Dreamworld’s Ocean Parade Expansion 2023

[New display name]

It passes the bar test for what it is but fake rock is over done in the theme park industry.   Whenever they have a empty space they don't know what to fill it with they fill it with fake rock.

[joz]

3 minutes ago, New display name said:

It passes the bar test for what it is but fake rock is over done in the theme park industry.   Whenever they have a empty space they don't know what to fill it with they fill it with fake rock.

My only issue with fake rock is; is it in such a place that kids can't climb it.

 

This is because I'm old and no where near as fun as I used to be

[New display name]

2 minutes ago, joz said:

This is because I'm old and no where near as fun as I used to be

You need to raise your drinking efforts to cancel out your age and the fun will return..

[joz]

2 minutes ago, New display name said:

You need to raise your drinking efforts to cancel out your age and the fun will return..

Funny enough I have had a few drinks. Can't you see how active I am tonight 😄🍻

[Ashley Jeffery]

https://youtu.be/4hgumlDwqVY?si=3lgogi7FDR_0eGoN

[Baconjack]

I sincerely hope any of the animatronics that are used for Jungle Rush aren't as atrocious as the octopus. Why doesn't it blink?

Area looks fine otherwise the chinese facades don't stick out like a sore thumb like i thought they would.

Edited September 5, 2023 by Baconjack

[themagician]

They were just testing the octopus in that video, so hopefully it is a lot smoother and more lively when the area opens. Interesting choice to have what’s probably a complex animatronic in a water splash zone. 
 

And I agree, the renovation has turned out pretty well so far considering it was a Chinese themed area. From what I’ve heard, they’re still not done with the Reno of dodgems and this pathway, but like Kenny’s forest flyer, they just wanted to get it open to minimise closure times 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

5 hours ago, Baconjack said:

Why doesn't it blink?

The other eye does, you just can't see it.

1 hour ago, themagician said:

And I agree, the renovation has turned out pretty well so far considering it was a Chinese themed area. From what I’ve heard, they’re still not done with the Reno of dodgems and this pathway, but like Kenny’s forest flyer, they just wanted to get it open to minimise closure times 

They've been doing a lot of things in stages, the first step usually to get the ride reopened after the theme, with many other non-essential items like theming coming in when it's ready or available, without keeping the ride closed for months waiting for it...

[New display name]

All Asian architecture should have been removed with the change of lands.  The East Asian hip roof does not belong in this land and the transition form rock to building makes no sense.  Hopefully there is more to come to improve it.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

53 minutes ago, New display name said:

Hopefully there is more to come to improve it.

The concept art presents that roofing largely the same as it was, so i'm not sure there are plans to change it - at least not this round.

[New display name]

It's obvious DW are being tight-arses with the roofs but it could have been as simple as removing the tiles and thatching the roofs.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

17 minutes ago, New display name said:

thatching the roofs.

i've seen what happens to a thatched roof at Movie World. i'll pass on that. 

Don't get me wrong, i'd love for them to fix it. the fact they haven't likely indicates they're being tight, and that's probably because they're barely breaking even on things right now so there has to be more justifiable bang for buck. the kids playing in the splash pad aren't going to notice that the roof is chinese, and they've probably accepted that.

 

[New display name]

12 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

i've seen what happens to a thatched roof at Movie World. i'll pass on that. 

 

That happens if you don't maintain something.   Thatching is just an example of a cheap option, shingles also gives a beach hut feel.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

How different is a chinese imitation bamboo roof and a tradiitonal spanish terracotta tiled roof, really...

Seems like that'd be the easiest fix for it - it worked for the bondi pavilion. 

[New display name]

1 hour ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

How different is a chinese imitation bamboo roof and a tradiitonal spanish terracotta tiled roof, really...

Seems like that'd be the easiest fix for it - it worked for the bondi pavilion. 

If the Chinese tile roof was laid in the traditional way, very different because roof battens aren't installed and the tiles a fixed to a bedding of mortar.  But if they are fake traditional tiles, probably not very different.

[themagician]

Seabed Splash is opening this weekend 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Cheaper to run than WWW.

[New display name]

16 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

Cheaper to run than WWW.

Harder to wee in but.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Anything is a urinal if you're brave enough.

[New display name]

If this isn't a Disney knock off, then my name isn't bob.

 

Edited September 15, 2023 by New display name

[Ashley Jeffery]

https://fb.watch/n3w1TMami6/?mibextid=NnVzG8

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

1 hour ago, New display name said:

If this isn't a Disney knock off, then my name isn't bob.

But your name isn't Bob?

 

[New display name]

I didn't think that one through.  😢

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Wait..

What IS your name?

[Ashley Jeffery]

2 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

Wait..

What IS your name?

Skeet