On 9/2/2024 at 6:19 AM, themagician said:

featuring the world’s first inclined turntable

not a dig at dw/vekoma for having claimed this for JR, cause it’s clearly very different than the one that’s gonna be featured on it, just something interesting that i came across

 

Edited April 7, 20241 yr by Tricoart

There is fencing in the car park of Dreamworld now, perhaps we'll see the coaster arrive soon? 

Yep seen the fencing yesterday, surely has to be for the track. 

Scaffolding has gone up around the detour walkway

A new office has appeared by the Billabong Restaurant

New generic work fence design - looks good!

On 07/04/2024 at 10:18 AM, Tricoart said:

not a dig at dw/vekoma for having claimed this for JR, cause it’s clearly very different than the one that’s gonna be featured on it, just something interesting that i came across

That's the problem with a selective quote. sometimes things get taken out of context, right?  

On 09/02/2024 at 6:19 AM, themagician said:

Jungle Rush is a switchback rollercoaster, featuring the world’s first inclined turntable

It's clear in the longer quote that the title relates to a rollercoaster specifically.

On 13/04/2024 at 4:30 PM, Ogre said:

New generic work fence design - looks good!

Well, it's better than stupid green leaves.

Support pillars are being unloaded in the carpark right now, painted a brown colour, not as dark as Kenny's Forest Flyer

The first supports for Jungle Rush have arrived at Dreamworld.

(from auscoasters on Instagram)

Edited April 15, 20241 yr by Tricoart

7News report:

 

Seems Dreamworld’s told them there’s an announcement of some kind coming soon.

4 hours ago, Tricoart said:

Seems Dreamworld’s told them there’s an announcement of some kind coming soon.

Guessing it's about the JR track

Photos from today:

Framework has begun going up for the building that’ll enclose roughly half of Jungle Rush’s layout.

Look into the (gutted) inside of Billabong:

And, the supports:

I don’t know what the status of the turntable at Vekoma’s workshop is, but there are visible tags on the shipment that read ‘Platform Supports’, and that tied with the catwalks, and shape of some support columns, has me guessing these are for it.

Edited April 17, 20241 yr by Tricoart

It's big!

Edited April 19, 20241 yr by Ogre

Was there a Claw promotion i missed? Why does the top of the fence look like the bus stop from the original ad?

On 19/4/2024 at 12:52 PM, Ogre said:

 

 

If you’re referring to the wall of Tiger Island, it was damaged on the Christmas Day tornado

God I hope they cover the building up with themeing or some foliage rather than just paint it. We all thought the TOT building stood out like a sore thumb... this box is huge!

From Sunday

2 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

God I hope they cover the building up with themeing or some foliage rather than just paint it. We all thought the TOT building stood out like a sore thumb... this box is huge!

I think it’s rather likely that the building isn’t consistently going to be at this height, and instead that the current section being built is it’s tallest (where the turntable’ll be), with the rest gradually levelling out to a more manageable height. This seems to be shown in the concept art, as well as the expected & somewhat intricately sculpted, ‘planted’, painted, etc. temple exterior, so I’d assume (or, yeah, hope) that at least this section in particular will have similar effort put into the exterior from all viewable angles. Especially considering that it backs directly onto Tiger Island, which already has a jungle/temple theme of its own, & having the train passing directly in between them both, not doing so would be a rather major missed opportunity.

Edited April 29, 20241 yr by Tricoart

2 hours ago, Tricoart said:

so I’d assume (or, yeah, hope)

We've played concept art vs reality before. See also Leviathan, Trident. So its a fine assumption, but hope is all we have right now...

1 hour ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

We've played concept art vs reality before. See also Leviathan, Trident. So its a fine assumption, but hope is all we have right now...

Dreamworld’s released concept arts have been pretty accurate recently, to be fair. Out of all the things they’ve had concepts for in the past few years, the only thing I can think of that’s been misrepresented was the treetop piece on KFF’s main support.

Edited April 29, 20241 yr by Tricoart

2 minutes ago, Tricoart said:

Dreamworld’s released concept arts have been pretty accurate recently, to be fair.

The original concept art for Jungle Rush with the mountain wasn't

7 minutes ago, TBoy said:

The original concept art for Jungle Rush with the mountain wasn't

Is that the one that had the mine track in it?  🤣  You know, the one where I was shirtfronted on.

24 minutes ago, TBoy said:

The original concept art for Jungle Rush with the mountain wasn't

That was very obviously (at least to me, and confirmed by the artist) meant to be no more than a vague idea of the area’s vibe, though, like with the earlier New Atlantis concepts.

I repeat my original statement.

shipping containers full of track has arrived for Jungle Rush.

goldcoast_themeparks

Edited May 1, 20241 yr by Rivals

I love the way DW are making the track match the environment around it.    Well done DW.