:00am-5.00pm (shit) Whitewater World: 26 Dec - 28 Jan 10:00am-5.00pm (shit)

The first attraction maintenance schedules have been published on the Dreamworld website. So far, nothing out of the ordinary.

On October the 10th, 2020 Fox Studios Australia has officially been renamed to Disney Studios Australia. Fox Studios becomes Disney Studios, welcomes next 'Planet of the Apes' film - IF Magazine Disney Cruise Line recently announce that it's bringing even more to Australia by adding two cruises World's Seventh Disney Theme Park Gains Traction, Could Appear In South of Country - Inside the Magic As early as two weeks ago, multiple news related stories detailed that Disney had been looking at establishing itself in Australia, a push was made for Disney to be established in South Australia and at one time, the Gold Coast, Australia. World's Seventh Disney Theme Park Gains Traction, Could Appear In South of Country - Inside the Magic With the above mentioned and what appears to be an increase of footprint by Disney into Australia, could Disney be scanning possible locations for a Singapore sized Univesal studio version of Disney Theme Park. Gold Coast, Queensland seems to be the logical geographical location although SA as has been referenced as a potential. With Olympics quickly approaching in Queensland, with the Gold Coast being the mecca for Australian theme park and with new infrastructure being constructed and planned for the Olympics, the Gold Coast with its weather and tourism magnate, seems to be a more pragmatic choice. Warner Bros. Movie World during recent school holidays had good visitation, it is debatable as to whether Dreamworld was able to attract the same number of foot traffic. Ardent Leisure has significant excess land holding and may/could be looking to divest as per a recent ASX announcement. On face value, it may be possible that Dreamworld and its surrounding land may be viewed by Disney executives and being a potential acquisition. However, this is pure speculation, but would seem to make sense should Disney Theme Park be a real possibility.

The Gold Coast Bulletin has published an article about Randy Garfield (who previously worked at Disney and Universal) and his involvement with Dreamworld.

I have been doing some research recently, and I was wondering if Dreamworld still had some of the track and a train from the ride in back of house areas. Also, if anyone has images of it's demolition (files from the og posts were so old i couldn't open it) that would be amazing.