Wizard of Oz - Movie World Arkham Asylum Replacement

[TV15]

2 hours ago, Levi said:

hopefully they leave it open at all times though

Finally, we will have another way to bypass mainstreet when the park is slammed and the parade is on.

1 hour ago, jjuttup said:

How would that work with Flash's exit?

SE, FSF and Batwing all at the same time. I'd assume that in 2025 October/November will be the planned maintenance schedule for the precinct.

[Brad2912]

21 minutes ago, TV15 said:

SE, FSF and Batwing all at the same time

Closing 3 rides and killing one whole precinct which welcomes you to the park, all at the same time is disastrous management. If they do that they are idiots 

[TV15]

9 minutes ago, Brad2912 said:

Closing 3 rides and killing one whole precinct which welcomes you to the park,

This is VRTP we are talking about, from tomorrow the whole of New Atlantis at Sea World will be closed for maintenance.

Not to mention in April/May/June the park usually loses DC Rivals, Wild West Falls and Roadrunner all comparable closures to a whole precinct.

I have never been to a theme park outside of VRTP that requires so much extensive maintenance on their rides.

[Brad2912]

18 minutes ago, TV15 said:

This is VRTP we are talking about, from tomorrow the whole of New Atlantis at Sea World will be closed for maintenance.

Not to mention in April/May/June the park usually loses DC Rivals, Wild West Falls and Roadrunner all comparable closures to a whole precinct.

I have never been to a theme park outside of VRTP that requires so much extensive maintenance on their rides.

New Atlantis is somewhat understandable as Trident was never planned to be such a long downtime and would have been banked on it being open. 
 

WWF closed in May/June makes logical sense, and having that down with rivals isn’t a bad mix. At least having the two WOO coasters now minimises the gap when RR is down 

[Levi]

let’s just hope they don’t close the WoO coasters and scooby at the same time, but when Scooby reopens it should balance out maintenance periods a lot more (thank god.)

Edited November 3 by Levi

[TV15]

Follow the Yellow Brick Road! The park map now shows the WoZ Precinct

Edited November 7 by TV15

[themagician]

Flight of the Wicked Witch has started testing

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

14 hours ago, TV15 said:

Follow the Yellow Brick Road! The park map now shows the WoZ Precinct

So looking at this map, there appears to be no way to just 'wander' through the land - am I reading that right? There's literally two paths which are both ride queues, and then one path that connects to both ride exits to funnel people back to the emerald city?

I'm assuming they open the exit pathway up for people to enter the precinct and check things out - but how irritating is it that they've got to go all the way back to emerald city to enter the ride queue?

This can't be the final path design, can it?

[TV15]

1 hour ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

This can't be the final path design, can it?

Looking at this section, I'm not sure if this is the actual path layout. Why would there be a viewing area for FoTWW that’s connected to the Kansas Twister queue line? Or could this be the overflow queue? Based on what the park has been saying, I thought most of the queue was going to be housed inside the building.

[themagician]

My reading of the map is (just to spell it all out)

Entry (and exit) into the land 

Emerald City/Munchkin Land (the main plaza area)

You enter into the Emerald Palace (former AA queue building) which will have the lobby area before picking the queue for the coaster you choose

You exit where the AA lift hill was and join the outdoor queue for Wicked Witch

Or enter the queue for Kansas, which is roughly where the break run for AA was

Here’s the exit for Wicked Witch

And the exit for Kansas, which joins the exit path that Wicked Witch uses

And then there appears to be a couple of paths for lookout points or even just BOH access, but that’s about it.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

1 hour ago, TV15 said:

Why would there be a viewing area for FoTWW that’s connected to the Kansas Twister queue line?

They seem to have maintenance accessways marked on the map also, and that 'viewing area' just looks like a vehicle access path.

2 hours ago, TV15 said:

I thought most of the queue was going to be housed inside the building.

 

Given the sneak peaks we've seen, and the 'decision point' in the throne room where you enter FOTWW and\or Twister, it seems like both rides may have some indoor queue space, but there's still some crossover points. Depending on how long the queues are you can potentially re-join the queues for FOTWW and KT without going through the old Arkham building (circled in yellow) but if the lines are longer (as they will be at opening) I can't see those coming into play - meaning you've got to go all the way back to the throne room to enter the ride queue.

I also have NO clue how the exit lane is going to cross the KT queue line if it drags out that long - but here's what I'm thinking:

Purple - FOTWW queue

Orange - KT queue(s)

Red - Exit pathway

Yellow - Merge points where you could re-enter the queue from the exit

Black - Back of house access points for maintenance teams

[TV15]

Here are a few photos from the promo video we got in May which I think clarifies some paths

42 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

 

[Gazza]

4 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

 

I also have NO clue how the exit lane is going to cross the KT queue line if it drags out that long - but here's what I'm thinking:

 

The exit path can cross under the staircase:

[yesyes]

I don't know if you seen the guy who made the Wizard of Oz area in Planet coaster i will post below. In other videos he talks about the trouble with the pathways and ended up rotating the whole way around Kansas twisters. My question is can you skip the preshow part and just jump on the coasters, or do you have to do the full loop each time.

 

[TV15]

Saw this on a Facebook Group, I guess we have sort of a timeframe now.

[Park Addict 93]

It also confirms that we have new characters joining the parks roster as part of WOOP.

They haven’t previously confirmed that.

Edited November 10 by Park Addict 93

[themagician]

3 hours ago, Park Addict 93 said:

new characters joining the parks roster as part of WOOP

My guess would be the addition of the Wicked Witch & Princess Ozma

[jjuttup]

HFH end a week earlier than i thought it would. Thought it would stay until NSW goes back/Aus Day weekend.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

On 08/11/2024 at 3:38 PM, Gazza said:

The exit path can cross under the staircase:

Thanks. Wasn't really clear on the top down map and I wasn't trawling all the old imagery to try and figure it out, but it makes sense.

On 09/11/2024 at 8:23 PM, yesyes said:

My question is can you skip the preshow part and just jump on the coasters, or do you have to do the full loop each time.

It does appear the full loop is required, though I don't know how much 'active' pre-show there is (seems more passive themed queue to me), but there are merge points I marked out in the map above where one could 'shortcut' the queue, if the queue was short enough. 

In other words unlikely on debut, but in later or quieter times, you're likely able to cut back into the queue line near the station.

[themagician]

On 10/11/2024 at 10:13 AM, TV15 said:

Saw this on a Facebook Group, I guess we have sort of a timeframe now.

It’s been updated and doesn’t reveal any of the info that it did have

 

[Tricoart]

23 minutes ago, themagician said:

It’s been updated and doesn’t reveal any of the info that it did have

 

Whoops

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

So they've just rolled it back ("will return in 2024") so the copy we saw was probably the intended release, but probably hadn't been approved for publishing yet.

[Brods]

I got off Flash and thought I heard something running on the tracks behind me but I couldn’t see anything and just thought it was probably wishful thinking. Turns out I was actually right

 

 

[TV15]

https://themeparks.com.au/unlock-the-magic

[LoZza]

6 hours ago, TV15 said:

https://themeparks.com.au/unlock-the-magic

What a nice little hype up