8 hours ago, Speedy said:

I honestly think that scooby could reopen in September or October for 2 reasons.

1. September is when scooby doo first premiered, so I think it could be the perfect timeframe to reopen if they have everything done by then (assuming everything is going to plan)

2. October is literally Halloween time, it'd also be a pretty good time to reopen then too because well scooby is related to spooky things.

 

plus, I think that since they are repainting the castle walls means that they are probably prepping something up soon because it kind of seems odd to repaint it right now. maybe an announcement is coming?

 
1. The film and ride opened out in June 2002, MW did a post about it for the anniversary. 
 

2. It’s already been announced for late 2025, so more likely December. 

3 hours ago, Jokes_on_you said:

film and ride opened out in June 2002

I think they mean Scooby Doo Where Are You. Which aired September 13 1969.

 

Side note, it's 50th anniversary fell on a Friday.

12 hours ago, Jokes_on_you said:

 
1. The film and ride opened out in June 2002, MW did a post about it for the anniversary. 
 

2. It’s already been announced for late 2025, so more likely December. 

Is it possible they could get it ready for Fright Nights instead?

13 hours ago, Jokes_on_you said:

 
1. The film and ride opened out in June 2002, MW did a post about it for the anniversary. 
 

2. It’s already been announced for late 2025, so more likely December. 

As one person said, i was talking about the og scooby cartoon they played in the 60s. and late 2025 I'm pretty sure falls under the September/October - December timeframe, sooo it isn't impossible.

Id expect it to be online start-middle December as schools end for the year, Boxing Day at the very latest.

The testing and commissioning process will take a while given the extent of the alterations but they’ve had three years to plan for this. Running at full capacity from Boxing Day is a non negotiable

Edited August 1Aug 1 by Baconjack

It’d be pretty dumb to open the ride right as the peak period starts with all the kinks the ride will have initially from the new trains and braking systems. Hope it opens around October-November to give the ride time to be running as good as it can come Boxing Day.

They are running a hundred laps (or more) a day in testing before anyone even sets foot inside a car. 

It's pretty much the most intensive run time a ride ever experiences because you don't have the cycling down time experienced by guests getting off/on. You are punishing the ride with the shortest dispatches for hours on end, for days on end, it's like a giant torture test. THEN you switch to live testing with guests in it. 

The problems usually happen when the test period is cut short because you're either behind schedule trying to make up time or operations put pressure on you to get it open as soon as possible. It's not an issue of safety so it's ok to physically open, but nothing looks worse for maintenance teams when a ride breaks down, sometimes hours after it was reopened. 

Sadly, often people making decisions much higher up don't seem to place must stock in the public image your park projects to members of the public. So rather than drill it until you're sure the major kinks and bugs are worked out, it's often experiencing situations that make everyone look like amateurs and leave members of the public questioning if it's actually safe and do their maintenance teams know what they are doing. 

On 02/08/2025 at 12:35 PM, Levithian said:

or operations put pressure on you to get it open as soon as possible

Because the park down the road announced their new rides opening and we need to beat them to the punch.

Socials and website have been updated to reveal a new logo and teased its “coming soon”.

Hopefully that means a September-October opening.

https://movieworld.com.au/attractions/scooby-doo-spooky-coaster

On 4/8/2025 at 12:26 PM, jjuttup said:

Because the park down the road announced their new rides opening and we need to beat them to the punch.

This is the other option, they have pushed out advertising now simply because they see the progress/success of Dreamworld’s King Claw campaign. 

Love the new logo and so glad they got rid of the next generation name. Fingers crossed the original entry sign returns (or something just as good). And their choice of wording saying ‘the original spooks’ gives me hope. Not going to hype this up to much for myself because Village are known to hype things up and then disappoint.

MW have the opportunity to have the number 1 family coaster on the coast again.  How this ride turns out, will tell us the real state of MW.

9 hours ago, Park Addict 93 said:

Socials and website have been updated to reveal a new logo and teased its “coming soon”.

Hopefully that means a September-October opening.

https://movieworld.com.au/attractions/scooby-doo-spooky-coaster

This is the other option, they have pushed out advertising now simply because they see the progress/success of Dreamworld’s King Claw campaign. 

Ah man, I made some logos for the revamped ride for village to use. This new logo looks cool tho!

Here I'll send a link of the logos I made for it

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-8TknJEsQciCR0EvpyhlXShhvq1EMCSr

27 minutes ago, Speedy said:

Ah man, I made some logos for the revamped ride for village to use. This new logo looks cool tho!

Here I'll send a link of the logos I made for it

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-8TknJEsQciCR0EvpyhlXShhvq1EMCSr

2 hours ago, Brad2912 said:

Can't tell if ur joking or not but if u aren't well then im being 100% serious there are actual logos i made for scooby coasters 2025 refurb

 

In fact here's the concept of the sign i made

12 hours ago, Speedy said:

Can't tell if ur joking or not but if u aren't well then im being 100% serious there are actual logos i made for scooby coasters 2025 refurb

 

In fact here's the concept of the sign i made

I’m sure this is a technical error, but apparently Scooby has a 5 minute wait!

3 hours ago, themagician said:

I’m sure this is a technical error, but apparently Scooby has a 5 minute wait!

Where does it say that?

8 minutes ago, Speedy said:

Where does it say that?

On Queue Park: https://queue-park.com/parks/village-roadshow/warner-bros-movie-world/

Surely a glitch, no way they would they would do a soft opening? 

It's been like that since the teaser was released

 

It's still open now... those lucky security people

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On 6/8/2025 at 3:56 PM, Speedy said:

Ah man, I made some logos for the revamped ride for village to use. This new logo looks cool tho!

Here I'll send a link of the logos I made for it

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-8TknJEsQciCR0EvpyhlXShhvq1EMCSr

Please tell me this is satire....

5 hours ago, ShakeShack said:

Please tell me this is satire....

1. No it's not im being 100% serious.

 

2. Why is everyone being all like mad (well not necessarily mad) at me just because I wanted to show off some logos I made? Can someone explain it to me?

33 minutes ago, Speedy said:

1. No it's not im being 100% serious.

 

2. Why is everyone being all like mad (well not necessarily mad) at me just because I wanted to show off some logos I made? Can someone explain it to me?

I liked it! people here can be brutal sometimes lol

Good news!

They’re now painting the front of the castle. 
 

I was able to get a little glimpse inside while they were working near the entrance. 

 

I’m not sure if this is directly related to the Scooby refurb, but I noticed the speakers that were located on this lamppost (that used to play the Scooby music) have been removed. The ones on top of the castle are still there though.